(Q17306)
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28 November 2023
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Breviary : Dominican use : in Latin with German rubrics].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Monastic and religious life of women--Manuscripts--Early works to 1800
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Dominicans--Liturgy--Manuscripts--Early works to 1800
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Dominicans--Germany--Early works to 1800
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Dominicans--Liturgy--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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ca. 1470
15. century
1470Gregorian
1470Gregorian
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Extent: 280 leaves : parchment ; 125 x 90 (78 x 60) mm bound to 14 cm, in box 17 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin with German rubrics.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Secundo folio: ...buntur gressus eius.
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With music, often inserted at head of page above text.
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Collation: Parchment, fol. 280 + i (early paper) ; 1-2810 ; some catchwords extant, extreme lower right corner of the final verso of several quires. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper right corner each recto.
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Layout: 1 column, 15 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind. Square musical notation on a 4-line red staff.
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Script: Written in a gothic cursive in black ink with red rubrics.
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Decoration: Fol. 1: 7-line blue and red puzzle initials with penwork foliate infill; 1- to 3-line initials throughout in blue or red.
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Binding: Original blindstamped brown calf over wooden boards, tabs on outer edge, around 20 in all. Paper pastedown in front, paper pastedown and conjugate flyleaf in back, partial watermark (apparently a flower within a circle), straps lacking. Housed in cloth-covered clamshell box.
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Origin: Written in Germany, possibly Bamberg, for the use of Dominican nuns, around the year 1470 (the litany includes Katherine de Senis, canonized in 1461). The Propers following each Commons office include such Bamberg saints as Henry, Cunigund, Sebaldus, and Ottonis, Bishop of Bamberg.
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Provenance: Early notes and dealers' marks inside front cover and on flyleaves, including the ex libris of one "Maria Agnesz"(?) and other illegible names with pencilled numbers and notations. 18th-century engraved prayer card of the Dominican saint Peter Martyr laid in, as well as 19th-century German ms. notes in ink.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Unknown.
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Call number: MS q Med.253.
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4 December 2023
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