Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Sacramentary (MS M.922).

Accession number
MS M.922
Object title
Sacramentary (MS M.922).
Display Date
ca. 1140.
Created
Urgel, Spain, ca. 1140.
Binding
12th-century? cedar boards, half of lower cover replaced, quires secured to heavy leather thongs, no backstrap, modern end papers.
Credit line
Gift; Fellows; 1965.
Description
63 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 296 x 210 mm
Provenance
Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) (Wellcome MS no. 21007, penciled on upper margin of fol. 1); Dawson's of London; purchased by A.N.L. Munby of King's College, Cambridge from Dawson's in 1945; purchased from Munby and Gift of the Fellows in 1965.
Notes
Ms. sacramentary fragment, use of Urgel; written and decorated in Urgel, Spain, ca. 1140.
Decoration: 3 large and numerous small floral and zoomorphic initials, in orange, yellow, and black, some with human faces and blessing hands.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin and Catalan
Century
Classification