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Description: ff. 1-247v; f. 248r-v, blank. [Breviary, use of Autun]. Latin. Contains the temporale; rubrics citing the church of Autun are on f. 1,"Incipit breviarium secundum usum egregie ac sancte ecclesie cathedralis eduensis. . ." and on f. 65v,"Nota quod in ecclesia eduense pro sexta lectione nocturni legitur. . .".
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1450 and 1499]
Call number: mssHM 1077
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Written in the second half of the fifteenth century in France for use in the diocese of Autun. HM 1077 may have been part of a larger volume, or one of a set, since it contains references to parts of a breviary not in the present book. Arms of the first owner in lower margins of ff. 1, 1v, 25, 41v, 150v, 167v and 243: quarterly, 1 and 4 azure, three keys (2 and 1) or in pale; 2 and 3 argent on a bend azure a tiny bird argent; apparently those of the Rolin family of Autun (Rietstap, vol. 5, pl. 181) and Landes, representing Nicolas Rolin (1376-1462) and his first wife, Marie des Landes (marriage ca. 1406); these arms used by their son, Jean Rolin (1408-83) whose personal device "Deum time" is inscribed in the initial on f. 150v; although Jean Rolin was made cardinal in 1449, the expected cardinal's hat does not appear surmounting the arms (as it does, for example, in his missal, Lyons, Bibl. Mun. MS 517 or on the Nativity of Autun, commissioned by him from the Maître de Moulins). On the front pastedown, bookplate with the monogram "H.C.M." (?) and the motto "Audentes fortuna juvat"; a note with the manuscript suggests the owner's name was "Mackinnon." Belonged to William Keeny Bixby (1857-1931) of St. Louis, Missouri; his sale, Anderson, New York, 29 March 1916, n. 280 with a plate of f. 150v to G. D. Smith. Sold privately by Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928) of Minneapolis to Henry E. Huntington in February 1918.

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