Medieval manuscript fragments, 0800-1800
Collection Number: 6532
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Medieval manuscript fragments, 0800-1800
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6532
Abstract:
Various Medieval manuscript fragments and objects.
Creator:
no primary creator
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Marcus Tullius. Cicero
Livy.
Avicenna, 980-1037.
Jutta, von Arnsberg.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Duport, Jean Hersmulle
Thomas, of Breslau. (Title of work: Practica medicinalis..)
Justinian, Emperor of the East, I, 483?-565.
Ballis, Margarita de.
Ricardus, de Mediavilla, approximately 1249-1308?
Pseudo-Bonaventure. (Title of work: Stimulus amoris..)
Gregory, of Nicomedia, -1240.
Catholic Church. Pope (1484-1492 : Innocent VIII)
Quanitities:
3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in various languages, including Latin, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Hebrew.
See also the Eleze McKenzie Collection of Medieval Manuscript Leaves, #6931, http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMM06931
Scripts include examples of various forms of Carolingian, Praegothica, Northern and
Southern Textualis, Semitextualis, Cursiva Antiquior, Cursiva, Hybrida, Semihybrida,
Gothico-Antiqua.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Medieval manuscript fragments, #6532. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Various items, including documents (such as Nuremberg rules for execution from 16th
century, papal texts, legal statements) and fragments from books (such as parchment
strips recovered from bindings, historiated initials, illuminations, and leaves drawn
from various texts including the Vulgate Bible, commentaries on the Bible, breviaries,
Psalters, books of hours, homilies, liturgical books with musical notation, books
of law, works of Church Fathers such as Augustine and Jerome, works of classical authors
such as Cicero and Livy, and works of various other authoritative authors such as
Avicenna). Also included is a document written on a bifolium on vellum, from Thann
(Alsace), dated 1499, listing saints' relics transferred from monstrances to a reliquary
(here called a Tafel) in 1458 at the collegiate church of St. Thiébaut in Thann.
Also, a fragment of an unidentified Lauda from the Passion of Christ, in ottava rima,
probably of mid-Italian origin. It describes St. Peter's denial, the trial of Christ
before Caiaphas, the crowd's verdict, the flagellation, and the humiliation.
Also included is a leaf from an antiphonal, on vellum, with a miniature of a female
saint preaching. The leaf (480 x 355 mm.) is from north-central Italy, probably around
Bologna, ca. 1350. It includes 7 four-line staves in red, and a large initial "A"
illustrating the verse Adaperiat dominus cor vestrum (2 Macc. 4). Music and text of
a later date are added in the bottom margin.
Included in addition is a framed 1288 document on vellum from Abbess Jutta von Arnsberg
of Freckenhorst, Germany, concerning an annuity for goods bought in connection with
the annual feast of St. Martin's. The abbess's seal is attached to the document by
its original tab.
Also included is a Spanish manuscript on vellum, conveying a piece of olive grove
near Cordoba, dated 10 February 1503; and a small bronze seal matrix, used to seal
documents, bearing an image of an Agnus Dei with a large flag on a long crucifix,
with inscription "Ecce Agnvs Dei."
Also, a remnant of a 15th-century book of hours annotated and augmented in the following
centuries, with an inscription on the front pastedown dated 1768 naming one of its
owners: Jean Hersmulle Duport, doctor of theology (Sorbonne), who taught physics at
the Sulpician Grand Seminary of St Irénée, and then became curate of Loire, a village
between Lyon and Vienne (until 1791). With eight original vellum leaves from the manuscript,
most with added texts. The contents are: 1. one folio numbered 17, with the end of
the Gospel lesson of St. Matthew, an inscription in a later hand, and on the verso
the capital letters DE LH (the rest blank); 2. one folio with four lines of Latin
religious verse in French humanist minuscule script, below which is an erased inscription
that can be read in ultraviolet light (naming "Jehan Frenier," with various place-names:
probably Je[h]an Frenier, curé de Saint-Martin de Maulay, near Loudun), the verso
blank; 3. six folios from the end of the book, the first being the conclusion of the
Suffrages but with the following added: a complete prayer in 90 rhyming couplets of
French, beginning "O Iesu roy de tout le monde / En qui toute bonte abonde / Je suis
ta pauvre creature / Contemplant ta saincte figure / Se tenant a grands cloux de fer...
Helas quel fers, helas quelz cloux / Ils furent forges longs et groux / Pour te faire
plus de martyre" (a variant was printed in 1556 in Fr. Pierre Olivier, Le Mirouer
du Chrestien), followed by "Les Sept Oraisons de St. Gregoire" complete in seven Latin
stanzas; this followed by an inscription, "AU NOM DIEU / AMEN CES HEURES". Many medieval
manuscripts were transmitted from generation to generation and abundantly annotated.
This remnant reveals the kinds of texts deemed essential in such books of private
devotion but omitted, for whatever reason, from the original commission.
Fragment from Saint Augustine's Expositio in evangelium Johannis, from Italy, circa
1100; leaf on vellum from a breviary, Flanders, circa 1350; and leaf on vellum from
a large antiphonal, from Spain, circa 1525, with elaborate Moorish strapwork design
on the borders and surrounding a large initial letter O. Also, a leaf from a 16th-century
antiphonal from Italy, on vellum, with decorated initials; and a leaf from another
antiphonal from Italy, circa 1500, with decorated initials made with a compass.
Also, a leaf from a Book of hours (Paris, circa 1500), with a color illustration showing
the coronation of the Virgin; and a fragment of a manuscript bifolium from Thomas
of Breslau's Practica medicinalis, subsequently used as a binding cover in a volume,
with pieces of leather straps laced through the text (Italy, late 14th century).
Fragment from a codex by Justinian, with historiated initials including the head of
a woman in a blue cloak (southern France, circa 1280).
Also, the last will of Margarita de Ballis, the wife of the Count de Ballis, in Alcamo,
Sicily (1408), on paper with a watermark showing a hand with a flower, commonly found
on paper in Europe. Also, a historiated border on vellum from the Great Choir Book
of Ferdinand and Isabella, Castile, circa 1479-1492.
Two fragments of a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, with a remark on
werewolves, by Richard of Middleton (Ricardus de Mediavilla), circa 1400.
Also, a single folio on vellum from a gradual, from Eastern France or possibly Germany,
circa 1480.
Also, eight leaves and a later colophon from the Cotterell-Throckmorton book of hours,
use of Sarum, produced in England, circa 1425, probably for a chapel in an English
church or cathedral. Illuminated, with initials in gold leaf, and rubrics giving instructions
for a bishop, dean, cantor, chancellor, and treasurer, and ordering texts to be read
"sine pronunciacione" and "sub silentio," suggesting communal devotion. The (16th-century)
colophon instructs the reader to pray for the souls of Edward Cotterell, his wife
Margaret, and their seven children; presumably they were the ones who donated the
book to the church. The volume was later held in the library of Sir Robert Throckmorton
(died 1791).
An illuminated leaf including the opening of Book IV, chapter 1 of the Grandes chroniques
de France, with an illumination showing Saint Iago (Santiago) de Compostela appearing
to Charlemagne in a vision. In the text, he instructs Charlemagne to come to Galicia
and wrest Spain from the Saracens. He also tells Charlemagne to go to Galilee and
liberate the Holy Places.
Also, a papal bull signed by Pope Innocent VIII, 1488; and a patristic manuscript
in Greek, evidently a homily about St. John Chrysostom, 11th century. Also, a leaf
of the Stimulus amoris by Pseudo-Bonaventure, in Old French translation, circa 1420.
Two fragments in Greek, one from Gregory of Nicomedia's Sermo in S. Mariam assistentem
cruci, circa 13th or 14th century, and the other the description of Jesus's entrance
into Jerusalem, Matthew 21:1-19, 12th or 13th century.
Names:
Jesus Christ -- : Poetry. -- : Passion
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- : Pictorial works.
Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814.
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.
Catholic Church -- : Liturgy.
Subjects:
Bulls, Papal.
Women saints.
Relics.
Sermons.
Authors, Classical.
Fathers of the church.
Legal documents.
Music -- 17th century.
Music -- 16th century.
Music -- 15th century.
Music -- 500-1400.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Form and Genre Terms:
Wills.
Antiphonaries -- Italy -- 16th century.
Stamps (tools).
Bifolia.
Psalters.
Breviaries.
Books of hours.
Illuminations (visual works).
Historiated initials.
Gothic scripts.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Mutilated bifolium from a glossed Vulgate Bible, Psalms 39 and 41.
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Ninth century. |
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Size: 264 x 352 mm (220 x 131 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin, on parchment with red capitals and rubrics in Carolingian script.
Marginal glossing in a smaller hand (also a Carolingian script) and some staining
on the second folio. Contains Psalms 39:2-13, 41:7-43. Provenance: Lost description by Susan Farrier, n.d. Formerly b.21.
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Leaf from Leo Magnus' Tractatus, 75, 76.
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Ninth century. |
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Size: 385 x 254 mm (339 x 194 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin in two ruled columns on flesh side of the parchment only. In a
Carolingian script and including occasional red initials, rubrication, and highlighting.
Taken from a binding. Provenance: Lost description by Elizabeth Rowe, 1981. Formerly m.31.ID Number: CornellMedMS_022.jpg (a).
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
One binding strip probably from a Bible containing Jerome, Matthew 3.21.1-11 and Zacharias
9.9.9.
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Ninth century. |
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Size: 309 x 12 mm (264 x 12 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Narrow binding strip written in Latin on parchment in a Carolingian script with
no decoration. Provenance: Lost description by Camille Bennett, May 1979. Formerly o.33.
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Mutilated bifolium from a lectionary including readings from Acts 3:9-10.
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Ninth century. |
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Size: 56 x 362/192 mm (56 x 161 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Carolingian script and featuring some red rubrication.
Provenance: Formerly 007.ID Number: CornellMedMS_014_001.jpg (a).
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Leaf containing capitula for 1. Corinthians 3:16-4:17 on recto and Bible fragment
on verso.
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Ninth century. |
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Size: 341 x 166/101 mm (282 x 73 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Carolingian script.Provenance: Acquired by George Lincoln Burr. Formerly folder v.40.
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Leaf with commentary on Luke 7:36, probably from Germany.
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Ninth to tenth century. |
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Size: 205 x 148/176 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment. The script is Carolingian and of the Alcuin School
of Tours. Fragment contains commentary on Luke 7.36, possibly from a book of Sermons.
Probably brought to the abbey of St Maximin by Ada, sister of Charlemagne. Provenance: Purchased by George Lincoln Burr. Burr's notes read: 'Manuscript fragments of about
800 AD taken from an old book ( CUL's copy of the Bibliae Moraliztus of Berchorius
of Poitiers – 7546 G75) and to be restored to that volume after photographing them
for the Pope's Biblical Commission'; and another reads, '[…] Even more interesting
than the book itself is the old MS with which the monks of St. Maximim to whom this
copy belonged, have lined the binding. It is a fragment of a Bible of the ninth century,
which was perhaps brought to St. Maximim by Ada, sister of Charlemagne. The script
is clearly (so Dr. Loew convinced me) the work of Alcuin's School of Tours […]'. Note
that this manuscript fragment was never returned to the binding of Bibliae Moraliztus.
ID Number: CornellMedMS_010_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_010_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Six leaves from a Tours Bible.
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Eleventh century. |
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Size: Fragment 1/ I.A: 205 x 281 mm (205 x 205 mm incomplete). Fragment 2/ I.B: 207
x 281 mm (134 X 207 mm incomplete). Fragment 3/ II.C: 9 x 271 mm (9 x 271 mm incomplete).
Fragment 4/ II.D: 181 x 270 mm (181 x 270 mm incomplete). Fragment 5/ III.E: 257 x
142/121 mm (162 x 88 mm incomplete). Fragment 6/ III.F: 257 x 120 mm (170 x 120 mm
incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Fragments from a Tours Bible, written in Latin on parchment in a late Carolingian/
early Praegothica script. Fragments contain parts of the books of Genesis, Daniel,
and Numbers.Provenance: Lost description by Boyd Hill, 1979. Formerly r.36 1-6.
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Two mutilated bifolia from a missal containing parts of Matthew 9 and 18, and Ephesians
4, with some diastematic neumes.
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Eleventh century. |
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Size: Bifolium 1: 95 x 166/330 mm (95 x 146 mm incomplete). Bifolium 2: 97 x 187/375
mm (56 x 150 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a late Carolingian hand. Orange capitals with glosses
in a smaller hand. Leaf 1, recto 1 contains Eph. 4:1, 2, 8, verso 1 contains Matt.
9:9, 10, (11?), recto 2 contains Matt. 18: 6,7,8. Leaf 2, recto 1 contains [Matt:
18: 5 -6?], verso 1 contains Matt. 18: 8, 9, 10, recto 2 unknown, verso 2 contains
Eph. 4:8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Taken from a binding.Provenance: Formerly a.41.ID Number: CornellMedMS_021_004.jpg (1a); CornellMedMS_021_003.jpg (1b); CornellMedMS_021_001.jpg
(2a); CornellMedMS_021_002.jpg (2b).
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 bis |
Fragment from a Byzantine patristic manuscript in Greek.
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Eleventh century. |
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Size: 270 x 180 mm (250 x 170 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Greek on parchment in two columns, evidently a homily about St. John
Chrysostom. Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri, August 2016.ID Number:
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Fragment from a manuscript, probably a Bible.
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Mid-eleventh century. |
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Size: 34 x 82 mm (34 x 69 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Carolingian script, possibly containing extracts
from the Vulgate Book of Mark 10:33 ('Ecce ascendimus hieroso…'). Red initial "I".
Provenance: Gift of Bruce Ferrini. Formerly folder 12. ID Number: CornellMedMS_001.jpg (a).
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Mutilated bifolium containing Haimo of Auxerre's Homiliae de tempore, 81.
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Late eleventh century. |
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Size: 47 x 322/ 198 mm (39 x 180 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a neat Carolingian script. Ruled in hard-point
and this has cut through the parchment a little on leaf 1.Provenance: Lost description by Samuel Overstreet, May 1981. Formerly p.34.ID Number: CornellMedMS_020_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_020_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Three leaves from Bede's Homiliae, from Italy.
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Late eleventh or early twelfth century. |
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Size: 14.1: 420 x 295 mm (336 x 217 mm). 14.2: 418 x 295 mm (328 x 206 mm). 14.3:
419 x 296 mm (354 x 228 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin in an Italian Carolingian script on parchment. Three leaves numbered
ciij, cx, cxx, with 43 lines of text in two columns (cxx has 45 lines). Contains part
of the homilies for the eighth Sunday after Pentecost. Two decorative initials ("L"
f. ciij, "I" f. cx) in yellow, red, blue, and white with interlace and white intertwined
tendrils. The loose organization of the decoration is similar to the ornament in a
manuscript of the Lives of the Saints attributed to the twelfth century in the Biblioteca
Ambrosiana in Milan (MS. B. 49 inf. See M. L. Gengaro and G. V. Guglielmetti, Inventario
dei codici decoratie miniati della Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Florence: Olscheki, 1968,
pl. 49, pp. 51-52).Provenance: Formerly Calkins no. 20; De Ricci, II, 1240, B. 63a; folder 14 (1-3). Brought in
1888 in Lucca for the A. D. White library.
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Single Fragment on vellum, Text by Augustine, from Italy.
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Circa 1100 |
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Size: 200 x 150 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin in an Italian Carolingian script on parchment. Contains part of
the "Expositio in Evangelium Iohannis" of Augustine.Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri in July 2014.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Leaf from the Acta Martyrii, including the martyrs of Sebaste.
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Late eleventh to twelfth century. |
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Size: 431 x 321/284 mm (406 x 241 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: One leaf in Latin in a Praegothica script on parchment. Beginning: 'donis multis
habere faciam…', and ending: 'animas deo reddentes dicebant . Anima'. Text differs
from Acta Sanctorum. Provenance: Formerly folder 17.
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Mutilated bifolium of an Old Testament capitula and Augustine's Hipponiensis episcopi
Epistulae from chapter 21, De libro Ezechielis, possibly from England.
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Eleventh to twelfth century. |
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Size: 311 x 322/211 mm (239 x 194 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Praegothica script. Contains Old Testament capitula
in Latin in two columns recto and verso of 1, and one column (of originally two column
page) of Augustine's Hipponiensis episcopi Epistulae on recto and verso of 2. Red
initials and chapter numbers.Provenance: Formerly folder 56.
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Leaf, possibly from a service book.
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Eleventh to twelfth century. |
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Size: 342 x 231 mm (252 x 170 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Praegothica script, bordering on Textualis. Red
rubrication and initials, including a large "F" with pen work. Two glosses in separate
hands in the bottom margins.Provenance: Formerly folder 63.
