Miscellaneous manuscripts (Large), [between 1450 and 1499]

Name:

Catholic Church; Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1450

Description:

Bifolium from a breviary made in southern Germany in the second half of the 15th century, with the complete text of two columns written in 32 lines on one leaf and loss of text from one column on the other. Readings from the Bible and church fathers such as Augustine and Pope Leo I are in Latin and written in black ink; rubrics are in German and written in red ink. Readings, not continuous, are for Sexagesima and Septuagesima Sunday, the third and second Sundays before Lent, and Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday of Lent.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Wölfle (Munich) to Bernard Rosenthal, 1997; pencil note in gutter, "BMR Misc. 62."; Sold by Bernard Quaritch (London) as part of the Rosenthal Collection, cat. 1348 (2007), no. 73.

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts; Catholic Church; Liturgics; Lent -- Liturgy; Lent; Breviaries; Breviaries -- Texts -- Early works to 1800; Lent -- Liturgy -- Texts

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Texts; Breviaries; Fragments (object portions); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, German; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

1 item (1 bifolium) : parchment; 335 x 426 (text on each leaf, 298 x 209) mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

In Latin with extensive rubrics in German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Misc Mss (Large) Box 1 Folder 18

Collection:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large)