Processional
Dimensions:
62 leaves; 18
cm x 13
cm.
Call no: Ms. Codex
003139
Purchase on the Wilson Fund.
Description
Processional used in a house of Poor Clares in Spain. The volume is written in a rounded gothic liturgical hand with notation in square gothic. Rulings are in brown and headings are in red. The initials are in gold on red or blue grounds. The texts include the liturgy for the distribution of candles, the procession for the feast of the purification of the Virgin, procession for Palm Sundy, procession from the Sepulchre, and the order for reception of sisters into the community. The volume is in a binding of vellum over pasteboards with two string clasps. On the front pastedown is the notation: "Este libro es de mi senora Beatriz de Castro Mataz Cadena Pardo. Yesu Servidera."
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