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Leaf, possibly from a service book.
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Eleventh to twelfth century. |
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Size: 291 x 215 mm (209 x 147 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment with red capitals and rubrication. Two decorated initials
in red, blue, and green (and yellow?) ink; "D" on recto, "C" on verso. Faded fourteenth-century
scripts in the bottom margin.Provenance: Formerly folder 62.
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Hymnal leaf (or antiphonary?) with diastematic neumes.
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Late eleventh to early twelfth century. |
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Size: 216 x 144 mm (192 x 115 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a late Carolingian script with some Praegothica
features. Some faded marginal glossing and red capitals and rubrics.Provenance: Lost description by Ceclia Schautz?, May 1981. Formerly a.20.ID Number: CornellMedMS_006_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_006_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Music fragment from a hymnal with pre-square notation.
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Late eleventh to twelfth century. |
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Size: 81 x 223 mm (184 x 76 mm). Four staves: 12.0 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a late Carolingian script. Score written with four
line staves and using pre-square notation. Rubrics and lines in red ink. Provenance: Formerly h.47.ID Number: CornellMedMS_002_002.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_002_001.jpg (b).
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| Box 2 | Folder 14bis |
Fragment from St. Augustine, Expositio in evangelium Johannis.
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Circa 1100. |
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Size: 160 x 210 mm (140 x 170 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Parts of Tractatus 15, cap. IV and Tractatus 25. Written in Latin in double columns
on vellum in Carolingian minuscule script. Rubrics in red ink. Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri in 2014.ID Number:
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Two leaves from a Bible containing the Books of Ezra/ Nehemiah (folio 4) and Judith
(folio 5).
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Twelfth century. |
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Size: Folio 4: 430 x 307 mm (407 x 260 mm incomplete). Folio 5: 428 x 308 mm (409
x 250 mm). Fragment torn from top of folio 5: 47 x 161 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin in a Praegothica script. Two leaves from a Bible on parchment in
two columns. The top corner of the second folio has been torn off. It remains with
the collection and has some stitching remaining. Provenance: Formerly De Ricci B63b; folder 15 (1-2).
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| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Mutilated bifolium from a liturgical manuscript containing Psalm XIII (XIV?) with
diastematic neumes.
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Mid-twelfth century. |
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Size: 49 x 282 mm (19 x 143 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Praegothica script. Including chants for Psalm
XIII (and possibly XIV) indicated by interlinear diastematic neumes. Provenance: Formerly q.35.ID Number: CornellMedMS_019_002.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_019_001.jpg (b).
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Fragment of a leaf with music for epiphany, with pre-square notation.
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Twelfth century. |
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Size: 222 x 79 mm (189 x 79mm). Four staves: 12.5 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Fragment in Latin featuring pre-square notation on four line staves. Written in
a Praegothica script with red rubrication. Provenance: Formerly folder 12. ID Number: CornellMedMS_023_002.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_023_001.jpg (b).
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| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
One mutilated bifolium and three fragments from a breviary with diastematic neumes.
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Twelfth century. |
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Size: Fragment 1: 78 x 144 mm (49 x 109 mm incomplete). Fragment 2: 91 x 162/145 mm
(91 x 115 mm incomplete). Fragment 3: 93 x 156 mm (93 x 112 mm incomplete). Bifolia
4: 231 x 151/284 mm (191 x 119 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a late Carolingian script with some Praegothica
features (uncial "D" and enclosed "G"). Red capitals and rubrication, and chants with
diastematic neumes. Including feasts of saints Vitus, Lawrence, Hermes, Augustine,
John the Baptist, Martial, Ludmila, and Benedict. Provenance: Lost description by Margot Fassler, May 1979. Formerly f.25 (1-4). ID Number: CornellMedMS_024_009.jpg (1a); CornellMedMS_024_010.jpg (1b); CornellMedMS_024_006.jpg
(2a); CornellMedMS_024_005.jpg (2b); CornellMedMS_024_007.jpg (3a); CornellMedMS_024_008.jpg
(3b); CornellMedMS_024_001.jpg (4a); CornellMedMS_024_002.jpg (4b); CornellMedMS_024_003.jpg
(4c); CornellMedMS_024_004.jpg (4d).
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| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Two leaves featuring the offices of saints Leo, Peter and Paul, James, Nazarius and
Celsus, Abdon and Seunen.
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Twelfth century. |
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Size: Leaf 1: 270 x 216/196 mm (254 x 171 mm). Leaf 2: 269 x 216 mm (257 x 171 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a neat Praegothica, close to Carolingian, script.
Red initials and rubrics. Later marginal notes added in black ink. Both leaves cut
off at the bottom and crenelated.Provenance: Lost description by Fred Jonassen?, 1980. Formerly n.32 (1-2).
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| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Binding strip containing text from the Vulgate Bible, Luke 2.
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Twelfth century. |
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Size: 65 x 345 mm (21 x 231 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a late Carolingian, early Praegothica script. Text
in two columns. Text on verso damaged from being glued into binding.Provenance: Formerly folder k.49.
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Fragment taken from a binding from an unidentified book.
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Twelfth century. |
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Size: 105 x 392 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment with red rubrication and a decorated initial "P".
Very faded text, probably in a Praegothica script.Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly f.56.
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| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Leaf from Augutine's De doctrina christiana (ii. 38-40 incomplete).
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Twelfth century. |
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Size: 271 x 183 mm (211 x 123 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Praegothica script. Removed from the cover of
Purbach's Theorocae novae planetarum in The History of Science, 1591. Parchment tabs
surviving on bottom of page.Provenance: Lost description by Janet Durholz, 1986 and Kelly Wickham-Crowley, 1981. Formerly
folder s.37.
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| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
One mutilated bifolium with commentary on Deuteronomy 27 and 32.
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Late twelfth century. |
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Size: 146 x 196/386 mm (94 x 140 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Mutilated bifolium in Latin on parchment with text on flesh side only, taken from
a binding. In a Praegothica, reaching Textualis, script (with almost exclusive use
of uncial "d" and the Tironian nota).Provenance: Lost descriptions by Paul Reveley?, 1982, and Florence Newman, 1979. Formerly l.30.
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| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Leaf from a Book of Hours with pen drawing of God the Father with crucified Christ.
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Late twelfth century. |
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Size: 121 x 82 mm (84 x 52 mm)
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Praegothica script with some red rubrication.
Illustration on recto of God the father with the crucified Christ, and of verso of
Christ with globus cruciger. Provenance: Formerly folder 61.
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Two bifolia from the so-called "Psalter of St. Mary", with 15 verses of rhyming devotional
poetry in Old French from France.
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Early thirteenth century, 1220. |
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Size: Bifolium 1: 145 x 105/200 mm (114 x 71 mm). Bifolium 2: 145 x 117/198 mm (116
x 78 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin verse with 15 verses of rhyming devotional poetry in Old French,
in a Textualis Formata script and on parchment. Single column with 22 lines per page.
Two large three-line initials, one in red, the other in blue, with contrasting penwork
extending into the margins; over fifty initials A's alternating red and blue. Certain
linguistic traits may imply a north-eastern dialect.Provenance: Purchased in 2013 by Laurent Ferri.ID Number: CornellMedMS_011_008.jpg; CornellMedMS_011_005.jpg; CornellMedMS_011_007.jpg; CornellMedMS_011_006.jpg;
CornellMedMS_011_004.jpg; CornellMedMS_011_003.jpg; CornellMedMS_011_002.jpg; CornellMedMS_011_001.jpg.
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| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Three bindings strips from an unidentified manuscript.
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Early thirteenth century. |
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Size: 1: 290 x 42 mm. 2: 144 x 49 mm. 3: 144 x 34 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Three binding strips in a Textualis Formata (Quadratus) script. Two of the strips
are taken from the edge of the text block and feature alternate blue and red initials
with decorative penwork. All three fragments are broken in two and have been taped
back together.Provenance: Formerly p.53 (1-3).ID Number: CornellMedMS_016_001.jpg (1a); CornellMedMS_016_002.jpg (1b); CornellMedMS_016_004.jpg
(2a); CornellMedMS_016_003.jpg (2b); CornellMedMS_016_005.jpg (3a); CornellMedMS_016_006.jpg
(3b).
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| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Decorated leaf from a Psalter, probably from Northern France.
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Late thirteenth century. |
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Size: 177 x 130 mm (151 x 89 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Psalms written in Latin in a Textualis Formata (Quadratus) script on parchment.
Highly decorated Lombard capitals in red and blue ink with gold leaf. Decorated initial
"O" with image of seated prophet holding book inside. Numerous marginalia and fillers
including a man, dogs, a deer, and other beasts. Provenance: Lost description by Raegan Russell, 10th May 1999. Formerly Ferrini no. 60.ID Number: CornellMedMS_003_001.jpg (a), CornellMedMS_003_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Leaf from Antiphonal with decorated initial "E" with blue wolves from Italy.
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Last quarter of the thirteenth century, 1280. |
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Size: 474 x 351 mm (362 x 255 mm). Four staves: 27.8 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Northern Textualis Formata script. Seven four
line staves in red with gothic script and square musical notation. Alternate red and
blue initials with some red rubrication. The verso contains a historiated initial
(measuring 11 x 10cm) which illustrates the Responsory, "Ecce ego mitto vos ut oves
in medio luporum" ("Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves"). Provenance: Formerly Broadside bb13; folder 18.ID Number: CornellMedMS_060_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_060_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Fragment from a codex by Justinian, with historiated initials. From southern France.
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Ca. 1280. |
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Size: 164 x 35 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Gothic script. Remains of a partial column of
text and surrounding gloss on both recto and verso. Decoration: a small historiated
initial of a woman's head in a blue cloak (recto); a human with an animal head (verso).
Both initials on colored grounds, largely blue, with gold drops on gesso and marginal
extensions.
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| Mapcase Folder 1 |
Framed document from Germany featuring wax seal of female abbess.
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Dated 1288. | |
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Size: 72/78 x 191 mm (63 x 183 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Legal document on parchment featuring seal of abbess Jutta appended to the bottom
of the document. Jutta was mother superior and administrator of the cloister of St.
Bonifatius in Freckenhorst from 1272-98. Partial transcription reads: "Jutta, dei
gratia abbatissa in [Freckenhorst, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany], universis visuris
presentia protestamus, quod cum Johannes dictus de Berg et sui coheredes haberent
ex bonis nostris [name of a tract of land owned by the abbey, Elsendorf?] que colit
Rodolphus, XXXII denarius salvendos eisdem dominica ante ascentionem Domini… pensionem
annuatim ab incolis bonorum nostrorum in dicta quantitate et in termino memorato…
in cujius rei testimonium presens scriptum sigilo nostro fecimus communiri… Datum
anno Domini MCC LXXX octavo (1288), feria secunda Mathie apostoli". Provenance: Acquired in 2013 by Laurent Ferri.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Leaf from a Breviary with decorative "C" initial.
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Late thirteenth to early fourteenth century. |
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Size: 239 x 172 mm (178 x 120 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in an angular Textualis Formata (Textus Quadratus)
script with 18 lines of text. Commences "In vigilia sancti Andree apostolo" and ends,
"da nobis in eterna beatitudine de eorum societate gaudere. Per…". Rubricated in red
ink. Smaller initials in red and blue with pen flourishes. Large blue decorative initial
"C" enclosing entwined ivy rinceaux on gold ground and enframed by a red field decorated
with white filigree. Ivy branches spring from a vertical staff in left margin.Provenance: Formerly Calkins, no. 6; De Ricci, II, p. 1237; folder 08.
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| Mapcase Folder 1 | Folder 1 bis (folio 2) |
Fragment in Greek from Gregory of Nicomedia, Sermo in S. Mariam assistentem cruci,
probably from a homiliary.
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Thirteenth or fourteenth century. |
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Size: 338 x 265 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Single folio on vellum. Ruled in dry-point, the text hanging from the upper line
rather than written on the lower one. Double columns, 27 lines. Undecorated and unfoliated.
Script: no use of iota subscript; use of nomina sacra.Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri, September 2018.
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| Mapcase Folder 1 | Folder 1 bis (folio 2) |
Fragment in Greek from the Gospel of Matthew 21:1-19, describing the entrance of Jesus
into Jerusalem.
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Twelfth or thirteenth century. |
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Size: 263 x 201 mm (justification, 186 mm x 125 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Single folio on vellum. Ruled in dry-point. Single column, 24 lines. Decoration:
chapter numbering in margins and rubrics in carmine throughout the text, especially
on the verso. Script: no evidence of iota subscript, but use of nomina sacra and some
endings in abbreviated form. Text with some explication.Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri, September 2018.
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| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Two mutilated bifolia from an inset gloss textbook from Italy.
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Thirteenth to fourteenth century. |
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Size: Fragment 1 (rubricated as XXXVI): 146/162 x 309/149 mm (122/84 x 136/104 mm
incomplete). Fragment 2 (rubricated as XXXVII): 83/163 x 302/164 mm (140/113 x 144/114
mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in an Italian Rotunda (Littera Bononiensis) script.
Main text in two columns trimmed on both sides, with marginal commentary. Text is
on the flesh side of both bifolia only. Blue and red initials, paraphs, pen flourishes,
and rubrics. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Fleda Meyers. Lost description by Charles Reid, May 1986. Formerly
h.27 (1-2).ID Number: CornellMedMS_017_003.jpg (1a); CornellMedMS_017_004.jpg (1b); CornellMedMS_017_001.jpg
(2a); CornellMedMS_017_002.jpg (2b).
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Fragment from a glossed manuscript containing the Digests of Justinian, 36.1/3.1-2.
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Thirteenth to fourteenth century. |
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Size: 345 x 145 mm (345 x 134 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment with red paraphs in a Southern Textulis Libraria.
Some fading of the main text, glossing is extremely faded (now almost illegible).
Provenance: Lost description by Carol Neel, May 1978. Formerly k.29.
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| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Two leaves from a book, probably of canon law.
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Thirteenth to fourteenth century. |
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Size: Folio III: 299 x 205 mm (224 x 155 mm incomplete). Folio IIII: 257 x 203 mm
(234 x 152 incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in two columns in a Textualis Libraria scripts. Red
paraphs and foliation: leaves are foliated as III and IIII (IV). Text is very faded
and almost illegible.Provenance: Formerly folder 57.2
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| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Leaf from the Bible, Book of Zachariah.
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Thirteenth to fourteenth century. |
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Size: 282 x 191 mm (184 x 116 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: From the Book of Zachariah, written in Latin on parchment. Featuring a beautiful
marginal illustration of an angel appearing to Zachariah with men on horseback. Decorated
initials in red and blue ink. Provenance: Formerly folder 66.
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| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Thirteen mutilated bifolia and three fragments from a Latin manuscript.
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Late thirteenth to fourteenth century. |
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Size: Three fragments: 130 x 200 mm; 80 x 240 mm; 130 x 230 mm. Thirteen mutilated
bifolia: 130 x 390 mm; 130 x 445 mm; 135 x 440 mm; 125 x 390 mm; 140 x 445 mm; 135
x 420 mm; 140 x 430 mm; 135 x 430 mm; 130 x 400 mm; 140 x 430 mm; 140 x 410 mm; 135
x 440 mm; 140 x 430 mm. Width of text block: 161mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Southern Textualis Libraria script in two columns.
Text is badly faded and parchment partially worm eaten. Chapter numbers and occasional
glosses in the margin. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Fleda Meyers. Lost description by Will Dickerson, n.d. Formerly l.50.
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| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
One leaf from the Digests of Justinian, 27.1.45 - 27.3.2 from Northern Italy, probably
Bologne.
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Fourteenth century. |
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Size: 329 x 244/232 mm (219 x 124 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on Italian parchment in a Textualis Libraria script, in two columns
with various glosses. Red and blue paraphs and initials with some decorative penwork.
Red rubrics and marginal illustrations of a bird (recto) and a serpent (verso). The
ink is a little faded on the flesh side.Provenance: Lost descriptions by Gina Paolai (1985) and Glen Starr (1975). Formerly g.26. ID Number: CornellMedMS_078_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_078_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
One mutilated bifolium of a glossed Digest of Justinian: Liber XLV, from Bologna.
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Fourteenth century. |
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Size: 212 x 391/ 241 mm (182 x 134 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Bolognese script, with marginal glossing in a
similar script. In brown ink with red and blue paraphs and initials. Transcription
available in folder.Provenance: Formerly 19.1.ID Number: CornellMedMS_025_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_025_001darker.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_025_002.jpg
(b, c); CornellMedMS_025_002darker.jpg (b, c); CornellMedMS_025_003.jpg (d); CornellMedMS_025_003darker.jpg
(d).
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| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Fragment from a glossed textbook from Italy, probably Bologne.
