Diurnale of Carthusian use

Description

Title: Diurnale of Carthusian use
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1425]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a Carthusian breviary
Description: Script: written by multiple hands in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata.
Binding: undecorated sheepskin over pasteboard. Rebacked in the eighteenth century. Spine with four raised bands, gold-tooled with a floweret. Remnants of a gold-tooled title label.
In Latin.
Provenance: The manuscript belonged in the seventeenth century to a French owner called Perard, the births of whose daughters Marguerite and Bernarde in 1667 and 1668 he recorded on the last page and the rear flyleaf of the codex. On the front pastedown a paper label with the printed inscription “Ex lib. E. Mathieu”. Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 170 : 130 x 95mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

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): Carthusians.
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monasticism and religious orders
Subjects: Carthusians
Catholic Church > Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monasticism and religious orders
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Diurnale of Carthusian Use. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.