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Breviary

Published / Created:
[ca. 1300 to 1500].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 971
Image Count:
753
Resource Type:
unspecified
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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary

2.
Breviary (diurnal).

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 7
Image Count:
378
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (sturdy, of uneven quality) of a breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in a small running script. Additions by several contemporary and later writers., Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout., Portions of text, badly worn or trimmed, have been lost., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on two tapes. Wooden boards. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled in a diamond pattern with indistinguishable ornaments within the diamonds and at their intersections. Traces of five round bosses, larger on lower board, metal corner pieces and a catch plate on the upper board. Rebacked, with leather formed in the shape of endbands in the turn-ins at head and tail of the spine and with a strap and pin (a modern nail?) fastening added.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (diurnal).

3.
Breviary (fragment).

Published / Created:
approximately 1440.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.18
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a German breviary, annotated with Hufnagelschrift neumes aboves the text lines on four-line staves
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textura., and Decoration: rubricated.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Breviaries, and Neumes
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).

4.
Breviary (fragment).

Published / Created:
[14--].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 481.136
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing: The Passion of St. Ursula and St. Ursula (21 October).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis libraria with simple form of "a")., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials alternate red and blue; other initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; there is no punctuation; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Breviaries
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).

5.
Breviary (fragment).

Published / Created:
[14--].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 482.118
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing St. Andrew (30 November).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a hybrid gothic script (littera textualis with frequent but not consistent use of cursive forms of d, b, l, and t; s and f do not descend below the base line)., and Decoration: 1-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red; other 1-line initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; liturgical directions are written in brown and are underlined in red; punctuated with the punctus and virgule.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Breviaries
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).

6.
Breviary, pars aestivalis, use of Carmelites

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1410]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 41
Image Count:
270
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (with parchment conjugate leaves at beginning and end of quires; calendar on parchment) of a Carmelite breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in an informal, but careful, gothic script. Numerous additions by contemporary and later writers., Plain initials and KL monograms, 6- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks, underlining, and initial strokes in red. The verso of the final folio bears the partially erased image of a large decorative initial, in green, over which the later text was written., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Head and fore-edge gilt, with tawed, pink markers on the fore-edge. Bound by William Matthews, a leading American binder (second half of the 19th century) in a dark brown goatskin Jansenist binding (plain outside with gold-tooled doublures).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carmelites. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary, pars aestivalis, use of Carmelites

7.
Breviary: Sanctorale and Common of the Saints

Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1499, 1472]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1021
Image Count:
487
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on Paper of Breviary: Sanctorale and Common of the Saints from Erfurt, Southern Germany. Artt. 1, 2, 5, and 6 are the original texts in this volume
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria. The original arts. 1, 2, and 5 are written in one hand. Art. 6 is in a different hand. The other texts are written by various hands in small script., Decoration: In the original parts, there are countless red rubrics, 1-line versals, red underlinings, red stroking of majuscules and red running headlines. Some articles open with a larger red plain initial. In art. 3 there is red underlining and red stroking of majuscules. Art. 4 is undecorated. In artt. 7-9 there is red stroking of majuscules and extensive parts of the text are in red underline., and Binding: Original quarter binding sewn on three double cords: white pigskin over wooden boards, now covered by fragments of a 14th century liturgical music manuscript on parchment, with text in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata and “Hufnagel” notation on 4-line black staves. Handwritten title on spine (18th century). Paper(?) flyleaves.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Breviaries
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary: Sanctorale and Common of the Saints

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