Accession number
MS G.75
Object title
Breviary (MS G.75).
Created
Umbria, Italy, 1300-1323.
Binding
14th-century brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with a central cross and border of ornamental stamps, two leather thongs with metal clasps, spine rebacked and upper corners repaired.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
363 leaves (2 columns, 30 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 232 x 165 mm
Provenance
Camaldolese Monastery of Fonte Avellana, Umbria (Ms. 13 bis); purchased shortly before Dec. 1962 from H.P. Kraus, New York for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Breviary for the use of the Hermits of the Holy Cross of Fonte Avellana; written and illuminated in Umbria, Italy, possibly at Fonte Avellana, 1300-1323.
Decoration: 26 historiated initials.
Decoration: 26 historiated initials.
Contents
fols. 1r-2v: Flyleaves with later additions -- fols. 3r-8v: Calendar -- fols. 9r-76v: Psalms and Litany -- fols. 77r-240r: Temporale from Advent Season to Post-Pentecost Season -- fols. 240r-258v: Common of Saints -- fols. 258v-363v: Sanctorale beginning from Apostle Andrew.
Script
textura
Language
Latin;
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