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The following list represents a preliminary attempt to create an inventory of single-sheets, loose gatherings and manuscript fragments composed prior to 1600. The items treated here are mostly Latin liturgical texts.
An additional three dozen items, mostly charters and diplomatic correspondence in English and French (including a letter of Louis XIV), await description. Inquiries about these may be directed to Benjamin Panciera, Curator for Special Collections.
| Brief Description: | Leaf from Bible | |
| Date: | Late 13th c. | |
| Origin: | France | |
| Description: | Parchment, 160 x 116 mm (111 x 75 mm written space), 2 columns, 45 lines. Running headlines in red and blue ink. Early French Gothic bookhand. Coloured initials: alternating blue and red initials, with chapter numbers in red and blue and decorative penwork/flourishing extending into the left hand margins, a blue initial being accompanied by a red number and red penwork, and vice versa. Rubricated initials: U and Q; blue initial: U. Rubricated numbers XLV; blue numbers XLIIII and XLVI. | |
| Contents: | Book of Jeremiah vv. 43.1 - 46.9 | |
| Incipit: | (recto) ... uerba hec dixit azarias filius Josie et Johanna filius charee et omnes viri superbi dicentes ad jeremiam | |
| Explicit: | (verso) .... exultate in curribus et procedant fortes ethyopia et libiae tenentes scutum et lidijas. | |
| Provenance: | Gift of Ralph W. Dixon. |
| Brief Description: | Leaf of Breviary | |
| Date: | Mid 15th c. | |
| Origin: | France | |
| Description: | Parchment (Vellum), 128 x 90 mm (82 x 59 mm written space) long lines, 19 lines per page. Gothic textura script, ruled in red; red rubrics. Coloured initials: alternating red and blue initials. Rubricated initials: Q, X(2) (Xriste), A, S(8), O(2). Blue initials: S(9), K, X(2) (Xriste), P, O. Two- line initial "K" (blue) opens the Kyrie Eleison" and indicates the beginning of the Litany of the Saints (verso). Rubrics: verbum? antiphona. | |
| Contents: | Prayer, antiphon, and Litany of the Saints up to "St. John the Evangelist." Judging from the antiphon, this is the Litany which usually follows the seven Penetential Psalms in nearly all Breviaries; the antiphon is closest in form to that found in the Sarum Breviary and the Breviarium Aberdonense; the Litany to that found in the Dominican Breviary. The prayer preceding the antiphon has not been located. | |
| Text of Prayer: | .....tantum exultet et eternum bonum concupiscit. Qui cum laudatur extollitur et cum uituperatus querit magnis iracundie famulis agitatur non reminiscens quod ait dominus. Super quem requiescam nisi super humilem et quietum et trementem verba mea. | |
| Incipit: | antipihona Ne reminiscaris domine delicta mea ... Kyrie eleison Christe eleison Kyrie eleison Christ audi nos Christe exaudi nos Christe defende nos.... (and into Litany of the Saints) | |
| Explicit: | Sancte Iohannes evangelista ora pro nobis | |
| Provenance: | Gift of Ralph W. Dixon | |
| Bibliography: | Breviarium Aberdonense. Londini: apud J. Toovey, 1854. |
| Brief Description: | Leaf from prayer book in Dutch | |
| Date: | 15th century - ca. 1475 | |
| Origin: | Northern Netherlands |
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| Description: | Parchment (Vellum), 179 x 125 mm (100 x 63 mm written space), long lines, 22 lines per page. Written in littera textualis, ruled in brown. 2 line Gothic majiscule initials, in alternating red and blue inks, with red flourishing on the blue initial, and blue flourishing on the red initial, blue W, red O; 1 line alternating red and blue initials - 2 red H, one blue C and one red H; capitals touched in red. Rubrics in red. Three quarter filigree border in contrasting blue and red inks on recto of leaf. Gilded edges. Modern foliation in pencil: f. 90. | |
| Contents: | Prayers: Our Father, Hail Mary, Collect of the Holy Spirit, Prayer to the Holy Spirit. The latter two are probably either composed by or translations of Latin prayers by Geert Groote (of the Devotio Moderna). However, the full text of Groote's translations and prayers is not yet available in an edition, and neither of these two texts is included in the partial edition of Moll (Moll, Willem. Geert Groote's dietsche verteilingen. Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, 1880). | |
