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1. Gradual Leaf
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- Modern red, wooden frame (375 x 285 mm), 2-line blue-and-red pen flourished initials., Fifteenth-century, possibly Italian portion of a Gradual; the Kyrie followed by the Gloria of the Ordinary Mass., southern textualis formata (rotunda), 4-line red staves with square musical notation, and Unknown provenance, paleographic evidence suggests the leaf comes from a manuscript that was probably written in the first half of the fifteenth century in Italy. Possibly loaned to the WMU library school through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974. Now permanently held by Special Collections, Waldo Library.
- Date Created:
- [1400 TO 1450]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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., Spine of two wrapped gatherings from a fifteenth-century portable antiphonary from Spain, containing text and musical score for chants for the Catholic liturgy for Palm Sunday folded vertically. Shown are two wide laced leather strips around the spine., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1998.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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. 2 (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, open, with chain binding., 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.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1475]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Fourteenth-century, unpublished legal opinion in a long-running dispute between the Cistercian abbey of Cambron (Cottineau 1:572) and the college of canons regular of St. Vincent in Soignies (Cottineau 2:3049), in the County of Hainaut. The canons had accused the Cisterican monks of illegally occupying the land in Sars Moullet and elsewhere., Written in a dark brown in a semi-cursive documentary script., and Produced in present-day Belgium or northern France either at the abbey of Cambron or at Soignies in the County of Hainaut. On dorse: the letter "j" in a contemporary hand and the number "188" in black ink in a later hand, now scratched out. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio in 2006 (D5391).
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in an unusual binding, probably contemporary, made from two pieces of brown leather, sewn together horizontally, which is stitched over pasteboards formed from ten leaves from other manuscripts (now partially visible at the top, front, and along the fore edge, back). The leather turn-ins are covered with a paper leaf, now fragmentary, in the front, and by leather in the back. Part of this leather is broken off, and is now laid in, sewn on three leather bands, stitched through the inside of the covers in a “v” pattern. Lighter brown leather (sheepskin?) spine, probably later, with three raised bands with the title in gilt between the first and second in a gold square, “Regl de S. Benoit Manuscr 13 Sciecl [sic].” Remains of leather tie, front cover, with a hole in the back cover, presumably from another tie, now missing, and showing considerable wear, including a second small hole in the back cover near the spine, and with corners and some edges of the leather covers worn away. Middle of each gathering reinforced with parchment strips from another manuscript., Raised band spine and tail of a codex containing the Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Bernard Ayglerius (d. 1282), Abbot of Monte Cassino. Spine label in gilt between the first and second band in a gold square, ““Regl de S. Benoit Manuscr 13 Sciecl [sic]”. Leather is worn and sewn together horizontally over a pasteboard., and From dealer description: Written in the later decades of the 15th century, probably ca. 1480-1500, in central or southwestern France, as indicated by the style of the script and the watermark. Popular in 15th century Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries, the text is likely copied for a monastic library. Only one sale of this text is listed in the Schoenberg Database. Medieval shelf-mark, bottom margin, ff. 1 and 83, “B 63,” in both cases preceded by four erased words, “C de C.” Armorial bookplate, front flyleaf for the Bibliothèque de Monseir le Baron de Caix de Saint-Aymour,” with motto, “Fortior in adversis.” the Baron Amédée Caix de Saint Aymour was the mayor of Corbie (1863-1920), educated at the l’Ecole des chartes and at the l’Ecoles des langues orientales. Octagonal paper label on front cover edged in blue from 19th century French book deal, “Manuscript, 13ième siècle.” Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 432).
- Date Created:
- [1480 TO 1500]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 16th century gilt-tooled arabesque binding or pasteboard, with small marks on edges of boards where clasps were once attached. Binding damaged., Head and fore edge of a Book of Hours containing a calendar, gospel readings and litany., and “1542” on last main text leaf perhaps indicating the precise date of the binding.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Early-modern and modern inscriptions identifying the document., Stored in a modern, archival diploma holder. Archiepiscopal seal still attached to plica: made of green wax (80 x 55 mm), pendant on green silk threads, bearing the standing portrait of William Archbishop of Reims and partly-legible legend around; counterseal on reverse, badly damaged and barely legible. Seal much repaired with neutral colored wax in the 19th century., 2-line initial "W" with slight flourishes opens the text., Twelfth-century, Flemish document sealed by William, Archbishop of Reims, issued by his Chancellor Lambinus and dated 1182, concerning the donation of lands--Hulsendam, Nova Ecclesia and Balliol--by Philip of Flanders to the Abbey of Messines (Cottineau 2: 1832). See acquisition file, dealer's prospectus, for detailed description of William of Reims and Philip of Flanders., protogothic documentary script, and Produced probably in Flanders, and dated 1182 within the document. The identifying inscriptions on the dorse of the document: along the top, possibly a thirteenth-century hand, "confirmatio Willelmi archiepiscopi remorum supra terra de hulsendam et de nova ecclesia et balliola."; below fold line, an early-modern script: "Confirmation de la donation de hulsendam de L'archevesque de Reims faict par Philippe Comte de Flandre aux Dames de Messines. Carte B 1 l'an 1180 [sic]"; inscription in pencil of "1182" immediately below; along the bottom, possibly the same hand as the inscription along the top: "Per Willelmi archiepiscopi Remorum supra terra de hulsendam." Abbey of Messines was destroyed in WWI and restored in 1931 as the crypt of a new church. The Abbey held the document in 1876. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio in May of 2004.
