Script and Textual Contents
Description and Contents
The manuscript is written in Latin, in the rounded Italian type of Gothic bookhand (textualis).
fols. i recto-vi verso Calendar
fols. vii recto-x verso Office and vesting ceremonies for Pontifical Mass
fols. 1r-117r Temporal from the First Sunday of Advent to Holy Saturday
fols. 117r-132v Ordinary of the Mass
fols. 133r-180v Temporal from Easter Sunday to the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
fols. 180v-229v Sanctoral from the Vigil of St Andrew to the feast of St Saturninus
fols. 229v-252r Common of Saints
fols. 252v-253v Mass for the Dedication of a Church
fols. 253v-268r Votive Masses
fols. 268r-272v Masses for the Dead
fols. 273r-274r Ordo for the Blessing of Salt and Water and the Asperges
Ornamental initials and catchword
Two of the initials (both I) include the fantastic birds which also grace some of the borders throughout the volume. The catchword (fructus) in the lower border of fol. 172v (the last page in quire 19) signals the first word on the next page, fol. 173r (the first page in quire 20). It would have ensured that the quires were put in the right order before the manuscript was bound.