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Title

Chew Breviary, Use of Poitiers

Other related names

• Chew, Samuel C. (Samuel Claggett), 1888-1960, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/no2005078588)
• Chew, Lucy Evans, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 29
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms29.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This is a French breviary from the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century. It includes a Calendar of Poitiers; the Proper of Seasons from Advent through the twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost; The Common of the Dedication of a Church; Suffrages; Morning Benedictions; the Liturgical Psalter; Canticles; the Litany; and Prayers and Suffrages. The painter of the borders has been identified by Samuel Gras as part of the circle of the Jouvenel Group, in the Loire Valley, perhaps a painter called the Master of Adelaide de Savoie or the Master of Poitiers Ms 30.

Extent

Iii+232+iii; 186 x 143 mm bound to 199 x 149 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil in upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain

Signatures

Remains of signature markings in some quires in lower right, recto

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords placed horizontally in lower margin centered in inner column, verso, and vertically along inner bounding line in lower margin

Binding

Gold-tooled vellum, probably early 19th-century; on upper spine handwritten in ink on paper label: Bréviaire/ Manuscrit./ 15e

Layout

Two columns, twenty-nine or thirty-two lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length; remains of prickings visible at outer margins, written area: 115 x 87 mm; Calendar five columns, thirty-three lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length; remains of prickings visible at outer margins

Decoration

Three- to six-line illuminated initials marking beginnings to sections; full borders on four sides and partial borders containing drolleries as well as partial borders extending from some initials throughout; smaller one-line red or blue initials with black or red penwork grounds; red and blue line fillers in the litany; two-line KL monograms with partial border in Calendar; extensive rubrication throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis quadrata

Genres

• Breviaries

Keywords

• Breviary
• French
• France
• 15th century
• Illumination
• Liturgy

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar of Poitiers
• fol. 7r — Temporal from Advent through the twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
• fol. 141r — Common of the Dedication of a Church
• fol. 144r — Suffrages
• fol. 147r — Morning Blessings
• fol. 148r — Liturgical Psalter
• fol. 225v — Canticles
• fol. 227r — Litany
• fol. 228v — Prayers and Suffrages

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notes in ink in upper left corner
• Inside front cover — Note in pencil: "233 H"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil in upper left corner
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Note in pencil: "R.B.R. 28 May '62 Gift of Samuel C. and Lucy Evans Chew '18"
• fol. 16r — Three-line illuminated initial O
• fol. 20v — Three-line illuminated initial U
• fol. 26v — Five-line illuminated initial P
• fol. 26v — Border on four sides
• fol. 35r — Three-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 41r — Three-line illuminated initial P
• fol. 53r — Three-line illuminated initial F
• fol. 57r — Three-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 61r — Three-line illuminated initial I
• fol. 65r — Three-line illuminated initial L
• fol. 69v — Four-line illuminated initial U
• fol. 83v — Border on top and bottom
• fol. 103r — Partial border on three sides
• fol. 106r — Four-line illuminated initial P
• fol. 109v — Three-line illuminated initial I
• fol. 113v — Three-line illuminated initial I
• fol. 115r — Three-line illuminated initial F
• fol. 116v — Three-line illuminated initial P
• fol. 119v — Three-line illuminated initial P
• fol. 121v — Three-line illuminated initial U
• fol. 123r — Three-line illuminated initial U
• fol. 126v — Three-line illuminated initial E
• fol. 130v — Three-line illuminated initial E
• fol. 141r — Four-line illuminated initial U
• fol. 142r — Three-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 167v — Six-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 167v — Border on four sides
• fol. 174r — Six-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 174r — Border on four sides
• fol. 180v — Six-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 180v — Border on four sides
• fol. 188v — Six-line illuminated initial E
• fol. 188v — Border on four sides
• fol. 196v — Six-line illuminated initial C
• fol. 196v — Border on four sides
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil in upper left corner
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Note in pencil: "R.B.R. 28 May '62 Gift of Samuel C. and Lucy Evans Chew '18"