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1. Postilla litteralis in vetus testamentum, pars

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Horizontal catchwords very bottom inner margins, often partially trimmed. Notes for the rubricator very bottom margin. Guide letters alongside many initials., Front cover detached. Early chained binding (possibly contemporary) of brown leather over wooden boards, beveled and cut almost flush with the book block, sewn on double bands that enter the boards at the edge and are fastened on the inside. Head and tail bands also fasten into the boards. Spine with four raised bands and with the remains of a tab at the top. Simply tooled in blind with an outer frame and two single fillets crossing on the diagonal. Five brass bosses on upper and lower boards. Once fastened back to front: stubs of two straps, lower board and holes from two pins center upper board, intact metal hasp and chain ending in a ring middle top edge lower board, remains of parchment label upper board. Strips of parchment from earlier manuscripts used to line the spine visible at the beginning and end. Title copied in a cursive script on bottom fore edge: “Isti(?) sunt liber hystoriales scilicet iosue iudic[um] Ruth paralipomenon Regum. The binding has been tampered with and the first and last leaves are pasted down at the front and back, perhaps when the opening and closing gatherings were removed., Majuscules touched with red, lemmata underlined in red, red rubrics, and two- to three-line red initials. Modern foliation in pencil top outer corner recto. Original foliation in Arabic numerals in ink middle lower margin on ff. 14-264. Text begins on f. 1v (f. 1 recto pasted to the front board). Watermark of a tower with merlons without a window, similar to iccard Online 100480, Wemding, 1455, 100500, no place, 1459, 100531, Kaisheim, 1464. Prickings in the upper and lower margins., An early fifteenth-century manuscript of Nicholas of Lyra’s commentaries on nine Old Testament books including Joshua (ff. 1v-16v), Judges (ff. 17-48), Ruth (ff. 48v-53v), Chronicles 1 (ff. 54-86), Chronicles 2 (ff. 86v-112), Prayer of Manasseh (f. 112), 1 Kings (ff. 112v-159v), 2 Kings (ff. 160-194), 3 Kings (ff. 194v-231v), and 4 Kings (ff. 232-252), made for institutional use. Text begins imperfectly on the commentary of Joshua chapter 9, and ends imperfectly on the commentary of 4 Kings chapter 17., 2 columns of 42-46 lines ruled in ink and written in cursive gothic book hand., and Written in Southern Germany, possibly Bavaria, in ca. 1450-1475 as indicated by the evidence of the watermark and script. The chained binding indicates it was in an institutional collection. Purchased by Western Michigan University’s Special Collections from Les Enluminures who procured it from a private North American collection.
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[1450 TO 1475]
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

2. Vocabularium

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Bound in German gothic-style binding with worn tooled leather over wooden boards. Tooled in lozenge patterns with criss-cross fillet work with daisey-like stamps in each lozenge. Sewn over 5 bands. Front and rear boards are detached. 17th or 18th century re-backing. Spine title reads: Codex / Manuscriptus / Vocabularium / Formicarus / Speculi / Historialis / Sec. XV. Pastedowns and flyleaves probably contemporary with re-backing., Initials in red and blue and red highlighting passi, ff. 4r-157v; red paraphs. Signed with letters and Arabic numbers, catchwords on some leaves, many cropped. 9- and 8-line initials on ff. 4r. 5- to 2-line initials throughout., Vocabularium, in Latin, containing various texts. Contents include: fragment from a Latin dictionary, beginning in the middle of an entry for dies and ending in the beginning of the entry for diripio (ff. 1-2v); O.P., Summa de casibus conscientiae; concluding remarks about the completion of the original text in Pisa, 1338 and the death of brother Bartholomew in 1348 (ff. 4-157v); Iohannes Nider, Formicarius (ff. 162r-183r); and Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale Book 8, imperfect (ff. 187r-205r). Several watermarks including a “P” like Briquet, 8531; arms emblazoned with three fleurs-de-lis and a dangling “t” like Briquet, 1739 or 1741; a “Y” like Briquet, 9183/4; two keys, like Briquet, 3822; a unicorn like Briquet, 9992-9995., Written in various gothic hybrida hands with cursiva influence and with many abbreviations. Changes of hands between f. 2 and f. 4, f. 55v and f. 56r. Sporadically ruled with frames., and Written in Germany in the middle of the 15th century. 16th century manuscript note on f. 2v refers to early provenance: “Iste liber spectat ad bibliothecam Hoermersum.” Nineteeth century auction label of Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., of New York, N. Y., no. 1580, on front pastedown. Twentieth century label of William Salloch, of New York, N. Y., on rear pastedown. Deposited in 1985 by the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Springback, Sparta, Wisconsin.
Date Created:
[1425 TO 1475]
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Western Michigan University. Libraries