Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule
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Description
- Title
- Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule
- Published / Created
- [between 1100 and 1150, 1300-1600]
- Publication Place
- Southwestern France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment (thick), composed of two distinct parts, of 1) Calendar-obituary giving the names of nuns, lay sisters, and benefactors of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France. The main body of this section dates from the fourteenth century, but was still being supplemented in the sixteenth century. 2) A version of the Usuard Martyrology; the body of the text written in the 12th century. 3) Rule of St. Benedict, feminine version
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Part I (ff. 1-46): Written in a variety of scripts ranging from gothic bookhand to batarde. Part II (ff. 47-168): Written in elegant late caroline/early gothic bookhand.
Part I: Initials, dates and headings in red. Part II: Two decorated initials, ff. 47r and 129r, 6-line, in red, green and blue. Decorative headings in brown ink touched with red and green, or red touched with blue. Small initials, 4- to 1-line in red, some with foliage scrolls in red or contrasting color. Headings in red.
First part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired.
Binding: Fifteenth century (?), France. An early resewing on three double, twisted, tawed skin supports laced into wide grooves in oak boards and pegged with rectangular or square pegs. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame. Spine leather wanting. Leather on boards much worn. - Provenance
- Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. 168 : 250 x 198 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Digitization Note
- ff. 3, 46 excised.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 25
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval France 12th century
Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Benedictines.
- Subject (Topic)
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Benedictine nuns
Christian martyrs
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monasticism and religious orders - Subjects
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Benedictines
Benedictine nuns
Christian martyrs
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monasticism and religious orders
France > 12th century
France > 14th century
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9805865
- Object ID (OID)
- 2013561
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