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040-002022568

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Title:

Breviary of the Roman Liturgy

Scope & Content:

Contents: Breviary of the Roman Liturgy from the second Sunday of Advent until Wednesday of the fourth week of Lent.

Decoration: Numerous initials outlined in red, with yellow, green, blue or pink colour wash. Rubrics and marginal symbols in red. Musical notation of Visigothic neumes.

The style of the initials is Castilian, characteristic of the Monastery of San Pedro of Valeranica in the 10th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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032-002022564
040-002022568

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Add MS 30844-30857 : Belonged to the Monastery of S. Domingo de Silos, near Burgos, in Spain

Add MS 30847 : Breviary of the Roman Liturgy

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex, 188 folios

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin
Spanish

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1050

End Date:

1099

Date Range:

2nd half of the 11th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 325 x 210mm (text space: 235 x 140mm).

Layout: One column of 25 lines.

Foliation: ff. 188 (ff. 187-188 are added paper leaves + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Visigothic minuscule.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1965.

Custodial History:

Origin: Spain, N. (?Silos)

Provenance: The Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos: perhaps in the 13th-century list inserted in Paris, BnF N.A.L. 2169, f. 16v (see Boylan, 'Library at Santo Domingo de Silos' (1992), p. 81, no. 20); in the catalogue of 1770 (Boylan, p. 90, no. 35) and in the catalogue compiled by the librarian of Silos, Gregorio Hernandez in 1772 (Boylan, p. 94, no. 32) ; an 18th-century list of contents is attached (ff. 187-188 recto).

Rodrigo Echevarria y Briones, the last Abbot of Silos (1790-1875) hid some of the books in the neighbouring villages and kept some with his personal archive after the dissolution of the monastery in 1835, when the archives were transferred to the provincial library at Burgos.

San Martin de Madrid, a dependency of Silos, the personal archive of Echevarria was entrusted to them on his death in 1875 (see Férotin, Histoire de l'Abbaye (1897)). In 1877, 69 manuscripts and incunabula including the present manuscript were sold to a Madrid bookseller for 16,000 pesetas.

Bachelin-Deflorenne, booksellers of Paris, in the sale of 55 manuscripts and 14 incunabula from the library at Silos on 1 June, 1878, lot 23;

Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, bought by them for 300 francs, together with 13 other Silos manuscripts. Bought by the British Museum from Quaritch, 1 June 1878 (a note on f. [v]).

Publications:

Antoine Bachelin-Deflorenne, Catalogue de livres rares et de manuscrits du Ixe au XVIIIe siècle (1878), no. 23.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 120.

D. Marius Férotin, Histoire de l'Abbaye de Silos (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1897), p. 275, no. 33.

Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum, 2 vols (Madrid: Salmanticae, 1958-1959), no. 641.

Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Codices visigoticos en la monarquia leonesa (Leon: Centro de Estudios e Investigacion San Isidoro C.S.I.C., 1983), p. 315.

Ann Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination at Santo Domingo de Silos (Xth to XIIth Centuries), (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1990), pp. 244-45.

Rose Walker, Views of Transition: Liturgy and Illumination in Medieval Spain (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 48-64, passim.

Ann Boylan, 'The Library at Santo Domingo de Silos and its catalogues (XIth-XVIIIth Centuries)', Revue Mabillon, nouv. sér., 3 (1992), 59-102 (pp. 81, 90, 94).

Augustin Millares Carlo, Corpus de códices visigóticos, 2 vols (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: UNED, 1999), I: Estudio, p. 87; II: Album, no. 112.

Jose Manuel Ruiz Asencio, 'Codices pirenaicos y riojanos en la biblioteca de Silos en el siglo XI' in Silos. un Mileno: Actos del Congreso Internacional sobre la Abádia de Santo Comingo de Silos, ed. by José A Fernández Flóres, 4 vols (Burgos: University of Burgos, 2003) II, Historia, p. 193.

Hispania Vetus: Musical-Liturgical Manuscripts from Visigothic Origins to the Franco-Roman Transition (9th-12th Centuries), ed. by Susana Zapke (Bilbao: BBVA Foundation, 2007), pp. 280-81.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions, 1876-1881 (1882):

'MOZARABIC BREVIARY from Advent to the 4th Sunday in Lent; with musical notation. Latin. Imperfect at the beginning and end, and elsewhere. On the margins of some of the leaves are copies of deeds of sale, etc., in Spanish, late 13th cent. Vellum; ff. 188. In Visigothic characters. xith cent. Small Folio.'