Showing posts with label Cistercian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cistercian. Show all posts

Saturday, 2 January 2016

A Italian Cistercian Breviary, in Newark, NJ


While in New York recently, I not only crossed the East River to go to Brooklyn, but also crossed the Hudson to go to Newark, New Jersey, because I had been in touch with Nadine Sergejeff at the Public Library, and she had kindly agreed to show me their medieval manuscripts. The one I was most interested to see is a Breviary, briefly described by Bond & Faye as being Cistercian, and perhaps from Lombardy: