The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1049

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9747

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1049

Title:

Breviary, for Dominican use

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. ii + 171 + i + ii : parchment ; 109 x 153 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Layout: 18(-1, 2, 3) 2-208 218(- conjunct leaves 3 and 6, with loss of text) 228. Catchwords in the lower inside corner in a noting hand; quire and leaf signatures, apparently in letters and roman numerals, in the middle of the lower margin, most partly or wholly trimmed away; the fifth leaf in several quires has an "x" in the same location; another set of signature marks seems to occur in the...
Erased notes ff. 145v-146.
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
Written possibly in northern France (perhaps Soissons?) for Dominican use, as suggested by the feasts in the sanctorale. "No. 6" in early modern hand (?) on front pastedown. Sold by L. C. Harper in a sale by Anderson, New York, 17 February 1919, n. 647, where it is said to be a "Lectionarium" (sale slip with volume). Acquired by G. D. Smith. Precise date and source of acquisition by Henry E...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

breviaries

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861975

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:50730/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens