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SACRAMENTARY, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Italy, c.900] A textually interesting survival of the transition from a Sacramentary to a Missal. Two partial bifolia, c.127 x 274mm overall, blind-ruled for one column of 10 and 14-15 lines written in black ink in a Carolingian minuscule, rubrics in red, initials touched in orange (recovered from a binding, marginal staining and worming, some creasing). Bound in grey buckram by Bøthuns Bokverksted, Tønsberg, Norway, 2018. Provenance : (1) Robert G. Babcock, New Haven. (2) Bernard Quaritch, 1994. (3) Schøyen Collection, MS 1765. Text : The text, beginning ‘[…] hodie circumcisionis’ on the recto, as currently bound, of the first fragment and ending ‘[…] magnis Eccles[iæ] gaudiis celebretur. Quoniam hu[mana]’ on the verso; the second fragment beginning ‘[con]secrata sollemniter recensere’ and ending ‘eius apud te patroci[nia]’, presents services for the 3rd Sunday after the octave of Epiphany (18 January) and for Holy Innocents (28 December), Saints Prisca (18 January), Sebastian (20 January), Agnes (21 January). The normative Sacramentary does not have the scriptural readings from the Gospels and the Epistles but does regularly have services each consisting of just a Collect (short prayer), Secret of the Mass, and Postcommunion, along with Prefaces and ‘orationes super populum’. The present text is without the scriptural lessons and does have the Collect, Secret, and Postcommunion of the Mass; but also included are Offertory, Communion, Responses, Versicles, and Alleluia.