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- Record Id:
- 040-002022569
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002022564
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001396.0x0001c9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 30848
- Title:
- Mozarabic Breviary
- Scope & Content:
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Breviary for the whole year, with musical notation; preceded by a calendar. The title is, ' In nomine domini. Incipit brebiarum de toto circuito'. The calendar lacks the last four months; and the breviary ends at the 'Officium in natale plurimorum martyrum'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002022564
040-002022569 - Is part of:
- Add MS 30844-30857 : Belonged to the Monastery of S. Domingo de Silos, near Burgos, in Spain
Add MS 30848 : Mozarabic Breviary - Hierarchy:
- 032-002022564[0005]/040-002022569
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 30844-30857
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: Burgos (?Santo Domingo de Silos), northern Spain,
Provenance:
The Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, in the catalogue compiled by Ibarette in 1770; and in the catalogue compiled by the librarian of Silos, Gregorio Hernandez in 1772 (see Boylan, 'Library at Santo Domingo de Silos' (1992)).Rodrigo Echevarria y Briones, 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, according to Férotin, (Histoire de l'Abbaye (1897)).
The Benedictine abbey of 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 by them to a Madrid bookseller for 16000 pesetas to raise money for the rebuilding of the Benedictine Abbey of Silos (see Boylan, 'Manuscript illumination' ( 1990), pp. 27-29).
Bachelin-Deflorenne, booksellers of Paris, in their sale of 55 manuscripts from the library at Silos on 1 June, 1878, lot 20; bought from them by Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, for 1 600 francs, along with 13 other Silos manuscripts.
Bernard Quaritch, London booksellers, bought from them by the British Museum, 15 June, 1878
- Publications:
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Manuel C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi Hispanorum, 2 vols (Madrid: Salmanticae, 1958-1959), no. 641.
Ann Boylan, 'The Library at Santo Domingo de Silos and its catalogues (XIth-XVIIIth Centuries)', Revue Mabillon, nouvelle série, 3 (1992), 59-102 (pp. 82, 89, 93).
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.
Peter K. Klein, 'Circulation, Popularity and Function off Illustrated Apocalypses from the Late Antiquity to High Medieval Europe', in Medieval Europe in Motion: La Circulación de Manuscritos Iluminados en la Península Ibérica, Segunda edición del Congresso Internacional Medieval Europe in Motion, Lisbon 2015, ed. by Alicia Miguélez Cavero and Fernando Villaseñor Sebastian (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2018), pp. 201-14 (212).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)