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- 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.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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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
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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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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- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- 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