| Incipit: | ...ofnemes die sonden der werelt .... Heer ontserm di onser Criste ontserm de onser Heer ontferm di onser vader onser du biste in den .... Gegruet sijsstu maria vol ghenaden .... Feest voort ....Heer uhore mijn gebet En mijn rope ... We bidden di heer verhore ...collecta .... Ontserm di onser ontserm di onser ...(prayer to the Holy Ghost) | |
| Explicit: | .... godliker bescerminghe Du mits aen en imopen dijns heilighe drie .... | |
| Provenance: | Gift of Ralph W. Dixon | |
| Bibliography: | Gerard Achten and Hemann Knaus. Deutsche und Niderlandische Gebetsbuch Handschrifte der Hessischen Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek Darmstadt. Darmstadt: E. Roether, 1959. No. 125, f. 157r, 161r (p. 336) - these entries give incipit of text. |
| Brief Description: | Gathering from Breviary | |
| Date: | Late 15th c. - Early 16th c. | |
| Origin: | Spain (?) | |
| Description: | 6 ff, 1 gathering - some stitching in white thread holds the bifolios together. Parchment, rather yellowed and discoloured, 203 x 144 mm (Written space 177 x 112 mm). Musical notation with text in long lines: 5 lines per page. Five line stave, with clef in F on middle line. Written in a late Spanish Gothic formal bookhand; Spanish style decoration on the capitals. Five line stave ruled in red, which has discoloured to various shades of brown, with square notes in black, faded in places to brown. Written in black, faded in places. | |
| Contents: | Psalm XCIV with concluding doxology and musical setting according to the text of the pre-Tridentine Roman Breviary (basically text of Vulgate secundum LXX with variations). | |
| Incipit: | (First recto) Venite exultemus domino; iubilemus Deo salutari nostro; preoccupemus faciem eius in confesione .... |
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| Explicit: | (Final recto) .... iuraui in hira mea, si introibunt in requiem meam. Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto, sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper et in secula seculorum. amen (final verso blank) | |
| Provenance: | Unknown | |
| Bibliography: | Dom Petrus Sabatier O.S.B. (Maurist). Bibliorum
Sacrorum Latinae Versiones Antiquae seu Vetus Italica et Ceterae quaecunque
in Codicibus Mss. et antiquorum libris reperiri potuerint: Quae cum Vulgata
Latina et cum Textu Graeco comparantur. Rheims: Reginaldi Florentain, 1743. Pp. 182 - 184. Weber, Robert. Le Psautier romain et les autres anciens Psautiers latins; éd. critique par Dom Robert Weber. Rome: Abbaye Saint-Jérôme, 1953. |
| Brief Description: | Leaf of Lectionary, Evangeliary or Missal. | |
| Date: | 15th c. / late 14th c. | |
| Origin: | France? | |
| Description: | Parchment (?), 158 x 114 mm (104 x 72 mm written space), 2 columns, 32 lines. Foliated in red by rubricator - f. cxxix. French Gothic bookhand, written in black ink with alternating blue and red coloured initials: 2 blue and 1 red "I". Rubricated; upper case letters highlighted in yellow. | |
| Contents: | Readings from the Gospels for 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th Sundays after Pentecost Sunday and incipits for the collects of the Mass, described here as oratio. Readings from the Gospels according to St. Matthew (Matthew 6; 24 - 33 [15th Sunday], Matthew 22: 23, 35-42 [18th Sunday]), St. Luke (Luke 7: 11-16 [16th Sunday], Luke 14: 1-11 [17th Sunday]), according to the text of the Vulgate as cited in the Roman Missal published at Milan in 1474. However, the numbering of the Sundays is different: whereas the Roman Missal starts to count the Sundays after Pentecost after Trinity Sunday (i.e. Pentecost, Trinity, 1st after Pentecost, and so on), the Sundays on the fragment appear to be counted as follows: Pentecost, Trinity, 2nd after Pentecost, and so on. Thus the Sundays on the fragment are counted one ahead of the Roman Missal, and the readings given are for the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th Sundays according to that. According to Hughes (pp. 10 - 12), this is perfectly possible. | |
| Incipit: | (15th Sunday)... sustinebit et alterum contempnet. Non potestis deo seruire et mamone Ideo dico vobis ne solliciti sitis anime vestre quid manducetis neque corpori..... hec omnia adicientur uobis (Matt. 6: 24 - 33). oratio. Custodi domine ... ; (16th Sunday) In illo tempore ibat ihesus in civitatem quod vocatur Naim ..... Quia propheta magnus surrexit in nobis: et deus visitavit plebem suam. (Lk 7: 11-16) oratio. Ecclesiam tuam domine .... ; (17th Sunday) In illo tempore cum introisset ihesus in domum cuiusdam principis phariseorum manducare panum et ipsi observant eum. Et ecce homo quidam hydropicus .... Quia omnis qui se exaltat humiliabitur et qui se humilat exaltabitur (Lk 14:1 - 11) oratio. Tua nos domine ...; (18th Sunday) In illo tempore acesserunt ad ihesus phariseis et interrogavit eum unus ex eis legis doctor temptans eum ... Congregatis autem phariseis interrogavit eos ihesus dicens Quid nobis videtur de Christo cuius filius ....(Mt. 22: 23, 35 - 42) | |
| Provenance: | Unknown | |
| Bibliography: | Hughes, Andrew. Medieval Manuscripts
for Mass and Office: A Guide to Their Organization and Terminology. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1982, pp. 10 - 12. Lippe Robert. Missale Romanum Mediolani 1474 Vol I. London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1899, pp. 277 - 281. |
| Brief Description: | Leaf of Antiphonary | |
| Date: | 15th c. (Period of Visconti influence?) | |
| Origin: | Northern Italy (?) | |
| Description: | Parchment - v. heavy; 438 x 286 mm. (writing space: 395 x 266 mm.) Musical notation with text in long lines - 8 lines per page. Rounded Italian Gothic display script. Written in a very dark brown-black ink, very rubbed and faded in places. Alternating red and blue initials with fine red filigree flourishing/penwork on the blue capitals and vice versa; blue "S", "L", and "C"; red "A" (2) and "P". Rubrics in red. Four-line stave, ruled in red. The fragment is very yellowed on one side (recto) and very pale on the other (verso); it has also been cut at the corners and around the edges. There are remnants of what appears to be paper tape on the edges of the yellowed side. The cut corners, the paper tape and fold-marks within the fragment itself indicate that it was once used as a book-binding. There is a mark in more recent, blacker ink at the top of the verso side: . The remnants of some old-fashioned, printed German fractura can be seen on the paper tape on the margins. | |
| Contents: | Antiphons with first lines of psalms 112 and 115, and "Alleluia" probably from the Ambrosian Office: Common of several saints? | |
| Incipit: | Pretiosa in conspectu domini mors sanctorum eius Versus Credidi propter quod locutus sum... Sancti tui Domine ..... | |
| Explicit: | .... Laudate pueri dominum laudate nomen domini Alleluya | |
| Provenance: | Gift of the Sisters of St. Francis, Mishawaka | |
| Bibliography: | Andrea C. Card. Ferrari. Breviarum Ambrosianum S.
Carolo Archiepiscopo vol. I aestiva. Milan (Mediolani
sumptibus): L. F. Cogliati 1902, pp. [21] - [22]. Terence Bailey and Paul Merkley. The Antiphons of the Ambrosian Office. Ottawa: The Institute of Medieval Music, 1989, p. 137 (In festo plurium sanctorum). René Jean Hesbert. Corpus Antiphonalium Officii. Roma: Herder, 1963 - 1979. Vol. II p. 594 - 605, Vol. III, p. 413. |
| Brief Description: | Leaf of Antiphonary | |
| Date: | 15th c. | |
| Origin: | Italy(?) | |
| Description: | Parchment, hair side (recto) very dark, flesh side (verso) very light; 577 x 354 mm (398 [410 incl. upper notes] x 283 mm writing space). Long lines of text and musical notation on a 4-line stave, 6 lines. Written in black ink, ruled in red - vertical margins extend all the way up and down the sides of the page, rubrics in red. Illuminated capitals: red capitals with black flourishing (P, B) and blue capitals with red flourishing (A, V). On the flesh side, both illuminated capitals (B, V) and smaller initials (D [2], E, I) are also coloured with a pale yellow wash, which is also present on the hair side, but almost indistinguishable from the darkened parchment. | |
| Contents: | Extracts from the Office for the Feast of the Assumption (most likely) | |
| Incipit: | ...mea dedit odorem (suavitatis?) alleluya Pulchra sum et decora filie ierusalem .... | |
| Explicit: | Benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris tui Dominus ... Virgo parens Christi pa.... | |
| Provenance: | Gift of St. Mary's Hospital, Gallup, New Mexico. Dated: 28 April 1933. | |
| Bibliography: | René - Jean Hesbert. Corpus Antiphonalium Officii. Roma; Herder, 1963 - 1979. Vol. I pp. 286 - 291; vol. II pp. 536 - 539 (also p. 705 "In die Natale Sanctarum Virginum"); vol II p. 418. |
| Brief Description: | Leaf from Book of Hours | |
| Date: | Mid-15th century (?) | |
| Origin: | Paris, France (?) | |
