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- On verso: corrections in the inner margin in same script as main text., A cut in parchment in the outer margin of recto with no loss of text; stub of conjugate leaf is present; remnant of a mended cut in the inner margin, sewing holes visible; prickings visible on the outer and inner margins., Running title: on recto "GA" and verso "AD" alternating red and blue; biblical quotations underlined in red; 2-line initials in blue or blue with contrasting pen flourishes in red or blue; 1-line initials alternating red and blue., A leaf from Peter Lombard's Magna glossatura in Epistolas Pauli, glossed and written in the intercisum format. Peter Lombard developed the text in Paris in the second quarter of the 12th century during his teaching activities. It became one of the required readings of the faculty of Theology. The leaf is taken from Galatians 6:10. Biblical text is written in short blocks to the left of each column on every second ruled line, the gloss surrounding the biblical text on three sides., 2 columns of 55 lines lead point ruled written in early Gothic script; text written above the top line; on recto: letters written in lead point to indicate placement of colored initials; text written in intercisum format., and The format of the manuscript, and the quality of the parchment and decoration, suggest that this manuscript was intended for a wealthy abbot or bishop or a well-off scholar (see Frońska, Royal Manuscripts (2005)). The script and the decoration suggest a French production. According to Avril, 'Un manuscrit d'auteurs classiques' (1975), pp. 268-69, the decoration might be connected with the second artist of a manuscript containing classical works (Paris, BnF, MS lat. 7936) produced in Paris. Although there are common features between the initials of both manuscripts, 'their historiated initials cannot be ascribed to the same hand' according to Frońska, Royal Manuscripts (2011). A Parisian Bible produced around 1200, now Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS theol. lat. fol. 9, is close to this manuscript in script and decoration (see Ayres, 'Parisian Bibles' (1982), 5-13).
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- The seal, now missing, was appended to a cloth strop, a portion of which is still present., Thirteenth-century, French grant to the Abbey of La Garde-Dieu by Haimeric de Gordo [Gourdon], son of Ratier de Castelnau, of "la terra de Castelnau, 1 March 1241, in the reign of Louis IX, and Raymond VII Count of Toulouse, Gérard de Baras, Bishop of Cahors, with the names of seven witnesses including the scribe, in the Quercy dialect of the Provençal language., clear documentary script, and Produced in France at the Cistercian Abbey of La Garde-Dieu (Cottineau 1: 1253) and dated 1 March 1241. La Garde-Dieu in the diocese of Cahors, was founded in 1150 as a daughter-house of Aubazine. The Abbey is a few miles south of Catelnau-Montratier, the new fortified town built by Ratier, the father of the grantor, on the site of a town destroyed by Simon de Montfort. On the reverse side of the document are several different inscriptions in various hands including: a summary of the charter and the date "1241" in an early hand; the number "144" in an early hand; the number "9352" in pencil in a modern hand; two inscriptions in fourteenth- or fifteenth-century scripts; "chapitre chronologique" in a seventeenth- through nineteenth-century script. Purchased by Alan G Thomas in 1970 from the Phillips Collection and acquired by the Mackus Company shortly thereafter; purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio on May 8, 1999.
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- 1241-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Excised from a larger manuscript., 1-line initials in gold on a ground of red or blue; 2-line initial "KL" in gold at the beginning of each month on a ground of blue and red; inner margin borders next to initial KL, foliate motif derived from a depiction of the acanthus plant containing occasional vines, flowers, and fruit., Fifteenth-century, French calendar excerpted from a Book of Hours., gothic textualis formata, and Produced in France, Normandy -- probably in Bayeux. Calendar includes Saint Regnobert, Bishop of Bayeux. A pilgrim badge impression on the verso of folio 2: four badges, two larger and two smaller ones in a vertical row -- they were attached with needle and thread to the page preceding the calendar. The practice of attaching the badges to the pages of devotional books flourished in the regions of the duchy of Burgundy at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. Two inscriptions on folio 3r: “Bàieux” in ink along the top and “898” followed by a flourish in ink. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, June, 2008.
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- [1450 TO 1500]
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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).
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- 1324-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Remnants of glue on the back of the document, perhaps evidence of use as a pastedown of a previous display method., Several letters feature exaggerated pen-flourished ascenders and descenders., Fourteenth-century letter of Charles V of France to the keeper of the royal salt store at Vernon of the River Seine discussing salt that has been smuggled into France., French cursive documentary script, and Produced in Paris, France for Charles V and witnessed by Bonsolas (Hugues Bonsolas, secretary to the king). Bonsolas' signature is at the bottom of the document. Dated 30 November 1376. A later hand inscribed "Charles V 31 [illegible]" in the bottom left corner. In pencil at the top left inscribed within a rectangle: "31 1376 November". In pencil on the recto: "November 1376." Purchased by Special Collections, Western Michigan University from the Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio on May 12, 2012.
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- 1376-01-01T00:00:00Z
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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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- Eighteenth-century binding of smooth tawed leather over cardboard with three sewing support, green and white endbands, label in brown ink at head of spine reading “Semon | es Sancti | Ca’sarij.” Imprints and holes remaining on front and back cover from two ties, the traces of which are visible through paper pastedowns. Some concave warping of boards and discoloration and/or staining of cover and pastedowns. Paper bookplate on inner pastedown of the Bibliothèque du Plessis-Villoutreys including escutcheon with crown above and motto “Dis peu Fais mieux” below. Minor buckling in the first three leaves due to tight binding., The upper board and raised band spine of a small miscellany of texts of various sermons which feature many marginal drawings and notae., and Written in several hands at the end of the 14th century or beginning of the 15th century in southern France, possibly Avignon, as suggested by the style of the initials, and to a lesser extend the script, which features some elements borrowed from the Papal Chancery, then in Avignon. Datable between 1369 (it includes a papal bull by Urban V (r. 1362-70) issued on 4 April 1369) and ca. 1400. Given the inclusion of the rule of St. Augustine and Hugh of St. Victor’s commentary on the Rule, the codex was likely made for one of the many groups of canons or monks who followed this Rule, including Augustinian Hermits (Agustin Friars), Dominicans, Praemonstratensians, Trinitarians, Regular Canons, and others. Evidence of the first sixteen sermons (ff. 1-80) by Clements VII link the manuscript to the Celestine priory established in 1392. A bookplate of the Bibliothèque du Plessis-Villoutreys indicates ownership by the Marquis de Villoutreys, probably in the last quarter of the 19th century. Possibly part of a private European Collection at some point. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collection from Les Enluminures (TM 992).
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- [1369 TO 1400]
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- Fourteenth-century, unpublished legal opinion in a long-running dispute between the Cistercian abbey of Cambron (Cottineau 1:572) and the college of canons regular of St. Vincent in Soignies (Cottineau 2:3049), in the County of Hainaut. The canons had accused the Cisterican monks of illegally occupying the land in Sars Moullet and elsewhere., Written in a dark brown in a semi-cursive documentary script., and Produced in present-day Belgium or northern France either at the abbey of Cambron or at Soignies in the County of Hainaut. On dorse: the letter "j" in a contemporary hand and the number "188" in black ink in a later hand, now scratched out. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio in 2006 (D5391).
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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]
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- 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.
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