Breviary, pars aestivalis, use of Carmelites[between 1400 and 1410]latManuscript on paper (with parchment conjugate leaves at beginning and end of quires; calendar on parchment) of a Carmelite breviaryIn Latin.Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in an informal, but careful, gothic script. Numerous additions by contemporary and later writers.Plain initials and KL monograms, 6- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks, underlining, and initial strokes in red. The verso of the final folio bears the partially erased image of a large decorative initial, in green, over which the later text was written.Binding: Nineteenth century. Head and fore-edge gilt, with tawed, pink markers on the fore-edge. Bound by William Matthews, a leading American binder (second half of the 19th century) in a dark brown goatskin Jansenist binding (plain outside with gold-tooled doublures).