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Dominican Breviary : [manuscript]

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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.
Type
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Date
[between 1485 and 1499]
Call number
mssHM 25771
Creator
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Provenance
Presumably still in Dominican ownership in the seventeenth century, when additions were being made to the calendar, the latest being that of Louis Beltran (here 19 October), beatified in 1608 and canonized in 1671. On the back flyleaf verso, release stamp of the Denkmalschutz. Belonged to Mary W. T. Dickinson, who had acquired it by June 1945, probably from Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles (their price code in pencil on the front pastedown). Received by the Huntington Library in April 1953 as a bequest from Mary Dickinson (d. September 1952).
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
90 x 127 mm
Associated people
Dickinson, Mary W. T.,
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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