Breviary : Cistercian use : in Latin]. (DS3473) (Q17201)

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Breviary : Cistercian use : in Latin]. (DS3473)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444809, MS q Med.138)

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    28 November 2023
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    Breviary : Cistercian use : in Latin].
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Flanders
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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    between 1250 and 1299
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    Extent: 372 leaves : parchment, ill.; 168 x 123 (120 x 84) mm bound to 18 cm in box 20 cm
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    Ms. codex.
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    In Latin.
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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    Secundo folio: Denus pallescit quindenus federa nescit.
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    Collation: Parchment, fol. iii + 372 + iii (2 modern thick paper flyleaves followed by one of early paper, no watermarks) ; 19 (construction uncertain) 2-1910 206 21-2410 2512 26-3210 332+1 (fol. 315 is a tipped-in singleton) 34-356 36-3910 ; modern pencil signatures, center lower margin of the first recto of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each recto; skips...
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    Layout: 1 column, 26 lines. Bounding lines in light plummet or blind, top and bottom writing lines extended to edge.
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    Script: Written in an early Gothic bookhand by multiple scribes in black ink with red rubrics.
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    Decoration: Portraits of a hooded woman and man (Cistercian nun and monk?) (4-line historiated initial), the arms of Blois in the upper margin, rabbits and a bird in the margins; fol. 139v (Pentecost): Portrait of a hooded woman (Cistercian nun?)
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    Binding: 19th-century brown velvet over pasteboard, heavy cream paper pastedowns and two flyleaves at front and back.
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    Origin: Written in Flanders in the second half of the thirteenth century, Cistercian use indicated by the illustrations and by the calendar, which includes St. Robert of Molesme (28 April), the Feast of All Monks (20 May), and St. Malachi, as well as Flemish monks Lambert (17 September) and Dionysius (9 October). The calendar verses are a possibly unique conflation of the standard verses...
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    Provenance: Includes the arms of the Van Dalem family of Guelderland [?] on fol. 1; of Dongen (fol. 36v); and of Blois (fol. 120v). Signature of C. Charlier de Namur, 20 Feb. 1837 (fol. 9v); Commander E. P. F. Cooper, his sale, Sotheby's London, 7 Dec. 1953, lot 47.
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    Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL from Maggs in 1955 (cat. 830, no. 487)
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    Call number: MS q Med.138.
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    Former call number: MS 1562.
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    Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IX (1957), p. 61; John Hennig, "Versus de mensibus," Traditio 11 (1955): 65-90, see no. 83.
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    4 December 2023
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