Extent: 125 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 280 x 190 mm.
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Title supplied by cataloger from bookseller information and notes. Ms. leaves Fol. i + 129 on parchment, incorrect modern foliation in pencil top outer corner recto, 1-12, *14-130 (cited). Original structure is impossible to determine, now constructed with numerous glued-together singletons and missing an undetermined number of folios. Collation i-vi¹⁰vii¹⁰ [-10, final folio cancelled with no text loss] viii-x¹⁰ xi⁸ [-8, final folio with loss of text] xii⁹ [+8, f. 115, one folio added in eighth position] xiii⁸ [-4, one folio cancelled in fourth position with no text loss] xiv⁸ [-8, final blank folio used as pastedown]), catchwords in black or red ink at bottom inner margins, sometimes trimmed, on all but quires i, xi, and... Origin: Written in Bavaria or Austria, late 15th and early 16th century. Written by three scribes (ff. 1-12, ff. 16-129, and ff. 129v-130v, with ff. 12v-15v and ff. 69v-70v blank) in a German Gothic bookhand in two columns of 31 lines, red rubrics, alternating red and blue one- and two-line initials, occasionally extending vertically in the margin alongside additional lines, two faces (ff. 59... Some original holes in the parchment, small stains (ex. f. 87 and ff. 93-98) not affecting text, minor staining at bottom outer corners from use. Binding: Original late Gothic binding, probably slightly later than the book-block but before 1516, brown calf leather over wooden boards with slightly cushioned edges, five double-cord sewing supports, burgundy fabric spine lining, decorative endbands in white, green, and brown (probably once red) thread, mitered turn-ins covered by intact parchment pastedowns, front and back tooled with same... Purchased from Les Enluminures, 2019. As indicated by the script, this manuscript was copied by three scribes in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. It probably originated in Bavaria, as demonstrated by certain saints in the Sanctorale, but could conceivably be Austrian due to the shared script style and veneration of some of the same saints. It is unquestionably Dominican, as it contains several specifically Dominican... On the front pastedown near the top are two inscriptions. The first reports - not quite correctly - the volume's contents: "Hymnarion complens Psalmos, cantilena, et orationes varia." The second, probably by the same hand but in old German cursive (Kurrentschrift) reads: "Burgundt Purcklin im 1516 jar." Burgundt Purcklin was almost certainly an early owner of this manuscript, perhaps even the... More information can be found at: https://www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval/breviary-matutinal-141361
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