Llangattock Breviary
Dublin Core
Identifier
BB_Llang_0001-0103
(as of 04 Feb 2020)
(as of 04 Feb 2020)
Coverage
Disbursed worldwide
Source
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., Valuable and Printed Books from the Libraries of Captain Bertram Currie, the late 2nd Baron Llangattock (sold by Order of the Trustees, and were formerly at The Hendre, Monmouth), the late Seamus O'Sullivan and others, also Fine Illuminated Manuscripts from the Libraries of the late 2nd Baron Llangattock and others, at their great Rooms, 8 King Street, St. James, London, S.W.1, on Monday December 8, 1958 at eleven o'clock precisely.
Subject
Title
Llangattock Breviary
Table Of Contents
Breviary: Calendar, Temporale, Psalter, Sanctorale, Common of Saints, Auxiliary Texts
Format
Single leaves, parchment, illuminated, 275 x 200 mm
Description
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Illuminated and inhabited initials, vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; filigree borders with floral and foliate forms in the outer margin, some versos reveal catch words arranged within the border of the base de page. No leave with miniatures or calendar pages yet found.
Creator
Giorgio d'Alemagna (active 1441-1479) and others
Publisher
Ferrara, Italy
Language
Latin
Date
1441-1448
Provenance
Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Duke of Modena and Marchese of Ferrara, patron; John Alan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1870 – 1916), former owner; Christie's, December 8, 1958, Lot # 190, page 32: [misidentified as] Missal (Use of Rome), Italian manuscript on vellum, 512 leaves.
Type
Text: Breviary (book for the Divine Office)
Bibliographic Citation
Alternative Title
Breviary of Leonello d'Este
Contributor
Debra Taylor Cashion, PhD, MLIS
References
Federica Toniolo, Il lungo viaggio del Breviario di Lionello d'Este tra le due sponde dell'Atlantico, in Medioevo: arte e storia (Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Parma, 18-22 settembre 2007), ed. A. C. Quintavalle, Università di Parma e Mondatori (Milan: Electa, 2008) (I convegni di Parma, 10), 564-577.
Collection Items
4th Sunday in Advent, Matins-Second Vespers
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Christmas Day, Lauds-Second Vespers;
Feast of St. Stephen (Dec 26), First Vespers
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Feast of Sts. Alexander, Eventius, Theodolius, and Juvenal (May 3); Feast of St. John Before the Latin Gate (May 6), 1st Vespers-Matins
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec 28), Matins, Lesson 4-9, Lauds
Script: Gothic texualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Second Sunday after Epiphany, Matins, Lessons 3-7
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Quinquagesima Sunday, Matins, Lessons 5-9
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Quadragesima (Lent), Fourth Saturday, Lesson 2 - Sunday, Matins, Lesson 1-?
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Friday after Easter, Lessons 2-3; White Saturday (Sat. after Easter), Lessons 1-3
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Week after the Octave of Easter: Friday (Lessons 1-3)-Saturday (Lessons 1-3); 2nd Sunday after Easter, 1st Vespers-Matins, Lesson 2
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
4th Sunday after Easter, Matins, Lessons 3-7
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Pentecost, First Vespers-Matins, Lesson 3
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Feast of Corpus Christi, Sunday, Matins, Lessons 3-6; Monday, Lessons 1-3
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Octave of Corpus Christi, Friday, Lesson 3 to Monday, Lesson 2
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Octave of Corpus Christi, Tuesday, Lessons 3-6; Wednesday, Lessons 1-3
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Third Sunday in September (Tobias), Lessons 2-6; Weekdays after 3rd Sunday September (Tobias), 1st Vespers
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Weekdays after 3rd Sunday September (Tobias); Saturday, 4th Sunday in September (Judith), Lesson 1-2
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines.
Week after 4th Sunday September (Judith)-5th Sunday September (Esther), Lessons 1-2
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda in two columns of 30 lines. Decoration, recto: 1 five-line inhabited initial with a bearded prophet, two vertical bar extensions terminating in floral and foliate forms; verso: 1 five-line inhabited initial with a…
