Breviary

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Accession number:

MS M.909

Title:

Breviary

Created:

France, perhaps Paris, ca. 1440.

Binding:

French brown calf, blind tooled, dated 1575 on cover, rebacked [the 1575 is located upside down on a decorative motif at center on the front cover - the manuscript seems to have been bound upside down and backwards in the binding].

Credit:

Gift of Mrs. Richard C. Storey, in memory of her mother, Mrs. Bayard Thayer of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1962.

Description:

525 leaves (2 columns, 26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 235 x 165 mm

Provenance:

Johannes Henrictus, a canon in Chalon-sur-Saône - note of ownership in gold letters and a coat of arms (now erased) within a floral frame, added on folio 128v subsequent to the manuscript's execution but probably still in the 15th century: Iste liber sci breviariu[m] secundi temporis p[er]ti[n]et magistro iohanni henricti canonico cabilonensi; gift of Mrs. Richard C. Storey in memory of her mother, Mrs. Bayard Thayer of Lancaster, Massachusetts, in 1962.

Notes:

Ms. breviary for the second half of the liturgical year (written in brown ink in the upper margin of fol. 3: Partie d'esté de l'ancien Breviaire de l'Eglise de Chalon), use of Chalon-sur-Saône (Calendar, Office of the Dead), and other texts; written and illuminated in France, perhaps Paris, ca. 1440.
Use: in Calendar, 27 Jan - Lupi Cabilon[ensis] ep' & conf. Dup; 17 Mar. - Agricole Cab[ilonensis] Ep. Dup; 30 Apr. - Flavii ep[iscopus] Cabilonen[sis]; 30 May - Dedicatio[n]is eccl[es]ie a cab[ilonensis].; 29 Jul. - Lupo Trecencis, Dup (Autun); 8 Oct. - St. Grati ep[iscopus] Cabilonen[sis], his feast on fol 447; 20 Oct. - Verani cab[ilonensis] Epi[scopus] et conf[essor] Dup.; 20 Nov. - Silvestri ep[iscopus] Cabilon[ensis]; fol. 9: Incipit psalt[erium] fer' ad ysum cab[ilonensis] ecc[le]s[ie]; fol. 129: Incipit ordo breviarium more cab[ilonensis] ecclesie compilati; Office of the Dead responses are for Chalon-sur-Saône: 1. Credo quod; 2. Qui lazarum; 3. Domine quando; 4. Heu michi; 5. Ne recorderis; 6. Libere me domine de morte; 7. Peccantem me; 8. Libera me domine de viis; 9. Absolve domine.
Decoration: 76 pages with illuminated initials and floral borders, four with a hybrid or an animal in the border (fol. 9v - a peacock; fol. 45v - a bird; fol. 77v - a man/peacock; fol. 129v - a flower/archer).
Musical notation: 4-line red staves with notes added in the margins of several leaves: on fol. 9 beginning the Psalter (beginning Adoremus dom[inum] qui fecit nos Venite); and on fols. 9v, 10, 11v, and 12.

Script:

textura

Language:

Latin

Resources:

Description/Bibliography

Genres:

Psalters

Breviaries

Illuminated manuscripts

Illuminated initials (layout features)

Illuminated borders