Z42.4.E85 B45, fragment 5

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Shelfmark: Z42.4.E85 B45, fragment 5
Title(s): Beissel Collection: manuscript fragment from a missal
Production Place: Europe
Dated: English Yes
Date: 11th century
Language: See all items with this value Latin
Material: Ink on parchment
Extent: 1 leaf (trimmed)
Dimensions: 238 x 106 mm (written area 215 x 106 mm)
Physical Description Miscellaneous: Ex-situ fragment used in a binding as manuscript waste, possibly a pastedown. Evidence of old adhesive in lower margin.
Former Owner Name(s): See all items with this value Beissel, Stephan, 1841-1915; See all items with this value William Salloch (Firm)
Note: Chironomic neumes, most extensively above Ego autem sicut oliva fructificavi.
Subject: Gregorian chant; See all items with this value Manuscript fragments; See all items with this value Manuscripts, Medieval
Institutional Record: https://udiscover.udayton.edu/permalink/01OHIOLINK_DAYTON/1t04jq9/alma991013041649708517
Holding Institution: University of Dayton
Acknowledgements: Dates and brief descriptions for the Beissel Collection provided by Bernard Bischoff prior to 1959 sale. Digitized in 2020 by Peripheral Manuscripts in the Midwest.
Cataloging Convention: English ds-schema
Genre/Form: Missals (Service books)
Fragment Number or Disambiguator: 5
Layout: 28-29 lines extant, dry-ruled to 8 mm. Evidence of at least 30 lines and blank lower margins of at least 21 mm prior to trimming and use as binding waste.
Production Date End: 1099
Production Date Start: 1000
Provenance: One of sixty manuscript fragments collected by Stephan Beissel and acquired by librarian Walter Roesch for the University of Dayton from William Salloch in October 1959. The collection is listed as item 481 in Salloch catalogue 180, The Middle Ages.
Script: Carolinian minuscule in light brown script, faded orange rubrics; chant incipits and chironomic neumes added in a second hand.

Item sets: Medieval Manuscripts