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• Title:[Breviary. Selections.]
  [Breviary fragments].
  
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• Corporate Author/Creator:Catholic Church.
  
• Published/Created:[England?], [1400?]
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: BX2000.A2 1400
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800.
  Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts--Manuscripts.
  Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens.
  
• Description:28 unnumbered pages : parchment ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:Includes parts of the Athanasian Creed and the offices for Christmas, the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul.
  
• Notes:Manuscript. Probably written in England approximately 1400. In 2 columns (30 lines each) of Gothic bookhand. Main text in brown ink, with some words and verses in red. Initial verse capitals in red and blue and illuminated throughout.
  Place and date of production based on correspondence (dated 25th October, 1971) from the Assistant Keeper of the Manuscripts at the British Museum. Bound in a simple 20th century vellum over boards binding, with supplied blank pages to separate non-consecutive passages of the manuscript.
  In Latin