A magnificently laid-out summer part of a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Franciscan breviary. In addition to the red and blue lombards, the manuscript has impressive gold-background initials. The calendar refers to the diocese of Constance; possibly the breviary belonged to the convent of Paradies. Glued to the back pastedown, the depiction of a nun kneeling before an enthroned Christ with a bleeding head cannot be dated with certainty. (bos)

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This Franciscan breviary, written on the finest parchment, contains marginal illuminations on Biblical and hagiographical themes. The calendar and the miniatures imply that the manuscript came from a convent of Franciscan women, possibly the convent of Paradies. Moser (1997) dates its production to between 1482 and 1490 and places it in Constance. Tears and holes in the parchment have been artfully sewed with colored threads. (bos)

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