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- Modern limp vellum binding, with two pairs of fastening vellum ties., Fore-edge of a processional containing music primarily for chants for the Temporale. Back cover with attached leather fastenings., 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
102. Book of Hours, spine
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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., The spine, with three raised bands, of a book of devotions which includes various psalms and an illuminated initial at the begining of Psalm 70., 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
103. Two Breviary Leaves
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- 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
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- Fragment of the Bible used for bookbinding. Fragment was recovered from reuse between sewing stations around spine of book and hence folded with scuffs. Worm holes in margin with no loss of text., Some diagonal pen-strokes probably recording the marking up of the manuscript for breathing during lectures. There is a small correction in near-comtemporary hand. Text on the recto is completely faded., A binding fragment with the remnants of 5 lines of text from Matthew 25:33-35., Remnants of 5 lines in unknown ruling written in German minuscule with pre-Caroline minuscule elements., and Et-ligature used internally within words indicating a ninth century date.
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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. The original structure is uncertain and missing an unknown number of leaves between f. 2 and f. 3. The four leaves are from a monastic breviary and include the following feasts: Barbara (4 December), beginning imperfectly; Lucy (13 December); Apostle Thomas (21 December), Agnes (21 January), beginning imperfectly; Vincent (22 January); Conversion of Paul (25 January); second feast of Agnes (28 January), short fragment, ending imperfectly., 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. Belonged 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
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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., Fore edge 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.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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).
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
108. Preces Monialis
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- 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:
- Excised from a larger manuscript. Housed in a mat frame (255 x 205 mm) with dealer’s prospectus on back of the mat frame., 1-line illuminated initial on a ground of blue with a rinceaux design in blue and red extending into the margin. Rubricated in red. 1-line intials alternating red and blue with contrasting pen flourishes in red or blue. On recto, text of the first line rubric has faded completely. Large initial "D" on recto opens a prayer. Prickings in the inner margin., Leaf from a Book of Hours with text opening to devotional prayers petitioning for Saint Anthony’s intercession., 1 column of 15 lines ruled in red ink written in Northern Textualis Gothic script. Change of hands on verso., and Purchased from Boyd Mackus of the Mackus Company, Springfield, Illinois, by Western Michigan University Special Collections, (M3404E).
- Date Created:
- [1500 TO 1599]
- 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., Upper cover, tail and fore edge 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., 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