- Date Created:
- 1182-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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 open book with binding fragment visible, side 1., 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
- Notes:
- Housed in a modern wooden frame (406 x 457 mm); charter visible on one side only, with dealer's prospectus on back. The seal of Nicholas Basset is still attached; made of green wax (ca. 5 cm diameter) in near fine condition, pendant on blue-green cords; bearing the device of a knight in armor galloping on horseback with the legend “SIGILL NICHOLLI BASSAT”; covered by a little textile seal bag threaded over the cords., First initial “O” is slightly enlarged and embellished., Fourteenth-century English grant by Nicholas Basset, Lord of Tretone, to the monks of the Cistercian abbey of Garendon, of a place in “Brueria Treton” to build a monastery and to serve God and St. Mary there and to live according to the Rule of St. Benedict, together with a mill and various named lands, for the salvation of his soul and those of his parents and of all the faithful people, with the names of 12 witnesses. Includes medieval endorsements: “Nichs. Basset de fundacione.”, English cursive documentary script, and Produced at Bruern Abbey within Oxfordshire, England around 1300. This foundation charter was issued after the actual foundation of the abbey. The Cistercian Abbey of Bruern (Cottineau 1:517) was founded by Nicholas Basset on 10 July 1147, originally as a cell of Garendon Abbey (Cottineau 1:1254) in Leicestershire. By the end of the thirteenth century circumstances at the abbey -- presumably financial -- required the creation of another charter. The present charter would have been viewed as a posthumous grant by the late founder. The wording of the text reads like a twelfth-century document but the script is late thirteenth or early fourteenth. The monks have accorded themselves more generous land provisions than the founder had actually done. The seal appears authentic and either was unthreaded and reattached from a twelfth-century original or the monks still had the matrix. Even if it was known to be 150 years too recent to be genuine, it would have been acknowledged as the actual foundation charter. Bruern Abbey was suppressed in 1536. Purchased by Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio, on May 2003.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Housed in a modern, mat frame (410 x 510), visible on one side only., Twelfth-century bifolium fragment of Pope Gregory I's (c. 540-604) Homilies on the Gospels. The Homilies were among the most widely read and venerated texts of the Middle Ages. Delivered to the people of Rome during 590 and 591, soon after Gregory's election to the papacy, these sermons on the gospel readings for Sundays and feast days represent his only surviving public liturgical preaching. The Homilies were copied many times during the Middle Ages and survive in more than 400 manuscripts. Portions of them were also taken into the liturgy as readings in the Breviary., Protogothic (praegothica) script, probably continental, and Script indicates that it was likely produced in the twelfth century, possibly on the continent. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio on July 11, 2005.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Contemporary brown leather boards; two concentric double blind-ruled borders, filled with blind-stamped shell and flower ornaments; diapered center panel, lozenges of which contain blind-stamped flower and eagle ornaments; brass and leather strap-and-pin fastener; front and back pastedowns are vellum leaves; engraving of a saint’s deathbed scene removed from another text, and affixed to front pastedown. In a green cloth clamshell box, with green leather spine., Front leather cover of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Cover shows a brass and leather strap-and-pin faster and stamped ornamentation., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1469]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in modern red leather in 1993 by Donald Taylor of Toronto. Spine lettered in gilt, “Fragmentum Breviarii, s. XIII.” Gatherings interleaved by paper stubs, with modern cloth slipcase. Previously used as a “loose wrap” for the four folios containing excerpts from Jacobus de Vorgaine’s Legenda aura and Sermones de tempore, removed by the Bergendal Collection and bound separately as MS 160. First two and last two flyleaves are modern paper., Spine and upper cover of a small personal collection of excerpts unbound until modern times, and which once protected the leaves of MS 160. The original structure is uncertain and missing an unknown number of leaves between f. 2 and f. 3. Spine label in gilt reads “Fragmentum Breviarii, s. XIII.”, and “Based on the evidence of the script, this was written in Germany at the end of the 13th century. The text, although fragmentary, suggests that these leaves were from a monastic rather than secular, breviary (one nocturn with four lessons are provided for the feast of St. Lucy). Possibily waste leaves never used for a manuscript (see the backward two-line red “n” on f. 4). They were used as a wrapper for this copy of extracts from the Golden Legend and sermons by Jacobus de Vorgaine by the fifteenth or early 16th century, when the contents were recorded in the lower margin of f. 1. The writer listed the contents as “Legends” of St. Barbara and St. Lucy, ignoring that these leaves were originally from a breviary, and emphasizing the content that was in keeping with the manuscript these leaves were being used to protect. Belowed to Joseph Pope (1921-2010) of Toronto, investor banker and prominent collector of medieval manuscripts, where it was Bergendal Collection MS 24 (described in Pope, 1999, and online, Bergendal Collection). Purchased by Pope from Sam Fogg, London, October 1993.” --from dealer description. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 579).
- Date Created:
- [1275 TO 1300]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Catchwords occasionally on the verso, passim., Bound in contemporary blind-tooled reddish brown calf over wooden boards. Leather stamped with a central panel of ogival lozenges, each enclosing a central botanical stamp. The whole framed by multiple blind rules and by a broad border of vines and flowers. Original brass bosses and clasps on corner and center of both covers. Two pairs of claps on fore edge catching on upper cover. Tooling includes central panel and rosette and vine-like patterns. Both boards damaged by worms., 1 and 2 line initials in red passim, some with flourishing extending into the margin. 6 to 8 line pen flourished initials in red passim, with extensive pen flourishes extending into the margins. Cross symbols in red passim throughout text. Major divisions of text are marked by leather tabs. Rubricated in red., Decorated manuscript in latin with contemporary blindpressed calf over wooden boards, with original corner and center bosses. Contents include: an index (f. 1r-v); the Propers for masses of major feasts of the temporal cycle: Nativity, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi, followed by selections from the ordinary mass (ff. 2-17); a prayer Orate fraters beginning f. 18v as orate fraters et sorores, likely a reference to the canonesses of Diessen; Cannon of mass (ff. 24-37); and select prayers for dedication of the church, for the Virgin, for peace, against the plague, for sinners, several for the dead, for alms, and three orations for mass which commemorates St. Rasso (ff. 39-56). First folio contains a table of contents and is missing lower corner with partial loss of text., 1 column of 20 lines ruled in lead with single boundary lines and written in gothic textualis script. Text on ff. 24r-37v, written in larger gothic textualis script in 12 lines long., and Internal evidence, in particular the commemoration of St. Rasso, a local count (d. 954) of Diessen-Andechs, suggests the manuscripts was produced in the monastery of the Augustinian canons regular at Diessen (Cottineau 1: 964) at the southern end of Ammersee. Dated “1491” in contemporary hand on f. 1v. Sold to Phillip J. Pirages by a dealer in German sometime before 1993. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books in 1993.
- Date Created:
- 1491-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Interlinear glossing, marginal annotations, and schemata., Presumably used as a rear pastedown; discoloration from paste visible in upper, outer, and lower margins on the verso., paraphs, schemata, and a maniculum in red; 1-line, blue initial with red pen-flourishes on recto, Twelfth- to thirteenth-century, French portion (chapters 39-54) of Liber sex principiorum, the commentary on the last six classes in the tenfold schema elaborated in Aristotle's Categories--the first of his works on logic. The portion here deals with place and time. CPMA, 1:43.39-54. Popularly attributed to Gilbertus Porreta, Bishop of Poitiers (d. 1154). Extensive interlinear glossing, marginal annotations and schemata. Numerous manicula., compact, slightly rounded, highly abbreviated gothic textualis libraria; marginal annotation in a compact gothic cursiva anquitor, and Produced towards the end of the twelfth century or the first half of the thirteenth century, probably in France. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, May, 2010.
- Date Created:
- [1175 TO 1250]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Marginalia in different hands in German, Contemporary brown leather boards; two concentric double blind-ruled borders, filled with blind-stamped shell and flower ornaments; diapered center panel, lozenges containing blind-stamped flower and eagle ornaments; brass and leather strap-and-pin fastener; front and back pastedowns are parchment leaves; engraving of a saint’s deathbed scene removed from another text and affixed to front pastedown. In a green cloth clamshell box, with green leather spine., Text in gothic liturgical book hand in black ink, lightly ruled in brown, with first and last one or two horizontal rules extending to edge of leaf; prickings visible along fore-edge of leaves; 18 lines per page; headings, superscript corrections, and ceremonial instructions in red; sentence initials touched in red; alternating red and blue capitals; footnotes in German in brown, with sentences touched in red; catchwords in brown, circled in red., Manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery, probably in Nuremberg during the third quarter of the 15th century, possibly between 1450 and 1469. The compilation of liturgies and prayers includes the Communion for the sick; Extreme Unction to be offered in the death of a sister; the Mass for the dead; various litanies of saints, with multiple references to St. Dominic, and local German saints such as St. Cunegund (whose relics are in Bamberg); St. Heinrich (Henry II, husband of Cunegund, also of Bamberg); and St. Sebald (patron saint of Nuremberg). Also included are diagrams in lower margins, written in German, outlining the stages of liturgical processions in the nunnery. Rubrics refer to “swester”, and Latin prayers are written in the feminine case., Gothic liturgical book hand, Chant music included throughout test; music arranged on red 4-line staves with square notation in black; Latin words., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1469]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Excised from a larger manuscript. Worm holes throughout leaf with minimal loss of text. Very thin parchment. Stub of conjugate leaf is present. Leaf is slightly distorted because of the puckering of the parchment., Capitals and paragraph marks touched in red. Text is heavily abbreviated. On verso, text on lower inner column smudged with some loss of text., A decree probably from a document once containing the whole Constitutiones Clementinae. The Exivi de Paradiso was enacted at the final session of the Council of Vienne on 6 May 1312. The text of the leaf corresponds to paragraphs 10 - 14 which starts with an explaination that friars cannot have gardens, vineyards or large churches, only humble and modest buildings. From dealer description: This leaf contains a substantial part of the Exivi de paradiso, the document in which Clement V extended papal acknowledgement and his personal affect towards the newly founded Franciscan Order (Clement V noting that since a youth the “professors of this kind of rule” have inflamed his pious devotion), and setting out the guidelines of asethetic poverty for them., 2 columns of 38 lines ruled in brown ink written in rounded early Gothic book hand, possibly influenced by university script., and The parent codex was presumably produced at the time of the Council of Vienne or soon after, perhaps in Vienne itself, for a wealthy Franciscan community.
- Date Created:
- [1300 TO 1350]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Added marginalia includes brief notes, and fists., Seventeenth-century brown leather boards; raised bands on spine; spine compartments gold-stamped with acanthus leaf ornaments; gold-stamped black leather spine label, with title “S. Bern. Ser. C.D.” Bound in nine gatherings of 10 leaves each., On f. 1r: a large, rather primitive, illuminated initial “P” in brown, on a 7-line square gold background, with 14-line trailing descender; body of the letter contains a drawing of a golden Host, displaying a white crucifix on a white background, and standing on a table or altar decorated in blue, red, green, white, and gold, outlined in black; in the lower margin of the same leaf, is a thick gold illuminated monogram “YHS” on a blue background, with colored leaves roughly-drawn on either side; the logo “Charitas” has been added in a later hand below the monogram; alternating red and blue 2-line capitals throughout text, with light brown or red penwork; red and blue line indicators; first 37 leaves foliated in red; catchwords in black, Fourteenth-century illuminated Latin manuscript from northern Italy, containing sermons written for monks of the Cistercian abbey of Locedio, near Gorizia in Friuli, by Ogier, Abbot of Locedio (and falsely attributed to another Cistercian, St. Bernard of Clairvaux). Ogier (also Ogerius, Oglerius, Ogerio) originally from Trino, Italy, served as a papal legate as well, mediating disputes between northern Italian cities. These sermons on the Last Supper, like Ogier’s treatise on the Virgin Mary, had already been translated into German at the charterhouse in Senales (Italy) by the 15th century, and influenced the Christian mysticism of scholars such as Heinrich Seuse. The manuscript represents one of the very few examples of a separate transmission of the sermons, which, most of the time, were passed down as part of the work of Pseudo-Bernardus, or in other collections. The two leaves of catechism lists (88v-90v), following the sermons, include descriptions of the twelve apostles, the ten commandments, the sacraments of the Church, the seven deadly sins, and seven acts of charity; several leaves have worm damage; yellowed parchment pasted on the verso with no loss of text., Text (1 column of 22 lines per page ruled in fading lead point) carefully written in an elegant small pre-humanistic rotunda script, in brown ink; ink flaking from f. 1r with some loss of text; foliated in Roman Numerals on top recto of each leaf in a different hand in red, some numbering has smudged., and Illegible inscription by former owner (?) in Paris, on inside front cover. Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 2006.
