Franciscan Breviary
Holy Saturday and Dominica in Albis
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Description produced as part of the course "In the Archives" taught by Prof. Adrienne Williams Boyarin, University of Victoria, 2021.
General Information
Southern Textualis
2 in situ Breviary fragments used as wrappers of a sixteenth-century book (Marc-Antoine Muret, Orationes, Venice, 1576). Fragments come from the same manuscript, likely the same quire; they meet at, and are trimmed around, the book's sewing supports.
Original Condition
Original leaves were likely 30 lines per column, ca. 195 x 225 mm.
Current Condition
2 in situ fragments cut and used as wrappers of a sixteenth-century book. The fragments or different leaves from the same breviary (likely the same quire); they meet and are cut around the book's sewing supports. One fragment covers the back of book and part of the spine; the other covers the front of book and also covers part of the spine. The two leaves contain material for Holy Saturday and Dominica in Albis. Leaves are ruled in plummet, double column, with rubrics and decorated initials.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Standard breviary rubrication. Littera notibiliores are red with decorative line work in blue or purple.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Prayers for Dominica in Albis and Holy Saturday
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Content Description
One fragment covers Holy Saturday (the Saturday before Easter), the other Dominica in Albis (the Sunday after Easter). The prayer sequences for each (particularly those for Dominica in Albis) follow Franciscian use. Cf. Assisi, Biblioteca comunale, MS 694 (ff. 135v–137r and 149v–150r) and Victoria, University of Victoria Libraries, MS Lat.7 (f. 92rff).
See the attached reconstructed transcription for more detail.
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Host Volume
Inner binding (wrapper) is made from the 2 breviary fragments; original leather cover still in place (though now detached and removable).