Breviary

Description

Title: Breviary
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1399].
Publication Place: Lyons or Mâcon, France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of 14th century French breviary; includes a liturgical calendar, a ferial psalter, an Office for the Dead, a Temporal, a Sanctoral, a Common of the Saints, Readings, and a hymn in honor of St. Nicholas
Description: Script: Copied in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Art. 7 is written in the same script, but by a differnet hand, and in the15th century. Art. 8 and several other additions are written in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens.
Decoration: Yellow heightening of majuscules; red rubrics; underlinings and paragraph marks; alternately red and blue 1-line plain initials; 2-line (rarely 3-line) gold dentelle initials on a blue and/or red background with penwork; and several large foliate initials, anywhere between 4 and 8 lines, in the same colors, with decorative staff in the intercolumnary space or in the left margin. The lost first page of art. 2 possessed a large initial and full border in the same style. The 15th century addition has red rubrics and is decorated with 2-line red plain initials.
Binding: 17th century undecorated brown sheepskin over cardboard, sewn on four double cords. The binding is very damaged and the spine is missing.
In Latin.
Extent: ff. 301 : 145 x 110 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 939
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Breviaries
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Breviaries
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Breviary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.