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[Breviary].

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Penn Provenance:
  • Arms of Michel de Léon, treasurer of France at Marseilles (1727-1800) on spine; monogram of Charles Kothen (1814-1880), a Finnish nobleman who was a refugee in Marseilles, on paper endleaf.
  • Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1958.
Physical Description:
166 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 149 x 100 (100 x 62) mm bound to 155 x 107 mm
Place of Publication:
[Avignon], [14--]
Language Note:
Latin.
Summary:
Breviary, use of the Franciscans of Avignon; includes calendar (f. 1r-6v), litany (f. 39r-41v) with names of saints venerated in Provençe and Office for the Dead (f. 146v-158v).
Notes:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger; title in Zacour-Hirsch is Psalter.
  • Foliation: Parchment; ii (18th-century paper) + 167 + ii (18th-century paper); [i], [1-166], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
  • Layout: Written in 22-24 long lines; ruled in lead.
  • Script: Written in Gothic book script in a single hand, except for a middle section (f. 50r-81v) in a second hand; headings and marginal notations in a later hand.
  • Decoration: 4-line puzzle initial (f. 1r); 8-line puzzle initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 50r); rubricated throughout, with red used for headings, initials and capitals; some capitals stroked with yellow.
  • Binding: 18th-century French calf, mistakenly titled Diurna[l] de Marsei[lle] on spine.
  • Origin: Written in Avignon in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
  • Upper outer corner of f. [i] cut out.
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), p. 35-36 (Ms. Latin 154).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 746.
OCLC:
155985531
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