- Date Created:
- [1300 TO 1399]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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., Top of two wrapped gatherings from a fifteenth-century portable antiphonary from Spain, containing text and musical score for chants for the Catholic liturgy for Palm Sunday folded vertically. Shown are two wide laced leather strips around the spine., Faded gothic text on the wrapper in two columns with twelve large decorated initials in red and green, and eleven lines of non-diastematic neumes in Catalan notation., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1998.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Leaf was excised from a larger manuscript with cuts visible from previous binding. The leaf has suffered some water damage at the lower edge and is trimmed at the outer margin. Thin parchment likely prepared for a book that was meant to include all of the Bible in a single volume., Each new chapter is marked in the margin by a roman numeral in alternating red and blue letters (IX and X on the recto and XI on the verso). Each chapter begins on a new line, with a pen-flourished 4-line initial in the margin, alternating red with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing. The text was systematically corrected by a scribe using an ink darker than that of the main text. There is a running head of "DA" on the verso and "NI" on the recto alternating red and blue. Text is written below the top line. The script displays many of the defining features of Northern Textualis, including fusion in the combinations be, de, do, ho, oc, og, oq, pe, and po, elision of cc and pp, use of round (2-shaped) r following o and p, use of the st ligature (and only the st ligature), and use of Tironian et (uncrossed, with the foot turning slightly to the right) indicating a library book script of moderately rapid execution. One feature--the tall, decorated ascenders on the top line of characters--is by Derolez's definition never found in a script of the highest, orformata, grade. Ink flaking from the fleshside with minimal loss of text., Leaf possibly from a Parisian Bible, from Daniel 8:9-10:3 (recto) and Daniel 10:3-11:31 (verso)., 2 columns of 63 lines written in Gothic Northern Textualis, similar to pearl script, ruled in lead with double bounding verticals (4 mm) and intercolumnation of 4 + 4 mm., and Evidence in the text, the manuscript, the quality of the parchment, the script, and the mise-en-page all point to the leaf’s origin as part of a complete Bible copied in Paris in the thirteenth century, the place and time of the golden age of manuscript Bible production. Accompanying documentation notes the leaf was exhibited at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in December 1965, at which time it was in the collection of the Lima (Ohio) Public Library. It had formerly been in the collection of the Cleveland manuscript collector and book seller Otto F. Ege (1888-1951).
- Date Created:
- [1200 TO 1299]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- In modern limp vellum, smooth spine, title in blue and red ink on spine; armorial stamp of Comte Chandon de Briailles on front and back covers; sewing along the lower margin where the parchment was mended, 2-line blue initial with contrasting pen florishes in red extending into the margins; paragraph marks alternating red and blue; rubricated in red; capitals touched in red; foliated in Roman Numerals on the recto of each leaf; text written around a mended cut in parchment, A treatise on the Virtues and Vices that includes an eighteenth-century forgery of its medieval provenance open to leaves 28v-29r marked with a green ribbon., 2 columns of 33 lines ruled in light lead; written in gothic cursive, and Written, probably in Italy, in the late 14th or early 15th century. From the book-label: au Cte. Chandon de Briailles. mss. 68. Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 2011.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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; prickings along the outer margin on some leaves, The upper board of a 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. Cover title: Martyrologe de Nangis terres de l’eglise de Nangis., 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]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
22. Missal Leaf
- Notes:
- Now housed in a modern, matted frame (405 x 305 mm) with leaf visible on recto and verso., 2-line decorated initials in red, blue, white, and gold with elaborate marginal extenders; smaller initials within musical text with yellow and red highlights., Thirteenth- to fourteenth- century, French missal leaf including the section of the service for Saints Peter and Paul., early gothic textualis formata, and Uncertain provenance. Probably produced in Beauvais, France in the first half of the thirteenth century. On mat: "1285 A.D. France. Beauvais Missal." Possibly loaned to the WMU library school through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974. Now permanently held by Special Collections, Waldo Library.
- Date Created:
- [1250 TO 1300]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Five large, ornamental initials in red with pen-flourishes; 1- and 2-line red initials and rubrics throughout., Twelfth-century Austrian leaf in Latin from a sacramentary containing liturgy for the 8th-13th Sundays after the feast of the Trinity., Romanesque script, and Produced in Austria around 1150, the folio was originally part of a complete Sacramentary. The Katalog der Datierten Handschriften in Latenischer Schrift in Oesterreich (vol. I, p. 36) contains a sister leaf. The number "35" is inscribed twice in pencil in the top right corner, possibly an indication of the leaf's original folio number. Remnants of a later inscription ("RSS" is the only legible section) are on the bottom right of the recto in pencil. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio on June 19, 2001.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Eighteenth-century binding of smooth tawed leather over cardboard with three sewing support, green and white endbands, label in brown ink at head of spine reading “Semon | es Sancti | Ca’sarij.” Imprints and holes remaining on front and back cover from two ties, the traces of which are visible through paper pastedowns. Some concave warping of boards and discoloration and/or staining of cover and pastedowns. Paper bookplate on inner pastedown of the Bibliothèque du Plessis-Villoutreys including escutcheon with crown above and motto “Dis peu Fais mieux” below. Minor buckling in the first three leaves due to tight binding., Spine of a small miscellany of texts of various sermons which feature many marginal drawings and notae., and Written in several hands at the end of the 14th century or beginning of the 15th century in southern France, possibly Avignon, as suggested by the style of the initials, and to a lesser extend the script, which features some elements borrowed from the Papal Chancery, then in Avignon. Datable between 1369 (it includes a papal bull by Urban V (r. 1362-70) issued on 4 April 1369) and ca. 1400. Given the inclusion of the rule of St. Augustine and Hugh of St. Victor’s commentary on the Rule, the codex was likely made for one of the many groups of canons or monks who followed this Rule, including Augustinian Hermits (Agustin Friars), Dominicans, Praemonstratensians, Trinitarians, Regular Canons, and others. Evidence of the first sixteen sermons (ff. 1-80) by Clements VII link the manuscript to the Celestine priory established in 1392. A bookplate of the Bibliothèque du Plessis-Villoutreys indicates ownership by the Marquis de Villoutreys, probably in the last quarter of the 19th century. Possibly part of a private European Collection at some point. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collection from Les Enluminures (TM 992).
