Part 1: ff. 1r-340v

Description: - Parchment - 365 x 250 mm - 2 columns of 32 lines.

Country: Italy

City: Camaldoli

Assigned Date: s. XIII4/4

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 2; scribe 1, ff. 1r-335v; scribe 2, ff. 336r-340v.

Scribe(s): Simon of Genoa ("The Recluse")

Script: Gothic.

Music: Quadratic neumes on 2- to 4-line red staves.

Other Decoration: 7-line painted initials in white-patterned orange and pink on square white-patterned blue grounds; 2-line initials in alternating red and blue with pen-floourishing of other color; 1-line initials within text touched with red.




Text 1: ff. 1r-335v

Title: Breviary

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Ferial psalter, ff. 1r-2v, begins imperfectly; several insertions between Ember Sunday and Christmas, ff. 41v-45v, including extracts from St. Augustine and St Bernard and a series of Camaldolese liturgical ordines. 

Status of text: Mending to lower edges of ff. 56-66 has obscured some text.

Image 1: Front cover

Image 2: f. 1r

Image 3: f. 3v Calendar, April, May, June; several different hands; marginal note with date.

Image 4: f. 4r Calendar, July, August, September.

Image 5: f. 5r Scribal colophon.

Image 6: f. 41v Added texts.

Image 7: f. 79r Hierarchy of initials.

Image 8: f. 149 Litany.

Image 9: f. 149v

Image 10: f. 223v Guide for rubricator in lead.

Text 2: ff. 336r-340v

Title: Marian prayers

Image 11: ff. 335v-336r Change of hand.

Image 12: f. 340v