Breviary, Use of Rome (Augustinian) — 1464; German, Westphalia
MS. Canon. Liturg. 286
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Description
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Title
Breviary, Use of Rome (Augustinian) — 1464; German, Westphalia
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 286
Associated place
Italian
Flemish
Place of origin
German, Westphalia
Date
1464
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iv + 319 + v fols.
Decoration
Fine border.
Fine historiated initials.
Fine other initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 169, pl. XIII)
Binding
16th century, early, Flemish?: wood boards, shallow bevel; brown leather, with a blind panel of ‘Flemish animals’ (two rows of five beasts in foliage, around the central motto ‘Ora pro nobis sancta dei genitrix’, a standard Flemish design) stamped four times on each cover; traces of two lost strap-and-pin fastenings with straps of dark blue textile, running from back fore-edge to two lost pins over halfway across front board; edges gilt, gauffered. Rebacked, 18th century, Italian, in lighter brown leather with gilt red-leather label and paste-downs of splotched marbled paper. 189–190 137 c. 75 (book closed).
For similar panels, see Staffan Fogelmark, Flemish and related panel-stamped bindings: evidence and principles, New York 1990, pp. 145 & n. 305, 151 n. 329, 216ff., 221; pl. XLII, R.106–107.
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Title
A Roman Breviary
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 286
Summary
A Roman Breviary, for Augustinian use, perhaps written in Germany, consisting of:
A Calendar (fol. 2)
'Psalterium secundum cursum Romane curie' (fol. 8v)
Hymnal, dated at end '1463' (fol. 64)
Proprium de Tempore (fol. 74)
Proprium Sanctorum, dated at end '1464' (fol. 191)
Commune Sanctorum, and smaller offices (fol. 296)
On fol. 313av '1464. Scriptum & completum Anno Domini. 1464. quarta die mensis Marcij In conuentu uallis Sancte Marie beylar', possibly' bei Lahr' in Rhenish Prussia, S. of Munster
In the calendar 'Ludgeri episcopi Monasteriensis' is in red on Apr. 24.
Date
Written in 1463-1464 in Germany
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, in double columns, with many small miniatures, a border, illuminated capitals, etc., binding, leather, four panels stamped on each cover, each with 'ora pro nobis sancta dei genitrix' and small figures (Bruges, 15th cent.), the back is modem
Physical extent
324 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
A Roman Breviary
