(Q28498)
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Breviary
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Pope, Joseph, 1921-
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Fogg, Sam
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circa 1275-1300
13. century
1275Gregorian
1300Gregorian
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Extent: 4 leaves ; 193 x 138 mm
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Four leaves from a Breviary, once used as a wrapper for MS 160.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Parchment with paper flyleaves. i + 4 + i. Dimensions: 193 x 138 mm. Collation: i4 (outer four leaves on one quire, original structure uncertain, missing an unknown number of leaves between 2 and 3). Ruling is mostly undectable although traces of single vertical bounding lines in ink or lead remain between the columns. Prickings visible in margins. Manuscript written by two scribes in a mature...
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Although fragmentary, the text suggests that these leaves originated from a monastic, rather than secular, breviary (one nocturn with four lessons are provided for the feast of St. Mary). On the bottom of fol. 1r, a fifteenth or sixteenth century hand has listed the contents of this manuscript, rather unusually, as the "Legends" of St. Barbara and St. Lucy (apparently because, by this time...
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These four leaves previously belonged to Joseph Pope (1921-2010) of Toronto, where it was Bergendal Collection MS 24 (described in Pope, 1999, and online, Bergendal Collection). Purchased from Sam Fogg, London, October 1993.
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2 February 2024
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2 February 2024
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