- Date Created:
- [1369 TO 1400]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Upper margin of recto of leaf [103] contains a small pen-and-ink drawing in red, blue and brown ink, of two birds atop a pair of acanthus leaves, pecking a berry., Contemporary dyed red calf over wooden boards; blind-stamped rhomboid (diamond-shaped) centerpiece within triple-ruled blind rectangular borders on upper and lower boards; center rhomboids each contain four small blind-stamped cloverleaf medallions within double borders; remnants of two pair of brass clasps and catches; vellum pastedowns; missing spine reveals three double rows of sewing bands in heavy cord. In light tan cloth-covered clamshell box; gold-stamped brown calf box label: “Brevier. Handschrift um 1490.”, Calendar in red and black, with large red and blue capitals at head of each page, most with interlacing pen flourishes in blue; following calendar is a table for computing the date of Easter each year, in red and black, with folded fore-edge; and two diagrams for assigning Dominical Letters and Golden Numbers, also in red and black., German breviary in Latin, for use by the Dominicans, probably produced around 1490 in the Upper Rhine region of Germany, or Northern Switzerland, as indicated by handwriting style, and saints’ days included in calendar. Breviary contains prayers for Mass, and the Office of the Dead (Dominican Rite)., Text in a single hand, in a southwestern German "bastarda" script in black ink; leaves lightly ruled in brown; large red and blue capitals, some pen-flourished, or decorated with flowers, leaves, plumes, or trailing branches; smaller red and blue initials throughout text; captions and section numbers in red., and Date suggested by style of handwriting and capital flourishes, and by calendar arrangement: i.e., ms. includes feasts of St. Dionysius and the Conception of the Virgin as single celebrations, first celebrated as such in 1481 and 1491, respectively; but lacks the observance of the feast of St. Servatius as a single celebration, a practice which dates from 1498, thus suggesting possible range of dates between 1481 and 1498. Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 2003.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Housed in a matte frame., Text with strong “st”-ligature and written with a wide-nibbed pen. Four simple ornamental capitals throughout., Strip cut from a Carolingian liturgical manuscript, quoting Luke 15:29-30 and Ephesians 5:6-9., 3 lines in unknown ruling in Carolingian minuscule; text of the middle line faded with significant loss of text; word holes throughout with minimal loss of text., and Dealer’s prospectus on back of the mat frame.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Inscriptions and scribbles in late medieval and early modern hands., Excised from a manuscript at an unknown date; now housed in a modern, protective archival mat frame., Single-line, red-pen versals passim; 3-line red initial "M"., Twelfth-century, French fragment containing the end of the text for the Sunday XV after Pentecost followed by the beginning of the introit for Sunday XVI after Pentecost along with fragments of additional texts for Sunday XVI. On the verso are more fragments of texts for Sunday XVI along with the end of the introit for Sunday XVII after Pentecost, a collect and epistle reading and an incipit for the gradual., late protogothic (praegothica) script, 4-line staff with a line for F in red ink, and Uncertain provenance. Probably produced in France in the last quarter of the twelfth century. Possibly loaned to the WMU library school through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974. Now permanently held by Special Collections, Waldo Library. Numerous random inscriptions and scribbles in various late medieval or early modern hands on recto and verso.
- Date Created:
- [1175 TO 1200]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Housed in a modern, mat frame with two windows, 280 x 360 mm, visible on one side only. Leaves were excised from the same manuscript but are not conjugate., 1-line blue and gold initials passim; on leaf I: 2-line blue-and-red pen-flourished initial "M"; on leaf II blank space for a 2-line initial., Fifteenth-century, Italian psalter portion from a Breviary with portions of Psalms 55-56 and 104-105. Not contiguous with text on verso., gothic southern textualis libraria (rotunda), and Probably written in Italy sometime between 1450 and 1500. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio in May of 2003.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1500]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Seventeenth-century brown leather boards; raised bands on spine; spine compartments gold-stamped with acanthus leaf ornaments; gold-stamped black leather spine label, with title “S. Bern. Ser. C.D.” Bound in nine gatherings of 10 leaves each., Fore edge of a 14th century illuminated Latin manuscript from northern Italy, containing sermons written for monks of the Cistercian abbey of Locedio, near Gorizia in Friuli, by Ogier, Abbot of Locedio (and falsely attributed to another Cistercian, St. Bernard of Clairvaux)., and Illegible inscription by former owner (?) in Paris, on inside front cover. Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 2006.
- Date Created:
- [1300 TO 1399]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Housed in a frame (255 x 190mm), one side visible only., 1 line initials alternating blue and red, some with contrasting red or blue pen flourishes. Some initials and decoration fading., Portion of Psalm 26:6-9 from a prayer book with pen flourished initials, some faded., 1 column of 14 lines ruled in lead. Text written in gothic textualis formata., and Origin unknown. Evidence in text - the script and decoration - suggest late 13th - early 14th century. In pencil at the bottom of visible part of leaf: “1300-1350 A.D.” Notes on back of frame: “Religious Service Book” in ink; “Lowrie Collection” in pencil; sticker for Suzanne’s Art Centre, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Loaned by Gethsemani Abbey Library, Kentucky to Western Michigan University Library School through Jean Lowrie in 1974. Now permanently held by Special Collections.
- Date Created:
- [1275 TO 1350]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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; prickings along the outer margin on some leaves; worm holes along the surface and tail of the wooden boards., The lower board of a 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., 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]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Acanthus border in red, green, blue and beige, highlighted with gold; coat of arms; ten line initial depicting St. Bernard; blue-grey lion framed in the acanthus; red, green, blue, and beige initials, A decorated page with an illuminated initial depicting St Bernard lecturing to monks. Ruled in lead; pricked along outer margin; rubricated, and Stamp of Minutoli-Tegrimi family of Lucca nearly effaced. Obtained for Gethsemani Abbey from Davis and Orioli of London in 1926. Abbot Edmund Obrecht's description tipped in on first pastedown
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in twentieth-century brown goatskin over boards., Initials in red, black, green, and yellow. f. 2r. Includes a 3-line decorated initial, Manuscript is two codices bound together. The first is a Cistercian Antiphonary from the mid-twelfth century from Italy and the second is an early thirteenth century hymnal. Selected pages., Pregothic, multiple hands; Hymnal in gothic textualis, Neumes, Belonged to and probably written at the Cistercian Abbey of S. Maria di Morimondo (founded 1134; Cottineau 1985 86), in the vicinity of Milan, Italy. The earliest portions of the manuscript were written before 1174, the date of the canonization of St Bernard of Clairvaux, the antiphons for whose feast were inserted soon after this date (ff. 66 70). This earlier portion seems to have been written by a French scribe. Jean Leclercq lists and describes other Morimondo mss. in 'Manuscrits Cisterciens dans des Bibliothèques d'Italie,' Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis 7 (1951) 71 74; it is evident from his descriptions that later products of this scriptorium were not as austere as this one. The hymnary portion was written by Beltramus de Redoldis (sic; elsewhere Beltramus de Rioldis), a monk of Morimondo, in 1291. Morimondo was suppressed in 1799. Acquired in September, 1770, by Carlo Trivulzio. Trivulzio Belgioioso Trotti collection of Milan; sold to Hoepli (cat. 5); sale by Leavitt (New York, 27 Nov. 1886, no. 47; auction label on front pastedown). Purchased by Charles F. Gunther of Chicago; bequeathed to Historical Society of Chicago. Acquired for Gethsemani Abbey in April, 1922, through the mediation of J. Christian Bay, of the John Crerar Library, Chicago., and Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, Ky.)
