Manuscripts

Monastic breviary, fragment : [manuscript]

Description: ff. 1-2v. [Breviary, fragment]. Latin. Two non-consecutive leaves of a monastic breviary, bound in reverse order, containing part of the offices at matins and at prime for a confessor bishop and for a confessor who was not bishop. Status of text: Fragment.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1100 and 1115]
Call number: mssHM 1045
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Written in Germany, perhaps Bavaria, in the beginning of the twelfth century. Used as wrappers for a small book. On a label on the front pastedown, "2" stamped in red, corrected to "72" in pencil. Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 148-166 x 210-217 mm
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Fragment from a Breviary : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-2v: [Fragment of a noted breviary with responses for matins and lauds on the Saturday before Septuagesima, and responses for the day hours in Lent; the two leaves are consecutive].

mssHM 1735

Cistercian Breviary : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-205v: [Breviary]: ff. 2-6v: Graded calendar, beginning defectively; ff. 7-89v: Temporale; ff. 89v-151: Sanctorale; ff. 151-168: Common of saints; ff. 168-195: Sixty-three hymns in full and a few others by cue only; ff. 195-203: Monastic canticles; ff. 203-204: Prayers; ff. 204-205v: Added material in 4 fifteenth century hands.

mssHM 25777

Breviary, for Dominican use : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-258; ff. 259-280v (paper; blank). [Breviary] Latin. ff. 1-5v, Commemorations; ff. 5v-8v, Prayers and lessons for the dead; ff. 8v-10v, Office for matins; ff. 10v-14, Prayers for various occasions; ff. 14v-52, Hours of the Virgin, Dominican use; ff. 52-129, Office, prime through compline; ff. 129v-174v, Office of the Dead, Dominican use; ff. 174v-192v, Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 193-212v, Psalmi communes; ff. 212v-217v, Office of Dominic; ff. 217v-238, Common of saints; ff. 238-251, Sanctorale; ff. 251-257v, Offices for the Monday after the Octave of Easter and the following 4 Sundays; selected psalms and antiphons, some with musical notation.

mssHM 1065

Fragment from a Sacramentary : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-2v: [Fragment of a Sacramentary].

mssHM 41785

Dominican Breviary : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-289v: [Breviary]: ff. 1-6v: graded calendar in red and black; ff. 7-11v: commemorations of the Virgin, Dominic, Catherine of Alexandria, Peter martyr, Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist; ff. 12-14: prayers and lessons for the dead; ff. 14-15v: office for matins; ff. 16-19v: prayers for various occasions (zu dem frumal, Nach tisch, Zum abentesse, zu abent, zu mette zeit, umb ein schon weter, An dem ascher mitwochen und hohen donerstag uber dy vii ps., An den creutz tagen fur dy heiligen cristenheyt); ff. 19v-43: Hours of the Virgin for the night hours; ff. 43-67v: the divine office for the day hours (Sunday and part of Monday); ff. 67v-78: Hours of the Virgin, Dominican use for the day hours; ff. 78-117v: the divine office for vespers (Thursday-Saturday); ff. 97-100v: antiphons and hymns for various feasts; ff. 100v-117v: changed office for the temporale; ff. 117v-153: office of the Dead, Dominican use; ff. 153-169v: penitential psalms and litany, including Peter among the martyrs, Dominic (twice), Thomas, Vincent and Sebald among the confessors, and Catherine (twice), Ursula and Cunigundis among the virgins; ff. 168-169v: alternate litany for the dead, beginning with Elizabeth of Thuringia; ff. 170-190v: the Psalmi communes; ff. 190v-194: office of Dominic; ff. 194-213v: common of saints; ff. 214-240v: temporale, day offices only, from Advent through the Octave of Corpus Christi; ff. 238-240v: octave of the dedication of a church.; ff. 240v-281: sanctorale, day offices only, from the octave of Andrew (7 December) through Saturninus (29 November), including Cunigundis, Octave of Vincent Ferrer, Catherine of Siena, Henry, Invention of Stephen, Octave of Dominic, Sebald, Octave of Michael, Otto; ff. 277-281: psalms and antiphons in passione domini nostri ihesu christi and versicles for the nocturns of the feast of the Annunciation; ff. 286-289v: office of Catherine of Alexandria. ff. 281-285v: [Additions to the Breviary by later hands]: f. 281v: 15th c., prayer to Apollonia; ff. 281v-283: 16th c., antiphons and capitula for the hours of the office during Lent and Passion Sunday; ff. 283v-284: ruled, but blank; f. 284v: 16th c., ""Quoniam non delectat dulcis organica Cantus/ Rudibus Ac truncis Erit Emmerandus""; f. 285r-v: 15th c., antiphons for the vigil of the Separation of the Apostles.

mssHM 25771

Fragment from a choir book : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-2v: [Fragment of choir book; contains Common of Evangelists, beginning in vespers[?] and continuing into a section of matins; text not continuous].

mssHM 31544

Monastic breviary, fragment : [manuscript]

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