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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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:
- 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., Leather spine of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Spine worn to the binding structure underneath including the headband., 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:
- 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., Text in black ink, 18 lines per page with headings, superscript corrections and underlining in red; 2 line inital initial in text on f. 8v, and 3 line initial in margin on 9r with single line intials alternating red and blue in text. On f. 8v, a catchword in brown and circled in red., Manual or office book compiled for the Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers open to ff. 8v-9r. Parchment stay between the gatherings., Gothic liturgical book hand, 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:
- 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 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 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., 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:
- Bound in tooled sixteenth-century calf over boards. Metal bosses and clasps lacking, portions of leather straps remain, fastening back to front., f. 62v: Simple black ink drawing of rising sun, washed with red, blue, yellow, and green. Initials: 1- to 8-line crudely drawn pen flourished initials in red, blue, and green passim, one-line single color initials in red passim., Fifteenth or early sixteenth-century German prayerbook for nuns containing meditations and prayers based on office and mass texts of the Easter and Easter season liturgy in Latin and Eastfalian, a dialect of Low German spoken near the River Elbe., Written in various hands, primarily in gothic hybrida, gothic cursiva after f. 361r., and Written for private devotion in a Cistercian convent in the fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Vernacular was initially identified as Ripuarian Low German with Rhenish influences, characteristic to the upper Rhineland; see Waddell, "The Vidi aquam and the Easter Morning Procession: Pages from the Prayerbook of a Fifteenth-Century Cistercian Nun," Liturgy OCSO 21:3 (1987), 4-5. This identification has been clarified as Eastfalian, a dialect spoken in the area around the River Elbe. The convent in which it was written is with high probability the Cistercian convent Medingen near Lüneburg where more than a dozen parallel Easter prayer-books were written, identified by Dr. Henrike Laehnemann in correspondence on March 29, 2012. Folios 241v-242v feature a lengthy colophon, "Scripto et finito libro... Gaudia mansura confert nobis hic dies iubilosa et diliciosa." Given by J. Christian Bay to the Abbey of Gethsemani in the early twentieth century; front pastedown notes: "Gift from our good friends, Mr. J. Christian Bay, Chicago Ill."
- 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 boards and fore-edge of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Edge shows a brass and leather strap-and-pin faster. Parchment showing cockling., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1469]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries