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Breviary

Sundays after Pentecost and Summer Histories

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Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Private Collection, Canada, Fr.G1-8

Private Catalogue, Canada, 2025. (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Breviary fragment (Sundays after Pentecost and Summer Histories)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Germany [?]

Current Condition

Dimensions 54 x 243 mm
More about the Current Condition

The fragment was initially part of a non-continuous bifolium with each half written in a double column format. It was recovered from a binding, where it was likely used to reinforce the spine of its host volume. Sewing stations from the host volume are visible. On the bottom of the right-side of the recto are remnants of printed text. There is some fading throughout, particularly on the bottom-half of the verso. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

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Some initials are penned in red ink. Rubrication is also penned in red.

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      The breviary fragment contains text used during multiple Sundays after Pentecost with text from the Summer Histories, mainly De Sapientia, interspersed. The left-half of the recto would have originally been part of the verso of one of the leaves from the bifolium (Bv). In the first column is part of Pseudo-Origen’s Homilia V in Matthaeum 7:15-21, which was typically used during Dom. 8 p. Pentecost. It also contains a responsory (Magna enim sunt judicia tua) and versicle (Deduxisti sicut oves populum tuum) used for De Sapientia. The second column contains text used during Dom. 8 or 9 p. Pentecost: an antiphon (Attendite a falsis prophetis), Romans 8:14-15, and an additional antiphon that is partially cut off (Non potest arbor bona fructus) for the Magnificat at second vespers. The right-half of the recto, where only the first column is discernable, would have originally been part of the recto of the other leaf from the bifolium (Ar). It contains text associated with Dom. 2 p. Pentecost: 1 John 3:13-14 and a collect (Sancti nominis tui Domine). A responsory (Audi domine), often used for De Regum, is flanked between these two texts and partially concealed beneath the fold. The left-half of the verso would have originally been part of the verso of the aforementioned leaf from the bifolium (Av). Only a small part of Luke 16:1 is visible in the first column. The second column contains an antiphon (Quidam homo fecit cenam magnam) used during Dom. 2 or 3 p. Pentecost. The right-half of the verso would have originally been part of the recto of the other leaf from the bifolium (Br). Both columns predominantly contain text used for De Sapientia: part of a responsory (Da mihi domine sedium tuarum), versicle (Domine pater et deus vitae), Proverbs 1:20-22 (Sapientia foris praedicat), another responsory (Initium sapientiae), and part of a versicle (Dispersit dedit pauperibus). The end of the second column also contains Matthew 7:15, associated with Dom. 8 or 9 p. Pentecost.

History

Provenance

The fragment was purchased from That Guy with the Books (Zubairul Islam) on 1 July 2025. It was part of a collection of binder’s waste acquired in Germany.

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