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Fourteenth century. |
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Size: 452 x 112 mm (342/307 x 72/42 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a compact Southern Textualis Libraria (Littera
Bononiensis) script. Glossed in three hands (one is roughly contemporary to the main
hand, two are later). Red rubrication, and text on the flesh side only. Provenance: Formerly e.44.
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| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Two leaves from a music book with musical notation.
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Fourteenth century. |
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Size: 1: 332 x 234 mm (252 x 190 mm) Four staves: 21.5 mm. 2: 331 x 232 mm (251 x
191 mm). Four staves: 21.5 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Two leaves from a music manuscript, written in Latin on parchment with square notation
and red, four line staves in a Southern Textualis (Rotunda) script. Decorative capitals
in red and blue ink with pen flourishes. Leaf 2 has 18cm slice in the vellum which
has been stitched together, thread remains intact. Provenance: Formerly 11.1-2. ID Number: CornellMedMS_076_004.jpg (1a); CornellMedMS_076_003.jpg (1b); CornellMedMS_076_001.jpg
(2a); CornellMedMS_076_002.jpg (2b).
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Marriage contract between Thomas de Nevill and John de Chaumont
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1345 |
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Size: 268 x 254 mm
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Anglo-Norman, Chancery script, with a fragment of a seal attached below
text. Some soiling, vertical and horizontal folds, and one small hole with minor loss
of text. Contract between Thomas de Nevill, knight, and John de Chaumont, stipulating
that Sir Thomas's eldest son will mary John's daughter Elayne. They will be enfeoffed
of Sir Thomas's manor, Evereslaye, with many provisions for reversion, among other
benefits
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| Box 3 | Folder 12bis |
Leaf on vellum from a breviary, Flanders.
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Circa 1350. |
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Size: 140 x 100 mm (95 x 70 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on vellum in Gothic script, with three decorated initials. Rubricated;
decorated with pen flourishes and gold leaf. Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri in 2014.ID Number:
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Leaf from an Antiphonal with historiated "A" initial of a female saint preaching,
from Italy.
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Mid-fourteenth century, 1350. |
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Size: 481 x 355 mm (363 x 256 mm) Four staves: 27.9 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin in a Textualis Formata (Rotunda) script on parchment. From north-central
Italy, probably in the vicinity of Bologna. Seven four line staves in red (28mm) with
square musical notation. Smaller initials in alternating red and blue ink with pen
flourishes. Large initial "A" measuring 9.8 x 9cm, illustrating the verse "Adaperiat
dominus cor vestrum" (2 Macc. 4: "[God] open your hearts in his law and commandments,
and send you peace"), the first response from the first nocturne of the first Sunday
in October. Rather than referencing the Maccabees text, an epistle of the Jews in
Jerusalem to those in Egypt, the miniature illustrates a scene seldom found in manuscript
art: a female saint preaching to a group of men and women. In the upper compartment
the gesticulating saint addresses a divided group of five men and four women, all
dressed in secular garb. The palette is Bolognese. Square notation and text of later
date added in the bottom margin of the verso.Provenance: Formerly folder 19.ID Number: CornellMedMS_061_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_061_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 bis |
Single folio on vellum from a Decorative Breviary, from Flanders.
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Mid-fourteenth century, 1350. |
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Size: 139 x 100 mm (96 x 59 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Decoration: one two-line multicolored initial D on colored grounds with gold highlights
and a bar border extending five lines above and below into the lower margin; three
multi-line alternating red and blue initials with contrasting pen work, one (on the
verso) having a red and blue marginal extension the entire length of the text-block.
Also, a drawing representing a dragon, added later. Text: this leaf comes the Christmas
season, the end of the service for St. Stephen Protomartyr (26 December) and the beginning
of St. John the Evangelist (27 December), ending just after the first lesson.Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri in July 2014.
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Illuminated leaf from "Les Grandes Chroniques royales" Compostela, Paris, France
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1350-1375 |
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Size: 446 x 330 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Decoration: Tempera and gold leaf on parchment (min., 112 x 91 mm.) Text: Includes
the opening of Book IV, chapter 1, of the Grandes Chroniques de France, a royal compilation
of the history of France from its Trojan origins up to, in its final form with its
continuations, the death of King Charles VII in 1461. Originally drafted and updated
by the monks of the royal abbey of Saint-Denis, the vernacular text provided the "official"
history of the French kings, but the present miniature is also related to Spain, crusades,
and pilgrimages. Charlemagne stands crowned, accompanied by two of his courtiers/preux
compagnons, as San Iago/Iacobus [di Compostella] appears to him in a vision. The saint
is identified by his pilgrim staff, pack, book, and his hat (subsequent pilgrims to
Compostela would dress like him for centuries). According to the Chronicle of Turpin
and subsequent imitations, Sant Iago instructed Charlemagne (in a [day?] dream) to
come to Galicia following the Milky Way (Campus Stellae) and wrest Spain from the
Saracens. The text in French in this manuscript is approximately the same, although
St. James also urges Charlemagne to go to Galilee and deliver the Holy Sites. Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri in July 2016.
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Bronze seal matrix from England.
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Fourteenth century. |
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Size: 20 mm high x 17 mm across the face; 8.2 grams.
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Scope and Contents
Description: A single matrix cast in bronze. A cast stamp seal matrix with hexagonal-section
shaft terminating in a pierced quatrefoil knob. The design features and Agnus Dei
with a large flag on an extended Crucifix, surrounded by the legend ECCE AGNVS DEI
('Behold the Lamb of God'). Slight corrosion below the lamb. Provenance: Found by metal detector in England (undisclosed location), the property of a London
collector and by descent. Acquired in January 2014 by Laurent Ferri.
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| Box 1 | Folder 9.1 and 9.2 |
Fragment of a border (9.1) and a cut-out initial "M" (9.2) from a choir book, from
Italy.
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Fourteenth century. |
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Size: 9.1: 198 x 32 mm. 9.2: 200/158 x 121 mm (93 x 111 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: 9.1: A fragment of border decoration (20 x 4cm) with blue, tan, and mauve acanthus
leaves, gold dots, and an egret-like bird. 9.2: The initial "M" on the verso painted
in tan on a blue field and decorated with red, mauve, and blue acanthus leaves was
cut from a fourteenth-century Italian choir book on parchment. The recto side of the
fragment contains square musical notation written on red staff lines with Gothic text.
9.1 and 9.2 possibly cut from the same volume.Provenance: Formerly Calkins no. 25; De Ricci, II, 1237; folder 9.1-2. Obtained circa 1895 by
A. D. White in Europe.ID Number: CornellMedMS_069_001.jpg (9.1a); CornellMedMS_068_001.jpg (9.2a); CornellMedMS_068_002.jpg
(9.2b).
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Leaf from a hymnal with musical notation.
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Fourteenth to fifteenth century. |
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Size: 377 x 269 mm (295 x 174 mm). Four line staves: 9.5 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a high-grade Textualis Formata (Textus Quadratus)
hand, with square musical notation on red, 4-line staves. Including alternating red,
blue, and black capitals with pen flourishes on the black initials. Taken from a binding.Provenance: Formerly folder 1.
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| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Two leaves from a legal document.
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Late fourteenth to fifteenth century. |
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Size: Folio 1: 302 x 195 mm (264 x 167 mm). Folio 2: 332 x 194 mm (264 x 169 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in four different hands in a Cursiva script. Folio
1 contains four paragraphs, each in a different hand (hands 1-4). Folio 2 written
entirely by hand 4. Each leaf has writing only on the flesh side. Probably taken from
a binding.Provenance: Formerly folder 57.1.
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| Box 3 | Folder 13b |
Leaf from Thomas of Breslau's "Practica Medicinalis"
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1380 |
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Size: 10 1/2 X 13'' (267 x 330 mm)
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment, with two columns of text, mostly concerned with the
different types of fevers and their remedies. An entire passage is borrowed from Spanish
Arnaldus de Villanova (1240-1311), who taught for many years at the university of
Montpellier. Thomas was himself a former student of medicine in Montpellier and Bologna
who became bishop of Wrocław in 1270.Provenance: The manuscript fragment was used as a binding in the 16th century.
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| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
One bifolium containing Avicenna's Liber Canonis I.
