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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 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
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- Traces of earlier sewing slits appear in the middle margin, along the fold of the bifolium, possibily from the original binding. “Framed sometime before 1979, removed from frame 5-21-2010.” --from dealer description., On f. 1v, 5 line illuminated inital “B” on a field of gold, enclosing white floral pattern on a field of blue. Illumintated three-quarter border with sprays of light brown ivy and bezants on hairline stems and with fruit and flowers forms. Gold flaking from initial and bezants. Single line initials in gold and blue throughout text. Rubricated in red. On f. 1r and f. 2v, 2 line initial in blue., One bifolum from a Book of Hours in Dutch featuring illuminated marginal decoration and initial., 1 column of 18 lines ruled in drypoint and written in gothic texutalis libraria. Pricking in outer margins., and Produced in Flanders in the 15th century. Sticker on the back of frame readers “The Bonfoey Co... Clevelend, O.” Loaned to WMU Library School through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974, and now permanently held by Special Collections.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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