Friday 10 February 2017

Belleville Breviary, vol. II (BNF Latin 10484)

Delilah cuts Samson's hair, f. 32r.
Colloquial name(s): the Belleville Breviary, vol. II
Official name(s): Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 10484

Date: 1323-26 (source)
Origin: France (source)


This manuscript consists of a calendar (ff. 2r-2v), a ferial psalter (ff. 3r-80r), a summer temporal (ff. 81r-217r), a summer sanctoral (ff. 218r-398r) and the Office of the Virgin (ff. 408v-430v) (source).

Brief descriptions of some of the illustrations are provided at Gallica (click on the 'i' icon on the left-hand side of the screen).

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