Montreal, Private collections, Fr.G1-8

Cantus Siglum

Cantus Fr.G1-8

Holding Institution

Montreal, Private collections

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Fragment from a non-continuous breviary bifolium, 243 mm x 54 mm, first-half of 14th century, likely German. Initials and rubric penned in red. Previously recovered from a binding.

Description

A breviary fragment recovered from a binding, likely used to reinforce the spine of its host volume. Sewing stations from the host volume are visible. On the bottom of the right-side of the recto are remnants of printed text. There is some fading throughout, particularly on the bottom-half of the verso. The fragment was initially part of a non-continuous bifolium with each half written in a double column format. Some initials are penned in red ink. Rubrication is also penned in red.

The fragment contains text used for multiple Sundays after Pentecost with text from the Summer Histories, mainly De Sapientia, interspersed. The left-half of the recto would have originally been part of the verso of one of the leaves from the bifolium (Bv). In the first column is part of Pseudo-Origen’s Homilia V in Matthaeum 7:15-21, which was typically used during Dom. 8 p. Pentecost. It also contains a responsory (Magna enim sunt judicia tua) and versicle (Deduxisti sicut oves populum tuum) used for De Sapientia. The second column contains text used during Dom. 8 or 9 p. Pentecost: an antiphon (Attendite a falsis prophetis), Romans 8:14-15, and an additional antiphon that is partially cut off (Non potest arbor bona fructus) for the Magnificat at second Vespers. The right-half of the recto, where only the first column is discernable, would have originally been part of the recto of the other leaf from the bifolium (Ar). It contains text associated with Dom. 2 p. Pentecost: 1 John 3:13-14 and a collect (Sancti nominis tui Domine). A responsory (Audi domine), often used for De Regum, is flanked between these two texts and partially concealed beneath the fold. The left-half of the verso would have originally been part of the verso of the aforementioned leaf from the bifolium (Av). Only a small part of Luke 16:1 is visible in the first column. The second column contains an antiphon (Quidam homo fecit cenam magnam) used during Dom. 2 or 3 p. Pentecost. The right-half of the verso would have originally been part of the recto of the other leaf from the bifolium (Br). Both columns predominantly contain text used for De Sapientia: part of a responsory (Da mihi domine sedium tuarum), versicle (Domine pater et deus vitae), Proverbs 1:20-22 (Sapientia foris praedicat), another responsory (Initium sapientiae), and part of a versicle (Dispersit dedit pauperibus). The end of the second column also contains Matthew 7:15, associated with Dom. 8 or 9 p. Pentecost.

The fragment was purchased from That Guy with the Books (Zubairul Islam) on 1 July 2025. It was part of a collection of binder’s waste acquired in Germany. At the time that the fragment was being published on Fragmentarium, it was examined by William Duba, who dated it to the first-half of the fourteenth century.

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragmentarium ID

F-fkc5

DACT ID

D:0fkc5