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...
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