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- Modern limp vellum binding, with two pairs of fastening vellum ties., Front cover and uneven pages of the fore-edge of a processional containing music primarily for chants for the Temporale. Two pegs on the front cover for the leather fastenings., 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.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Housed in a modern document holder with a mat frame (320 x 420 mm) and sealed behind plastic; one side visible only., Eleventh-century Catalonian legal document for the sale of a parcel of fortified land with 10 notarial signatures and name of the scribe., caroline miniscule, and Produced in Catalonia, probably 1046; date based on later inscription just below the main text in lead: "subirats vila franca del Renedy? Any [sp?] 1-46." Name of scribe written in the same hand as the main text: "MIRONIE bi qui ista castra francha rogitus scripsit et sub die et anno quod supra." Related to MS 121; Mirone is mentioned in both charters. In this charter, his surname is mentioned (Geribertus). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio, May 2004.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Bound in vellum over boards., Written in Gothic textualis, with initials in red, blue, and purple., Circular calendar, Gothic textualis, and Property stamp of Gethsemani Abbey on recto of fol. 1.
- Date Created:
- [1470 TO 1487]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Leaf includes plica; folded approximately three times., Enlarged first initial "S" in first line., A chirograph dated 1 October, 1427, for the transfer of land in Barwell (near Hinkley, Leicestershire), by Sir William Babington (Babyngton) to John Howes and his wife Matilda. Bottom half folded with four seal tags attached, the last appears to be from a fragment of an early Middle English text, which must predate 1427, and with the words “men to persue your laws with other w…” still visible. A red wax seal is attached to the last tag., 1 column of 15 lines, ruled in dry point in early Middle English text documentary script. The text fading at folds., and England, the date 1 October 1427 appears at the end of the text. Sir William Babington (c.1370–1454), justice, Order of the Bath, was born into an ancient Northumberland family and pursued a highly successful legal career that allowed him to greatly extend his family’s landholdings, which included estates in Leicestershire on the border of Nottinghamshire (Payling). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library, from the Mackus Company, Springfield, Illinois (D6309).
- Date Created:
- 1427-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- 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.
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- 1257-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Leaf was excised from a larger manuscript., On recto: in the middle of outer column there is a single five-line initial "h" in blue with red penwork details infilled with blue and red pen florishes, and red and blue decorations trailing up and down the column. Larger versal initials are sometimes tipped in ochre wash. Above the initial, running head "TE" alternating red and blue. On verso: The running head "DEV" (Deuteronomy) appears at the top of the page. Minor cuts to the outer edges of the leaf., Manuscript leaf from a Bible written in Latin during the 13th century, containing text from Deuteronomy 5:22-6:25., 2 column of 33 lines, ruled in plummet in Littera Gothica Textualis Formata with lateral compression., and Flanders or South Netherlands, possibly Tournai. Probably broken by Erich von Scherling (Scherling, 102; History of Western Script, 55). Von Sherling’s source seems to have been a bound fragment of leaves from Leviticus 3 to Judges 2. It must have been volume 1 of a 4 volume Bible, of which, 2-3 appear to be Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS II.2523, and volume 4 may be Los Angles, J. Paul Getty Museum MS Ludwig 1.9. The Brussels volumes had belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps, who bought them in the late 1820s with the residue of the library of St Martin in Tournai, noting ruefully that the first volume had been sold in his absence and “destroyed by a bookseller at Brussels” (Phillipps, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum, 1837, entry for MS 2011; A. N. L. Munby, Phillips Studies, III, 1954, 22, n. 1; C. de Hamel in Migrations, Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand, ed. Hollis and Barratt, 2007, 42-3). The first item in the catalogue of St Martin’s abbey in Tournai in 1615 was ‘Biblia 4. Voluminibus” (Sanderus, Bibliotheca Belgica Manuscripta, 1, 1641, p. 91). The leaf was eventually sold by Swann Galleries (New York, 22 March 1990) as part of lot 75 to the celebrated manuscript collector, Martin Schøyen, in whose collection it was catalogued as Schøyen MS 82 (History of Western Scripts, 102).
