Accession number:
MS M.942
Title:
Gothic bookmark, dial type
Created:
15th cent.
Credit:
Gift of Bernard H. Breslauer, "in appreciation of twenty years fruitful collaboration with its outgoing Director, Mr. Frederick B. Adams, Jr.", October 23, 1969.
Description:
1 leaf : vellum ; 66 x 70 mm.
Provenance:
Isak Gustav Alfred Collijn(1875-1949) to World War I; Martin Breslauer; Bernard H. Breslauer.
Notes:
Ms. dial type bookmark; probably of Cistercian origin and written in the 15th century.
Vellum leaf folded in half, with dial 62 mm in diameter sewn between.
Text: inscribed: pr' mensa lectionis: columpna; prima, secunda, tercia quarta; the inscriptions served to mark the place where a codex should be opened, and the number of the column where the reading was to begin.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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