Form:
1 volume, 182 leaves : pen-flourished initials in red and blue,
border decoration with banderoles on the suffering of Christ ;
315x221 mm Content:
Contains a lectionary (summer part), based on the Utrecht calendar.
Incomplete and damaged by fungi. With some music notation
(Hufnagel) on ff. 131r-133r. - Also contains a later added list of
abbreviations on f. 251r. Note:
Origin: This manuscript could be intended for the church of Elst.
It has a special and extended office for Werenfridus, patron saint
of this church (ff. 182r-183r).
Foliation: 229 (!), 70-228, 230-251.
Binding: Leather (blind-tooled) over wooden boards, in medieval
style. One clasp fastening (part of strap and hook lost). Blue
sprinkled edges.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Gumbert 2009):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
Also described by BNM, MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database
RKD, The Hague).
Bought from antiquarian bookshop Lawrence Witten rare books
(Southport, Connecticut), cat. 18, nr. 44, in 1983. Part of:
Bibliotheca Publica Latina Ownership:
Owned by the church op Opheusden, based on a list of choral singers
(f. 251v): "Johan Mertens & Henrijck dirck & Thomas Willems &
Andries Henrickx. Dit syn die vier craels tot huesden 1574". Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
