Breviary
Subtitle: use of Paris
Contributors: Riant, Paul Edouard Didier, comte, 1836-1888, former owner; Chambolle-Duru (Firm)
Series: Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Published: 1241
Language: lat
Number of pages: 260
Work titles: Breviary. Pars aestivalis
Description: Temporal, begins with feria iii following fifth Sunday after Pentecost, and ends with dedication of church; and sanctoral (28 May-30 Nov.).
Notes: Written in textura and ruled for 29 lines in 2 columns. Numerous well-preserved historiated initials on burnished gold and decorated initials in burnished gold on blue and mauve. Additional secondary initials in blue with red penwork flourishes.

Musical notation (f. 260v).

Illumination attributed by Branner to the Corpus atelier.

Bound in full morocco with gilt and gilt edges by Chambolle-Duru.

In a protective tray case, 19 cm.

Germon and Polain, 1899, Part II, I, no. 9.

De Ricci, I, 1001.

Branner, Manuscript painting in Paris, 234

MS Riant 9. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Also available in an electronic version.