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Cistercian Breviary : [manuscript]

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Description
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.
Type
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Date
[between 1400 and 1415]
Call number
mssHM 25777
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Early, if not first, owners were the Cistercians of Riddagshausen in the diocese of Halberstadt, Brunswick; on f. i verso, in green ink in a fifteenth century hand: "[...?]r liber perpetue virginis Marie. Sub custodia fratris Iohannis [...?] professi ibidem in Riddageshussen." On f. 1v: "Dis buch gehöret dem Kloster Riddageshausen 1689." A slip of paper with the number [?]225 is pasted to the inside front cover so that the part with the numbers is visible above the top of the book. In modern pencil, f. i verso: "1136 1 Nov." With the book is a letter from Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, dated 15 April 1948, offering it for sale to Mrs. Mary W. T. Dickinson; another slip, signed by her, shows that she had bought it by 29 April of the same year. 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
97 x 132 mm
Associated people
Dickinson, Mary W. T.,
Associated organizations
Kloster Riddagshausen,
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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