Collection ID: 0028 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Breviary, Cistercian Use

Other related names

• Blackburne, E. L., former owner
• Blew, W. J., former owner
• Thomas, George Clifford, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/9714548)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 240/15
(Philadelphia, United States, Rosenbach Museum & Library)

Publisher

Rosenbach Museum & Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript, a Cistercian breviary from England in the thirteenth century, is small in height and width, but has nearly four hundred leaves. Written in a tiny Gothic textualis script, it has rubrication in faded red ink and decorated initials from three lines to seven lines throughout. The initials alternate between red with green flourishing and green with red at the beginning and end of the volume; in the middle (fols. 94v-274v), the green is instead blue. The feast of Saint Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, is noted in the margin on the appropriate page of the Sanctorale (fol. 301v).

Notes

• Paper flyleaves
   
• Collation note: quires 35-39 uncertain
   

Extent

Ii+369; 100 x 75 mm bound to 110 x 88 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-9 (10), 10-12 (8), 13-34 (10), 35 (5, +4), 36 (10), 37 (7, +5), 38 (9, +8), 39 (4)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Two catchwords visible (fols. 90v, 324v), lower right verso

Binding

Nineteenth-century blind-tooled morocco, with gilt spine title Breviarium MS; binding almost detached from book block except at lower hinge; front flyleaves detached; headband and tailband broken

Layout

One column of twenty-three lines; frame-ruled in lead (rarely visible) with first line of text below the line; written area: 75 x 55 mm

Decoration

Decorated initials throughout, three-line to seven-line, alternating between red with green flourishing and green with red flourishing or between red with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing (fols. 94v-274v); decorated initials at the bottom of the page sometimes drawn horizontally (for example, fol. 43v); one-line initials in blue with red flourishing; rubrication in red; simple decorative descenders on letters in the bottom line

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Gift of E. L. Blackburne to W. J. Blew (note on flyleaf 1 verso); George Clifford Thomas, Philadelphia (bookplate dated 1902, flyleaf 2 recto)
   

Related resources

• Catalogue of the More Important Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts in the Library of George C. Thomas (Philadelphia: George C. Thomas, 1907), p. 31.

Keywords

• Breviary
• 13th century
• English
• Gothic
• England
• Liturgy

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Communale]
• fol. 275r — [Sanctorale]
• fol. 340r — Lectiones legende privatis diebus per [?]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Unidentified bookplate
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, George Clifford Thomas
• fol. 2v — Marginal notation
• fol. 4v — Marginal notation
• fol. 40r — Marginal notation
• fol. 192v — Marginal notation
• fol. 246r — Marginal notation
• fol. 272r — Marginal notation
• fol. 303v — Marginal notation
• fol. 328v — Marginal notation