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- Modern limp vellum binding, with two pairs of fastening vellum ties., The tail of a processional containing music primarily for chants for the Temporale. Tail shows uneven leaves and front cover with two pegs., and Country of production suggested by instructions in Spanish on recto and verso of f. 61; verso of first parchment guard leaf contains ownership inscription “Alfonso Lopez.” Stamp reading “Newberry Library” on f. 1 verso. Joint purchase by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- On verso: corrections in the inner margin in same script as main text., A cut in parchment in the outer margin of recto with no loss of text; stub of conjugate leaf is present; remnant of a mended cut in the inner margin, sewing holes visible; prickings visible on the outer and inner margins., Running title: on recto "GA" and verso "AD" alternating red and blue; biblical quotations underlined in red; 2-line initials in blue or blue with contrasting pen flourishes in red or blue; 1-line initials alternating red and blue., A leaf from Peter Lombard's Magna glossatura in Epistolas Pauli, glossed and written in the intercisum format. Peter Lombard developed the text in Paris in the second quarter of the 12th century during his teaching activities. It became one of the required readings of the faculty of Theology. The leaf is taken from Galatians 6:10. Biblical text is written in short blocks to the left of each column on every second ruled line, the gloss surrounding the biblical text on three sides., 2 columns of 55 lines lead point ruled written in early Gothic script; text written above the top line; on recto: letters written in lead point to indicate placement of colored initials; text written in intercisum format., and The format of the manuscript, and the quality of the parchment and decoration, suggest that this manuscript was intended for a wealthy abbot or bishop or a well-off scholar (see Frońska, Royal Manuscripts (2005)). The script and the decoration suggest a French production. According to Avril, 'Un manuscrit d'auteurs classiques' (1975), pp. 268-69, the decoration might be connected with the second artist of a manuscript containing classical works (Paris, BnF, MS lat. 7936) produced in Paris. Although there are common features between the initials of both manuscripts, 'their historiated initials cannot be ascribed to the same hand' according to Frońska, Royal Manuscripts (2011). A Parisian Bible produced around 1200, now Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS theol. lat. fol. 9, is close to this manuscript in script and decoration (see Ayres, 'Parisian Bibles' (1982), 5-13).
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Housed in a modern document holder with a mat frame (320 x 420 mm) and sealed behind plastic; one side visible only., Eleventh-century Catalonian legal document for the sale of a parcel of fortified land with 10 notarial signatures and name of the scribe., caroline miniscule, and Produced in Catalonia, probably 1046; date based on later inscription just below the main text in lead: "subirats vila franca del Renedy? Any [sp?] 1-46." Name of scribe written in the same hand as the main text: "MIRONIE bi qui ista castra francha rogitus scripsit et sub die et anno quod supra." Related to MS 121; Mirone is mentioned in both charters. In this charter, his surname is mentioned (Geribertus). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio, May 2004.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Contemporary binding of tawed leather over beveled wooden boards; marks from a clasp once on edge of front cover; inscription on front cover: Martyrologe de Nangis terres de l’eglise de Nangis., “KL” symbols for each month in large red letters, Register of anniversary days when services are to be performed for the dead. Mainly comprised of a calendar which mentions for each day the names of the donors to be honored by a mass, or the names of the relevant saints honored locally. Some of the donors listed have been crossed out, their donation having expired, and other prestigious families such as the Montmorency-Bouchard family, have been respectfully preserved. Last two leaves damaged by worms with some loss of text., Written in long lines; ruled in plummet for 24 lines; written in a gothic hand in red and light brown ink with some later entries in black ink by a wide variety of hands, and Written in Nangis, France over the period of the late 13th to early 16th centuries. Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 2007.
