Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
Catholic Church.
Liturgics.
Breviaries.
Breviaries -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Codices.
Breviaries.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Summary:

Breviary (imperfect, misbound) perhaps produced in Langres. It includes the commemoration to St. Mammès, the patron saint of Langres. The manuscript was originally numbered in 2 series, one for the Temporale (liturgical directions for the season of the church year), the other for the Sanctorale (liturgical directions for the veneration of the saints). Folios 1-6 and 178-193 have no contemporary foliation, they contain portions of the psalms and the canticles.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from Zacour-Hirsch.
Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 205 + ii (modern paper); [1-8], ix-ccv; contemporary foliation in roman numerals on verso, in black for the Temporale, and in red for the Sanctorale, beginning on f. 9v; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines.
Script: Written in Gothic book script by 3 different hands.
Decoration: Extensive rubrication, capitals and initials in red and blue throughout, some with red or purple filigree (f. 1r-6r, 178r-193v).
Binding: Modern calf, completely detached.
Origin: Written in southern France in the 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Misbound, with some leaves missing.
Letter with a description of manuscript, 4 Nov. 1931, from the Library of Congress pasted onto endleaf, now detached.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by J. E. Schulte.
Sold at auction at Anderson Auction Company, New York, 12 May 1910, to E. B. Krumbhaar (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; inscription, second flyleaf recto).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), Supplement B, Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 10 (Ms. Latin 277).
Listed in De Ricci, Seymour. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2, p. 1993, no. 3

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 690.

Contributor:

Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966, former owner.

OCLC:

212046323

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