Breviary

Common of a Confessor (Pope)

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Victoria, B.C., University of Victoria Libraries, BV5080 T25 1508

Remarks by the Editor

Description completed by student in Adrienne Williams Boyarin's "In the Archives" course at University of Victoria (Canada), Spring 2021.

General Information

Title Breviary
Shelfmarks BV5080 T25 1508
Page/Folio Reference back binding board
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Germany?
Date of Origin 1250–1400
General Remarks

In situ strip used as binding support for an early sixteenth-century German book (Johannes Tauler, Sermones des hochgeleerten in gnaden, Augsburg: Johann Otmar, 1508). 

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium
Dimensions 25 x 290 mm
More about the Current Condition

Only a small portion of the fragment, damaged by glue and worm holes, is currently visible (25 x 42 mm), the rest obscured by paper pastedowns on wood board. 

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis
    • Content Description

      Legible text reads: [[C]]olloce[[t]] p(salmus) ... Ecce sace[[rdos]] ... Iste confessor V(ersiculus) Ecc[[e]] ... [[Amauit e]]u(m) d(omi)n(u)s (et) ornauit, enough to identify chants associated with the Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis. The sequence follows closely those for the same feast in the antiphoner Graz, Universitätbibliothek, MS 29 (ff. 339v–341v).

Host Volume

Title Sermones des hochgeleerten in gnaden erleüchten doctoris Johannis Thaulerii sannt dominici ordens die da weissend auff den nächesten waren weg im gaist zu wanderen durch überswebendenn syn : von latein in teutsch gewendt manchem menschen zu säliger fruchtbarkaitt
Date of Origin/Publication 1508
Place of Origin/Publication Augsburg
Shelfmark BV5080 T25 1508
Page/Folio Reference: back binding board
Persons Johann Otmar (printer)