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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; 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
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- 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
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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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- 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