[Breviary].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Catholic Church.

Contributor:

Kothen, Charles, 1814-1880, former owner.

Léon, Michel de, 1727-1800, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts.

Catholic Church.

Liturgics.

Breviaries.

Breviaries--Specimens.

Genre:

Texts.

breviaries

codices (bound manuscripts)

devotional calendars

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Specimens.

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

Access Restriction:

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