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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 cover of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Cover shows a brass and leather strap-and-pin faster and stamped ornamentation., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1469]
- 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., Spine and upper cover 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. Spine label in gilt reads “Fragmentum Breviarii, s. XIII.”, 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
- Notes:
- Catchwords occasionally on the verso, passim., Bound in contemporary blind-tooled reddish brown calf over wooden boards. Leather stamped with a central panel of ogival lozenges, each enclosing a central botanical stamp. The whole framed by multiple blind rules and by a broad border of vines and flowers. Original brass bosses and clasps on corner and center of both covers. Two pairs of claps on fore edge catching on upper cover. Tooling includes central panel and rosette and vine-like patterns. Both boards damaged by worms., 1 and 2 line initials in red passim, some with flourishing extending into the margin. 6 to 8 line pen flourished initials in red passim, with extensive pen flourishes extending into the margins. Cross symbols in red passim throughout text. Major divisions of text are marked by leather tabs. Rubricated in red., Decorated manuscript in latin with contemporary blindpressed calf over wooden boards, with original corner and center bosses. Contents include: an index (f. 1r-v); the Propers for masses of major feasts of the temporal cycle: Nativity, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi, followed by selections from the ordinary mass (ff. 2-17); a prayer Orate fraters beginning f. 18v as orate fraters et sorores, likely a reference to the canonesses of Diessen; Cannon of mass (ff. 24-37); and select prayers for dedication of the church, for the Virgin, for peace, against the plague, for sinners, several for the dead, for alms, and three orations for mass which commemorates St. Rasso (ff. 39-56). First folio contains a table of contents and is missing lower corner with partial loss of text., 1 column of 20 lines ruled in lead with single boundary lines and written in gothic textualis script. Text on ff. 24r-37v, written in larger gothic textualis script in 12 lines long., and Internal evidence, in particular the commemoration of St. Rasso, a local count (d. 954) of Diessen-Andechs, suggests the manuscripts was produced in the monastery of the Augustinian canons regular at Diessen (Cottineau 1: 964) at the southern end of Ammersee. Dated “1491” in contemporary hand on f. 1v. Sold to Phillip J. Pirages by a dealer in German sometime before 1993. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books in 1993.
- Date Created:
- 1491-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Interlinear glossing, marginal annotations, and schemata., Presumably used as a rear pastedown; discoloration from paste visible in upper, outer, and lower margins on the verso., paraphs, schemata, and a maniculum in red; 1-line, blue initial with red pen-flourishes on recto, Twelfth- to thirteenth-century, French portion (chapters 39-54) of Liber sex principiorum, the commentary on the last six classes in the tenfold schema elaborated in Aristotle's Categories--the first of his works on logic. The portion here deals with place and time. CPMA, 1:43.39-54. Popularly attributed to Gilbertus Porreta, Bishop of Poitiers (d. 1154). Extensive interlinear glossing, marginal annotations and schemata. Numerous manicula., compact, slightly rounded, highly abbreviated gothic textualis libraria; marginal annotation in a compact gothic cursiva anquitor, and Produced towards the end of the twelfth century or the first half of the thirteenth century, probably in France. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, May, 2010.
- Date Created:
- [1175 TO 1250]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- 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
- Notes:
- Excised from a larger manuscript. Worm holes throughout leaf with minimal loss of text. Very thin parchment. Stub of conjugate leaf is present. Leaf is slightly distorted because of the puckering of the parchment., Capitals and paragraph marks touched in red. Text is heavily abbreviated. On verso, text on lower inner column smudged with some loss of text., A decree probably from a document once containing the whole Constitutiones Clementinae. The Exivi de Paradiso was enacted at the final session of the Council of Vienne on 6 May 1312. The text of the leaf corresponds to paragraphs 10 - 14 which starts with an explaination that friars cannot have gardens, vineyards or large churches, only humble and modest buildings. From dealer description: This leaf contains a substantial part of the Exivi de paradiso, the document in which Clement V extended papal acknowledgement and his personal affect towards the newly founded Franciscan Order (Clement V noting that since a youth the “professors of this kind of rule” have inflamed his pious devotion), and setting out the guidelines of asethetic poverty for them., 2 columns of 38 lines ruled in brown ink written in rounded early Gothic book hand, possibly influenced by university script., and The parent codex was presumably produced at the time of the Council of Vienne or soon after, perhaps in Vienne itself, for a wealthy Franciscan community.
