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- Bound in twentieth-century brown goatskin over boards, Initials in red, black, green, and yellow. f. 2r. Includes a 3-line decorated initial, Manuscript is two codices bound together. The first is a Cistercian Antiphonary from the mid-twelfth century from Italy and the second is an early thirteenth century hymnal., Pregothic, multiple hands; Hymnal in gothic textualis, Neumes, Belonged to and probably written at the Cistercian Abbey of S. Maria di Morimondo (founded 1134; Cottineau 1985 86), in the vicinity of Milan, Italy. The earliest portions of the manuscript were written before 1174, the date of the canonization of St Bernard of Clairvaux, the antiphons for whose feast were inserted soon after this date (ff. 66 70). This earlier portion seems to have been written by a French scribe. Jean Leclercq lists and describes other Morimondo mss. in 'Manuscrits Cisterciens dans des Bibliothèques d'Italie,' Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis 7 (1951) 71 74; it is evident from his descriptions that later products of this scriptorium were not as austere as this one. The hymnary portion was written by Beltramus de Redoldis (sic; elsewhere Beltramus de Rioldis), a monk of Morimondo, in 1291. Morimondo was suppressed in 1799. Acquired in September, 1770, by Carlo Trivulzio. Trivulzio Belgioioso Trotti collection of Milan; sold to Hoepli (cat. 5); sale by Leavitt (New York, 27 Nov. 1886, no. 47; auction label on front pastedown). Purchased by Charles F. Gunther of Chicago; bequeathed to Historical Society of Chicago. Acquired for Gethsemani Abbey in April, 1922, through the mediation of J. Christian Bay, of the John Crerar Library, Chicago., and Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, Ky.)
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- Housed in a mat frame (160 x 110 mm)., 6-line historiated and illuminated initial painting of St. Agnes of Rome with a simple white face and rosy cheeks, holding a lamb possibly in the Nonnenarbeiten style, which is associated with predominately female monastic deocation of their devotional books. Rubrication in red. On verso, a 2-line intial O decorated in red with faded brown pen florishes., Single leaf from a devotional Prayer Book featuring St. Agnes holding a lamb enclosed in an illuminated initial O. Text opens with a prayer to St. Agnes for the Feast of St. Agnes, celebrated on January 21., 1 column of 14-15 lines ruled in dry point written in Gothic Textualis script., and "The illumination on recto is in the style named Nonnenarbeiten (see J. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists, the Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent, 1997), and associated with predominantly female monastic decoration of their own devotional books." --from dealer description on inside cover of the frame.
- Date Created:
- [1440 TO 1460]
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- Housed in a modern, pink mat frame (443 x 323 mm); visible on one side only; remnant of a green wax seal appended to the parchment tag., Twelfth-century, French donation by Georgia, daughter of Henri de Columbirs and former wife of Hugh de Lonchamp, of the rent of ten Tournai sous, to the church and convent of the Holy Trinity in Caen to be used to maintain a perpetually burning lamp before the altar of St. Lawrence on St. Lawrence day., flourishing, protogothic documentary script, and Produced at the Abbey of-aux Dames (Cottineau 1:553) and dated August 1222 in the document. The Benedictine Abbaye-aux Dames of St. Trinité in Caen, Normandy, was founded c. 1066 by Queen Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, who is buried there. An inscription on the plica in a later hand: "1222 donation a la chapelle de St laurent dans l'abbaye de Ste Trïnite," translation: "1222 Gift to the chapel of St. Lawrence in the Abbey of the Holy Trinity." On dorse: inscription in a hybrida hand (fifteenth-sixteenth century) indicates that the family home was later still known as Calumbiers (Coulombiers); possible scribal signature; six-line inscription in French summarizing the document. Acquired from the collection of E. H. Dring and purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio May 8, 2000. Acquisition record in "Mackus Company" folder.
