MS 31 Havens Breviary, Franciscan Use
Title
Havens Breviary, Franciscan UseOther 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
Publisher
Bryn Mawr College LibraryLanguage
LatinOrigin
15th-16th century
- Place
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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 mmFoliation
Modern foliation in pencil, upper right rectoCollation
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
ParchmentCatchwords
Catchwords perpendicular to text along center bounding line in lower margin versoBinding
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
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
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
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- Text
- These images and the content of Bryn Mawr College Library MS 31: Havens Breviary, Franciscan Use are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
- URL
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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- Text
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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 "
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