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Breviary
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii modern parchment flyleaves + 191 fols. + ii modern parchment flyleaves, 180 x 137 (130 x 90) mm, 22 lines, ruled in black ink, catchwords.
BINDING: Gold-tooled red leather over pasteboards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 1954; previous binding preserved: fifteenth-century, German, blind-stamped brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on four supports, stamps including Virgin and Child on crescent moon and four Evangelists’ symbols, two straps with metal clasps on lower cover, two catchplates on upper cover.
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 6r Calendar; fols. 7r – 45r Temporal from Easter Eve to 25th Sunday after Holy Trinity; fol. 45r – 48r Dedication of the Church; fols. 48r – 77r ferial office; fols. 77r – 77v Ad disciplinas. So mann disciplin nympt der convent spricht; fol. 77v – 78r Oratio pro Capitulo Generale; fols. 78r – 160v Sanctoral; fols. 160v – 175v Common of the Saints; fols. 175v – 188r Office of the Virgin; fols. 188v – 190 Hymns and collects for Saints Anne, Afra and the Division of the Apostles (addition).
ORNAMENTATION: Blue initial [A, 7 ll.] on gold ground with partial floral and spraywork border for the first lesson (fol. 7r); red and blue penwork initials [1 – 2 ll.].
History note: Probably from the collection of Alfred Aspland (1818 – 1880) (note on recto of first flyleaf at front); Sotheby’s, London, 7 December 1953, lot 38; purchased by Thomas Sidney Blakeney (1905 – 1976); his gift, 20 January 1955.
Method of acquisition: Given (1955) by Blakeney, Thomas Sidney
15th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1461
CE
-
Circa
1475
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 130 mm
Width 90 mm
Page
Height 180 mm
Width 137 mm
Accession number: MS 2-1955
Primary reference Number: 170623
Project ID: 119
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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