Breviary

Description

Title: Breviary
Published / Created: [ca. 1300 to 1500].
Publication Place: Southern Germany (Eichstätt)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of breviary (summer part) with calendars, ferial psalter and canticles, various hymns, lessons of the temporale, office of the virgin, and various prayers
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by various hands in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata or Libraria; and additional parts (artt. 1-3, 11, 18-20) are in 15th century Gothica Hybrida or Semihybrida; and art. 21 is in Gothica Hybrida.
Decoration: In the original section of the manuscript, there are red headings and rubrics, red paragraph marks, red stroking of majuscules and red 1-line versals. Other various red or red and blue initials are generally 2- or 3-lines and are plain or have interior reserved shapes. The Calendar and the 15th century additions have simple red decoration.
Binding: contemporary, red pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on three split leather thongs. The reamins of two brass clasps are attached to the rear board with corresponding catches on the front board.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 971
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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