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Breviary : [girdle book]
- Title
- Breviary : [girdle book], [between 1450 and 1460].
- Author
- Catholic Church.
- Publication
- Kastl, Germany, approximately 1450.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. MS. 39 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 457 leaves, bound : paper , ink, manuscript, illuminations; 104 x 75 mm
- Alternative Title
- Also known as: Spencer Girdle Book
- Subject
- Catholic Church > Liturgy > Texts
- Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
- Girdle books > Germany > 15th century
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Germany
- Manuscripts, German > 15th century
- Illumination of books and manuscripts
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > New York (State) > New York
- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Breviaries > Germany
- Breviaries
- Liturgics > Texts
- Genre/Form
- Manuscripts – German – 15th century.
- Early works.
- illuminated manuscripts.
- Breviaries.
- Girdle books (Binding) – 1500-1599.
- Note
- Written at the monastery of Kastl, near Eichstatt and Nuremberg.
- Layout: Written in long lines, ruled in black ink.
- Decoration: 4 woodcuts survive of at least 5: traces of another remain on a stub facing the front pastedown. Red initials, rubrics.
- Scribe: Sebaldus, prior of Kastl.
- Script: Gothic cursive.
- Paper description: Bull's Head, ca. 1430 (Briquet 14779); Greek Cross, ca. 1453 (5549); Column, ca. 1451-2 (4407); Grape, ca. 1451 (13006).
- f. 402: Finito libro sit laus et gloria Christo. Anno 1454 septima nonas maius [sic] per manus fratris Sebaldi in castello prioris per hanc scripturam ocium devitantis et aliorum utilitati deservientis. Orans in hoc libro memor sit scriptoris propitio.
- Access (note)
- Restricted use.
- Indexed In (note)
- The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005)
- Ricci, S de. Medieval and Renaissance mss., Suppl.
- Cite As (note)
- NYPL. Spencer Collection MS. 39
- Language (note)
- In Latin.
- Provenance (note)
- Written in 1454 by Brother Sebaldus , prior of the Dominican Monastery of Kastl (Bavaria, Germany).
- Binding (note)
- Binding: Girdle book, bound into a pouch of soft doeskin.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. MS. 39
- OCLC
- 1340124033
- Author
- Catholic Church.
- Title
- Breviary : [girdle book], [between 1450 and 1460].
- Imprint
- Kastl, Germany, approximately 1450.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Access
- Restricted use. Requires permission for access.
- Indexed In:
- The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005), n. 5.Ricci, S de. Medieval and Renaissance mss., Suppl. p. 332, no. 39.
- Cite As:
- NYPL. Spencer Collection MS. 39
- Language
- In Latin.
- Provenance
- Written in 1454 by Brother Sebaldus , prior of the Dominican Monastery of Kastl (Bavaria, Germany).
- Binding
- Binding: Girdle book, bound into a pouch of soft doeskin.
- Source of description
- Part of the description used is from Digital Scriptorium 1.0.
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- Germany Kastl
- Added Author
- Sebaldus, Prior of the Monastery of Kastl, active 15th century, scribe.New York Public Libary. Manuscript. Spencer Coll. MS 39.Benedictine Monastery of Kastl (Kastl, Germany)
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. MS. 39