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[Breviary], f. 96r.
Origin: [Padolirone, Italy, c. 1431].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 477 leaves. 12 x 8 cm. Double columns of 33 lines. Textblock: 9.3 x 6 cm.
Binding: Nineteenth-century purple velvet with white silk doublures. In modern leather case dated "1473."
Comments: This tiny breviary features a fine gothic script in black and red ink. This portable breviary includes among many other things several calendrical tools. One of interest provides a circuitous description of the method used to determine the golden number used in calculating Easter, beginning with the year 1431. On the reverse is a table for determining the dominical number. An early inscription places this portable Breviary in the Benedictine monastery of Santa Justina at Padolirone, near Padua, Italy. The year 1431, likely the date of the manuscript’s creation, figures in the calendar calculations, and the text also includes ( f. 94v) an indulgence approved in 1431 by Pope Eugenius IV (1383–1447). Painted coats of arms of two later owners also appear within the manuscript: Cardinal Philippe de Lévis (1435–1475); and Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), the prime minister to Louis XIII.
Decoration: Red and blue initials with elaborate red, blue, or purple filigree; illuminated coats of arms of Cardinals Richelieu and Philip Levis de Cousan Forez .
Provenance:(1) St. Justina de Padolirone near Padua (Benedictines), after 1431. (2) Cardinal Philippe de Lévis (1435–1475). 3. Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), Paris. (4) Lathrop C. Harper (dealer), New York, 1954.(5) Dr. Lyle Sellers, Dallas, 1947-1964. (6) Baylor University Medical Center Library, Dallas, 1964-2001. (7) Long term deposit at Bridwell Library, Dallas, 2001.
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[Breviary], ff.
95v, detail.Armorial of Cardinal Richelieu, (1585-1642)
[Breviary], ff.
95v-96r.
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