Sacramentary

Accession number: 
MS M.922
Title: 
Sacramentary
Created: 
Urgel, Spain, ca. 1140.
Binding: 
12th-century? cedar boards, half of lower cover replaced, quires secured to heavy leather thongs, no backstrap, modern end papers.
Credit: 
Gift; Fellows; 1965.
Description: 
63 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 296 x 210 mm
Provenance: 
Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) (Wellcome MS no. 21007, penciled on upper margin of fol. 1); Dawson's of London; purchased by A.N.L. Munby of King's College, Cambridge from Dawson's in 1945; purchased from Munby and Gift of the Fellows in 1965.
Notes: 

Ms. sacramentary fragment, use of Urgel; written and decorated in Urgel, Spain, ca. 1140.
Decoration: 3 large and numerous small floral and zoomorphic initials, in orange, yellow, and black, some with human faces and blessing hands.

Script: 
minuscule
Language: 
Latin and Catalan
Century: 
Classification: