University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 26
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS12305
- Shelfmark:
- BANC MS UCB 26
- Title:
- Breviarium Romanum
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 13--
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 424 leaves : parchment, col. ill. ; 150 x 115 (116 x 83) mm. bound to 150 x 116 mm.
- Note:
- Coat of arms (now cropped) with 3 balls and in chief a lion passant, all within a laurel wreath supported by standing putti, added in simple style in the lower margin of fol. 13; modern notes in French on added slips of paper with monogram "B (V? and E)"; first slip of paper stamped on verso "PP. on. A. Hart," and signed "Zoisany" . Later belonged to John C. Cebrian of San Francisco.
Ms. codex.
Title from spine and from pseudo-gothic script on fol. ii.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern parchment, the first of these glued to the verso of the endleaf) + 424 + ii (modern parchment, the second of these glued to the recto of the endleaf); 112 2-2010 218 22-2610 274 (through fol. 264) 28-3910 404 (through fol. 388) 41-4310 446 ( -6; + flyleaf); quires numbered unreliably in modern pencil on first leaf recto in lower right corner; catchwords...
Layout: 2 columns of 33 lines ruled in lead for horizontal lines and in dry point for vertical bounding lines.
Script: Written in round gothic book hand in 2 sizes according to liturgical function, either by several scribes or by one scribe with varying control. Scribe 1, fol. 211-264v; possibly several scribes for remaining folios.
Decoration: 1 12-line historiated initial on square gold round (leaf 211v); 13 6-line painted initials on square gold rounds with broad, leafy extensions (leaves 13, 35v, 56, 154v, 160v, 211, 222, 227v, 231v, 236, 241v, 246v, 389); 1 6-line pen-flourished initial; 2-line initials in alternating red and blue with harping and beading in other color. Rubrics red throughout.
Binding: modern green morocco with gold-stamped dentelle on turn-ins.
Origin: Written in Italy, probably Florence, by the middle of the fourteenth cent. The book was written for Franciscan use.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 26.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS BX2000 A3R6 1350.
1. fol. 1r-6v: Graded calendar in black ink for the saints' names, with grading, Easter finding notes, and zodiacal position of the sun in red: Zenobius (25 May), Anthony of Padua (13 June), John the Baptist (24 June, and octave 1 July), Donatus of Arezzo (7 August), Lawrence (10 August, and octave 17 August), Clare of Assisi (12 August), Louis of Toulouse (19 August), Louis king of France (25...
5. fol. 211r-264v: Psalter with antiphons, versicles and responses, ending on fol. 263v-264v with "[text] Te lucis ante terminum (RH 20138), Nunc dimittis, Pater noster, Credo in deum patrem, Gloria in excelsis, Credo in unum deum."
6. fol. 265r-388v: Sanctorale of the breviary from Saturninus (29 November) through Catherine of Alexandria (25 November) including offices for the feasts of Zenobius, Anthony of Padua, John the Baptist (vigil, feast and octave, each with 9 lessons), Donatus of Arezzo, Lawrence (vigil, feast and octave), Clare of Assisi, Louis of Toulouse, Louis king of France, Decollation of John the Baptist...
7. fol. 389r-408r: Common of saints.
8. fol. 408r-412r: Office of the Virgin, use of Rome, with seasonal changes.
9. fol. 412r-415r: Office of the dead, use of Rome. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991044903089706532
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228871/
- Holding Institution:
