Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in a small running script. Additions by several contemporary and later writers.

Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout.

Portions of text, badly worn or trimmed, have been lost.

Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on two tapes. Wooden boards. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled in a diamond pattern with indistinguishable ornaments within the diamonds and at their intersections. Traces of five round bosses, larger on lower board, metal corner pieces and a catch plate on the upper board. Rebacked, with leather formed in the shape of endbands in the turn-ins at head and tail of the spine and with a strap and pin (a modern nail?) fastening added.

In Latin.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 7.

Breviary (Diurnal). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Catholic Church > Liturgy.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.