[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]
Other titles: Breviary offices, Psalter and Hours (Leeds University Library. Brotherton Collection MS 2)
Classmark: BC MS 2
Publication city: [Paris?]
Date(s): [ca. 1440-1460]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (iii, 286, ii leaves) (2 columns, 27 lines; ruled in red ink)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372684
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
Decoration: 27 large arched miniatures, seven historiated 9-line initials, and several 1-4-line decorated initials and line-fillers throughout. Fine rinceaux border throughout the manuscript. Dr J. J. G. Alexander has suggested the illumination is related to the work of the Mansel master.
Written in textualis.
Principal contents: ff. 2r-7v Calendar; ff. 8r-9r Hymns and benedictions; ff. 10r-102r Psalter; ff. 102r-104r Hymns (Canticum angelorum); ff. 104r-107v Litany; ff. 108r-115r Hours of the Virgin (Use of Paris); ff. 115r-117v Penitential psalms; ff. 117v-118v Hours of the Cross; ff. 118v-119v Hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 119v-124v Office of the dead; ff. 127r-265v Breviary; ff. 266v-276r Suffrages; ff. 276v-278r Gospel sequences; ff. 278v-279r Devotions to the Virgin; ff. 283r-286v Prayers and suffrages.
From the library of Lord Brotherton. He had purchased the manuscript from the London book seller Chas. J. Sawyer in the 1920s.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 25-26. See also: J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), pp. 16-18.
Features
Bindings
Present binding by D. Cockerell and Son, 1954: wooden boards, quarter covered with pigskin over the spine. Previous nineteenth-century binding of red morocco, covered with purple velvet and surmounted by a metal frame with a large clasp, is preserved separately.
Provenance
Probably originated in Paris.
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