Breviary : Cistercian use : in Latin with additions in Provençal]. (DS3498) (Q17276)

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Breviary : Cistercian use : in Latin with additions in Provençal]. (DS3498)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444865, MS q Med.241)

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    28 November 2023
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    Breviary : Cistercian use : in Latin with additions in Provençal].
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--France
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
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    Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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    between 1300 and 1325].
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    Extent: 479 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 200 x 135 (127 x 42, 10, 44) mm bound to 22 cm
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    Ms. codex.
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    In Latin with additions in Provençal.
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    Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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    Secundo folio: Marcius habet dies xxxi. Luna xxx./ Nox habet horas xii. Dies xii.
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    Collation: Parchment, fol. ii + 479 + ii ; 1-1110 12-138 14-4710 488+1 494 (fol. 477 singleton) ; 18th-/19th-century black ink arabic signatures preserved in extreme lower left corner of the first vero of several quires. Catchwords on lower inner margin of the final verso of each quire in varying degrees of penwork frames. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of the recto, skips...
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    Layout: 2 columns, 26 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
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    Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
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    Decoration: One-line initials throughout in in red with purple filigree or blue with red; 3- to 4- line floriate initials throughout; seven- to eight-line floriate initials in colors with geometric extensions leading to terminal foliation in upper and lower margins (the border on fol. 11 slightly more elaborate), with marginal grotesques and animals, on fol. 11, 19, 24v, 32v, 38v, 46, 52v...
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    Binding: 18th-century brown morocco, signed Belz-Niedree inner front; gilt fillet turn-ins, title stamped gilt on spine, all edges gilt, ribbon bookmark, vellum pastedowns and two endleaves and front and back, gilt-fillet board edges; housed in cardboard slipcase cover.
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    Origin: Written in the Avignon region of France in the first quarter of the fourteenth century (Thomas Aquinas, canonized in 1323, has been added to the calendar by a later hand, implying that the manuscript was written before that date), for the use of the Cistercian nuns at Val-Sainte, about 30 miles east of Avignon: the Office of the Dead is Cistercian use, as is the calendar (with St...
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    Provenance: Sold by Léon Techener in 1869 (Répertoire universel de bibliographie, vol. 1, nr. 73 and Bulletin du Bibliophile 35 (1869), p. 131), there erroneously ascribed an English origin and the date 1383. Late nineteenth-century bookplate of Alphonse Labitte (b. 1853), Paris, inside front cover, perhaps bound for him. Later owned by Acton Griscom (High Point, NJ), his manuscript 12 (see...
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    Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Lawrence Witten in 1983.
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    Call number: MS q Med.241.
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    Former call number: MS q 2252.
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    4 December 2023
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