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Title

Breviary

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Kothen, Charles, 1814-1880, former owner
• Léon, Michel de, 1727-1800, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 746
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875663503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597429
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487566

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Avignon

Summary

Breviary, use of the Franciscans of Avignon; includes calendar (f. 1r-6v), litany (f. 39r-41v) with names of saints venerated in Provençe and Office for the Dead (f. 146v-158v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; title in Zacour-Hirsch is Psalter.
   
• Upper outer corner of f. [i] cut out.
   

Extent

166 leaves : 149 x 100 (100 x 62) mm. bound to 155 x 107 mm

Foliation

Parchment; ii (18th-century paper) + 167 + ii (18th-century paper); [i], [1-166], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th-century French calf, mistakenly titled Diurna[l] de Marsei[lle] on spine.

Layout

Written in 22-24 long lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

4-line puzzle initial (f. 1r); 8-line puzzle initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 50r); rubricated throughout, with red used for headings, initials and capitals; some capitals stroked with yellow.

Script

Written in Gothic book script in a single hand, except for a middle section (f. 50r-81v) in a second hand; headings and marginal notations in a later hand.

Provenance

• Arms of Michel de Léon, treasurer of France at Marseilles (1727-1800) on spine; monogram of Charles Kothen (1814-1880), a Finnish nobleman who was a refugee in Marseilles, on paper endleaf.
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1958.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Breviaries
• Codices
• Devotional calendars
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Breviary
• Devotion
• Christian
• France

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, f. 1r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 7r — Puzzle initial, Initial D, f. 7r