Breviary : Dominican use : in Latin with some German rubrics

Item Information

Title:
Breviary : Dominican use : in Latin with some German rubrics
Description:
A Dominican breviary (April through November), created in or near Bamberg soon after the canonization of Vincent Ferrer in 1455. In addition to Vincent, the calendar includes typical Dominican feastdays in red such as Thomas Aquinas (7 March), Peter Martyr (29 April and Translation on 7 May), and Dominic (5 August and Translation on 24 May), as well as the specifically Dominican commemorations on 5 September and 10 October. Bamberg use is suggested by the inclusion of St. Kunigund (3 March) and her Translation (9 September) in red, as well as Emperor Henry (13 July) and St. Sebaldus (19 August), also in red.
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Bruce P. Ferrini (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1460]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
Manuscripts, German--Germany
Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
Breviaries
Thumb indexes
devotional calendars
Gothic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Dominicans--Liturgy--Early works to 1800
Dominicans--Liturgy--Manuscripts
Places:
Germany > Bavaria > Bamberg
Extent:
287 leaves : parchment ; 174 x 126 (116 x 84) mm bound to 19 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/rn307s72k
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Place of origin:
[Bamberg?]
Language:
Latin
German
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-6v: calendar.
2. fol. 7-65: Temporale (Easter - 25th Sunday after Trinity).
3. fol. 65-69v: Office for the Dedication of the Church.
4. fol. 69v-113: canticles and Ferial Psalter.
5. fol. 113v-118: Office of St. Vincent Ferrer (5 April, canonized 1455).
6. fol. 118-119v: Commons.
7. fol. 120-241: Sanctorale (April-November).
8. fol. 241: Office of St. Katharine (added late 15th century to supplement the liturgy for Katharine on fol. 238-240v).
9. fol. 241v-273: Commons.
10. fol. 273v-275: Office of the Dead (abbreviated, use undetermined).
11. fol. 275v-287: Hours of the Virgin (Matins only, use undetermined).
12. fol. 287v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Germany, probably Bamberg, for Dominican use, soon after the canonization of Vincent Ferrer in 1455.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired from Bruce Ferrini, ca. 1990.
Notes (object):
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (wove paper) + i (parchment) + 287 + ii (wove paper) ; 1⁶ 2-5¹⁰ 6¹⁰⁻¹ 7-13¹⁰ 14¹² 15-16¹⁰ 17¹⁰⁺¹ 18-23¹⁰ 24¹⁰⁻¹ 25⁴ 26-29¹⁰ 30⁶ (one folio cancelled before fol. 47; fol. 159 an added half-leaf contemporary with the codex; one folio cancelled after fol. 237) ; signatures in lower right corner, first recto of each quire, in modern pencil. Catchwords in lower right corner, final versos. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page.
Layout: Single column, 19 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, bounding lines full-length.
Script: Written in a gothic textualis formata in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: one- to two-line throughout in red or blue with simple leafy extensions into margin; seven-line floriate initial on fol.7 in blue and light blue on gold in a red and green linear frame, floriate border of green vines terminating in flowers and simple acanthus, in a pastel palette.
Binding: 19th-century vellum over pasteboard, gilt fillet and corner stamps, spine in compartments, decorative endbands, brown tree marble pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves at front and back, several dozen vellum tab bookmarks on outer edge of bookblock (not original).
Notes (language):
In Latin with German rubrics.
Identifier:
06_01_018721
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.234
Barcode:
39999090789171