Breviary : Cistercian use : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Breviary : Cistercian use : in Latin
Title (uniform):
Breviary
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Van Dalem
Former owner:
Charlier de Namur
Former owner:
Cooper, E. P. F.
Former owner:
Maggs Bros.
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Date:
[1250–1299]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Breviaries
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Flanders
Manuscripts, Medieval--Flanders
Gothic scripts
devotional calendars
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Places:
Flanders (former primary political entity)
Extent:
372 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 168 x 123 (120 x 84) mm bound to 18 cm in box 20 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vh542x813
Terms of Use:
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No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Flanders]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-5: calendar, with Egyptian day verses [lacking leaves for January - March] [Iani prima dies et septima fine timetur. Ast februi quarta est precedit tertia finem. Martis prima necat, cuius sub cuspide quarta est.] Aprilis decima est undene et fine minatur. Tertius in maio lupus est et septimus anguis. Denus pallescit quindenus federa nescit. Tredecimus mactat iulii decimus labefacit. Augusti nepa prima fugat de fine secundam. Tertia septembris vulpis ferit a pede denam. Tertius et denus est sicut dolor actibus octobris. Quinta vocat multos prostinit tertia stultos. Septimus est angeles decimus quod draco grandis.
2. fol. 5v-8: collects for different classes of Saints, each with a letter cross-referencing to the letter next to each Saint's name in the margin of the calendar (two series: A-Z in red followed by A-Z in black)
3. fol. 8v-9v: calendrical notes.
4. fol. 10-192v: Temporale.
5. fol. 193-300: Sanctorale.
6. fol. 300-303: Office for the Dedication of the Church.
7. fol. 303-323v: Commons [ends imperfectly]
8. fol. 324-329v: slightly later additions, including the Office of the Visitation [ends imperfectly]
9. fol. 330-369v: hymnal and canticles.
10. fol. 330-346: Temporale.
11. fol. 346-355: Sanctorale [selected]
12. fol. 355-369v: Commons and canticles.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Flanders in the second half of the 13th century, Cistercian use indicated by the illustrations and by the calendar, which includes St. Robert of Molesme (28 April), the Feast of All Monks (20 May), and St. Malachi, as well as Flemish monks Lambert (17 September) and Dionysius (9 October). The calendar verses are a possibly unique conflation of the standard verses attributed to Priscian with the months of June and July taken from a typically English set (see Hennig, pp. 83 and 84).
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Includes the arms of the Van Dalem family of Guelderland [?] on fol. 1; of Dongen (fol. 36v); and of Blois (fol. 120v). Signature of C. Charlier de Namur, 20 Feb. 1837 (fol. 9v); Commander E. P. F. Cooper, his sale, Sotheby's London, 7 Dec. 1953, lot 47.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Maggs in 1955 (cat. 830, no. 487)
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 216
Notes (object):
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii + 372 + iii (2 modern thick paper flyleaves followed by one of early paper, no watermarks) ; 1⁹ (construction uncertain) 2-19¹⁰ 20⁶ 21-24¹⁰ 25¹² 26-32¹⁰ 33²⁺¹ (fol. 315 is a tipped-in singleton) 34-35⁶ 36-39¹⁰ ; modern pencil signatures, center lower margin of the first recto of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto; skips one leaf after fol. 70, with other mistakes, so reaches 369 instead of 372.
Layout: Single column, 26 lines. Bounding lines in light plummet or blind, top and bottom writing lines extended to edge.
Script: Written in an early Gothic bookhand by multiple scribes in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Portraits of a hooded woman and man (Cistercian nun and monk?) (4-line historiated initial), the arms of Blois in the upper margin, rabbits and a bird in the margins; fol. 139v (Pentecost): Portrait of a hooded woman (Cistercian nun?)
Binding: 19th-century brown velvet over pasteboard, heavy cream paper pastedowns and two flyleaves at front and back.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957), p. 61; John Hennig, "Versus de mensibus," Traditio 11 (1955): 65-90, see no. 83.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018698
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.138
MS 1562 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090776632