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Late fourteenth to fifteenth century. |
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Size: 318 x 236/464 mm (269 x 175 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Semitextualis Libraria script. In two ruled columns
and later marginal notes added. Rubrication in red ink, and red and blue initials
with pen flourishes. Two rectangles have been cut from the center of each leaf approximately
90 x 10 mm in size.Provenance: Formerly j.28.ID Number: CornellMedMS_080_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_080_002.jpg (b); CornellMedMS_080_003.jpg
(c); CornellMedMS_080_004.jpg (d).
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| Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Twenty three fragments recovered from binding containing sermons by Jacques de Lausanne
(d. 1321), for Sundays following the Feast of Trinity.
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Fourteenth to fifteenth century. |
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Size: All approximately 212 x 141 mm (161 x 111 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin in two columns on parchment in a Textualis Libraria script. Some
red and decorated capitals and red underlining. Provenance: Restored and donated by Mrs Fleda Meyers. Lost description by Lynn Laufenberg, 1986.
Formerly folder 51. ID Number: CornellMedMS_018_043.jpg (1a); CornellMedMS_018_044.jpg (1b); CornellMedMS_018_001.jpg
(2a); CornellMedMS_018_002.jpg (2b); CornellMedMS_018_003.jpg (3a); CornellMedMS_018_004.jpg
(3b); CornellMedMS_018_005.jpg (4a); CornellMedMS_018_006.jpg (4b); CornellMedMS_018_007.jpg
(5a); CornellMedMS_018_008.jpg (5b); CornellMedMS_018_009.jpg (6a); CornellMedMS_018_010.jpg
(6b); CornellMedMS_018_012.jpg (7a); CornellMedMS_018_011.jpg (7b); CornellMedMS_018_013.jpg
(8a); CornellMedMS_018_014.jpg (8b); CornellMedMS_018_015.jpg (9a); CornellMedMS_018_016.jpg
(9b); CornellMedMS_018_017.jpg (10a); CornellMedMS_018_018.jpg (10b); CornellMedMS_018_020.jpg
(11a); CornellMedMS_018_019.jpg (11b); CornellMedMS_018_021.jpg (12a); CornellMedMS_018_022.jpg
(12b); CornellMedMS_018_023.jpg (13a); CornellMedMS_018_024.jpg (13b); CornellMedMS_018_025.jpg
(14a); CornellMedMS_018_026.jpg (15a); CornellMedMS_018_027.jpg (16a); CornellMedMS_018_028.jpg
(16b); CornellMedMS_018_029.jpg (17a); CornellMedMS_018_030.jpg (17b); CornellMedMS_018_031.jpg
(18a); CornellMedMS_018_032.jpg (18b); CornellMedMS_018_033.jpg (19a); CornellMedMS_018_034.jpg
(19b); CornellMedMS_018_035.jpg (20a); CornellMedMS_018_036.jpg (20b); CornellMedMS_018_037.jpg
(21a); CornellMedMS_018_038.jpg (21b); CornellMedMS_018_039.jpg (22a); CornellMedMS_018_040.jpg
(22b); CornellMedMS_018_041.jpg (23a); CornellMedMS_018_042.jpg (23b).
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| Box 3 | Folder 16 |
One leaf from Titus Livius, Historiae (Book 3.4-7).
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Late fourteenth to fifteenth century. |
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Size: 334 x 210 mm (216 x 151 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Semitextualis script. Removed from the binding
of a book.Provenance: Received President White Library, 1891. Lost description by M. Malamud, n.d. Formerly
folder u.39.
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| Box 3 | Folder 17 |
One leaf possibly from an illuminated Psalter including Psalm 19 and decorative line
fillers.
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Late fourteenth to early fifteenth century. |
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Size: 263 x 173 mm (185 x 128 mm)
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Northern Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus).
Decorated initials in red, blue, and gold, and unusually ornate line fillers in red,
blue and gold. Provenance: From the Ferrini collection. Formerly folder 65.
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| Box 4 | Folder 27 |
Richard of Middleton, commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard with a remark on
werewolves. The note at the foot of the text on one leaf contains a quote from Pliny
to the effect that no absurdity lacks witnesses among the Greeks (from a passage in
the Historia naturalis, book 8 cap. xxii, where he explains the notion of lycanthropy).
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Circa 1400, Italy. |
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Size: 2 fragments, 152 x 100 mm and 154 x 98 mm
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a round Gothic, with a note in Humanistic italic
minuscule at foot of text on one leaf. Remains of 18-19 lines, roughly half a column
of text each from a quarto page with double columns. One initial in red, and rubrication
in red and blue. Leaves are very worn (possibly water damaged) with some loss of text.Provenance:
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| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
One bifolium from statute book of a city in Northern Italy, possibly Lucca.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 350 x 510/262 mm (226 x 145mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Southern Textualis Formata (Rotunda) script.
First folio contains a few late and illegible scrawls and the words "No. 114. The
second folio (recto and verso) is a fragment of a law-book/ body of statutes, probably
from Lucca. There is some marginal glossing, and the verso contains a red initial
and rubric that reads: "viij. De termino instantie cause principalis".Provenance: Brought in Lucca, Italy, by George Burr for the President White Library. Formerly
13.2.
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| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
One bifolium probably from Aristotle's Metaphysics, from England.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 226 x 315/162 mm (213 x 145 mm)
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a late Textualis Currens script with Secretary
influences, highly abbreviated. Containing Tractatus Philosophus. Lower and upper
part of leaves have been damaged, some partial stains, and some rubbing of text on
inner folios. Provenance: Gift of George Tyler, '28. Formerly folder 67.
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Leaf from Lauda (song) book, from Italy.
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Early fifteenth-century. |
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Size: 214 x 147mm (146 x 90 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written on paper with no obvious water mark in Italian ottava rima. A single complete
paper leaf, single columns written in a Textualis Formata script, in brown ink, ruled
in plummet for 26 lines, 2-line initial in red at the beginning of each stanza; slightly
faded and soiled, a few marginal losses (not affecting text), b ut entirely legible.
A fragment of an unidentified Passion lauda comprising six stanzas in ottava rima.
The lauda describes St. Peter's denial, the trial of Christ before Caiaphas, the crowd's
verdict, the flagellation and the humiliation. The text, based on Matthew's Gospel
account, is presented as Christ's own prophecy, narrated in the first person and in
the future tense. The lauda is written in a literary vernacular which relies on a
genre-specific, rather than a place-specific, vocabulary, but a few textual elements
point to a mid-Italian origin (broadly Umbria, the March, or perhaps southern Tuscany);
see 'co[n]de[m]pnare' (verso, line 2) and 'collor' (verso, line 8). Red capitals at
the beginning of each stanza. Small, faint face illustration on first letter on final
line on verso. Provenance: From the Rosenthal collection. Formerly 001.
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| Box 4 | Folder 26 |
Will of Margarita de Ballis, of Alcamo, Sicily.
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1408 (dated 1400 on page [3]). |
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Size: 310 x 220 mm (240 x 130 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on laid paper. The last will ("est hec eius ultima voluntas") of
Margarita de Ballis, the wife of the Count de Ballis, "[presens copia extratta] ex
actis mei not[arii] Francesci ??? de alcamo." In Secretary hand. The de Ballis or
de Ballo family, originally from Bologna, settled in Sicily in 1378 and in Alcamo
ca. 1400. They built a fortified house in the 15th century which still stands. The
watermark on this document, showing a hand with a flower, is common on paper throughout
Europe. Provenance: Acquired in 2015 by Laurent Ferri.
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| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Notarial Act (Codicil to a Will) from Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
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Dated November 1419. |
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Size: 137 x 291 mm (99 x 246 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment. Donna Caterina, "vidua domini Antolini de Zonzeto",
is leaving her silver girdle to be made into a chalice ("quod fiat mea centura argenti...
unus calix argenti") for use in Santa Maria Nuova delle Virtú and Santo Spirito di
Consorzio; also, asks that 43 lire due to her by the widow of Messer Antonio Chiochi,
shoemaker, be distributed "among poor girls due to be married" (pauperes puellas maritandas").
The public notaries were Giovani Matteo (witness) and Castelino Corno, who signed
with his personal device.Provenance: Acquired in 2013 by Laurent Ferri.
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| Box 4 | Folder 2a |
Leaf from Old French translation of Pseudo-Bonaventure's Stimulus amoris, Northern
France.
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1420. |
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Size: 206 x 140 mm (146 x 76 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Gothic script on ruled vellum, single column, 30 lines, with decorations.
Decorations consist of two pilcrows in gold on pink and blue grounds with white lead
penwork. Provenance: Acquired in 2016 by Laurent Ferri.
