Beinecke MS 7 (olim Z109.30)                                           Germany, s. XV
Breviary (diurnal)

     1. f. 1r    Scarcely visible text under the remains of a damaged
     woodcut of the Pieta; f. 1v Portions of an office for Stephen
     protomartyr.

     2. ff. 2r-7v    Graded calendar in red and black with additions in a
     contemporary [?] hand supplying readings, other saints, and obits;
     among the saints are Richard King (7 Feb., added), Walburga (25 Feb.),
     Cunigundis (3 March), Castulus (26 March), Rupert (27 March), Trudpert
     (26 April), Translation of Walburga (1 May), Boniface (5 June, in red),
     Erentrude (30 June), Ulric (4 July), Willibald (7 July), Kilian (8
     July, in red), Henry emperor (13 July), Octave of Kilian (15 July),
     Oswald (5 Aug.), Sebald (19 Aug.), Translation of Erentrude (4 Sept.),
     Translation of Cunigundis (9 Sept.), Translation of Rupert and Chuniald
     (24 Sept.), Translation of Virgilius (26 Sept.), Burchard (14 Oct.),
     "dedicacio maioris [?] ecclesie" (24 Oct., added), Willibrord (7 Nov.),
     Virgilius (27 Nov.), Odilia (13 Dec.). The added obits are "obiit
     Elizabet Ebyn mater mea Anno et cetera [14?]16" and 4 others,
     illegible, on 2, 3 and 17 September, and 5 November.

     3. f. 8r    Diagram for determining calendar; f. 8v    Portions of an
     office for Stephen protomartyr and notes on indulgence in ecclesia magd
     [eburgensis?] and on the feast of the relics dominica die post corpus
     christi or sequenti die post mauricii; prayer to the Virgin; f. 9r-
     v    Prayers to the Trinity.

     4. ff. 10r-14v    Partial table of contents in a later hand; temporale
     for the day offices for the week following Pentecost.

     5. ff. 15r-20r    Day offices for the dedication of a church, Trinity
     Sunday and the feast of Corpus Christi.

     6. ff. 20v-66v    Day offices of the sanctorale from Urban (25 May)
     through Virgilius (27 Nov.), including offices for Ulric, Kilian, Henry
     emperor, Reginswindis, Oswald, Cunigundis, Rupert, Chuniald and Gislar,
     Willibald, Burchard and Willibrord.

     7. ff. 66v-69v    Antiphons and responses de hystoriis; prayer to the
     Virgin added in a different hand.

     8. ff. 70r-78v    Capitula, prayers and antiphons for the Sundays from
     the 1st through the 24th Sunday after Trinity; f. 79r-v additional
     capitula and antiphons.

     9. ff. 80r-94r    Antiphons and responses for the common of saints.

     10. ff. 94v-115v    Readings for the common of saints; f. 115v added
     prayers to Mary Magdalen; f. 116r-v added confessional prayer.

     11. ff. 117r-128v    Hymns for the sanctorale (Holy Spirit through
     Catharine), for the dedication of a church and for Compline, Matins and
     Lauds.

     12. ff. 129r-145r    Psalms, antiphons and hymns, many by cue only,
     arranged for the week, day offices only.

     13. ff. 145r-147v    Prayers before and after mass.

     14. ff. 147v-154r    Penitential psalms and litany, including among the
     27 martyrs Kilian (17) and Oswald (25), among the 22 confessors Henry
     (14), Otto (15), Ulric (16), Willibald (17), Burchard (19), Rupert (21)
     and Virgilius (22), and among the 25 virgins Cunigundis (12) and
     Walburga (23).

     15. ff. 154r-165v    Office of the Dead with two unidentified sets of
     responses to the lessons at matins: 1. Credo quod; 2. Qui lazarum; 3.
     Domine quando; 4. Heu michi; 5. Cum veneris; 6. Peccantem me; 7. Domine
     secundum; 8. Libera me...de viis; 9. Libera me...de morte. The second
     set, under the rubric pro parentibus lecciones: 1. Redemptor meus; 2.
     Manus tue; 3. Memento [? badly rubbed] quod sicut lutum; 4. Absolue
     domine; 5. Ne tradas; 6. Rogamus te; 7. Deus eterne; 8. Domino
     confitebor; 9. Libera me...de morte.

     16. ff. 166r-173v    Ferial capitula, an office for the Virgin (9
     lessons at matins), offices for the Holy Cross, Kilian, Translation of
     Nicolas, Benedict, Erentrude, Translation of Martin, Dominic,
     Presentation of the Virgin, Willibald.

     17. ff. 173v-181r    Added material in several hands: offices for
     Willibald, Anna and Sebald; hymns at Lauds; a lesson for the Office of
     the Dead.

     18. ff. 181v-182v    Table on the Golden Number and on lucky or unlucky
     sections of the zodiac; capitula; last leaf torn out.

          Parchment (sturdy, of uneven quality), ff. i (modern paper) + 182
     + i (modern paper), 105 x 75 (ca. 82 x 60) mm. Written in ca. 26 long
     lines; frame-ruled or with single vertical bounding lines only, in ink.
     Remains of prickings in lower margin.
          An accurate collation is impossible due to tight binding. Some
     catchwords along lower edge.
          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: s. xv-xvi. 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.

          Written probably in Southern Germany, in or near Magdeburg (see
     art. 3), during the 15th century; early provenance unknown. Presented
     to Yale in 1898 by Albert H. Buck, M. D.

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 163, no. 7.

Barbara A. Shailor