Breviary (diurnal).

Description

Title: Breviary (diurnal).
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1500]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (sturdy, of uneven quality) of a breviary
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in a small running script. Additions by several contemporary and later writers.
Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout.
Portions of text, badly worn or trimmed, have been lost.
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on two tapes. Wooden boards. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled in a diamond pattern with indistinguishable ornaments within the diamonds and at their intersections. Traces of five round bosses, larger on lower board, metal corner pieces and a catch plate on the upper board. Rebacked, with leather formed in the shape of endbands in the turn-ins at head and tail of the spine and with a strap and pin (a modern nail?) fastening added.
Provenance: Presented to Yale in 1898 by Albert H. Buck, M. D.
Extent: ff. i + 182 + i : 105 x 75 (ca. 82 x 60) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Breviaries
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Breviaries
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Breviary (Diurnal). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.