Franciscan Choir Breviary
Flyleaf with prayers for SS Peter and Paul, Francis, Anthony of Padua, Louis of Toulouse, and Clare
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This description was completed as part of a manuscript studies course taught at the University of Victoria by Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (Fall 2023).
General Information
Multiple hands have added texts to this flyleaf. The two main scribes write in a large, even Southern Textualis, while another four are sixteenth-century (perhaps even seventeenth-century) cursives.
This flyleaf, likely originally a blank leaf at the front of the book's calendar (ff. 2-7), does not fit cohesively with the rest of the codex. It includes prayers for SS Peter and Paul, Francis, Anthony of Padua, Louis of Toulouse, and Clare, added in two columns, while other hands add later prayers for Francis and Bonaventure in blank spaces and margins.
Current Condition
The parchment is discoloured with particularly noticable green discolouration around the edges. The bottom corner has a few holes. There is a blue library stamp in the right margin of the recto. Ink is in legible condition for the most part. The leaf is part of the quire that holds the host volume's liturgical calendar and was almost certainly blank before additions were added in the centuries after the host volume was created.
Host Volume
Codex was bound in the fifteenth-century in dark brown leather with a stamped pattern on it (restored) and has two clasps.
Bibliography
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Emma Usselman and Kira Razzo, December 2018: transcription and textual notes for fols. 2r-7v (liturgical calendar).
https://www.uvic.ca/library/assets/docs/ms-lat-7-razzo-and-usselman-calendar.pdf -
Pascale Cadieux-Johnson, University of Victoria, 2022
https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-jdwh -
University of Victoria Library’s Special Collections
https://www.uvic.ca/library/assets/docs/ms-lat-7_full.pdf -
Cabrol, Fernand. “Breviary,” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 2, New York, 1907
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02768b.htm -
Purchased from Les Elumineres (2017, TM 785)
https://www.uvic.ca/library/assets/docs/ms-lat-7_full.pdf