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| | New York, New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division,
NYPL MA 001 | | Description:Astor 1 ff. ii + 200 + ii - 5 vellum strips inserted horizontally. - Modern vellum binding. Previously: red roan, German half-binding, ca. 1830. - Written at Corvey (recent scholarship) or Reichenau? (De Ricci). Written for a monastery dedicated to St. Michael. Sold by Quaritch (1884) to J.J. Astor. - De Ricci, 1315. Vor dem Jahre 1000: Abendlandische Buchkunst zur Zeit der Kaiserin Theophanu (Cologne, 1991), 54-8. - Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the New York Public Library(London / Turnhout: The New York Public Library / Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005) n. 27. | | Notes:-There is an incorrect foliation in ink and another in pencil in the upper right; description follows underlined pencil foliation in upper right. | | Acknowledgments: - We thank Prof. Jacqueline Frank for her extensive work towards the present description of this manuscript. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 51 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/NYPLMA001_41 | | Language: Latin Country: Germany Century: 10th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-200v | | Description: - Parchment - 254 x 183 mm - 20-23 long lines per page, ruled in drypoint, prickings visible. | | Country: Germany | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. X | Searchable Date Range: 0900 - 0999 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ;1 | | Script: Caroline minuscule; rustic capitals; uncials | | Figurative Decoration: Portraits of Evangelists and Christ, Evangelists' symbols. | | Other Decoration: Large illuminated interlace letters. Some purple vellum, written on in gold. Framework in gold and purple. Large (7-line) and small (4-line and 2-line) initials in gold, purple and green. | | Notes: Recent scholarship proposes Corvey, s. X; older scholarship suggested Reichenau or Westphalia. Strips of another ms, sewn into this manuscript, s. XII? Latin | | Acknowledgments: - We thank Prof. J.J.G. Alexander for his notes on this manuscript. | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 3v-199 | | Title:
Lectionary for the Gospels
| | Language(s): Latin | | Incipit: Cum esset desponsata mater ihesu maria ioseph | | Explicit: Et omnes qui vivit et credit in me non morietur in aeternum. Credis hoc ait illi utique domine. Ego credidi quia tu es christus filius dei qui in hunc mundum venisti. | | Acknowledgments: We thank Prof. J.J.G. Alexander for his notes on this manuscript. | 
| f. 3v
Portrait of Matthew in gold frame on purple background, with gold, green, and other colors.
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| f. 7
Opening of intertwined lettering in gold, in gold frame on purple and blue: Legenda per anni curriculum.
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| f. 9v
Elaborate text page in gold, purple and green: Mattheum/Respondeat omnes gloria tibi Domine
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| f. 15
Gold capitals, uncials and Caroline in gold and purple frame, with large gold, purple and green initial. Strip of vellum written in later hand sewn into manuscript lies across the page.
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| f. 20
Gold uncial and caroline on purple background within gold frame. Text for Feast of the Circumcision/Purification. Large initial. Strip of vellum in later hand lying across page.
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| f. 21
Gold text on purple background in gold frame. Large decorated initial. Text for Feast of the Annunciation.
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| f. 62v
Title for Palm Sunday. Frame of gold and green. Text in gold capitals with an irregular purple checkerboard background.
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| f. 63
Frame in gold and purple, with text in gold on purple background. Large decorated P-I-I initials, for text "Passio Domini nostri Iesu Christi."
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| f. 88v
Maundy Thursday? Frame of gold and purple, with text in gold. Elaborate 12-line decorated initial I.
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| f. 95
Elaborate text page on purple background with gold and purple frame. Large decorated initials. Strip of vellum in later hand lies over the page.
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| f. 96
Elaborate initials in gold, green, blue and purple on purple background in gold and purple frame.
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| f. 126v
Gold text on purple background in gold frame. Large decorated initial. For feasts relating to Peter and Paul?
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| f. 137
Gold text on purple background in gold frame. Large decorated initial I. Text for the Assumption.
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