Browse the Western Manuscript Collection: B (continued)
Breviary
One leaf, 18 cm x 13 cm.
Ms. 001333
Single leaf of a fifteenth-century northern French breviary written in a gothic hand. The leaf contains twelve capitals in red and blue. Gift of Arthur L. Gale.
Breviary
One leaf, 14 cm x 10 cm.
Ms. 001635
Single leaf of a fifteenth-century French breviary written in a small gothic hand. The leaf contains ten capitals in red and blue.; Gift of Arthur L. Gale.
Breviary
422 leaves, 16 cm x 11 cm.
Ms. Codex 001998
Breviary, created in Germany and completed in 1249, in a rubricated gothic hand. The codex contains a calendar for the church year, prayers in a contemporary hand other than the scribe of the main text, and a fifteenth-century French miniature of the Last Judgment inserted into the volume.
Breviary
Five leaves, 15 cm x 11 cm.
Ms. 002271
Five leaves of a sixteenth-century Flemish breviary written in a round Gothic hand. The leaves contain initials in blue and gold and three capitals decorated in gold.
Breviary
Two leaves, 18 cm x 12 cm.
Ms. 002272
Bifolium from a late fourteenth-century French breviary. Written in a rounded gothic hand with initials in gold with red and blue borders. There are later notes in seventeenth and eighteenth-century French hands. Gift of Arthur L. Gale.
Breviary
Two leaves, 19 cm x 13 cm.
Ms. 002390
Bifolium from a French breviary, ca. 1280, written in a well-formed gothic hand. Four-line staves are used with square notation. The text is from the Temporale of Christmas.
Breviary
One leaf,, 32 cm x 22 cm.
Ms. 002391
32 x 22 cm.Single leaf of a German breviary, ca. 1450-1500, written in a late gothic hand. The four-line staves support hufnagel notation. The text contains four two-line initials. Texts are for Matins of Maundy Thursday and the leaf contains the beginning of a homily assigned to the Venerable Bede.
Breviary
One leaf, 29 cm x 19 cm.
Ms. 002397
Single leaf of a fourteenth-century English breviary written in a gothic hand. The square notation is on four-line staves and the text is rubricated. The initials in the text are plain and rather crude. Apparently, this leaf was split and used in a binding and was later resewn together. Texts are for Matins and Lauds of the Feast of Holy Innocents in the Temporale of Christmas.
Breviary
One leaf, 29 cm x 21 cm.
Ms. 002398
Single leaf of a fifteenth-century French breviary written in a gothic hand. The four-line staves support square notation. The leaf contains four historiated initials and other smaller initials. Texts are for Vespers and Matins of the Feast of Corpus Christi.
Breviary
One leaf, 20 cm x 14 cm.
Ms. 002399
Single leaf of a fifteenth-century northern French breviary written in a gothic hand. The capitals are in blue and gold with blue and black penwork surrounding each capital. Line fillers are in gold and blue. The text is a portion of the Litany of the Saints.
Bruno, Saint, Bishop of Segni, ca. 1048-1123
141 leaves,, 30 cm x 20 cm.
Ms. Codex 001600
Expositio in Apocalypsum. Manuscript in an early fifteenth-century Spanish book hand of Bruno's commentary on Revelations. The text is in two columns of 37 lines. Each gathering is comprised of an outer bifolium of parchment and inner leaves of paper. The binding is contemporary. The incipit incorrectly identifies the work as the commentary on the Revelation to John by Anselm of Canterbury.