Breviary

Office of St. Augustine

F-t6kk

Chicago, University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Codex Ms 686

General Information

Title Breviary
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France?
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

Textualis libraria

General Remarks

Text contains the office for the feast of St. Augustine.

Original Condition

Width of Written Area 74 mm
Ruling Pricking visible, ruling not visible

Current Condition

Dimensions 137 x 125 mm
More about the Current Condition

Bottom margin removed.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Rubrication, two-line initials and headers in red.

History

Provenance

Note in 14th/15th century hand in script with characteristics of batarde: "Item iudicium rationis quod est discretio ut habetur I. 397 Per* 732. Et ipsa discretio dicitur esse (iuxta? omnem? ###) 195 ca. ultimo. De officiis ca. 16"

Owned by Sigurd and Gudrun Wandel. Their collection of 68 manuscript fragments was acquired by the University of Chicago in 1926.