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- 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., Upper board of a treatise on the Virtues and Vices that includes an eighteenth-century forgery of its medieval provenance. Modern cover wrapped in leather and stamped with a Comte Chandon de Briailles in the center., 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.
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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. 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., Staves and headings in red; text and notes in sepia, with 21 two line capitals and 48 single line initials in red or blue with alternate red or blue florishes infill. Pages lacking at end. Ink flaking from all leaves, front and back. Rubricated in red., Two gatherings from a fifteenth-century portable antiphonary from Spain, containing text and musical score for chants for the Catholic liturgy for Palm Sunday., 1 column of 7 lines alternating text and 5 line staves; large-format text in gothic hand, interspersed with partial and full pages of music in square notation., Full pages of square music notation in 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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- 16th century gilt-tooled arabesque binding or pasteboard, with small marks on edges of boards where clasps were once attached. Binding damaged., Upper cover of a Book of Hours containing containing a calendar, gospel readings and litany., and “1542” on last main text leaf perhaps indicating the precise date of the binding.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Bound in vellum over boards., Written in Gothic textualis, with initials in red, blue, and purple., Colored initials with penwork., Gothic textualis, and Property stamp of Gethsemani Abbey on recto of fol. 1.
- Date Created:
- [1470 TO 1487]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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., Two 2-line intials in red with simple red pen florishes. Paragraph markers in red. A few small worm holes in the margins. Modern foliation in pencil top outer corner recto. All leaves are darkened and soiled, although ff. 1-2 are legible, especially at the edges. F. 3 damaged in the inner margin with some loss of text, part of f. 3 and ff. 3v-4v are mostly illegible due to damp. Prickings top margin. Majuscules touched in red., A small personal collection of excerpts unbound until modern times, and which once protected the leaves of MS 160, open to ff. 2v-3r. The original structure is uncertain and missing an unknown number of leaves between f. 2 and f. 3., 2 columns of about 32-33 lines in mostly undetectable ruling. Traces of single vertical bounding lines in ink or lead remain between the columns. Written by two scribes in a gothic bookhand., 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]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Bound in post-medieval limp vellum. Two parchment ties on the fore edge, now broken. Collation is erratic with numberous excisions and repairs to gatherings; the manuscript may have been made up originally of odds and ends of parchment, the situation being further confused by modern rebinding, loss of leaves, and probably excisions of illuminations., Rubricated in red. 1-line blue and red initials throughout text. 2-line blue and red initials with occasional purple pen flourishes passim., A book of devotions which includes various psalms and an illuminated initial at the begining of Psalm 70, open to ff. 57v - 58r. Folios feature gothic text and 1 to 2 line initials in red or blue with pen flourishes., 1 column of 11-12 lines ruled sporadically in dry point and lead with several gatherings at the end made up of parchment ruled for another purpose. Text written in gothic textualis formata., and Written in Italy in the 14th century. Possibly Augustinian canon origin: Saint Augustine is singled out among the bishops and confessors as “Peter Augustine.” In the 18th century, codex belonged to Jehan de Montagu based on inscriptions on f. 54r and f. 96r. Notation in margins in pencil noting psalm chapters (modern, not vulgate). Obtained by Jean Roos from Otto F. Ege of Cleveland Ohio at an unknown date. Given to Western Michigan University by Jean Roos on 25th anniversary of the founding of WMU School of Librarianship in 1970.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Corrections in the margin on some leaves., 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., Some majuscules touched in yellow. Red paragraph marks and rubrics throughout. Two-to-one line red initials with elaborate cursive flourishing., The Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Bernard Ayglerius (d. 1282), Abbot of Monte Cassino. Copied widely in the 15th century, especially in Germany and Austria, this copy has an unusual binding made of leaves from other manuscripts. The Rule of St. Benedict, written in the 6th century, was the foundational document for the life in Benedictine monasteries thorugh the Middle Ages. Commentaries on the Rule, like this text, were an important part of the education of monastic novices. Stain from damp on lower corner of f. 79 to end. Wormhole in upper margin of f. 81 to end, with no damage to text. The paper is watermarked with St. Catherine’s wheel, similiar to Briquet 13290, Périgord, 1491; cf. also Briquet 13252, Decizes 1499; 13275, Bourg 1496; and 13281, Châteaudun, 1540., 1 column of 27-30 lines in blind ruling with full length bounding lines (justification: 110-107 x 80-75 mm) written in a cursive gothic bookhand., 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. This text was very popular in 15th century Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries, and is likely copied for a monastic library. Only one sale of this text is listed in the Schoenberg Database. The manuscript is bound in what appears to be its original binding, an inexpensive binding assempled from pieces of leather sewn together to form the cover with “boards” assembled from ten paper leaves, and reused from other 14th or 15th century manuscripts. 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
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- Holes visible from gathering stitching., On verso: A historiated initial “I” (In diebus unus) opens the book of Ruth and depicts an upright Ruth holding the sheaves in the crook of her left arm, while with her right arm she points to a blue dragon curling above her. A green dragon extends downwards below her feet. The tails of both dragons are flecked with gold leaf. 1-line Roman Numeral chapter number in the margin alternating red and blue with pen flourishes on recto and verso., A single leaf from a Bible with text from Judges 20:35 - Ruth 2:14., 2 column of about 50 lines per column, ruled in plummet in Pregothic or textualis rotunda script., and Produced in France, c. 1230, possibly in a workshop that specialized in moralized bibles. According to the seller, the ornament, figure style, and details of the historiated initial are closest to a number of manuscripts that Robert Branner has grouped around “Leber 6,” a Psalter (Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale). If this is correct, then the leaf came from the same workshop responsible for the Vienna moralized bible; however, additional research needs to be done. Purchased in 2013 from Boyd Mackus, The Mackus Company, Springfield, Illinois, by Special Collections, Waldo Library.
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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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- 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