Martyrology of Usuard

Description

Title: Martyrology of Usuard
Creator: Usuard, -876 or 877
Published / Created: [ca. 1175-1225].
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment, in several hands, containing the Usuard Martyrology, with many added marginal obituary notices of Beauvais Cathedral from the twelfth through the early fourteenth centuries
Description: In Latin.
Rubricated.
Decoration: Rubricated. Four large ornamental initials in red penwork, including scrollwork, geometric knotwork and animal masks.
Endleaves reused from other manuscripts and contain notes and pen trials. Last endleaf contains polyphonic music on a five-line stave.
Binding: white leather over beveled boards. Spine title in a later hand: Martyrolog. d'alia Obituarium...
Provenance: Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
Extent: 182 l. : 235 x185mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 12th century
Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
France
Beauvais.
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name): Usuard, -876 or 877.
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France)
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Martyrologies
Necrologies
Subjects: Usuard, -876 or 877
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Martyrologies > Early works to 1800
Necrologies > France > Beauvais
Beauvais (France)
France > 12th century
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Martyrology of Usuard. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.