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- Back of 50 Francs polychrome French bill, with woman and sheep in French countryside.
- Date Created:
- 1941-04-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 20 Francs polychrome French bill. At left, with peasant women and child in traditional attire, of Brittany, France. Calvary statuary at right.
- Date Created:
- 1942-09-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Housed in a modern, matted wooden frame (292 x 363 mm) under glass; dealer's prospectus on back. Remnants of a red wax seal appended on a tongue., Fifteenth-century, French acknowledgment by Pierre de Tarville, master of the guard at Neuville-aux-Bois (near Orleans in France) of receipt of the sum of ₤20.15s., from Guillaument le Moine, the Receiver of the Duchy of Orleans. Of this sum, ₤18.5s is for his year's salary (at 2s. A day) and the rest for his dress allowance. See bibliographic file for complete transcription and additional information., French documentary cursive script (gothic cursiva currens), and Produced near Orleans, France and dated 26 July 1401 in the document. Acquired from the Hermann Suchier (1848-1914). Collection by the book-seller Karl W. Hiersemann (1854-1928) of Leipzig; purchased by C. L. Ricketts from Hiersemann (Catalog 502 for 1921, lot 111); purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio on May 26, 2002.
- Date Created:
- 1401-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, worn and repaired with spine gilt on all edges., Fifty hand-colored full-figure drawings of male and female members of religious orders in their habits. Drawings on rectos only. Each image is captioned with the name of the order in a banderole in French., This iconography of the Roman Catholic Church presents the traditional garbs of eight ecclesiastic posts and thirty-three monastic orders (ten with both female and male members). They include Benedictines, Capuchins, Jesuits, Victorines, and a few distinctly Belgian--a monk from Tongerlo Abby near Antwerp, another from Ansewyck near Mechelen. An earlier owner, Cornelia Alstede of Amsterdam, indexed the whole codex (in French) on the recto and verso of the first leaf. She also composed prayers in Dutch on five of the blank versos, facing the male and female Augustinians, the male and female Carmelites, and a Mallade nun., French cursive on versos and large capitals under each drawing on rectos., and Based on evidence of in text, the iconography includes a monk from Tongerlo Abby near Antwerp, another from Ansewyck near Mechelen, which suggests Beligium as the place of composition. An earlier owner, Cornelia Alstede of Amsterdam, signed her name and address (in Dutch) on the verso of the front free flyleaf and indexed the whole (in French) on the recto and verso of the first leaf. A later owner identififed a handful of the images in blue ink on the black versos. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc.
- Date Created:
- [1700 TO 1799]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Housed under glass in a modern, wooden frame (295 x 500 mm), visible on one side only; dealer's prospectus on back., Fourteenth century, French legal complaint brought by King Charles VI, on behalf of the Bishop of the royally founded church in Nevers (Cottineau 2: 2064) for serfs' failure to pay taxes to the church. See bibliographic file for complete transcription, translation, and description., French secretary script (cursiva media), and Written in France and dated 10 May 1386. Inscription in French on the reverse: "complainte en cas de saisine et de nouvellite levesque doyen et chapitre de nevers contre plusieurs hommes des villes nomees en ycelle et est de date du xieme de may lan 1386." See bibliographic file for translation. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio, June 2005.
- Date Created:
- 1386-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, worn and repaired with spine gilt on all edges., Upper board of an iconography of the Roman Catholic Church presenting the traditional garbs of eight ecclesiastic posts and thirty-three monastic orders (ten with both female and male members)., and Based on evidence in the text, the iconography includes a monk from Tongerlo Abby near Antwerp, another from Ansewyck near Mechelen, which suggests Beligium as the place of composition. An earlier owner, Cornelia Alstede of Amsterdam, signed her name and address (in Dutch) on the verso of the front free flyleaf and indexed the whole (in French) on the recto and verso of the first leaf. A later owner identififed a handful of the images in blue ink on the black versos. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc.
- Date Created:
- [1700 TO 1799]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- An extensive marginal annotation recto of first folio., Two parchment ties join the two bifolia., 12-line inscription contemporary hand on f. 4v describing nature of the document and dated 17 Juillet 1662 followed by illegible signature. “Beschard” in blue crayon on f. 1r above text. Notorial signatures on f. 1r and f. 4r., Legal document concerning a dispute between Christoph le Bechard, Claude Bechard against Pierre Regnard, with notorial signature., Written in a 17th century French legal script., and Produced in France, possibly Chaussy, in 1662. Gift of the Western Michigan University Department of History to Special Collections in 1999.
- Date Created:
- 1662-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A note on the origin of collectaries (books of collects, benedictions, prayers) and a short general bibliography (1) is followed by a chronological list of collectories from the twelfth to the twentieth century (updated to 1954). Various types of collects within each are identified and references made to pertinent studies (2-25). Lists of libraries holding manuscripts (26), provenance (27), proper names, and printed editions (28) conclude the section. and Notes -- Dépôts -- Provenance -- Noms propres -- Éditions.
- Date Created:
- 1952-08-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Cistercian Reference Works
- Notes:
- A brief introduction to diurnals and a bibliography (1) is followed (2-63) by a list of Cistercian diurnal manuscripts from the early 12th century – the earliest linked to Robert and Stephen Harding–to 1960. The studies noted include numerous addenda in ink. Lists include holding libraries (64-65), provenance (66), proper names (67) and, finally (68), all printed editions from 1487-1959. and Introduction -- Bibliographie -- Dépôts -- Provenance -- Table des noms propres -- Éditions.
- Date Created:
- 1953-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Cistercian Reference Works
- 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
