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- Bound in modern red leather in 1993 by Donald Taylor of Toronto, spine lettered in gilt on a black leather label, “Excerpta Legendae Aureae, s. XIII.” Gatherings interleaved by paper stubs, with modern cloth slipcase. Previously “loosely wrapped” in the four folios from a Breviary, removed by the Bergendal Collection and bound separately as MS 161. First and last flyleaves are modern paper., Parchment is soft, and soiled, especially in the lower corners. Original imperfections include uneven lower margins, ff. 4, 14, and 24, and small holes in the lower margins of f. 20, and in the outer margin, f. 26 and 35. Majuscules within the text stroked with red. Red paragraph marks throughout text. Two-line and one-line red initials throughout: f. 38, two-line red initial, highlighted in yellowish-gold., A personal collection of excerpts from the Legenda aurea and seven sermons from the Sermones de tempore, unbound until modern times and protected by a few leaves from another manuscript (see MS 161). The text begins at the chapter Historia De Sancto Thoma Apostolo. The excerpts from the Legenda aurea (the Golden Legend) reference the Maggioni edition. The “Golden Legend” or the “Legend of the Saints” was said to have been the most frequently copied text during the Middle Ages apart from the Bible due to its production at University centers, and its use as a standard text in Dominican houses of study. The Sermones de tempore was one of three collections of model sermons based on the liturgical year by Jacobus, and used as sources for sermons by preachers across Europe., Written by two scribes: the first scribe copied ff. 1-26v, outer column (the first text) below the top ruled line in a quick upright gothic noting script, and the second scribe copied the second text, f. 26v, middle of outer column to the end, in a quick heavily-abbreviated gothic bookhand. Ruled in ink throughout with single vertical bounding lines inside, outside and between the columns, horizontal rulings vary: ff. 1-8, with the top, third and bottom two rules full across on most folios, ff. 8v-14v, with the top, third, bottom and fourth from the bottom rules full across, ff. 15-27, with the bottom and penultimate rules full across; ff. 27v-end, with the bottom rule full across, prickings in the three outer margins, with a double row of prickings in the outer margin on ff. 8-14, ff. 1-6v, (justification, 123 x 90-87 mm.), written below the top ruled line in two columns of thirty-eight lines, ff. 7-8, (justification, 130 x 98 mm.), copied below the top line in two columns of twenty-eight lines, ff. 8v-end, (justification, 137-134 x 98-97 mm.), with ff. 8v-30, written in two columns of thirty-three lines and ff. 31-end, in two columns, thirty-two lines., and From dealer description: Based on evidence of the script, manuscript was likely copied at the end of the 13th century or beginning of the 14th century. The script of the first scribe may be on the earlier side of the range dates, but uncertain given the informality of both scripts. Both scribes, use the reversed “c” to abbreviate “con” and a quick form of the abbreviation for “est” (Latin for “is”) which suggest an orgin in Germany, possibliy South Germany. The first scribe varies his layout (justification, number of lines, and ruling pattern), which is a characteristic of an informal, perhaps owner-produced manuscript. Fifteenth century(?) notation, bottom margin of f. 1 in bold gothic ink: "S.de3" in a different hand. Purchased by Joseph Pope (1921-2010) of Toronto from Sam Fogg in 1993. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 579).
- Date Created:
- [1280 TO 1325]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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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., Fore edge 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).
- Date Created:
- [1369 TO 1400]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Secured to a modern, mat board with two small threads; visible one side only., Thirteenth-century, Italian document in Latin, signed in the old archiepiscopal palace in the presence of the Bishop of Lodi and other named abbots, canons, and a priests from Milan and Verona recording the transfer to the Dominicans in Milan of the church of St. Eustorgius and its surrounds in Verona. Signed by the Archbishop and the scribe Jacobus., pregothic Italian documentary script, and Produced in Milan and dated, "1220 8 ante Kal. Novembris" in a near-contemporary hand along the top, Post-medieval inscriptions on dorse: "signature autographa Henrici Septula an. 1220 v. Saxii Archi. Med. Serias To: II. p. 650 de Puricelli Dissert. Nazar. p. 559"; an earlier inscription just below reads, "1220 8 ante Kal..." (all else is illegible); possibly in the library of Giovanni Pietro Puricelli (d. 1695). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, June, 2008.
- Date Created:
- 1220-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Notorial signature attributed to Michel Marquet. A slash over the signature with no loss of text. The parchment is very thin, wrinkled and folded. Tall ascenders along the first line., Receipt for the final payment of the settlement of the Late King Louis XI, written by Michel Marquet, notary and secretary of King Charles VIII of France on 16 July 1486. The receipt addresses the "commis a la distribucion de certaine grant somme de deniers" the moneys to be used for "ensions des seigneurs des anciennes lignes des haultes almaignes et nacion de suysse" the remainder of the settlement made by King Louis XI re "la franche de bourgogne" for the sum of 1309 livres 14 solz and 9 deniers tournois received from the Treasurer General of Languedoc, Bayart. Signed by marget with his notarial symbol followed by a restatement of the sum received., and 1 column of 7 lines unruled written in cursive documentary script.
