Extent: 282 leaves : parchment ; 147 x 106 (98 x 73) mm bound to 16 cm
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Ms. codex. In Latin. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Title devised by cataloger. Secundo folio: ...ioseph qui sedes... Collation: Parchment, fol. 282 + vi (early paper) ; 18 26+2 (fol. 9 and 16 tipped-in singletons) 3-98 106−1 (fol. 73 singleton) 118+1 (fol. 80 singleton) 12-248 256+2 (fol. 95 and 96 tipped-in singletons) 26-278 284+3 (fol. 218, 221 and 222 singletons) 29-308 3110 32-348 358+1 (final leaf singleton) ; catchwords in lower right corner of the final verso of each quire, some trimmed. Partially... Layout: 1 column, 21 lines. Bounding and writing lines in brown ink. Script: Written in a gothic cursive in brown with red rubrics. Decoration: 2-line red capitals throughout. Binding: 19th-century brown paste paper over pasteboard, title gilt-stamped on black spine label reading "Breviarium/ MS/ Hyemale". Origin: Written in Flanders, possibly for Utrecht use, in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. The blank leaves 201-208 (four bifolia) have had their original text scraped away so that the parchment could be reused here; the scraped texts, all fourteenth or fifteenth century and partially legible under ultra-violet light, are unrelated to the text of the breviary; these include St... Provenance: Produced for Franciscan use. 20th-century printed dealer's description pasted inside front cover. Immediate source of acquisition: Unknown. Call number: MS q Med.254.
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