Bryn Mawr College, MS 31
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16533
- Shelfmark:
- MS 31
- Title:
- Havens Breviary, Franciscan Use
- Place:
- Northern Europe
- Date:
- 1496-1599
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 346; 148 x 101 mm bound to 152 x 109 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Williams, Edward H.
Havens, Ida M.
Havens, Walter Paul, Jr., 1911-1992
- Note:
- Slight amount of water damage at the edges
Construction of quire 25 is uncertain
Binding: Original blind-tooled leather over beveled oak boards with brass clasps, missing straps, leather spine repair; on spine handwritten in ink on remnant of paper label: "Manuscrit/ Curieux/ Parchemin"
Layout: Two columns, thirty-two lines, ruled in ink with single vertical bounding lines, full across; written area: 87 x 61 mm; Calendar in five columns, thirty-one to thirty-two lines, ruled, but with no bounding lines; written area: 90 x 70 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
Script: Single-compartment a
Decoration: Two eight- and nine-line illuminated historiated initials; several four- to eight-line red or blue initials with penwork extensions; three- to two-line solid red or blue ink initials with similar penwork throughout; one-line initials and paragraph markers in blue or red, and extensive rubrication in red throughout
Provenance: Written in Northern Europe; the reference to Longin in the calendar (15 March) suggests that the text was written after 1495. Early provenance unknown. Given to Bryn Mawr College on 14 December 1979, by Dr. Paul Havens and Mrs. Ida Havens. Inside front cover: "Crozat" in ink. Bookplate of Edward H. Williams - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS31.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS31/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