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| Mapcase Folder 14 |
Document of sale between Alvar Gil and Diego de Cervantes.
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1420-10 | |
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Size: 38 x 38 cm
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Scope and Contents
Description: 36 and 20 lines written in a Spanish notarial hand in brown ink, with notarial signatures
and marks at foot of each document. On lightly creased and dust-soiled parchment.
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| Box 4 | Folder 2bis |
Nine Leaves from a Book of Hours (Use of Sarum) Produced in England
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1425 colophon, 16th century. |
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Size: 240 x 170 mm, except last leaf, 190 x 156 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Eight decorated folios + one leaf from an elegant English Book of Hours produced
for some (endowed?) chapel in an English church or cathedral (rubrics on other leaves
give instructions that the texts be read "sub silentio")> A sixteenth-century inscription
on the endleaf of the volume reads as follows: "Ye shall pray for the saules of Edward
Cotterell & Margaret hys wyff, & of Roger, Thomas, John, William, Jane, Amey, Elizabeth,
chylderyn of the seid Edwarde & Margaret". Provenance: From the Library of Sir Robert Throckmorton (d. 1791; his armorial bookplate was
in the volume sold in 2013). Then owned by John Meade Falkner (1858-1932), arms manufacturer
and Librarian of Durham cathedral; auctioned by Sotheby's (12-14 December 1932, Lot
211) and acquired by H.R. Creswick (1902-88), Librarian of the Bodleian Library in
Oxford, for his personal collection. After 1940 owned by Charles F. Cutts (1871-1949),
and then by the Nevada Museum of Art, which sold it "to benefit the collections" (Christie's,
12 June 2013, Sale 1176, Lot 23. The catalog mentions 78+2 leaves bound in one volume).These
leaves were eventually acquired in 2015 by Cornell. As of 2016, one other leaf is
owned by the University of South Carolina, MS 138, and nine leaves are kept at Emory
University, in the Pitts Theological Library, MS 370.
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| Mapcase Folder 13 |
Two single leaves from the Qurʼan, probably Mamelukian.
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1450 | |
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Size: 400 x 500 mm; 2 items on 1 board
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Scope and Contents
Description: Two single leaves matted to make a single panel, with a gilt-raised juz' mark and
several gilt-raised separators on each leaf. Seven lines per leaf, in black script
with individual red recital marks. Each leaf measures 250 x 178 mm. The right leaf
contains sura 26 (al-Shuara), verses 206-14 (verso is probably verses 199-205); the
left leaf shows sura 27 (an-Naml), from verse 9 onwards, on recto and verso. The leaves
are possibly from Cairo or Damascus. Provenance: From the Ottoman collection of Swiss industrialist Herry W. Schaefer.
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Initial "E" with Adoration of the Magi taken from a choir book, possibly from Germany.
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Mid-fifteenth century. |
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Size: 144 x 141 mm (119 x 115 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: The burnished gold initial is set in a red field decorated with gold filigree designs.
Vestiges of a green foliate border are evident in the upper and left margins. The
interior of the letter is filled with a scene of the Adoration of the Magi. In the
lower portion, two magi converse while the third kneels before the Virgin and Child
sitting on a red bed. Joseph observes from behind a pillow on the left while two of
the kings' attendants hold a discussion on the right. The upper portion of the miniature
contains the thatched roof of the manger, tan, conical hills with shepherds tending
their flocks, two horsemen, a ploughman, peasants, showing their fields, a town and
windmill, and copses of trees. In the pale blue sky are scudding clouds, birds in
flight, and three hovering angels. The elegant garb of the Magi, their mincing poses,
and the stylized landscape with its vestiges of realism link this miniature with the
Internal style circa 1400 in France. However, the rough, sketchy style of painting,
the nature of the decoration, and the form of the pointed script on the reverse suggest
a German origin for the miniature. Provenance: Formerly Calkins no. 18; De Ricci II, 1237; folder 08.ID Number: CornellMedMS_065_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_065_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Foliate initial "C" from a choir book, from Italy.
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Mid-fifteenth century. |
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Size: 124 x 126 mm (112 x 112 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: A pink "C" on parchment decorated with white filigree, outlines in red and set against
a burnished gold ground. Brilliant blue, green, and pink acanthus sprays emanate from
the top and bottom portion of the letter. The tan ground of the initial sets off three
luxuriant buds on stalks springing from a clump of varied leaves. Apparently cut from
an Italian choir book, probably Lombard. The reverse side contains large gothic script,
and square musical notation with red staffs.Provenance: Obtained in Europe circa 1895 by A. D. White. Formerly Calkins, no. 38; De Ricci,
II, p. 1237; folder 07.ID Number: CornellMedMS_067_001.jpg (a).
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Initial "E" with Adoration of the Magi from a choir book, from Northern Italy.
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Mid-fifteenth century. |
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Size: 259 x 222 mm (116 x 119 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: The letter "E" (116 x 119 mm) is made of thick pink, blue, and green acanthus sprays,
while similar foliate decoration, arranged symmetrically, fills the left and bottom
margins. The richness of the design, and the form of the curling acanthus is similar
to Lombard decoration of the middle of the fifteenth century. This cutting is apparently
from a lavishly decorated choir book. Both sides of the fragment contain large gothic
script, and square musical notation with red staffs.Provenance: Obtained in Europe circa 1895 by A. D. White. Formerly Calkins no. 35; De Ricci,
II, p. 1237; folder 06.ID Number: CornellMedMS_066_001.jpg (a).
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Document with seal in Middle German.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 283/240 x 479 mm (171 x 443 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Document written in Cursiva script in Middle German on vellum. Green wax seal with
figure of a saint remains attached on tag. Provenance: Formerly MS C82.
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
One bifolium from a Psalter, from Northern Italy.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 403 x 279 mm (255 x 190 mm) Four staves: 18.5 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Two leaves (one bifolium) written in Latin on parchment. Twenty one lines of text
in two columns. A double folio which begins 'Adoremus Dominum' and ends 'Et percussit
inimicos', containing the first part of Psalm 73 and a portion of the last half of
Psalm 77. Initials in red and blue, decorated with pen flourishes. Some square musical
notation in four staves on the recto of the first folio. Provenance: Obtained by A. D. White circa 1895. Formerly folder 02.
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Initial "S" from a Gradual from Germany or Bohemia.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 181/175 x 191 mm (181/175 x 191 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: The letter "S" lavishly decorated with blue acanthus, is set against a burnished
gold ground enframed with a red band. Red, blue, and white acanthus sprays curve through
the interior of the design. Nude putti cavort among the foliage while a figure reads
a book from a pulpit below. An infant figure of Christ holding a crossed orb appears
above. High grade Gothic textura script on the verso, with musical notation.Provenance: Obtained in Munich in 1876 for A. D. White. Formerly folder 03.
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Remnant of a Book of Hours, annotated in the following centuries, with eight leaves
(including three bifolia) in an eighteenth century binding, from France.
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Fifteenth century (and later annotations). |
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Size: Leaves all approximately 160 x 122 mm (99 x 71 mm). Binding: 172 x 122/280 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Remnant of a Book of Hours annotated and augmented in the following centuries, in
numerous scripts (including Textualis Formata, Gothico-Antiqua, Hybrida Libraria)
and written in Latin and French on parchment. Includes an inscription on the front
pastedown dated 1768 naming one of its owners: Jean Hersmulle Duport, doctor of theology
(Sorbonne), who taught physics at the Sulpician Grand Seminary of St Irénée, and then
became curate of Loire, a village between Lyon and Vienne (until 1791). "Hic libris
joannis hersmulle Duport... facultatis parisiensis doctoris theologi.. in ecclesia
ligeriensis in diocesi viennensis [Vienne] anno 1768", with eight original leaves
from the manuscript, most with added texts. The contents are: 1. one folio numbered
17, with the end of the Gospel lesson of St. Matthew, an inscription in a later hand,
and on the verso the capital letters DE LH (the rest blank); 2. one folio with four
lines of Latin religious verse in French Humanistic Minuscule script, below which
is an erased inscription that can be read in ultraviolet light (naming "Jehan Frenier,"
with various place-names: probably Je[h]an Frenier, curé de Saint-Martin de Maulay,
near Loudun), the verso blank; 3. six folios from the end of the book, the first being
the conclusion of the Suffrages but with the following added: a complete prayer in
90 rhyming couplets of French, beginning "O Iesu roy de tout le monde/En qui toute
bonte abonde [Je suis ta pauvre creature/Contemplant ta saincte figure/Se tenant a
grands cloux de fer... Helas quel fers, helas quelz cloux/Ils furent forges longs
et groux/Pour te faire plus de martyre]" (a variant was printed in 1556 in Fr. Pierre
Olivier, Le Mirouer du Chrestien -- Olivier was the spiritual advisor of Marguerite
de Navarre -- he revised the Heptaméron), followed by "Les Sept Oraisons de St. Gregoire"
complete in seven Latin stanzas; this followed by an inscription, "AU NOM DIEU / AMEN
CES HEURES". This remnant reveals the kinds of texts deemed essential in such books
of private devotion but omitted, for whatever reason, from the original commission.Provenance: Acquired in April 2014 by Laurent Ferri.ID Number: CornellMedMS_015_006.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_004.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_002.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_008.jpg;
CornellMedMS_015_010.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_014.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_012.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_016.jpg;
CornellMedMS_015_020.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_019.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_018.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_017.jpg;
CornellMedMS_015_015.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_013.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_011.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_007.jpg;
CornellMedMS_015_001.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_009.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_003.jpg; CornellMedMS_015_005.jpg.
