Fragment

St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, SG 21-025 (a)

Lost manuscript
GF 05 + GF 12
Host volume
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, SG 21-025
Textual Information
Subject
Liturgy
Title of work

Missal

Orientation
inverted
Transcription

(back and front outsides so abraded very few words visible; at front right, top:) dominus super uos ... filios uestros [i.e. Ps. 113:22] (at back left, near foot:) Lex domini p|| ... proximus dilig||

(front inside, left col:) [one four-stave line of music] Laudate [pueri dominum] Laudate nomen domini [i.e. Ps. 112:1] (right col folded over so only a few letters visible)

(back inside, left col:) enim expectat pro|| ... [responses] crescat ut pluuia|| (right col, folded and partially covered) ut comedat|| ... ||s dilatatus|| 

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura semi-quadrata
Date of production
s. xiv
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Wrapper
Element of folio

Whole bifolium, folded over itself

Decoration

Music on red staves. Sections open with red or blue initial, with flourishing in the other colour; passages within sections have alternating red and blue initials

Further information
Author: David Rundle
Last Revised by David Rundle
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, SG 21-025 (a) front outside
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, SG 21-025 (a) back outside
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, SG 21-025 (a) front inside
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, SG 21-025 (a) back inside
Dimensions
Fragment

195mm (h) x 296mm (w)

Number of lines
25
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
4mm
Space between lines
8mm
Height of written space
185mm
Lower margin
10mm
Inner margin
40mm
Width of text 1
65mm
Reservation 1
17mm
Width of text 2
70mm
Outer margin
30mm