[Breviary].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Baugh, Albert C. (Albert Croll), 1891-1981, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts.

Catholic Church.

Liturgics.

Breviaries.

Breviaries--Specimens.

Genre:

Texts.

codices (bound manuscripts)

breviaries

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Specimens.

Penn Provenance:

Franz Graf von [undeciphered] 1830 and pencilled note of purchase 1809, inside back cover. (From Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, these notes are no longer visible due to repair of the binding.)

Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.

Physical Description:

161 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 94 x 75 (71 x 53) mm bound to 100 x 78 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany?], [between 1350 and 1399]

Summary:

Begins with the psalms, but lacks the beginning and the end; with 2 items in slightly later hands on the last 3 folios: prayers (f. 159), and Vigilia mortuorum (f. 160-161).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 161 + i (modern paper); [1-161]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout: Written in 15 long lines; frame-ruled in ink.

Script: Written in Gothic book script.

Decoration: Rubricated throughout, with red and blue capitals, 2-line alternating red and blue initials with contrasting red or blue ornamentation, 4-line and 6-line puzzle initials in red and blue with detailed ornamentation (f. 9r, 10r, 29r, 53r, 74r, 77r, and 97r).

Binding: 19th-century calf, rebacked, splitting along back cover; remains of clasp.

Origin: Written in Germany[?], in the late 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Edges of some leaves are brittle and show previous insect damage. Leaves were closely cropped in binding, cutting off some decoration and marginal notes in a later hand.

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 A (1) Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 9 (Ms. Latin 216).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 714

Contains:

Vigilia mortuorum.

OCLC:

212110355