- Date Created:
- 1222-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- On recto, correction in the margin., Small cut in corner. Pencil marking in Arabic number possibly indicating folio 38. Worm hole in lower margin., Text is from Book II, the arguments against Epicureanism, paragraphs 30-31., 1 column of 28 lines ruled in plummet written in Italian Humanistic book hand., and Possibly owned by Otto Ege who broke up the book.
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- Order from Aimeri du Cros (Aymericus de Croso), knight, seneschal of the King of France, Charles IV (the Fair), for Périgord and Quercy, to the king’s bailiff of Maurencx (Maurens, canton Villamblard, Dordogne) to come with armed men and horses to Lausertam (Lauzerte, Tarn et Garonne, SW of Cahors) on Thursday, March 15th, next to “Montedome” (Mont de Domme, canton Domme, Dordogne). Dated 25 February 1324., 1 column of 9 lines, unruled, and written in brown ink in French documentary script., and France, 1323-1324. Guyenne and Gascony were held by the English on terms of homage to the French kings, but were confiscated by the kings of France in 1296 and 1324 on the ground of failure of feudal duties. Thus 1324-5 have been described as those “two years of war” (Chaplais, 80). Edward III acquired full sovereignty of Guyenne in 1360; France regained it in 1451. The territory of Guyenne, a Duchy stretching from the Charente to the Pyrenees, is now represented by the départment of Gironde, Lot et Garonne, most of Tarn et Garonne, etc. Note that the pencil note at bottom right is characteristic of documents once in the important but little known Fuller collection (Quaritch, preface to item 1; A Mace).
- Date Created:
- 1324-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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.
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- 16th century gilt-tooled arabesque binding or pasteboard, with small marks on edges of boards where clasps were once attached. Binding damaged., 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. Long ornamental cadelles extending into the top and lower margins, some with skilled caricatures of human faces. Rubricated in red, blue and gold., Book block of a Book of hours, partially open to show decorated intials and gothic script with elaborate descenders., 1 column of 13 lines ruled in red written in lettre batarde., and “1542” on last main text leaf perhaps indicating the precise date of the binding.
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- 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. Cross symbols in red passim throughout text. Major divisions of text are marked by leather tabs., A Missal Abreviatum, in latin with contemporary blindpressed calf over wooden boards, open to ff. 32v - 33r. Major divisions of text are marked by leather tabs., 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
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- Textual capitals touched in red, 2-line initials in red; Four illustrations in dark brown, red, yellow, and green., Mid-fifteenth century Middle English and Latin prayer roll featuring four illustrations. Part of the personal collection of Mr. Toshiyuki Takamiya, MA, FSA, HoLittD, Professor Emeritus, Keio University., 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]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Folded at bottom with a few small worm holes throughout. Attached is a seal tag that was cut from an earlier document of which some of the words are still visible. Attached to the tag is a narrow band formerly used to hold an affiliated claim (see MS 157)., Quitclaim by Hugh, son of Simon of Rodes, to Walter son of Walter de Haweswrd (Haukesw[o]rd), relinquishing all rights to the four acres in the field of Rodes [in Menston] that Robert Ruffus had by grant of Hugh’s brother Thomas. Witnessed by Simon Ward miles (c. 1291-1326; Moor 5), Mathew Burne, Hugh de Berwicke, Walter de Midelton, Simon son of Thomas de Giselay, Thomas (Francisus?), and William son of Matilda de Haukesw[o]rd. Undated, no warranty clause., 1 column of 9 lines ruled in plummet in English cursive documentary script., and Written in England, the document concerns lands in Rodes, i.e., Rhodes Green in Menston, NW of Leeds, Yorks WR, near Hawksworth and Guiseley. Dated to the late thirteenth century, or not much later, on paleographic grounds, and on the identification of one of the witnesses, Simon Ward miles (known 1291-1326; Moor 84:155-6). Description from Regan/Lynch.
- Date Created:
- [1275 TO 1325]
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