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The codex is a collective volume of different liturgical texts. It contains a gradual with neumes, a calendar with a series of computus tables, a sacramentary, a lectionary, and a ritual. Twelve scribes participated in preparing the manuscript. The manuscript is decorated with two pen-drawings and strapwork initials. The large illuminations display an original iconography. The codex is an example of the transition from individual liturgical books to a missale plenarium.
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This richly decorated book of hours was probably produced in Flanders around 1450. It contains five miniatures and numerous decorated initials, pen-flourished Lombards, floral decoration in golden scrollwork, and framing in red, purple, blue, and green. Gold leaf or painted gold was used. The miniatures at the beginning of new sections depict the Crucifixion (f. 8r), the Annunciation (f. 11r), Mary enthroned with child (f. 24r), the Last Judgement (f. 57r), and a Requiem with prayers beside the coffin (f. 69r). The last section of the book of hours with the gradual psalms (from f. 80r) was produced in by a different, but contemporary, hand. It is less richly decorated. Gold and purple are no longer used here. Additions to the calendar show that, likely shortly after its production, the book of hours arrived in the upper Rhine region, modern day Switzerland. The book was rebound in the sixteenth century, at which point the margins were trimmed. It is possible that, on this occasion, the part with the gradual psalms was added to the breviary. The Renaissance binding with velvet-covered wooden boards is decorated with metal fittings.
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The account of the delegation of the Council of Basel to Greece was in large part written by the Council notary Jakob Hüglin (ca. 1400–1484). Hüglin was active at the Council as a notary (from 1432) and as a scribe (from 1435). In 1437, together with the notary Dietrich Winckelman, he accompanied the delegation to Constantinople. Part of the manuscript served as the exemplar for the manuscript Hs 4 of the Episcopal Archive of the Bishopric of Basel in Solothurn.
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This composite manuscript contains acts of the delegation of the Council of Basel to Constantinople, declarations of protest, and notarial instruments. It previously had a limp binding made from a 1436 marriage dispensation charter, which today is stored separately. The majority of the manuscript consists of a report on the mission to Greece and is partially based on Jakob Hüglin’s notes conserved in the Hs 3 of the Episcopal Archive of the Bishopric of Basel in Solothurn. Jakob Hüglin (ca. 1400–1484) was active at the Council of Basel as notary from 1432, and as scribe from 1435. In 1437, together with the notary Dietrich Winckelman, he accompanied the delegation to Constantinople. The trip lasted a year, until February 1438. The composite manuscript consists of 17 fascicules, which are sewn together and were copied by different scribes.
Online Since: 09/26/2024