Accession number
MS G.13
Object title
Breviary (MS G.13).
Created
Germany, possibly Würzburg, ca. 1477.
Binding
Black calf, probably 19th century.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
420 leaves (1 column, 28 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 148 x 110 mm
Provenance
Konrad von Thüngen, Bishop of Würzburg (his family arms (argent, a fess gules, three palets or nowy dexter) quartered 2 and 3 with arms of Franconia (1, argent, a chief dancettée gules) and an unidentified charge (4, quarterly gules and argent) on fol. 18v (added)); purchased in Oct. 1950 from William H. Schab, New York for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. breviary for Würzburg use (calendar and litany); written and illuminated in Germany, possibly Würzburg, ca. 1477.
Contains calendrical concordances for the years 1477 to 1552.
Decoration: 3 historiated initials with marginal extenders, 11 decorated initials, inhabited borders.
Contains calendrical concordances for the years 1477 to 1552.
Decoration: 3 historiated initials with marginal extenders, 11 decorated initials, inhabited borders.
Contents
fols. 1r-1v: Blank -- fols. 2r-13v: Calendar -- fol. 14r: Blank -- fols. 14v-16r: Calendrical Charts -- fols. 16v-18r: Blank -- fol. 18v: Coat of Arms -- fols. 19r-96v: Psalms -- fols. 96v-102v: Canticles -- fols. 103r-105v: Litany -- fols. 106r-117r: Hymns for the Temporale, beginning with Easter -- fols. 117v-118v: Hymns for the Common of Saints, beginning with an Apostle -- fols. 119r: Hymns for Prime through Nones -- fol. 119v: Blank -- fols. 120r-122v: Matins and Lauds of the Office of the Dead -- fols. 123r-125v: Blank -- fols. 126r-135r: Instructions for praying the Breviary -- fols. 136r-298r: Temporale, from First Sunday of Advent to the Vigil of Pentecost -- fol. 298v: Blank -- fols. 299r-370v: Sanctorale, beginning with Vigil of Andrew -- fols. 371r-409v: Common of Saints, beginning with birth of an Apostle -- fols. 410r-410v: Blank -- fols. 411r-420v: Prayers, beginning with prayer to Guardian Angel.
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textura
Language
Latin
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