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Breviary

Summer Histories (3–4 Regum)

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Victoria, B.C., University of Victoria Libraries, Inc.Lat.5

Aodhagán-Asher Dewis, University of Victoria, 2022 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

Description completed as part of coursework for an undergraduate-level manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (University of Victoria), December 2022.

General Information

Title Breviary
Shelfmarks Inc.Lat.5
Page/Folio Reference binding supports (front and back)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Germany?
Date of Origin 1151-1200?
Script, Hands

Gothic Textualis
General Remarks

The script is similar to other twelfth-century Gothic manuscripts that still retain attributes from Caroline Minuscule forms. For example, the uncial d and final s are present while the ampersand "et" ligature is still present.  

Original Condition

Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 56 – 60 mm
Ruling Dry point? (difficult to determine)

Current Condition

Extent Two in situ fragments
Dimensions 320 x 66 mm
More about the Current Condition

The two fragments are from the same gathering of the same book.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

The decoration is limited to embellished red initials. 
  • Musical Notation

    The anterior fragment, at the top of the outward-facing verso, has staffless neumes for the chant Montes Gelboe nec ros nec. The line directly below references Planxit autem David planctu magno. 

    The notation style is most similar to cheironomic or in campo aperto (staffless neumes), which typically predate 1200. 

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Breviary
      • Content Description

        The text is readings and prayers from 3 and 4 Regum (1 and 2 Samuel) from the Summer Histories (De Regum). 
      • Remarks

        The Latin verses fluctuate in a similar format between the Nova Vulgata (1979) and Clementine Latin Vulgate (1952).

    History

    Provenance

    The host volume was purchased from Cheffins Fine Art Auctioneers on the University of Victoria Special Collections Department Fund and the George & Lola Kidd Library Collection Enrichment Fund in 2019. It dates to the last quarter of the fifteenth century, printed in Nuremberg, Germany.
    Remarks

    Pencil foliation is visible in the host volume.

    Host Volume

    Title Commentaria in Psalmos, Petrus Lombardus, Glossa magistralis Psalterii.
    Date of Origin/Publication 1475/1476
    Place of Origin/Publication Nuremberg, Germany.
    Shelfmark Inc.Lat.5
    Persons Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner (printers)
    Remarks

    Elements of damage along the sewing station. The cording material is badly frayed and fragments have been used as sewing supports. 

    The verso and recto of a page, next to the top of the posterior fragment, has been handwritten and attached in the place of a possibly damaged section.  

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