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Title

Havens Breviary, Franciscan Use

Other related names

• Williams, Edward H., former owner
• Havens, Ida M., former owner
• Havens, Walter Paul, Jr., 1911-1992, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n2001131317)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 31
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms31.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern Europe

Summary

This is a fifteenth- or sixteenth century breviary from Northern Europe.

Notes

• Slight amount of water damage at the edges
   
• Construction of quire 25 is uncertain
   

Extent

346; 148 x 101 mm bound to 152 x 109 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (6), 2 (10, -1 -2), 3 (10), 4 (10, -7 -9), 5 (10, -1), 6 (10), 7 (10, -10), 8-12 (10), 13 (10, -3 -4), 14 (10, -8), 15 (10, -2), 16 (10, -2 -9), 17-18 (10), 19 (10, -1), 20 (10), 21 (10, -3), 22 (10, -3 -4), 23 (10), 24 (10, -9), 25 (10, -5 -6 -7 -8 -10), 26 (10), 27 (10, -10), 28 (10, -1 -10), 29 (10, -1 -2 -3 -4), 30 (10, -1 -2 -3 -4 -6), 31-33 (10), 34 (10, -9 -10), 35 (10), 36 (2), 37 (10, -2 -10), 38 (10), 39 (10, -1 -2), 40 (10, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5), 41 (4, -4)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords perpendicular to text along center bounding line in lower margin verso

Binding

Original blind-tooled leather over beveled oak boards with brass clasps, missing straps, leather spine repair; on spine handwritten in ink on remnant of paper label: "Manuscrit/ Curieux/ Parchemin"

Layout

Two columns, thirty-two lines, ruled in ink with single vertical bounding lines, full across; written area: 87 x 61 mm; Calendar in five columns, thirty-one to thirty-two lines, ruled, but with no bounding lines; written area: 90 x 70 mm

Decoration

Two eight- and nine-line illuminated historiated initials; several four- to eight-line red or blue initials with penwork extensions; three- to two-line solid red or blue ink initials with similar penwork throughout; one-line initials and paragraph markers in blue or red, and extensive rubrication in red throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Single-compartment a

Provenance

• Written in Northern Europe; the reference to Longin in the calendar (15 March) suggests that the text was written after 1495. Early provenance unknown. Given to Bryn Mawr College on 14 December 1979, by Dr. Paul Havens and Mrs. Ida Havens. Inside front cover: "Crozat" in ink. Bookplate of Edward H. Williams
   

Genres

• Breviaries

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• Breviary
• Illumination
• Historiated initial
• Liturgy

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Graded Franciscan Calendar
• fol. 7r — Temporal from Advent through the fourth Sunday of November
• fol. 158r — General rubrics
• fol. 163r — The Blessing of Water
• fol. 165v — Psalter
• fol. 226v — Canticles and Prayers
• fol. 227v — Litany
• fol. 228v — Hymns for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds for the Temporal and the Sanctoral
• fol. 240r — Office for Blessing the Table
• fol. 241v — Office of the Communion of the Sick
• fol. 242v — Office of the Anointing of the Sick
• fol. 244r — Sanctoral
• fol. 330r — Feast of the Transfiguration
• fol. 331r — Common of Apostles and Evangelists
• fol. 333r — Common of One Martyr
• fol. 336v — Common of Martyrs
• fol. 339r — Common of Virgins
• fol. 342r — Common of Feasts of the Virgin Mary
• fol. 344r — Office of the Dead

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Edward H. Williams
• Inside front cover — In ink: "Ciozat"
• fol. 1r — Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Paul Havens, 14 Dec 1979
• fol. 2r — Notes in ink
• fol. 34v — Nine-line illuminated, historiated initial D
• fol. 46v — Eight-line initial D
• fol. 68r — In ink in outer margin: "1793"
• fol. 134r — Eight-line illuminated, historiated initial O
• fol. 192r — Seven-line initial D
• fol. 195v — Seven-line initial S
• fol. 204r — Six-line initial E
• fol. 211v — Five-line initial C
• fol. 220v — Six-line initial D
• fol. 221r — Seven-line initial L
• fol. 226v — Six-line initial M
• fol. 254r — Seven-line initial D
• fol. 257r — Seven-line initial D
• fol. 264v — Five-line initial E
• fol. 270r — Five-line initial D
• fol. 274r — Four-line initial D
• fol. 291v — Four-line initial H
• fol. 301r — Note in ink
• fol. 346v — Note in ink upper margin
• Inside back cover — Note in pencil: "684 pages "