Beschreibung
Long and thin cutting from across the top of a bifolium, remains of two leaves, each with double column of one to 3 lines in a skilled and measured Carolingian minuscule, capital E with distinctive hairline flick of pen to tip of lowermost penstroke and a wedge formed from a downward movement of the pen to the tip of the central stroke, pronounced wedging to ascenders, top part of decorated initial I formed from interweaving green and bright blue bars, edged in red and terminating at top in simplistic acanthus leaf fronds, one large erasure with contemporary correction Erat autem by the hand of a contemporary corrector, trimmed at vertical edge on one side with loss to a few characters there from outermost column edge, some stains, spots and a wormhole, else fair and presentable condition, overall 40 by 440mm.The rounded and monumental script here with occasional hints of Carolingian minuscule sits between the late Carolingian and early Gothic and finds very close parallels in a Glossed Psalter produced in Cologne in 993-996 (reproduced in Glaube und Wissen, 1998, no. 40, pp. 219-24). The presence of the small letters c here above the opening of the reading Erat autem pascha … , once was accompanied by similar intralineal s and t markings, indicating that the text is from the Passion performances, and most probably instructing the singer to sing faster (celeriter), higher (sursum) or slower (trahere), or marking the parts for the cronista, synagoga and other members of the choir (see E.C. Dunn, 'Voice Structure in the Liturgical Drama' Medieval English Drama, 1972, 44-63, and S. Rankin, 'An early Eleventh-Century Missal Fragment', Bodleian Library Record 18, 2004, 232-3). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1673972994540
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