MS 29 Chew Breviary, Use of Poitiers
Title
Chew Breviary, Use of PoitiersOther 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
Publisher
Bryn Mawr College LibraryLanguage
LatinOrigin
- Place
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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 mmFoliation
Modern foliation in pencil in upper right rectoCollation
Structure uncertainSignatures
Remains of signature markings in some quires in lower right, rectoSupport
ParchmentCatchwords
Catchwords placed horizontally in lower margin centered in inner column, verso, and vertically along inner bounding line in lower marginBinding
Gold-tooled vellum, probably early 19th-century; on upper spine handwritten in ink on paper label: Bréviaire/ Manuscrit./ 15eLayout
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
Genres
- Breviaries
Keywords
- Breviary
- French
- France
- 15th century
- Illumination
- Liturgy
Licenses
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- Text
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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"
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