ID: 700002316 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002316	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Breviary (illuminated manuscript; Sigenulfus, scribe; Unknown illuminator; 1153; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 83.ML.97; Ms. Ludwig IX 1)

Note: 428 folios + 6 flyleaves, 4 full-page decorated initials, 24 half-page decorated initials. From the early Middle Ages on, clergy, monks, and nuns celebrated the Divine Office of prayers, hymns, psalms, and readings at eight different times throughout the day, using the texts in a breviary. This breviary was made at the monastery of Montecassino in southern Italy, the cradle of Benedictine monasticism and an important center for book production in the Middle Ages. The book's small size suggests that it was designed for a monk's private use rather than for community use. A prayer in the manuscript mentions the scribe Sigenulfus, who wrote the text of this book and may also have painted its many decorated initials. The manuscript's bright colors, especially the blue and yellow, and the familiar motif of biting dogs twisting amidst spiraling tendrils are characteristic of works produced at the scriptorium at Montecassino.

Titles:

Breviary (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Ms. Ludwig IX 1 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: volume

Work Types:

illuminated manuscript [300265483] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>, manuscripts (documents))

breviary [300026459]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts, liturgical texts)

book [300028051]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: 1153

Creator Display:

Sigenulfus, scribe; Unknown illuminator [preferred,JPGM]

scribe Sigenulphus (Italian scribe, active ca. 1153) Qualifier: undetermined Extent: undetermined [500019294]

illuminator unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 83.ML.97; Ms. Ludwig IX 1

Other: Creation: Montecassino, Abbazia di [7006732] Frosinone province (province), Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with marbled calf

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	gilt paint [300343596]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

	pasteboard (paper) [300162474]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by form>)

	calf (leather) [300227525]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material, leather, <leather by origin>)

Dimensions: Leaf: 19.2 x 13.2 cm ( 7 9/16 x 5 3/16 in.); 428 folios

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Romanesque [300020768] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, Medieval styles and periods, Medieval (European))

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	prayers (literary genre) [300026452]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

	hours (prayers) [300404017]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name), prayers (compositions)) (AAT)

	readings (artifacts) [300404021]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by function>) (AAT)

	rites [300312160]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events) (AAT)

	psalms [300379856]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name), musical compositions, songs (musical compositions)) (AAT)

	Latin (language) [300388693]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), language-related concepts, <languages and writing systems>, <languages and writing systems by specific type>, <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed first front flyleaf, center, in pencil, "Sigenulfus 248v" and immediately underneath, separated by a line, "Date-c.leaf iii". Inscribed third front flyleaf, verso, upper center, in pen, "Breviarium monasticum in quo divim officii ordo indicatur tantum: non, per extensum ponitur; ideoque proprià Breviarium". Inscribed fol. 1, "Iste liber est sac' mont. casinen. No. 960" (erased), pen trials; fol. 2, "Eefs"(?) (erased); fol. 24v, prayers (12th century?) (erased); fol. 93, "Hic liber per plures annos fuit in monasterio sancti Vincentii de vulturno ereptus a monasterio Casinensi. Et anno domini MCCCCCV fuit restitutus dicto monasterio Casinensi per nobilem virum Loysium de Raymo in eo anno quo dictum monasterium rediit ad observantium congregationis sce justine." (written over seventeen erased lines). Fols. 117-122v inscribed with numerous additions to the calendar in the margin (all erased), including the date "MCCCXVI" on fol. 117v; "Tertulli presb. et m

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Breviary	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Ms. Ludwig IX 1	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP,JPGM]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM,VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)