Breviary

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 MS 815
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: Breviary
Date(s)	: 14th century
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume, containing 270 folios
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Not available at present.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Premonstratensian Breviary from the abbey of Parc, diocese of Liège (now in the diocese of Malines, Belgium), with a calendar of folios 3-8v.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Latin

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Finding aids:

Collection level description. Hard-copy catalogue also available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Book-plate of Bernard and Thirza Pasco, acquired by Francis Wormald in 1952.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Given in July 1973 by Mrs Honoria Wormald

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

For a discussion of eleven other manuscripts from the abbey of Parc with the same binding, see E Van Balbergh 'Les Critères de Provenance des Manuscrits de Parc', Contribution à l'Histoire des Bibliothèques et de la Lecture aux Pays-Bas avant 1600, Associations des Archivistes et Bibliothequair de Belgique, Brussels, 1974, p 529.

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
February 2006