The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 25777

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9689

Shelfmark:

mssHM 25777

Title:

Cistercian Breviary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1415

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. i + 205 : parchment ; 97 x 132 mm

Former Owner(s):

Dickinson, Mary W. T

Mary W. T. Dickinson WIKIDATA

Kloster Riddagshausen

Riddagshausen Abbey WIKIDATA

Note:

Breviary written in the early fifteenth century in northern Germany for Cistercian use as shown by the saints of the calendar and the sanctorale.
Span folios: ff. 1-205v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 12(ff. i-1) 26(-1) 3-2110 2210(-10). Catchwords in the middle of the lower margin. Ruled space, 96-97 x 65-70 mm; 18 long lines, ruled in ink, with top and bottom 2 lines full across; slash pricking in outer margins. Written in a gothic book hand in two sizes according to liturgical function. Contemporary foliation, i-xx, in brown ink in...
Decoration: Plain 3- to 1-line initials in red; 1-line initials within the text touched with red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
Early, if not first, owners were the Cistercians of Riddagshausen in the diocese of Halberstadt, Brunswick; on f. i verso, in green ink in a fifteenth century hand: "[...?]r liber perpetue virginis Marie. Sub custodia fratris Iohannis [...?] professi ibidem in Riddageshussen." On f. 1v: "Dis buch gehöret dem Kloster Riddageshausen 1689." A slip of paper with the number [?]225 is pasted to the...

Keyword:

breviaries

manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861915

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52402/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens