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xMMs.Br2. Breviary for Cistercian Use. Circa 1475-1500. Latin. 107 x 82 mm binding. Parchment codex.

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Identifier: 4

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Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1100-1600

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 18.00 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

Latin

Custodial History

Former owners are Universitat Freiburg and Mzeller Schloss Bibliothek

Materials Specific Details

Breviary [1475-1500?] 399 leaves, music. 12 cm "v (paper flyleaves) + 339 folios on parchment (quite thin), modern foliation in pencil top outer corner recto, complete (collation i8 ii6 iii-xxix10 xxx-xxxii12 xxxiii10 xxxiv10 [-10, cancelled with no loss of text; 9, now pasted to the back pastedown]), ruled in ink with the top two and bottom two horizontal lines full across, and with full-length vertical bounding lines (justification 75-73 x 57-55 mm.), written below the top line in a conservative gothic bookhand in fourteen long lines, red rubrics, calendar in red and black with alternately red and blue KL-monograms, two- and one-line alternately red and blue initials, eight 8- to 7-line parted red and blue initials with infilling and penwork in black ink (except f. 181, with red infilling), two larger 10- to 9-line line parted red and blue initials, ff. 15 and 210, infilled with red and blue, with decorative penwork in black, and with the opening letters of the text copied in one-line majuscules, alternately red and blue, arranged vertically alongside the initials ... overall in very good condition, trimmed (with slight loss of text in calendar and marginal addition on one folio, f. 135v), lower outer corner, f. 154 damaged (slight loss to text), ff. 1-6, small rust stain outer margin (probably from earlier clasp), last nine leaves with small stain top outer corner, last leaf darkened ... both covers and spine are worn, but in good functional condition. Dimensions 107 x 82 mm."--Vendor description. Later additions: musical notation added by a later sixteenth-century(?) hand in the margins on twenty-five folios; later corrections, ff. 67v, 86, 100, 140, 143, 150, 264. Added later notes in German, lower margins of ff. 293, 301, 302, 303, 304v; and a prayer in German, f. 339v, and inside back cover.

Bound in sixteenth-century blindtooled brown leather over heavily beveled wooden boards, tooled with multiple fillets framing an outer border with vertical rows of quatrefoils in diamond-shaped stamps, bordered with small dots, and a rectangular center panel (now appears blank, but badly rubbed), spine with three raised bands, two brass catches, upper board, partial remains of one strap, lower board, restored.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository

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