Smith College, Ms. 261
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS299
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. 261
- Title:
- [Breviary]
Missal. (Smith College Ms. 261) - Catholic Church.
Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts. Breviary--Texts. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Northampton. - Place:
- Flanders (Belgium), Flanders
- Date:
- 1505-1505
- Physical Description:
- Binding: Bound in oak boards, covered in plain calf, rebacked, clasps broken.
- Note:
- Manuscript note: A Latin breviary (Franciscan use), from Flanders. The ms. is a composite of leaves taken from at least five different books: the original breviary plus cannibalized parts from two other ms. breviaries; canibalized parts from two different printed breviaries. Some additions and corrections to the text are inserted in the margins or on slips of paper, sometimes pasted over the...
277 x 188 (190 x 91) mm: Ms.
277 x 188 (190 x 91) mm: In Latin. Written in Gothic bookhand.
277 x 188 (190 x 91) mm: Illustration: Initial letters in blue and red; some illuminated initials and ornaments cut from 15th and 16th century French and Flemish mss. pasted in.
277 x 188 (190 x 91) mm: Binding: Bound in oak boards, covered in plain calf, rebacked, clasps broken.
277 x 188 (190 x 91) mm: Scribal colophon on p. 103: Orate pro fratre hermanno brunem qui hunc librum scripsit et finivit anno xvc xxii sabbato in albis deo gratias. ("Pray for Brother Herman Bruno who wrote this book and finished in the year 1522 on Holy Saturday, thanks be to God") (i.e. April 19, 1522).
277 x 188 (190 x 91) mm: Owner's inscription: Dwight Wood Baker, 1930 (f. 1).
277 x 188 (190 x 91) mm: Notes on this breviary by researcher Peter Stallybrass laid in clamshell box with ms. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://archive.org/details/Ms.261_48
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ms.261_48/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
