Breviary : Franciscan use : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Breviary : Franciscan use : in Latin
Title (alt.):
Binder's title : Breviarium MS Hyemale
Creator:
Catholic Church
Date:
[1450–1475]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Netherlands
Manuscripts, Medieval--Netherlands
Gothic scripts
Breviaries
Palimpsests
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Subjects:
Franciscans--Liturgy--Manuscripts--Early works to 1800
Places:
Netherlands > Utrecht (province) > Utrecht
Extent:
282 leaves : parchment ; 147 x 106 (98 x 73) mm bound to 16 cm
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Utrecht?]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-201: Temporale.
2. fol. 201-208v: blank, scraped parchment.
3. fol. 209-282v: Sanctorale, incomplete (ends with St. Eufemia, 13 April).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Flanders, possibly for Utrecht use, in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. The blank leaves 201-208 (four bifolia) have had their original text scraped away so that the parchment could be reused here; the scraped texts, all fourteenth or fifteenth century and partially legible under ultra-violet light, are unrelated to the text of the breviary; these include St. Augustine's Enarrationes in Psalmos (fol. 203 and conjugate fol. 206, see PL 36:763) and a Bible (fol. 201-2, 204-5 (inverted), and 207-8; fol. 206 preserves part of the book of Lamentations). The bifolium 204-205 is bound upside-down, indicating that the leaves were scraped prior to binding.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Produced for Franciscan use. 20th-century printed dealer's description pasted inside front cover.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Unknown.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ...ioseph qui sedes...
Collation: Parchment, fol. 282 + vi (early paper) ; 1⁸ 2⁶⁺² (fol. 9 and 16 tipped-in singletons) 3-9⁸ 10⁶⁻¹ (fol. 73 singleton) 11⁸⁺¹ (fol. 80 singleton) 12-24⁸ 25⁶⁺² (fol. 95 and 96 tipped-in singletons) 26-27⁸ 28⁴⁺³ (fol. 218, 221 and 222 singletons) 29-30⁸ 31¹⁰ 32-34⁸ 35⁸⁺¹ (final leaf singleton) ; catchwords in lower right corner of the final verso of each quire, some trimmed. Partially foliated in modern pencil, on first recto of some quires and a few other leaves, incorrect to fol. 223 but correct from then on; those numbers used here for reference.
Layout: 1 column, 21 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown ink.
Script: Written in a gothic cursive in brown with red rubrics.
Decoration: 2-line red capitals throughout.
Binding: 19th-century brown paste paper over pasteboard, title gilt-stamped on black spine label reading "Breviarium/ MS/ Hyemale."
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018733
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.254
Barcode:
39999090789593