Ordinal for Brigittine use, with psalter and prayers

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Description

Title
Ordinal for Brigittine use, with psalter and prayers
Published / Created
approximately 1460-approximately 1500.
Publication Place
Flanders
Abstract

Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two scribal hands, containing 1) a complete copy of the Ordinal of divine service for the use of the Brigittine Order, ff. 1r-116v; 2) Calendar, with additional entries for the feasts of Saint Bridget, ff. 119r-123v; 3) Prayer in Middle English, f. 124r; 4) Psalter, ff. 125r-231v; and 5) Litany, ff. 231v-236v

Description
In Latin and Middle English.
Ordinal text opens: The Ordinal of diuyne seruice and the self seruice for the systers of the odir of Seynt Sauiour.
Layout: single columns of 24 lines.
Script: late gothica textualis.
Decoration: rubricated. Line fillers in red or blue; numerous illuminated initials with floral extensions. Large illuminated miniature with wide floral borders of a nun kneeling and praying (text in banderol) before Saint Bridget (facing f. 1r). Large illuminated initial, gilt, with wide floral border (f. 1r). Large illuminated miniature with wide floral borders of a religious kneeling and praying (text in banderol) before King David playing his harp (f. 124v). Large illuminated initial, gilt, with wide floral border facing (f. 125r).
Binding: eighteenth-century English mottled calf over wooden boards.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bookseller description available.
Provenance
Ownership? inscription of Sister Effeme Claude. Previously owned by Thomas Betson of Syon Abbey. Ownership inscriptions of William Waldyng. Ownership inscription of William Baynton. Armorial bookplate of Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2021.
Extent
1 volume: iv (paper) + iv (parchment) + 236 leaves + ii (parchment) + i (paper): 220 mm x 150 mm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin
English, Middle (1100-1500)

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Beinecke MS 1314

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Flanders 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material
parchment ;
Resource Type
text
Subject (Geographic)
Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name)
Bridgettines
Subject (Topic)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Ordinals (Liturgical books)
Psalters
Subjects
Bridgettines > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Ordinals (Liturgical books) > Early works to 1800
Psalters > Early works to 1800
Flanders > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Baynton, William, 1717-1785 > Autograph
Betson, Thomas, -1516 > Ownership
Effeme Claude, Sister > Autograph
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
Waldyng, William > Autograph

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Citation
Ordinal for Brigittine Use. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Catalog Record
16301754
Object ID (OID)
33327803

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