Ms. codex. In Latin. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Secundo folio: Martius habet dies... Collation: Parchment, fol. 189 ; 16 28−2 36 410 56 610+1(−2) 710 814−2 910 1012−3 11-128−1 1312−1 1410 1516−11 1614−5 174 1810 198 20-2210 236−2. Lacking multiple leaves: two after folios 9 (the central bifolium of the second quire) and 40; one after folios 53 and 62; two after fol. 80; one after folios 84, 86, 93, 98 and 121; fifteen after folio 124; and one after folios 185 and 186 ; modern... Layout: 1 or 2 columns, number of lines varies, approx. 26-33. Bounding and writing lines ruled in light plummet. Script: Written by multiple scribes in various early gothic bookhands, above top line, round- and tall-s used interchangeably, in brown ink with red or underlined brown rubrics. Decoration: 13-line initial "B" for "Beatus vir" on fol. 7 in red with white-vine infill, 2-line red capitals throughout, some initials in blue, some rubrics alternate red and brown letters. Binding: Original(?) brown, formerly pink sheep or goatskin over boards, sewn on four split tawed leather bands, lacking clasps and bosses; may have originally had a cruciform boss on front cover, lower cover preserves end of clasps; original parchment pastedowns. Origin: Written in northern Italy between the years 1228 (the canonization of St. Francis) and 1255 (the canonization of St. Clare, who was not originally included in the calendar, but was added in the fourteenth century). Provenance: Owned by Franciscan scholar and biographer Paul Sabatier (1858-1928), with his notes, formerly laid in, now shelved as BPL MS 2493. Among his notes are a notice stating that the manuscript had been loaned by Sabatier to Pierre Battifol (author of L'Histoire du bréviaire romain first published in 1893) at an unknown date and then to Michel Andrieu (liturgical historian, author of... Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by the BPL from Sabatier's estate in 1930 along with several other manuscripts and his library of Francisciana, collectively known as the "Paul Sabatier Franciscan Collection." BPL plate inside front cover, beneath partially-detached pastedown. Manuscript inscriptions on upper lower paste downs. Call number: MS q Med.39. Former call number: MS 1347. Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "An Early Franciscan Breviary," More Books VII (1931): 327-340; Zoltan Haraszti, "A Library About St. Francis," More Books VII (1931): 273-286.
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