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Flesh side distinct from hair side; high quality parchment., Three full-length bar borders of gold with pen florishes supporting foliage; 4-line initial "A" with miniature of St. John in tempera colors and gold. Rubrication in red. Five 2-line initials in gold on a ground of blue or mauve with white tracery. 1-line initials in gold or blue with contrasting pen florishes. Three full-length bar borders of gold with terminal or marginal sprays or scrolling penwork tendrils supporting flowers, foliage, and gold disks. Ink faded on both sides., A leaf from the Llangattock Breviary, which orginally comprised more than 500 leaves. The leaf consists of text from the Actus Apostolorum 2:40 - 3:9. The Breviary was created as a luxury liturgical manuscript for Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Marchese of Ferrara, by illuminator Giorgio d'Almagna and assistants during the years 1441-1448. Leaves from the Llangattock Breviary are among the collections of the following institutions: Harvard, U.C. Berkeley, American Academy in Rome, Michigan State, U. South Carolina, University of Washington, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Dartmouth College, the Louvre Museum, and Museo Schifanoia in Ferrara. Many leaves are still offered for sale in the book trade., 2 columns of 30 lines in brown ink written in Gothic Textualis rotunda., and "All aspects of the leaf--size, format, and illumination--correspond to those of the Missel of Borso d'Este, marquis and then duke of Ferrara (Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Ms W.5.2., lat. 239) and the Breviary was certainly made either for him or his predecessor Leonello and intended, like the Missal, for the ruler's chapel. It is usually identified with the Breviary record in accounts in the d'Este archives as having been illuminated for Leonello by Giorgio d'Alemagna." -- from dealer's description
- Date Created:
- [1441 TO 1448]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Manuscript is a legal opinion in the dispute between the Cistercian abbey of Cambron and the college of canons regular of Collégiale Saint-Vincent de Soignies. The canons had accused the Cistercian monks of illegally occupying land in Sars Moullet. 1 scroll (two membranes stitched end to end) written in charter hand, dark brown ink.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Textual capitals touched in red, 2-line initials in red; Four illustrations in dark brown, red, yellow, and green., Mid-fifteenth century Middle English and Latin prayer roll featuring four illustrations. Part of the personal collection of Mr. Toshiyuki Takamiya, MA, FSA, HoLittD, Professor Emeritus, Keio University., Rounded gothic bookhand, and Composed in England (Tewekesbury?). Purchased by Mr. Takamiya at St. John's Seminary, Wonersh on December 8, 1975 from lot 68.
- Date Created:
- [1435 TO 1450]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in modern red leather in 1993 by Donald Taylor of Toronto, spine lettered in gilt on a black leather label, “Excerpta Legendae Aureae, s. XIII.” Gatherings interleaved by paper stubs, with modern cloth slipcase. Previously “loosely wrapped” in the four folios from a Breviary, removed by the Bergendal Collection and bound separately as MS 161. First and last flyleaves are modern paper., Parchment is soft, and soiled, especially in the lower corners. Original imperfections include uneven lower margins, ff. 4, 14, and 24, and small holes in the lower margins of f. 20, and in the outer margin, f. 26 and 35. Majuscules within the text stroked with red. Red paragraph marks throughout text. Two-line and one-line red initials throughout: f. 38, two-line red initial, highlighted in yellowish-gold., Tail and ff. 25v - 26r of a personal collection of excerpts from the Legenda aurea and seven sermons from the Sermones de tempore, unbound until modern times and protected by a few leaves from another manuscript (MS 161)., Written by two scribes: the first scribe copied ff. 1-26v, outer column (the first text) below the top ruled line in a quick upright gothic noting script, and the second scribe copied the second text, f. 26v, middle of outer column to the end, in a quick heavily-abbreviated gothic bookhand. Ruled in ink throughout with single vertical bounding lines inside, outside and between the columns, horizontal rulings vary: ff. 1-8, with the top, third and bottom two rules full across on most folios, ff. 8v-14v, with the top, third, bottom and fourth from the bottom rules full across, ff. 15-27, with the bottom and penultimate rules full across; ff. 27v-end, with the bottom rule full across, prickings in the three outer margins, with a double row of prickings in the outer margin on ff. 8-14, ff. 1-6v, (justification, 123 x 90-87 mm.), written below the top ruled line in two columns of thirty-eight lines, ff. 7-8, (justification, 130 x 98 mm.), copied below the top line in two columns of twenty-eight lines, ff. 8v-end, (justification, 137-134 x 98-97 mm.), with ff. 8v-30, written in two columns of thirty-three lines and ff. 31-end, in two columns, thirty-two lines., and From dealer description: Based on evidence of the script, manuscript was likely copied at the end of the 13th century or beginning of the 14th century. The script of the first scribe may be on the earlier side of the range dates, but uncertain given the informality of both scripts. Both scribes, use the reversed “c” to abbreviate “con” and a quick form of the abbreviation for “est” (Latin for “is”) which suggest an orgin in Germany, possibliy South Germany. The first scribe varies his layout (justification, number of lines, and ruling pattern), which is a characteristic of an informal, perhaps owner-produced manuscript. Fifteenth century(?) notation, bottom margin of f. 1 in bold gothic ink: "S.de3" in a different hand. Purchased by Joseph Pope (1921-2010) of Toronto from Sam Fogg in 1993. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 579).
- Date Created:
- [1280 TO 1325]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in modern red leather in 1993 by Donald Taylor of Toronto, spine lettered in gilt on a black leather label, “Excerpta Legendae Aureae, s. XIII.” Gatherings interleaved by paper stubs, with modern cloth slipcase. Previously “loosely wrapped” in the four folios from a Breviary, removed by the Bergendal Collection and bound separately as MS 161. First and last flyleaves are modern paper., Parchment is soft, and soiled, especially in the lower corners. Original imperfections include uneven lower margins, ff. 4, 14, and 24, and small holes in the lower margins of f. 20, and in the outer margin, f. 26 and 35. Majuscules within the text stroked with red. Red paragraph marks throughout text. Two-line and one-line red initials throughout: f. 38, two-line red initial, highlighted in yellowish-gold., A personal collection of excerpts from the Legenda aurea and seven sermons from the Sermones de tempore, unbound until modern times and protected by a few leaves from another manuscript (see MS 161). The text begins at the chapter Historia De Sancto Thoma Apostolo. The excerpts from the Legenda aurea (the Golden Legend) reference the Maggioni edition. The “Golden Legend” or the “Legend of the Saints” was said to have been the most frequently copied text during the Middle Ages apart from the Bible due to its production at University centers, and its use as a standard text in Dominican houses of study. The Sermones de tempore was one of three collections of model sermons based on the liturgical year by Jacobus, and used as sources for sermons by preachers across Europe., Written by two scribes: the first scribe copied ff. 1-26v, outer column (the first text) below the top ruled line in a quick upright gothic noting script, and the second scribe copied the second text, f. 26v, middle of outer column to the end, in a quick heavily-abbreviated gothic bookhand. Ruled in ink throughout with single vertical bounding lines inside, outside and between the columns, horizontal rulings vary: ff. 1-8, with the top, third and bottom two rules full across on most folios, ff. 8v-14v, with the top, third, bottom and fourth from the bottom rules full across, ff. 15-27, with the bottom and penultimate rules full across; ff. 27v-end, with the bottom rule full across, prickings in the three outer margins, with a double row of prickings in the outer margin on ff. 8-14, ff. 1-6v, (justification, 123 x 90-87 mm.), written below the top ruled line in two columns of thirty-eight lines, ff. 7-8, (justification, 130 x 98 mm.), copied below the top line in two columns of twenty-eight lines, ff. 8v-end, (justification, 137-134 x 98-97 mm.), with ff. 8v-30, written in two columns of thirty-three lines and ff. 31-end, in two columns, thirty-two lines., and From dealer description: Based on evidence of the script, manuscript was likely copied at the end of the 13th century or beginning of the 14th century. The script of the first scribe may be on the earlier side of the range dates, but uncertain given the informality of both scripts. Both scribes, use the reversed “c” to abbreviate “con” and a quick form of the abbreviation for “est” (Latin for “is”) which suggest an orgin in Germany, possibliy South Germany. The first scribe varies his layout (justification, number of lines, and ruling pattern), which is a characteristic of an informal, perhaps owner-produced manuscript. Fifteenth century(?) notation, bottom margin of f. 1 in bold gothic ink: "S.de3" in a different hand. Purchased by Joseph Pope (1921-2010) of Toronto from Sam Fogg in 1993. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 579).
- Date Created:
- [1280 TO 1325]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Modern limp vellum binding, with two pairs of fastening vellum ties., Front cover of a processional containing music primarily for chants for the Temporale. Cover includes leather pegs for thongs attachment and the uneven pages of the fore-edge., 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.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Eighteenth-century binding of smooth tawed leather over cardboard with three sewing support, green and white endbands, label in brown ink at head of spine reading “Semon | es Sancti | Ca’sarij.” Imprints and holes remaining on front and back cover from two ties, the traces of which are visible through paper pastedowns. Some concave warping of boards and discoloration and/or staining of cover and pastedowns. Paper bookplate on inner pastedown of the Bibliothèque du Plessis-Villoutreys including escutcheon with crown above and motto “Dis peu Fais mieux” below. Minor buckling in the first three leaves due to tight binding., Fore edge of a small miscellany of texts of various sermons which feature many marginal drawings and notae., and Written in several hands at the end of the 14th century or beginning of the 15th century in southern France, possibly Avignon, as suggested by the style of the initials, and to a lesser extend the script, which features some elements borrowed from the Papal Chancery, then in Avignon. Datable between 1369 (it includes a papal bull by Urban V (r. 1362-70) issued on 4 April 1369) and ca. 1400. Given the inclusion of the rule of St. Augustine and Hugh of St. Victor’s commentary on the Rule, the codex was likely made for one of the many groups of canons or monks who followed this Rule, including Augustinian Hermits (Agustin Friars), Dominicans, Praemonstratensians, Trinitarians, Regular Canons, and others. Evidence of the first sixteen sermons (ff. 1-80) by Clements VII link the manuscript to the Celestine priory established in 1392. A bookplate of the Bibliothèque du Plessis-Villoutreys indicates ownership by the Marquis de Villoutreys, probably in the last quarter of the 19th century. Possibly part of a private European Collection at some point. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collection from Les Enluminures (TM 992).
- Date Created:
- [1369 TO 1400]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Contemporary dyed red calf over wooden boards; blind-stamped rhomboid (diamond-shaped) centerpiece within triple-ruled blind rectangular borders on upper and lower boards; center rhomboids each contain four small blind-stamped cloverleaf medallions within double borders; remnants of two pair of brass clasps and catches; vellum pastedowns; missing spine reveals three double rows of sewing bands in heavy cord. In light tan cloth-covered clamshell box; gold-stamped brown calf box label: “Brevier. Handschrift um 1490.”, The front cover of a German breviary in Latin, for use by the Dominicans containing prayers for Mass, and the Office of the Dead (Dominican Rite). Cover features a blind-stamped diamond-shaped centerpiece, the remnants of a pair of brass clasps, and missing spine revealing sewing structure., and Date suggested by style of handwriting and capital flourishes, and by calendar arrangement: i.e., ms. includes feasts of St. Dionysius and the Conception of the Virgin as single celebrations, first celebrated as such in 1481 and 1491, respectively; but lacks the observance of the feast of St. Servatius as a single celebration, a practice which dates from 1498, thus suggesting possible range of dates between 1481 and 1498. Joint purchase with the Newberry Library, Chicago (Newberry Library call number Case MS 198), 2003.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Textual capitals touched in red, 2-line initials in red; Four illustrations in dark brown, red, yellow, and green., Middle English explanation for the origins of the prayer roll., Rounded gothic bookhand, and Composed in England (Tewekesbury?). Purchased by Mr. Takamiya at St. John's Seminary, Wonersh on December 8, 1975 from lot 68.
- Date Created:
- [1435 TO 1450]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Secured to a modern, mat board with two small threads; visible one side only., Thirteenth-century, Italian document in Latin, signed in the old archiepiscopal palace in the presence of the Bishop of Lodi and other named abbots, canons, and a priests from Milan and Verona recording the transfer to the Dominicans in Milan of the church of St. Eustorgius and its surrounds in Verona. Signed by the Archbishop and the scribe Jacobus., pregothic Italian documentary script, and Produced in Milan and dated, "1220 8 ante Kal. Novembris" in a near-contemporary hand along the top, Post-medieval inscriptions on dorse: "signature autographa Henrici Septula an. 1220 v. Saxii Archi. Med. Serias To: II. p. 650 de Puricelli Dissert. Nazar. p. 559"; an earlier inscription just below reads, "1220 8 ante Kal..." (all else is illegible); possibly in the library of Giovanni Pietro Puricelli (d. 1695). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, June, 2008.