- Date Created:
- 1486-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Bound in an unusual binding, probably contemporary, made from two pieces of brown leather, sewn together horizontally, which is stitched over pasteboards formed from ten leaves from other manuscripts (now partially visible at the top, front, and along the fore edge, back). The leather turn-ins are covered with a paper leaf, now fragmentary, in the front, and by leather in the back. Part of this leather is broken off, and is now laid in, sewn on three leather bands, stitched through the inside of the covers in a “v” pattern. Lighter brown leather (sheepskin?) spine, probably later, with three raised bands with the title in gilt between the first and second in a gold square, “Regl de S. Benoit Manuscr 13 Sciecl [sic].” Remains of leather tie, front cover, with a hole in the back cover, presumably from another tie, now missing, and showing considerable wear, including a second small hole in the back cover near the spine, and with corners and some edges of the leather covers worn away. Middle of each gathering reinforced with parchment strips from another manuscript., The codex containing the Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Bernard Ayglerius (d. 1282), Abbot of Monte Cassino, open to show gothic cursive text on cockled paper. Leather of the cover worn and at the corners, showing the underlying “boards” made of 10 leaves from other manuscripts., and From dealer description: Written in the later decades of the 15th century, probably ca. 1480-1500, in central or southwestern France, as indicated by the style of the script and the watermark. Popular in 15th century Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries, the text is likely copied for a monastic library. Only one sale of this text is listed in the Schoenberg Database. Medieval shelf-mark, bottom margin, ff. 1 and 83, “B 63,” in both cases preceded by four erased words, “C de C.” Armorial bookplate, front flyleaf for the Bibliothèque de Monseir le Baron de Caix de Saint-Aymour,” with motto, “Fortior in adversis.” the Baron Amédée Caix de Saint Aymour was the mayor of Corbie (1863-1920), educated at the l’Ecole des chartes and at the l’Ecoles des langues orientales. Octagonal paper label on front cover edged in blue from 19th century French book deal, “Manuscript, 13ième siècle.” Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 432).
- Date Created:
- [1480 TO 1500]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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., The upper cover and chain attachment of an early fifteenth-century manuscript of Nicholas of Lyra’s commentaries on nine Old Testament books, made for institutional use., 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]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Secured to a modern, mat board with two small threads; visible one side only., Thirteenth-century, Italian document in Latin, signed in the old archiepiscopal palace in the presence of the Bishop of Lodi and other named abbots, canons, and a priests from Milan and Verona recording the transfer to the Dominicans in Milan of the church of St. Eustorgius and its surrounds in Verona. Signed by the Archbishop and the scribe Jacobus., pregothic Italian documentary script, and Produced in Milan and dated, "1220 8 ante Kal. Novembris" in a near-contemporary hand along the top, Post-medieval inscriptions on dorse: "signature autographa Henrici Septula an. 1220 v. Saxii Archi. Med. Serias To: II. p. 650 de Puricelli Dissert. Nazar. p. 559"; an earlier inscription just below reads, "1220 8 ante Kal..." (all else is illegible); possibly in the library of Giovanni Pietro Puricelli (d. 1695). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, June, 2008.
- Date Created:
- 1220-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Catchword partially cropped on the lower margin of f. 162v., 16th century gilt-tooled arabesque binding or pasteboard, with small marks on edges of boards where clasps were once attached. Binding damaged. Stub of missing leaf between ff. 10v - 11r., On f. 54r: 4-line historiated initial in pink enclosing the Virgin and St. Anne on gold grounds, with a three-quarter decorated board derived from a depiction of the acanthus plant containing occasional hairline foliage and vines, and flowers in gold, and fruit. Some names in the calendar are written in gold. Long ornamental cadelles extending into the top and lower margins, some with skilled caricatures of human faces. Rubricated in red, blue and gold. 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. On f. 36r: 3-line inital in blue with white penwork, enclosing pink and blue foliage with white penwork, on a ground of gold. On f. 51v and 108v: foliate motif border in outer margin derived from a depiction of the acanthus plant containing occasional hairline foliage and vines, and flowers in gold. On f. 157r: 2-line initial in blue with white penwork, enclosing a strawberry, on ground of gold. On f. 74r-v and f. 77v., outline impression of an initial and foliage border. Many pages have black, red, and blue ink stains. Gold and paint in the initials flaking from some leaves. On f. 8, the top of leaf is cropped with loss of text., A Book of Hours containing a calendar (missing calendar leaves for January and February); Gospel Readings followed by prayers; the Hours of the Virgin; the Penitential Psalms, followed by prayers and a Litany; the Hours of the Cross; the Office of the Dead; the Sulfrages to the Saints, followed by a single prayer which a blue rubric announces. Initials through out are illuminated, and one initial is historiated with a miniature of the Virgin and St. Anne., 1 column of 13 lines ruled in red written in lettre batarde., and “1542” on last main text leaf possibly indicating the precise date of the binding.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Leaf excised from a larger manuscript. Modern number "8" in pencil on the top recto; two small white fabric tags from the last mounting., On verso: extended descender in the last line. On recto: capitals set off in margins., Leaf containing a selection work written by the historian Titus Livius beginning in book 25, detailing the siege of Syracuse. Script is attributed to Giacomo Curlo., 1 column of 24 ines in blind ruling written in Humanist minuscule., and Owed and dismembered by Otto Ege (1888-1951). The parent text of the leaf acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1985.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Folded at bottom. A few small worm holes. 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 (MS 156)., Quitclaim by Hugh, son of Simon of Rodes, to Walter son of Walter de Hawesword (Haukesw[o]rd), relinquishing all rights to four acres of land in the field of Rodes [in Menston] which Hugh’s father Simon had given to his brother William. Witnessed by Simon Ward miles (known 1291-1326; Moor 84:155-6), Mathew Burne, Hugh de Berwicke, Walter de Midelton, Simon son of Thomas de Giselay, and Thomas (Francisus?). Note that, with the exception of William, son of Matilda de Haukesw[o]rds, this is the same list of witnesses which appears in a related quitclaim (MS 156)., 1 column of 10 lines ruled in ink 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 by Regan/Lynch.
- Date Created:
- [1275 TO 1325]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries