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- Bound in sixteenth-century blind tooled leather over boards, five brass bosses and corners and a single plate for a clasp remains on lower board., fol. 2r: A three quarter border, sides and bottom of page, ornamental foliage, birds, urns, cameo portraits, including a portrait of the Abbess Mechtilde, and the coat of arms of the Abbess or the abbey; on fol. 36v, 51r, and 110r: full frame floral borders, inhabited by various birds and insects, fol. 110r features a cameo portrait of a man in the upper border and one of a woman in the lower. Initials: fol. 2r: five-line historiated initial "A" in gold containing a depiction of the appearance of the Virgin to St Bernard; fol. 110r: four-line historiated initial "V" depicting Joseph in the well; one- to four-line decorated initials passim, often vegetative forms, some inhabited by human figures or birds; one-line black pen initials with painted infillings passim, one-line single color initials in blue and red passim., Gothic textualis, Produced for Abbess Mechtilde de Lechy of Herkenrode (Cottineau I, 1403), diocese of Liège, in 1544: "Anno a partu virgineo millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo quarto hunc librum conscribi fecit veneabilis domina, domina Mechtildis de Lechy, suo tempore abatissa huius monasterii de Herkenrode." Ownership inscription on f. 165v: "Libero Beate Marie de Herkenrode." Mechtilde was also responsible for the Abbey's stained glass window of the Virgin and St Bernard, resembling the depiction on f. 2r; Archologia, 108 (1986), 198. The MS, with its companion volume, likely remained at Herkenrode until the Abbey's suppression in 1796., The MSS were transferred to the Abbey of Sept-Fons (Cottineau II, 3011), Allier, France. Volumes I and II shelf marked 20 (Vol. II) and 21 (Vol. I), bookplates for the abbey on front pastedowns, library stamps on f. 1r in Vol. I and f. 2r in Vol. II., and Acquired for the Abbey of Gethsemani before 1935, Abbot Edmond Obrecht's descriptions tipped in on the front pastedowns.
- Date Created:
- 1544-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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 fore edge, upper cover, and tail of a book of devotions which includes various psalms and an illuminated initial at the begining of Psalm 70. Two parchment ties on the fore edge, now broken., 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.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Housed in a modern mat frame (281 x 355 mm). Bulla missing, holes for seal cords visible. Parchment tie still attached to lower corner., 2-line, pen-flourished "A" opens the text; other single color, single line, pen-flourished initials passim., Thirteenth-century, Italian papal bull addressed to the Cisterican Abbey of Jouy-en-Brie (Cottineau 1:1492) giving permission to celebrate divine office in their remote farms and places which are not easily accessible to parish churches., papal documentary script, and Produced in Rome and dated 22 May 1257 in the document. An 11-word French inscription along the top: "Bulle de pape..." Inscriptions on the dorse: "Alexander Pape Bulle_Jouy" and an illegible medieval inscription. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio in May of 2003.
- Date Created:
- 1257-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Watermark on f. 7v, cropped and enlarged, from 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]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Contemporary brown leather boards; two concentric double blind-ruled borders, filled with blind-stamped shell and flower ornaments; diapered center panel, lozenges of which contain blind-stamped flower and eagle ornaments; brass and leather strap-and-pin fastener; front and back pastedowns are vellum 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., Front leather boards and fore-edge of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Edge shows a brass and leather strap-and-pin faster. Parchment showing cockling., 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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- 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., The upper board 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). Cover is covered in leather with raised bands on spine., 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
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- Modern limp vellum binding, with two pairs of fastening vellum ties., Spine of a processional containing music primarily for chants for the Temporale., 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.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 16th century gilt-tooled arabesque binding or pasteboard, with small marks on edges of boards where clasps were once attached. Binding damaged., Spine, upper cover and tail of a Book of Hours containing a calendar, gospel readings and litany., and “1542” on last main text leaf perhaps indicating the precise date of the binding.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Leaf excised from a larger manuscript., 5-line decorated initial in blue on red, enclosing foliage and strawberry, with gold pen florishes. Three-quarter border of acanthus motif in gold, blue, green and red, partially cropped. Rubric in red., Text begins with a prepartory prayer before the Sacramental Confession, from the Paradisus Animae. Text at the enlarged inital begins the Obsecro te (I beseech Thee) prayer, a prayer to the Virgin., 1 column of 25 lines ruled in red ink and written in Cursiva Formata (bastarda) script., and "acq. Ex gold S.L. '65" --from dealership description. Accompanying documentation notes the leaf was purchased by Tom Krol from David Grath in early 1980s. The inclusion of the latter prayer, Obsecro te, helps date this manuscript fragment to the late 15th century.
- Date Created:
- [1400 TO 1499]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Leaf was excised from a larger manuscript; stub of conjugate leaf still visible., 2-line blue and red pen-flourished initials and blue and red paraphs., Thirteenth-century, French glossed bible leaf with the Latin Vulgate, Luke 4:25-31 and a Glossa ordinaria., early gothic textualis formata; the gloss text in littera glossularis, and Produced in France in the early part of the thirteenth century. Markings on the recto: "B8" in lower right corner and "79" in upper right corner, both in pencil. Markings on verso: "hm 66/db11" in upper left corner, "10672a9R10S0/25T" in lower left corner and "$1,250, Bible Paris, c1220-30" in lower middle margin, all in pencil. Purchased from Phillip J. Pirages, McMinnville, Oregon by Special Collections, Waldo Library November in 2006.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