- Date Created:
- [1300 TO 1350]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Added marginalia includes brief notes, and fists., 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., On f. 1r: a large, rather primitive, illuminated initial “P” in brown, on a 7-line square gold background, with 14-line trailing descender; body of the letter contains a drawing of a golden Host, displaying a white crucifix on a white background, and standing on a table or altar decorated in blue, red, green, white, and gold, outlined in black; in the lower margin of the same leaf, is a thick gold illuminated monogram “YHS” on a blue background, with colored leaves roughly-drawn on either side; the logo “Charitas” has been added in a later hand below the monogram; alternating red and blue 2-line capitals throughout text, with light brown or red penwork; red and blue line indicators; first 37 leaves foliated in red; catchwords in black, Fourteenth-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). Ogier (also Ogerius, Oglerius, Ogerio) originally from Trino, Italy, served as a papal legate as well, mediating disputes between northern Italian cities. These sermons on the Last Supper, like Ogier’s treatise on the Virgin Mary, had already been translated into German at the charterhouse in Senales (Italy) by the 15th century, and influenced the Christian mysticism of scholars such as Heinrich Seuse. The manuscript represents one of the very few examples of a separate transmission of the sermons, which, most of the time, were passed down as part of the work of Pseudo-Bernardus, or in other collections. The two leaves of catechism lists (88v-90v), following the sermons, include descriptions of the twelve apostles, the ten commandments, the sacraments of the Church, the seven deadly sins, and seven acts of charity; several leaves have worm damage; yellowed parchment pasted on the verso with no loss of text., Text (1 column of 22 lines per page ruled in fading lead point) carefully written in an elegant small pre-humanistic rotunda script, in brown ink; ink flaking from f. 1r with some loss of text; foliated in Roman Numerals on top recto of each leaf in a different hand in red, some numbering has smudged., 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:
- 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., Top 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.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Leaf was excised from a larger manuscript with cuts visible from previous binding. The leaf has suffered some water damage at the lower edge and is trimmed at the outer margin. Thin parchment likely prepared for a book that was meant to include all of the Bible in a single volume., Each new chapter is marked in the margin by a roman numeral in alternating red and blue letters (IX and X on the recto and XI on the verso). Each chapter begins on a new line, with a pen-flourished 4-line initial in the margin, alternating red with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing. The text was systematically corrected by a scribe using an ink darker than that of the main text. There is a running head of "DA" on the verso and "NI" on the recto alternating red and blue. Text is written below the top line. The script displays many of the defining features of Northern Textualis, including fusion in the combinations be, de, do, ho, oc, og, oq, pe, and po, elision of cc and pp, use of round (2-shaped) r following o and p, use of the st ligature (and only the st ligature), and use of Tironian et (uncrossed, with the foot turning slightly to the right) indicating a library book script of moderately rapid execution. One feature--the tall, decorated ascenders on the top line of characters--is by Derolez's definition never found in a script of the highest, orformata, grade. Ink flaking from the fleshside with minimal loss of text., Leaf possibly from a Parisian Bible, from Daniel 8:9-10:3 (recto) and Daniel 10:3-11:31 (verso)., 2 columns of 63 lines written in Gothic Northern Textualis, similar to pearl script, ruled in lead with double bounding verticals (4 mm) and intercolumnation of 4 + 4 mm., and Evidence in the text, the manuscript, the quality of the parchment, the script, and the mise-en-page all point to the leaf’s origin as part of a complete Bible copied in Paris in the thirteenth century, the place and time of the golden age of manuscript Bible production. Accompanying documentation notes the leaf was exhibited at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in December 1965, at which time it was in the collection of the Lima (Ohio) Public Library. It had formerly been in the collection of the Cleveland manuscript collector and book seller Otto F. Ege (1888-1951).
- Date Created:
- [1200 TO 1299]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- In modern limp vellum, smooth spine, title in blue and red ink on spine; armorial stamp of Comte Chandon de Briailles on front and back covers; sewing along the lower margin where the parchment was mended, 2-line blue initial with contrasting pen florishes in red extending into the margins; paragraph marks alternating red and blue; rubricated in red; capitals touched in red; foliated in Roman Numerals on the recto of each leaf; text written around a mended cut in parchment, A treatise on the Virtues and Vices that includes an eighteenth-century forgery of its medieval provenance open to leaves 28v-29r marked with a green ribbon., 2 columns of 33 lines ruled in light lead; written in gothic cursive, and Written, probably in Italy, in the late 14th or early 15th century. From the book-label: au Cte. Chandon de Briailles. mss. 68. Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 2011.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries