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Breviary (MS M.75).

Accession number
MS M.75
Object title
Breviary (MS M.75).
Created
Paris, France, ca. 1350.
Binding
English 19th-century brown blind-tooled morocco lettered: Breviarium Romanum. Ms. XIII saec., enclosed in dark purple morocco case by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1902.
Description
590 leaves (2 columns, 31 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 188 x 125 mm
Provenance
Library of Edwin H. Lawrence, F.S.A.; his sale May 1892, no. 88; William Morris; Richard Bennett (purchased from Morris's estate, 1897); Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the libraries of William Morris, Richard Bennett, Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and other sources, no. 12; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with the Bennett Collection in 1902; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. breviary for the use of Rome, Franciscan rite; written and illuminated in Paris, France, ca. 1350.
73 miniatures, 24 calendar illustrations, bas-de-page compositions with hybrids and grotesques.
Artist: various artists working in the style of Jean Pucelle.
François Avril has suggested a relationship to the work of Artist D in Paris, Bibl. Nationale, ms. fr. 167 and to Stockholm, Bibl. Royale, ms. A.165.
Revised: 2015
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Franciscan calendar -- fol. 7r: Hymns -- fols. 7v-80v: Psalter -- fols. 80v-83r: Canticles -- fols. 83v-85r: Litany -- fols. 85r-86r: Prayers -- fols. 86v-87v: Blank -- fols. 88r-90v: List of contents of Temporale -- fols. 90v-91v: Table of Antiphons -- fols. 92r-385v: Temporale -- fols. 386r-548v: Sanctorale -- fols. 549r-578v: Common of Saints -- fols. 578v-585r: Office of the Virgin (abbreviated) -- fols. 585r-589v: Office of the Dead (abbreviated).
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Classification