Liturgical fragments in Italian Archives
Saturday, 29 September 2018
Found it!
You
never know where a fragment could hide. When you search in a manuscript or
printed book, a fragment is usually placed as a pastedown or a flyleaf or as a
reinforce outside a quire. When it is used as a reinforce on the spine, it is
much more difficult to detect its presence, since it is usually glued and
hidden behind the cover… unless the binding is somehow broken. That’s when a
fragment-searcher gets lucky: here there are some very small fragments from a
14th century French Breviary. Judging from the dimensions of the script and
initials, the book was a portable one. The text we can see is not enough to
determine the liturgical use of the original Breviary, but we can read the
beginning of the first antiphon for Lauds, “Emissiones tuae”, used for the common
of the virgins. (Found in Paris, BnF, fonds Latin).
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