Choir Breviary (Franciscan Use)

"This large-format manuscript is a marvelous artifact of Franciscan life and worship. Used for singing by the Choir, it is notable for its content, including other texts not commonly found in more portable Franciscan Breviaries: the Franciscan Ceremonial (known to its editor in only thirty-five manuscripts), the Indutus planeta (Haymo of Faversham's description of the private Mass), the Franciscan liturgical statutes of 1254, and others. It is accompanied by additions over at least two centuries and other plentiful signs of early use."--Les Enluminures, Ltd. website.

In Collection:

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Subject

• Breviaries
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Franciscans
• Catholic Church
• Musical notation
• Liturgies

Language

• lat

Identifier

• Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.7
• Call Number: BX2049 F7C46 1260

Date created

• approximately 1260 to approximately 1300

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 225 folios; parchment; 265 x 185 mm

Alternative title

• Choir Breviary (Franciscan Use) and other texts including the Ordinationes (Franciscan Ceremonial), Indutus planeta (Order of the Private Mass), Franciscan Liturgical Statutes from Metz, 1254, Benedictions

Geographic coverage

• Italy--Italy, Central
• Northern Italy

Coordinates

• 45.20543,8.96233
• 42.83829,12.24145

Additional physical characteristics

• "Bound in Italy in the fifteenth century in substantial beveled wooden boards extending beyond the book block covered with blind-stamped brown leather, with an outer border of palmettes, framing a large rectangular center panel with four rope-interlace diamonds positioned to form a cross, above three large stamps of fleur-de-lis and foliage, rounded spine with four raised bands, four corner bosses upper and lower boards, two clasp and catch fasteners, fastening back to front (restored), edges once dyed green(?), rebacked with the spine laid down, resewn, with reinforcement strips added in the middle of quires, new head and tail bands, extensively restored but now in very good condition."--Les Enluminures, Ltd. website.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

Provenance

• Purchased by University of Victoria in 2017 from Les Enluminures.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• illuminated manuscripts

Is referenced by

• Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
• From Les Enluminures website: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/MsLat7_full.pdf

Date digitized

• October 7, 2019 to October 17, 2019

Transcript

• Transcription and textual notes* for fols. 2r-7v (liturgical calendar) by Emma Usselman and Kira Razzo, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), December 2018, is available here: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/mslat7---razzo-and-usselman---calendar.pdf

Technical note

• Scanned on TTI/Betterlight 7-17 Oct 2019 (PD). Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/1vmx-my04

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