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Title

Breviary

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Baugh, Albert C. 1891-1981, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 714
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875233503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212110336
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487523

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

between 1350 and 1399

Place

Germany?

Summary

Begins with the psalms, but lacks the beginning and the end; with 2 items in slightly later hands on the last 3 folios: prayers (f. 159), and Vigilia mortuorum (f. 160-161).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Edges of some leaves are brittle and show previous insect damage. Leaves were closely cropped in binding, cutting off some decoration and marginal notes in a later hand.
   

Extent

161 leaves : 94 x 75 (71 x 53) mm. bound to 100 x 78 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (modern paper) + 161 + i (modern paper); [1-161]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century calf, rebacked, splitting along back cover; remains of clasp.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines; frame-ruled in ink.

Decoration

Rubricated throughout, with red and blue capitals, 2-line alternating red and blue initials with contrasting red or blue ornamentation, 4-line and 6-line puzzle initials in red and blue with detailed ornamentation (f. 9r, 10r, 29r, 53r, 74r, 77r, and 97r).

Script

Written in Gothic book script.

Provenance

• Franz Graf von [undeciphered] 1830 and pencilled note of purchase 1809, inside back cover. (From Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, these notes are no longer visible due to repair of the binding.)
   
• Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Breviaries--Specimens

Genres

• Codices
• Breviaries
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• Breviary
• Devotion
• Liturgy
• German
• Germany

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 159r — Prayers, f. 159r
• fol. 160r — Vigilia mortuorum, f. 160r

Decorations

• fol. 9r — Puzzle initial, Initial Q, f. 9r
• fol. 10r — Puzzle initial, Initial D, f. 10r
• fol. 29r — Puzzle initial, Initial S, f. 29r
• fol. 53r — Puzzle initial, Initial E, f. 53r
• fol. 74r — Puzzle initial, Initial C, f. 74r
• fol. 77r — Puzzle initial, Initial D, f. 77r
• fol. 97r — Puzzle initial, Initial D, f. 97r
• fol. 159r — Owner note, Prayers, f. 159r
• fol. 160r — Owner note, Vigilia mortuorum, f. 160r