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This manuscript, a Cistercian breviary from England in the thirteenth century, is small in height and width, but has nearly four hundred leaves. Written in a tiny Gothic textualis script, it has rubrication in faded red ink and decorated initials from three lines to seven lines throughout. The initials alternate between red with green flourishing and green with red at the beginning and end of the volume; in the middle (fols. 94v-274v), the green is instead blue. The feast of Saint Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, is noted in the margin on the appropriate page of the Sanctorale (fol. 301v).
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+369; 100 x 75 mm bound to 110 x 88 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1-9 (10), 10-12 (8), 13-34 (10), 35 (5, +4), 36 (10), 37 (7, +5), 38 (9, +8), 39 (4); Catchwords: Two catchwords visible (fols. 90v, 324v), lower right verso
One column of twenty-three lines; frame-ruled in lead (rarely visible) with first line of text below the line; written area: 75 x 55 mm
Gothic--textualis
Decorated initials throughout, three-line to seven-line, alternating between red with green flourishing and green with red flourishing or between red with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing (fols. 94v-274v); decorated initials at the bottom of the page sometimes drawn horizontally (for example, fol. 43v); one-line initials in blue with red flourishing; rubrication in red; simple decorative descenders on letters in the bottom line
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Paper flyleaves
Collation note: quires 35-39 uncertain
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
England
13th century
Nineteenth-century blind-tooled morocco, with gilt spine title Breviarium MS; binding almost detached from book block except at lower hinge; front flyleaves detached; headband and tailband broken
Latin
Gift of E. L. Blackburne to W. J. Blew (note on flyleaf 1 verso); George Clifford Thomas, Philadelphia (bookplate dated 1902, flyleaf 2 recto)
England
13th century
Latin
Gift of E. L. Blackburne to W. J. Blew
This manuscript, a Cistercian breviary from England in the thirteenth century, is small in height and width, but has nearly four hundred leaves. Written in a tiny Gothic textualis script, it has rubrication in faded red ink and decorated initials from three lines to seven lines throughout. The initials alternate between red with green flourishing and green with red at the beginning and end of the volume; in the middle (fols. 94v-274v), the green is instead blue. The feast of Saint Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, is noted in the margin on the appropriate page of the Sanctorale (fol. 301v).
Paper flyleaves
Collation note: quires 35-39 uncertain
Gothic--textualis
Decorated initials throughout, three-line to seven-line, alternating between red with green flourishing and green with red flourishing or between red with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing (fols. 94v-274v); decorated initials at the bottom of the page sometimes drawn horizontally (for example, fol. 43v); one-line initials in blue with red flourishing; rubrication in red; simple decorative descenders on letters in the bottom line
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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