| Description: | Parchment; 213 x 152 mm. (92 x 66 mm. writing space); 15 lines per page; long lines. Written in brown ink in littera bastarda; ruled in red, rubrics in blue; illuminated capitals. Line endings and versal innitials in highly burnished gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery: blue ground with red insert in letter alternating with red ground and blue insert in letter. Very wide margins; prickings visible on one margin. Catchword "Justiciabus" visible at bottom on verso of leaf. | |
| Contents: | Ps. 39:3 - 9 (Septuagint) from the Office for the Dead, Matins, 3rd Nocturn. | |
| Incipit: | Et exaudivit preces meas et eduxit me de lacu miserie, et de luto fecis. Et statuit supra petram pedes meos et direxit gressus meos .... | |
| Explicit: | ....Annunciam iusticiam tuam in ecclesia magna ecce labia mea non prohibeo domine tu scisti ... | |
| Provenance: | Gift of Ralph W. Dixon |
| Brief Description: | Miniature (from Book of Hours?) | |
| Date: | mid-15th century | |
| Origin: | Northern Europe | |
| Description: | Parchment; 163 x 114 mm (painting: [from top of arched frame] 113 x 73 mm). Miniature painting of Christ among the Doctors in gold frame, arched on top, on verso of leaf. No writing of any sort on recto or verso of leaf. Late Northern Gothic in style. | |
| Provenance: | Gift of Fanny and Philip Duschnes, December 1948 |
| Brief Description: | Indenture | |
| Date: | July, 1659 | |
| Origin: | Lancaster, England | |
| Description: | Parchment, written on flesh side. 322 x 574 mm (244 x 549 mm). Written in 17th c. English sloped secretary hand in long lines, 36 lines. Prickings visible on both sides of charter. Attachment for seal at the bottom of indenture; seal itself is missing. Signed on the back (hair side) by Henry Thompson and the witnesses (?): "Signed, sealed and delivered in the Chamber of Thomas Touluson [and] George Pootte" | |
Contents: |
Land lease contract between said Henry Thompson of Pillin, Lancashire and Edmund Morden of Preston, Lancashire. | |
| Incipit: | This Indenture made the twentieth day of Julie in the yeare of our Lord God (according to the computation of the Church of England) one thousand six hundred fiftie and nyne Betweene Edmund Mordon of Preston in ? in the countie of Lancaster gentleman upon the ? and Henrie Thompson of Pillin in the said countie of Lancaster ? witnesseth ..... | |
| Explicit: | ..... repaired and amended shall yield and give up to the said Edmund Mordon his In witnesse whereof the parties above and to the severall parts of those Indentures Interchangeably have put their hands and seals the day and yeare first above written. | |
| Provenance: | Unknown |
| Brief Description: | Letter from Bernard, Bishop of (Nemausen?) to Louis, archdeacon of the episcopal church. | |
| Date: | 2 January, 1568 | |
| Origin: | Nemausen (?) | |
| Description: | Written in pale brown ink in a very clear humanist secretary hand. Seal of N.(?) attached at bottom of letter. Some writing in a different script on back of letter. Signed by Bernard in very black ink, and by the scribe in the same pale brown ink as that used for the rest of the document. | |
| Contents: | Letter from Bernard, Bishop of N.(?), to the archdeacon, concerning the administration of ecclesiastical offices - benefices, prebendaries, and so forth - within the diocese. | |
| Incipit: | Bernardus del bene Dei et sanctae sedis apostolicae gratia Nemausensis Episcopus dillecto nobis in Christo domino Ludivico Aimini Archidiacono nostre ecclesiae Nemausensis salutem in domino confidentes de vestris prudentia et legalitate. Nos gratis et sponte ex certa sciencia nostra omnibus melioribus modo via jure causa et forma quibus melius et eficacius possumus et debemus facimus constitutiones ..... | |
| Explicit: | ...Jussimus per nostrum. Infra scriptum secretarium Arelate in conventu fratrum minorum Anno a nativate domini Millesimo quingenta sexagesima octavo et die secunda mensis Januarii potentibus ibidem venerabilibus viris Bertrando apothecario Nemausensis et fratre Iacobo Alberti praefecto gardiano dicti conventis fratrum minorum testibus ad hoc vocatis. [Signed] Bernardus Episcopus Nemansensis supradictus subscripsit. Subscription and signed by the notary Ludovicus Millianus. |
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| Provenance: | Unknown |
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