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The following list attempts to provide a comprehensive listing of all the bound manuscripts currently held by the Department of Special Collections that may be dated prior to 1600. Those manuscripts described by Corbett are followed by their Corbett numbers. Manuscripts acquired since the publication of Corbett have not been numbered. To refer to these unnumbered manuscripts, researchers should use the brief designations given below. |
Psalter. 1456-1481. German: Dominican convent of St. Katherine of Nuremberg (Corbett 1)
Psalter. 1423-1456. German: Dominican convent of St. Katherine of Nuremberg (Corbett 2)
Psalter. late 14th - early 15th cent. English, for Sarum Use, with extensive illuminations and historiated initials (Not in Corbett; donated by Rosemary Park-Anastos in 1977 and referred to as the Park-Anastos Psalter)
Book of Hours. Ca. 1470. Anglo-Flemish origin for Sarum Use. (Corbett 4)
Book of Hours. late 14th - early 15th cent. English, for Sarum Use, (Not in Corbett; referred to as the Basthorpe Book of Hours since a note accompanying it says that it was found "bricked up in a chimney at Basthorpe priory")
Book of Hours. 15th cent. (Corbett 35)
[Anonymous, of Carthusian origin?], A Myrrour to Devote Peple with A Tretise on the craft of dying. Second quarter of the 15th cent. English: commissioned by John 4th Baron Scrope of Mashma (d. 1455) for his wife Elisabeth Chaworth (Not in Corbett; acquired in 2000, from the library of William Foyle)
Rule of the Ambrosian Society (Milan); Devotional Works, etc. late 15th or early 16th cent., after 1492. (Corbett 42)
Henry Suso, Orivola della sapientia (Clock of Wisdom) and Lucificio della sapientia. 15th cent. (Corbett 50)
Bible. 1417. (Corbett 7)
Peter Riga, Aurora, versified Bible. 13th cent. (Corbett 5)
Peter Riga, Aurora, versified Bible; Aegidius of Paris, Misterium de agno pascali. 13th cent., second half. (Corbett 8)
Note that italics indicate principle of alphabetization for purposes of this list.
Augustine, De doctrina christiana. 15th cent. (Corbett 31)
Supplement to the Summa Pisanellae of Nicholas of Ausino. 15th cent., after 1444. (Corbett 29)
Varia, including pseudo-Bernard, De contemptu mundi; Augustine, De facto hominis; Miracula urbis romane et primo considera and Nota indulgentie ecclesiarum in urbe romana. 15th cent. (Corbett 56)
Boniface VIII, Decretals with Gloss. 14th cent. (Corbett 45)
Walter Burley. Treatises. 15th cent. (Corbett 19)
John Buridan. On the Ethics of Aristotle. 15th cent. (Corbett 22)
Nicholas of Byard, Humbert of Romans, pseudo-Bernard, et al. 13-14th cent. (Corbett 15)
Letters of Catherine of Siena, Ugo Panziera, and Feo Belcari. 15th cent. (Corbett 18)
Peter Comestor. Historia Scholastica. 13th cent. (Corbett 13)
Letters of St. Cyprian. 15th cent. (Corbett 44)
Joannis Augustinus Folpertus. De visitatione episcpatus seu diocaesis. 1529. From the library of Joannis Angeli Duke of Altaemps (Corbett 33)
Tracts of Jean Gerson, Pierre d'Ailly, et al. 15th cent. (Corbett 11)
Paul of Liazariis on the Constitutions of Pope Clement V. 14th cent. (Corbett 46)
Olympiodorus of Alexandria. Commentary on Ecclesiastes. 1489-1512. (Corbett 28)
Nicholas of Pelhrimov. Scriptum super quatuor evangelica. 1435. (Corbett 27)
Works of Peregrinus of Oppeln, Jacques de Nouvion, Thomas Ebendorfer of Haselbach and Nicholas of Dinkelsbuhl, et al. 15th cent. (Corbett 3)
Varia, including a history of the ancient world and excerpts from Philostrati, Livy, Cassiodorus, Seneca, Ambrose, Petronius (longest section) Suetonius, Cicero and other classical authors. 15th cent. (Corbett 58)
Philip the Chancellor. Sermons. 13th cent. (Corbett 9)
Letters and Treatises of Aneas Sylvius Piccolomini [Pius II], Gregory I, Bernard, Cyprian, et al. 1463-1484. (Corbett 30)
William Peraldi. De vitiis. 14th cent. (Corbett 12)
Philip of Zara (Phillipus Iadrensis). Poem and commentary on Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy. 14th cent. (text of De consolatione philosophi); 15th cent., after 1484. (Corbett 53)
Medieval English Statutes, 1225-1330. 14th cent., after 1316. (Corbett 25)
Medieval English Chronicles: Geoffrey of Monmouth, et al. 15th cent., after 1414. (Corbett 40)
Consecration and Coronation of Claude of France. 1517. French. (Corbett 37)
Fondatione et constitutioni del Collegio Ferdinando eretto in Pisa. 1594. (Corbett 16)
Cuvelier, La Vie de Bertrand du Guesclin. 1464. (Corbett 51)
Roman de la Rose. 15th cent. (Corbett 34)
Serafino dei Ciminelli dell'Aquila, Jacopo Sannazaro and Jacopo Corso. Poetry selections. 1525-1530. Italy. (Corbett 17)
Vita Homer; Vita Fabii Camilli; Poems of Angelus Decembrius, et al. 15th cent., after 1463. (Corbett 43)
Alan of Lille. Liber parabolarum. Early 16th cent. (though Corbett has 15th cent.) (Corbett 55)
Facetus "Cum nihil utilius". 15th cent. (Corbett 6)
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