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
117. Book of Hours
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- On f. 1r, inscription in light brown. Inscriptions referring to Jehan de Montagu, possibly a previous owner, on f. 54r, “Le Seigneur de Montagu a joute ... 20 Septembre 1781” and on f. 96r, “Jehan de Montagu, Sieur de os....” Notation in margins in pencil noting psalm chapters (modern, not vulgate). Modern pencil numbering on lower margins of each leaf recto., 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., Rubricated in red. 1-line blue and red initials throughout text. 2-line blue and red initials with occasional purple pen flourishes passim. On f. 7v, 5-line illuminated initial D in red and blue on gold and enclosing flowers and vines. Acanthus - like motif extending into the margins. Gold flaking from marginal shapes and showing cracks in the initial. Ink burn on later leaves. Text on f. 113v illegible and faded., A book of devotions which includes various psalms and an illuminated initial at the begining of Psalm 70. Text includes passages from pro santis of vespers, imperfectly; Psalm 128 of compline; instructions for Sabboth from Advent through Christmas; instructions for antiphons and psalms for offices of nones, vespers, compline, and the Blessed Virgin from Advent to Pentecost; Penitential Psalms beginning in the middle of Psalm 6; Litany of Saints; Office of the Dead with abbreviated ending; and Gradual Psalms (incipits only) ending at Psalm 126., 1 column of 11-12 lines ruled sporadically in dry point and lead with several gatherings at the end made up of parchment ruled for another purpose. On ff. 75-82: double columns, oriented perpendicular to text. On ff. 113-114: originally ruled for two columns of text with more and narrower lines than the existing text. Text is written in gothic textualis formata. Some pricking in the outer margins only, mostly trimmed., 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.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
118. Glossed Bible Leaf
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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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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Horizontal catchwords very bottom inner margins, often partially trimmed. Notes for the rubricator very bottom margin. Guide letters alongside many initials., Front cover detached. Early chained binding (possibly contemporary) of brown leather over wooden boards, beveled and cut almost flush with the book block, sewn on double bands that enter the boards at the edge and are fastened on the inside. Head and tail bands also fasten into the boards. Spine with four raised bands and with the remains of a tab at the top. Simply tooled in blind with an outer frame and two single fillets crossing on the diagonal. Five brass bosses on upper and lower boards. Once fastened back to front: stubs of two straps, lower board and holes from two pins center upper board, intact metal hasp and chain ending in a ring middle top edge lower board, remains of parchment label upper board. Strips of parchment from earlier manuscripts used to line the spine visible at the beginning and end. Title copied in a cursive script on bottom fore edge: “Isti(?) sunt liber hystoriales scilicet iosue iudic[um] Ruth paralipomenon Regum. The binding has been tampered with and the first and last leaves are pasted down at the front and back, perhaps when the opening and closing gatherings were removed., Majuscules touched with red, lemmata underlined in red, red rubrics, and two- to three-line red initials. Modern foliation in pencil top outer corner recto. Original foliation in Arabic numerals in ink middle lower margin on ff. 14-264. Text begins on f. 1v (f. 1 recto pasted to the front board). Watermark of a tower with merlons without a window, similar to iccard Online 100480, Wemding, 1455, 100500, no place, 1459, 100531, Kaisheim, 1464. Prickings in the upper and lower margins., An early fifteenth-century manuscript of Nicholas of Lyra’s commentaries on nine Old Testament books including Joshua (ff. 1v-16v), Judges (ff. 17-48), Ruth (ff. 48v-53v), Chronicles 1 (ff. 54-86), Chronicles 2 (ff. 86v-112), Prayer of Manasseh (f. 112), 1 Kings (ff. 112v-159v), 2 Kings (ff. 160-194), 3 Kings (ff. 194v-231v), and 4 Kings (ff. 232-252), made for institutional use. Text begins imperfectly on the commentary of Joshua chapter 9, and ends imperfectly on the commentary of 4 Kings chapter 17., 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]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Many small marginal drawings which include maniculae extending from sleeves of red, blue, and yellow, often reaching from twinkling clouds and holding flowers, vines, or banderoles containing notae or catchwords (examples on ff. 50v, 52, 63v, 66v, 77, 82v, 90, 102, 189v). Other miniatures, some also holding notae and catchwords, are of rosy-cheeked angels (ff. 53v, 58v, 108v, 122v, 130v, 146v, 205v) with yellow hair and their garments, halos, and wings highlighted in red, blue, orange, and yellow. Further marginal drawings, some also bearing banderoles, include crosses and columns (ff. 42v. 44v, 47v, 106v, 177v), a man in a miniature boat (f. 55), lions (ff. 98v and 162v), a bird (f. 154v), a tiny empty tunic (f. 119v), and a monk (f. 138v)., 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., Majuscules, letter ascenders and descenders are flourished and washed in yellow throughout. Paraphs marks in blue. Rubics in red. Numberous 2-to-8-line initials in alternating red and blue with contrasting pen flourishes. 6-line parted red and blue initial with pen decoration (f. 92v). One initial in brown holds the face of a young monk (f. 28r). Catchwords, most in banderoles, in tiny miniatures. Some leaves trimmed with occasional loss of some pen flourishings and text., Created during the pinnacle of Avignon’s historical importance, this small miscellany of texts with various sermons features whimiscal drawings in its margins. The marginal ink drawings, all carefully colored, include decorated pointed hands (maniculae) with elaborate sleeves, angels, lions, and a man in a boat. The texts gathered include sermons and monastic rules and the commentaries, which speak to the concerns of the original owner. The miscenllany of texts include selections of sermons from the Regula by Augustine; the Homilia VI-IX by Caesarius of Arles; the Homilia III by Eucherius of Lyon; the Sermo castigationis by Eusebius Gallicanus; the Sermo 23 by Caesrarius of Arles, which could also be attributed to Faustus of Riez; the Regula Sancti Augustini by St. Augustine of Hippo; the Expositio in Regulam Beati Augustini by Hugh of St. Victor; the Bullarum Romanum 4 by Pope Benedict XII; the Corpus iuris canonici by Pope Urban V; and the Homilia II, Homilia VIII, and Homilia X by Eusebius Gallicanus. First and last leaves soiled with no loss of text. Water damage on ff. 15v-16 resulting in the blurring of about 30% of the text along the inner margin. Minute wormhole in first line of the last five leaves. Minor soiling of outer and bottom margins throughout., Text written in 17-21 long lines on ff. 1-184 and 16-19 long lines on ff. 184v-213v by several contemporary scribes in a compact script, except ff. 184v-213v in a larger and freer hand, all in a skilled French cursive tending towards lettre batarde featuring documentary-style flourishing in bottom, outer, and occasionallly upper margins. Frame ruling in faint graphite with bounding lines extending to edges (justification c. 85-95 x 65 mm). Most incipits in an upright and rigid Gothic textualis. Larger text size starting on f. 184v, possibly a change of hands., 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).
- Date Created:
- [1369 TO 1400]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries