Breviary
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11007471
Description
- Title
- Breviary
- Published / Created
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Publication Place
- Germany
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of a Breviary
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: copied by two hands, both writing Gothica Textualis Formata. Hand A copied ff. 1r-8v in bold script with little angularity and long ascenders and descenders; hand B copied all the other pages in Textus Semiquadratus in two sizes, with conspicable forking at the top of the ascenders, spurs, hairlines, a very short d and Southern German or Central European features such as the shape of the -orum and -arum abbreviations, the use of y for ii, etc. The texts on the inserted leaflets and some corrections are in Gothica Hybrida (Fractura).
Slips of parchment with additional texts have been inserted between ff. 18-19, 33-34, 35-36.
Red rubrics and red stroking of majuscules. Red initials: 1-line versals, 2-line plain initials; art. 1 opens with a 4-line initial and features several 3-line initials, all of the same type as the other ones in the manuscript.
Binding: original, yellowish pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets and rolls. Spine blind-tooled with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear board, with engraved brass catches (one partly preserved) on the front board. Yellow spine. - Provenance
- Belonged to the Gannett family: on front pastedown, in pencil: “E.S. Gannett. Given me by sir Henry Bryant, April 1864” and “W.C. Gannett, 15, Sibley Place, Rochester”. Gift of Michael R. Gannett and Ruth Gannett Kahn.
- Extent
- ff. 133 : 160 x 115mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 896
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Renaissance Germany 16th 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
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Catholic Church > Liturgy
Breviaries
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Breviary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9884273
- Object ID (OID)
- 11007471