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Source Description
Ms. codex.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
639640235
label
Breviary
core
obj
dtoType
document
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
639640235
contentType
document
stage
normalized
title
Breviary
description
Ms. codex.
date
["[1300–1325]"]
year
1300
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Provençal, Old (to 1500)
identifierLocal
06_01_018722
creators
Laurence Witten (Firm)
Belz, Jean-Philippe, 1831-1917
Griscom, Clement Acton, 1841-1912
Labitte, Alphonse, 1853-
Techener, Léon, 1832-1888
Catholic Church
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
subjectsGeographic
Avignon
Europe
France
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
genreBasic
Books
Manuscripts
genreSpecific
Gothic scripts
devotional calendars
Manuscripts, Medieval--France
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
Embossed stamps
Signed bindings
Vellum bindings
Marginalia
Inscriptions
Psalters
Breviaries
typeOfResource
Text
Still image
country
France
city
Avignon
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
extent
479 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 200 x 135 (127 x 42, 10, 44) mm bound to 22 cm
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
np193j758
schema:latitude
43.945404
schema:longitude
4.810226
notes
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in the Avignon region of France in the first quarter of the fourteenth century (Thomas Aquinas, canonized in 1323, has been added to the calendar by a later hand, implying that the manuscript was written before that date), for the use of the Cistercian nuns at Val-Sainte, about 30 miles east of Avignon: the Office of the Dead is Cistercian use, as is the calendar (with St. Speusippus (17 January), St. Peter, Bishop (8 May), Bernard of Clairvaux (20 August), and Sequanus (19 September), as well as the Cistercian commemorations on 11 January, 20 May, and 18 September). An original entry on 22 April records the 1278 death of one Abbess Blanche of the convent at Val-Sainte: "Anno domini M.CC.lxx.viii. obii [sic. obit] domina blancha abatissa vallis sancte."
pubPlace
[France]
dcId
639640235
type
document
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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9bef30bbc63ec4d8