- Date Created:
- [1200 TO 1625]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Folded five times. Additional parchment sheet attached by parchment tag, missing seal., Will of Richard Lake of Theydon Garnon, Essex, yeoman and probate grown. Signed and delievered in the presence of the clerk Nicholas Wright, Thomas Lake, and John Windfrey. The Probate, dated 1634, in Latin, attached as an additional sheet and signed by notary Williams Whetston., Written in a light English secretary script. The additional sheet written in a hurried secretary script in darker ink. Inscriptions in a near-contemporary hand on lower middle portion of dorse: “30 Dec 1625 Richard Leaks Will Essex___5”; followed by “Essex | II” in pencil., and Written in Essex, England, and dated 30 December 1 Charles I (1626) and 1634. Inscriptions in an near-contemporary hand on lower middle portion of dorse: “30 Dec 1625 Richard Leaks Will Essex___5”. Gift of Western Michigan University Department of History to Special Collections in 1999.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Manuscript leaf was excised form a larger codex, cut in half and used to cover a 16th-century printed text; sewn on four stations with kettle stitches; spine exposed; each cover wraps around the first gathering., Single color, 1- to 2-line red pen-initials., Twelfth-century, German manuscript leaf which serves as a parchment cover for a near-complete 1566 printed text. View of manuscript leaf used as spine and front cover., German protogothic bookhand, and Written in Germany or Switzerland in the first half of the 12th century. 2-line probably 2-word, illegible inscription on upper cover. Used to cover a complete copy (ff. 62) of Boltz, Valentin. Illuminirbüch, künstlich. Frankfurt?: s. n.], 1566. A guide to the preparation of dyes, pigments, inks etc., first published in 1549 (no records for 1549 editions and no records for original copies of 1566 edition exist on WorldCat). Two inscriptions at the bottom of f. 62v: one in contemporary script in ink, one in later script in lead, both illegible. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, July, 2009.
- Date Created:
- [1100 TO 1150]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Housed in a modern, pink mat frame (443 x 323 mm); visible on one side only; remnant of a green wax seal appended to the parchment tag., Twelfth-century, French donation by Georgia, daughter of Henri de Columbirs and former wife of Hugh de Lonchamp, of the rent of ten Tournai sous, to the church and convent of the Holy Trinity in Caen to be used to maintain a perpetually burning lamp before the altar of St. Lawrence on St. Lawrence day., flourishing, protogothic documentary script, and Produced at the Abbey of-aux Dames (Cottineau 1:553) and dated August 1222 in the document. The Benedictine Abbaye-aux Dames of St. Trinité in Caen, Normandy, was founded c. 1066 by Queen Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, who is buried there. An inscription on the plica in a later hand: "1222 donation a la chapelle de St laurent dans l'abbaye de Ste Trïnite," translation: "1222 Gift to the chapel of St. Lawrence in the Abbey of the Holy Trinity." On dorse: inscription in a hybrida hand (fifteenth-sixteenth century) indicates that the family home was later still known as Calumbiers (Coulombiers); possible scribal signature; six-line inscription in French summarizing the document. Acquired from the collection of E. H. Dring and purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio May 8, 2000. Acquisition record in "Mackus Company" folder.
- Date Created:
- 1222-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Modern limp vellum binding, with two pairs of fastening vellum ties., Large red and purple initials with blue and red pen florishes, Processional containing music primarliy for chants for the Temporale partially open to ff. 48v-49r., Written in Gothic Textura script, One line red staff with square black notation. Square notation on four line staff. Five staff on last gathering., and Country of production suggested by instructions in Spanish on recto and verso of f. 61; verso of first parchment guard leaf contains ownership inscription “Alfonso Lopez.” Stamp reading “Newberry Library” on f. 1 verso. Joint purchase by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Bound in limp vellum wrapper formed from a 12th- or early 13th century noted breviary, possibly from Spain, with two wide laced leather strips around spine; folded vertically for travel., Staves and headings in red; text and notes in sepia, with 21 large capitals and 48 smaller initials in red or blue with alternate red or blue penwork infill., Leaf 84 recto and the inside of the back cover of a fifteenth-century portable antiphonary from Spain, containing text and musical score for chants for the Catholic liturgy for Palm Sunday., Large-format text in gothic hand, interspersed with partial and full pages of music in square notation. Text of wrapper in two columns, with twelve large decorated initials in red and green, and eleven lines of non-diastematic neumes in Catalan notation., Full pages of music contain seven five-line staves., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1998.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Manuscript leaf was excised form a larger codex, cut in half and used to cover a 16th-century printed text; sewn on four stations with kettle stitches; spine exposed; each cover wraps around the first gathering., Single color, 1- to 2-line red pen-initials., Twelfth-century, German manuscript leaf which serves as a parchment cover for a near-complete 1566 printed text. View of manuscript leaf used as front cover., German protogothic bookhand, and Written in Germany or Switzerland in the first half of the 12th century. 2-line probably 2-word, illegible inscription on upper cover. Used to cover a complete copy (ff. 62) of Boltz, Valentin. Illuminirbüch, künstlich. Frankfurt?: s. n.], 1566. A guide to the preparation of dyes, pigments, inks etc., first published in 1549 (no records for 1549 editions and no records for original copies of 1566 edition exist on WorldCat). Two inscriptions at the bottom of f. 62v: one in contemporary script in ink, one in later script in lead, both illegible. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, July, 2009.
- Date Created:
- [1100 TO 1150]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries