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Sacramentary (the 'Mainz' or 'St Gall Sacramentary')

by Baldassare Embriachi & Benedictine abbey of St Emmeram Regensburg

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  • 9th century
  • Language: Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Fol. iii is a fragment of an inserted leaf (19th century) containing a short dealer's description of the manuscript, closely related to the description in the catalogue of the 1840 Sotheby's sale. Fol. 2r blank except for later addition (see Provenance). Sacramentary (the 'Mainz' or 'St Gall Sacramentary')

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession.

  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “exorcism”.

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Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 433 digitized image(s); ff. 2 + 209 + 1.; Important initials. Illuminated initials, coloured initials, rubrics; parts of text in red. Elaborate initials in red and gold. The introduction to the sacramentary occupies 4 pages, written in capitals, alternately red and black, each letter filled with gold; the common preface in uncial. Both the introduction and the preface are preceded by a large illuminated capital (I and U); the canon opens with a full-page capital, placed between some text.; Parchment; Red velvet (over earlier leather) over boards, 16th century (?), with ivory triptych attached. The triptych is attributed by Jeremy Warren (unpublished correspondence, May 1996) to the workshop of Baldassare degli Embriachi, Venice, c. 1400.; Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 1. 20

9th century, second quarter (?)—Latin—Public reader

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  • Bodleian shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 1. 20
  • Collection: Western Medieval Manuscripts
  • Holding institution: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
  • Place of origin: Switzerland or Germany, area of Lake Constance: St. Gall (?) or Reichenau (?)
  • Record origin: Description adapted (2017) from the following sources: S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford : Vol. 1: Mass Books (typescript, 1957), pp. 7-8 [content, physical description]; Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, I (1966), no. 8 [decoration, origin, provenance]; A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 40 [decoration, binding, origin, provenance]. Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.
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