- Date Created:
- 1220-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Housed in a modern, mat frame with two windows, 280 x 360 mm, visible on one side only. Leaves were excised from the same manuscript but are not conjugate., 1-line blue and gold initials passim; on leaf I: 2-line blue-and-red pen-flourished initial "M"; on leaf II blank space for a 2-line initial., Fifteenth-century, Italian psalter portion from a Breviary with portions of Psalms 55-56 and 104-105. Not contiguous with text on verso., gothic southern textualis libraria (rotunda), and Probably written in Italy sometime between 1450 and 1500. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio in May of 2003.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1500]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in an unusual binding, probably contemporary, made from two pieces of brown leather, sewn together horizontally, which is stitched over pasteboards formed from ten leaves from other manuscripts (now partially visible at the top, front, and along the fore edge, back). The leather turn-ins are covered with a paper leaf, now fragmentary, in the front, and by leather in the back. Part of this leather is broken off, and is now laid in, sewn on three leather bands, stitched through the inside of the covers in a “v” pattern. Lighter brown leather (sheepskin?) spine, probably later, with three raised bands with the title in gilt between the first and second in a gold square, “Regl de S. Benoit Manuscr 13 Sciecl [sic].” Remains of leather tie, front cover, with a hole in the back cover, presumably from another tie, now missing, and showing considerable wear, including a second small hole in the back cover near the spine, and with corners and some edges of the leather covers worn away. Middle of each gathering reinforced with parchment strips from another manuscript., The codex containing the Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Bernard Ayglerius (d. 1282), Abbot of Monte Cassino, open to show gothic cursive text on cockled paper. Leather of the cover worn and at the corners, showing the underlying “boards” made of 10 leaves from other manuscripts., and From dealer description: Written in the later decades of the 15th century, probably ca. 1480-1500, in central or southwestern France, as indicated by the style of the script and the watermark. Popular in 15th century Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries, the text is likely copied for a monastic library. Only one sale of this text is listed in the Schoenberg Database. Medieval shelf-mark, bottom margin, ff. 1 and 83, “B 63,” in both cases preceded by four erased words, “C de C.” Armorial bookplate, front flyleaf for the Bibliothèque de Monseir le Baron de Caix de Saint-Aymour,” with motto, “Fortior in adversis.” the Baron Amédée Caix de Saint Aymour was the mayor of Corbie (1863-1920), educated at the l’Ecole des chartes and at the l’Ecoles des langues orientales. Octagonal paper label on front cover edged in blue from 19th century French book deal, “Manuscript, 13ième siècle.” Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 432).
- Date Created:
- [1480 TO 1500]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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., The upper cover and chain attachment of an early fifteenth-century manuscript of Nicholas of Lyra’s commentaries on nine Old Testament books, made for institutional use., 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.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1475]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Modern limp vellum binding, with two pairs of fastening vellum ties., Front cover of a processional containing music primarily for chants for the Temporale. Cover includes leather pegs where thongs clamped book closed., 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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- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Secured to a modern, mat board with two small threads; visible one side only., Thirteenth-century, Italian document in Latin, signed in the old archiepiscopal palace in the presence of the Bishop of Lodi and other named abbots, canons, and a priests from Milan and Verona recording the transfer to the Dominicans in Milan of the church of St. Eustorgius and its surrounds in Verona. Signed by the Archbishop and the scribe Jacobus., pregothic Italian documentary script, and Produced in Milan and dated, "1220 8 ante Kal. Novembris" in a near-contemporary hand along the top, Post-medieval inscriptions on dorse: "signature autographa Henrici Septula an. 1220 v. Saxii Archi. Med. Serias To: II. p. 650 de Puricelli Dissert. Nazar. p. 559"; an earlier inscription just below reads, "1220 8 ante Kal..." (all else is illegible); possibly in the library of Giovanni Pietro Puricelli (d. 1695). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, June, 2008.
- Date Created:
- 1220-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Housed in a modern, mat frame with two windows, 280 x 360 mm, visible on one side only. Leaves were excised from the same manuscript but are not conjugate., 1-line blue and gold initials passim; on leaf I: 2-line blue-and-red pen-flourished initial "M"; on leaf II blank space for a 2-line initial., Fifteenth-century, Italian psalter portion from a Breviary with portions of Psalms 55-56 and 104-105. Not contiguous with text on verso., gothic southern textualis libraria (rotunda), and Probably written in Italy sometime between 1450 and 1500. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio in May of 2003.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1500]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Catchword partially cropped on the lower margin of f. 162v., 16th century gilt-tooled arabesque binding or pasteboard, with small marks on edges of boards where clasps were once attached. Binding damaged. Stub of missing leaf between ff. 10v - 11r., On f. 54r: 4-line historiated initial in pink enclosing the Virgin and St. Anne on gold grounds, with a three-quarter decorated board derived from a depiction of the acanthus plant containing occasional hairline foliage and vines, and flowers in gold, and fruit. Some names in the calendar are written in gold. Long ornamental cadelles extending into the top and lower margins, some with skilled caricatures of human faces. Rubricated in red, blue and gold. A 1-line initial in gold on pink and blue grounds with white penwork with line fillers of bars or flower heads on same line. 2-line initials in blue or pink on gold enclosing foliage or colored balls or flowers or foliage or fruit on grounds of gold. On f. 36r: 3-line inital in blue with white penwork, enclosing pink and blue foliage with white penwork, on a ground of gold. On f. 51v and 108v: foliate motif border in outer margin derived from a depiction of the acanthus plant containing occasional hairline foliage and vines, and flowers in gold. On f. 157r: 2-line initial in blue with white penwork, enclosing a strawberry, on ground of gold. On f. 74r-v and f. 77v., outline impression of an initial and foliage border. Many pages have black, red, and blue ink stains. Gold and paint in the initials flaking from some leaves. On f. 8, the top of leaf is cropped with loss of text., A Book of Hours containing a calendar (missing calendar leaves for January and February); Gospel Readings followed by prayers; the Hours of the Virgin; the Penitential Psalms, followed by prayers and a Litany; the Hours of the Cross; the Office of the Dead; the Sulfrages to the Saints, followed by a single prayer which a blue rubric announces. Initials through out are illuminated, and one initial is historiated with a miniature of the Virgin and St. Anne., 1 column of 13 lines ruled in red written in lettre batarde., and “1542” on last main text leaf possibly indicating the precise date of the binding.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries