Accession number:
MS M.759
Title:
Lectionary
Created:
Northern Germany, possibly Münster, between 1050 and 1099.
Binding:
German stamped brown calf over wooden boards, ca. 1510-1540 with English 12th-century ivory plaque representing the Deposition inset in upper cover in silver-gilt frame.
Description:
156 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 175 x 135 mm.
Provenance:
Owned at least in the 12th century by the collegiate church of Saint Maurice Extramuros, Münster (list of tithes owed to the church written on last three fol. in a 12th-century hand); by 1853 owned by the von Zur Mülen family in Münster; purchased in Lucerne in 1925 by Arnold Mettler of St. Gall; his sale (Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Cie., Nov. 22, 1928, no. 5, 2 plates); purchased from R. Stora in 1930.
Notes:
Ms. Gospel lectionary; written and decorated in northern Germany, perhaps in Münster, in the late 11th century.
Script:
minuscule
Language:
Latin
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