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| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
One account document from England.
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Mid-fifteenth century. |
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Size: 255 x 372 mm (232 x 280 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a documentary hand. Document listing money received
and disbursed between April and August of 1434. Provenance: Formerly folder 58.
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| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Two leaves from a Book of Hours from France.
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Mid-fifteenth century. |
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Size: 154 x 108 mm (99 x 61 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on fine parchment in a high-grade Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus)
script, from France (probably Paris). Smaller initials in gold leaf on blue and red
backgrounds with white filigree. Two large gold leaf "D"s with the same type of background
have decorative sprays of gold leaf pods and blue, red, and green flowers emanating
from them into the margin. Folio 1 begins "Etenim correxit orbem terre" and ends,
"orbi terre vidi et commota". Folio 2 begins "in equitate et gentes in terra dirigis"
and ends, "quoniam iudiicas populous". Provenance: Formerly folder 18 (1-2).ID Number: CornellMedMS_004_004.jpg (1a); CornellMedMS_004_003.jpg (1b); CornellMedMS_004_002.jpg
(2a).
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| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Leaf containing Marian prayers in German.
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Mid-fifteenth century. |
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Size: 138 x 111 mm (98 x 69 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Prayers to the Virgin written in medieval German on parchment, with headings identifying
the specific applications for the prayer, e.g. 'Eyn gut gebeth zu unser lieber Maria…'.
Single column, 34 lines. Foliated 47 ("xlvii.") in upper margin. Used as a reinforcement
in a binding, hence soiled and creased, with offsets in the margin and stitching holes
in the center. Two initial O's in blue, else rubricated in red ink.Provenance: Acquired 2013 by Laurent Ferri.ID Number: CornellMedMS_005_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_005_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Damaged document with very faded script.
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Possibly fifteenth century. |
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Size: 232 x 324 mm (124 x 282 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Document on parchment, written in a documentary hand. Script is very faded and illegible,
but evidence of raised ascenders on top line. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly e.56.
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| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Fragment taken from a binding.
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Possibly fifteenth century. |
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Size: 95 x 310 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Faded, mostly illegible script, probably in a chancery hand. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly b.56.ID Number: CornellMedMS_012_004.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_012_004darker.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_012_003.jpg
(b); CornellMedMS_012_003darker.jpg (b); CornellMedMS_012_002.jpg (c); CornellMedMS_012_002darker.jpg
(c); CornellMedMS_012_001.jpg (d); CornellMedMS_012_001darker.jpg (d).
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| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Fragment taken from a binding.
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Possibly fifteenth century. |
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Size: 144 x 382 mm (85 x 120 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment. Faded, mostly illegible script, probably a Hybrida
script. Ruling and a red capital "Q". Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly c.56.ID Number: CornellMedMS_013_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_013_002.jpg (b, c); CornellMedMS_013_002_darker.jpg
(b, c); CornellMedMS_013_003.jpg (d); CornellMedMS_013_003_darker.jp (d).
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| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Fragment from an unidentified book.
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Possibly fifteenth century. |
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Size: 129 x 56/35 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Badly damaged parchment fragment from a book removed from a binding. Only small
section of faded text remains in a Cursiva script. Provenance: Formerly folder 56.k.ID Number: CornellMedMS_007.jpg (a).
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| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Mutilated bifolia from the Speculum Doctrinale by Vincent of Beauvais.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 72 x 339/172 mm (65 x 135 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Semitexualis Formata script. Text almost completely
rubbed off, but red rubrication and paraphs still clear. Provenance: Formerly j.56
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| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Three nested bifolia of Statuta criminalia from Lucca, Italy.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 362 x 271 mm (212 x 141 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Gothico-Antiqua script. Three bifolia forming
most of a quire. Provenance: Brought in 1888 in Lucca, Italy, by George Burr for the President White Library.
De Ricci B62.ID Number: CornellMedMS_008_002.jpg (1a); CornellMedMS_008_001.jpg (1b); CornellMedMS_008_004.jpg
(2a); CornellMedMS_008_003.jpg (2b).
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| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Two fragments from a glossed book.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: Fragment 1: 122 x 186 mm (94 x 109 mm one column). Fragment 2: 142 x 184 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Two fragments written in Latin on parchment and taken from the same glossed book,
probably in a Semitextualis Libraria script. Taken from a binding. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly folder g.56 (1-2).
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| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Fragment from a book taken from a binding.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 485 x 191 mm (407 x 177 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on thick parchment from a large book and written in a Hybrida Formata
script. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly h.56.
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| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Fragment from the Codex Justinius, Book VIII.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 298/270 x 234 mm (267 x 179 mm incomplete).
|
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Semitextualis Libraria script. Damaged partial
leaf of Codex Justinius, Book VIII, probably parts 9-10. Red capitals and rubrication
have survived better than the brown ink of the main hand itself, which is very faded.Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly i.56.
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| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Leaf from a Rabbinic legal commentary, probably from Spain.
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Probably fifteenth century. |
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Size: 393 x 325 mm (263 x 209 mm).
|
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Hebrew on parchment. From a legal commentary text and probably concerning
laws of damages. Taken from a binding.Provenance: Formerly folder O.
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| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Fragment of Isidore's Etymologies, VIII 5.39-6.3.
|
Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 282 x 204 mm (244 x 162 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Gothico-Antiqua script in one writing block with
no decoration.Provenance: Lost descriptions by Mary Wack, May 1978 and Robert Fagueira, June 1976. Formerly
folder e.24.
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| Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Two leaves from Cicero, Marcus Tulluis, Oratio pro Milano.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: Leaf 1: 339 x 216 mm (206 x 125 mm). Leaf 2: 338 x 204 mm (207 x 125 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Both leaves are written in Latin on flesh side of parchment only in a Gothico-Antiqua
script. Taken from a binding.Provenance: Restored and donated to Cornell by Mrs Fleda Meyers. Formerly folder f.1.
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| Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Leaf from a highly decorated Book of Hours in Dutch, with illuminated initial "H"
with crucified Christ.
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Fifteenth century. |
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Size: 174 x 125 mm (99 x 64 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Dutch in a Northern Textualis Formata script on parchment. Highly decorated
on the recto with illumination of the crucified Christ with Mary, another saint (perhaps
Mary Magdalene) and bird pricking its own breast; an angel on the edge of the right
margin; and detailed calligraphic pen work. Provenance: Formerly Ferrini 64.ID Number: CornellMedMS_009_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_009_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Leaf from Italian service book with illustration of St John with Lamb.
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Fifteenth-century. |
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Size: 318 x 232 mm (214 x 151 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on high-quality parchment in a Textualis Formata (Rotunda). Highly
decorated leaf with image of St John with lamb in initial "N" on the recto and an
illuminated "L" on the verso. Alternating red and blue initials with decorative pen
work and flourishes extending into the marginal and inter-linear space, red rubrication.
Provenance: Formerly Ferrini folder 59 (Z 1).
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| Mapcase Folder 2 |
Two leaves, probably from the same Gradual from Northern Italy, with musical notation
and decorated initials.
|
Mid-fifteenth century. | |
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Size: 71 (folio 222): 632 x 451 mm (441 x 320 mm). Four staves: 46.0 mm. 72 (folio
369):630 x 453 mm (436 x 306 mm). Four staves: 46.2 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Both folios written in Latin in a Textualis Formata (Rotunda) script, on vellum.
Folio numbered 222 begins "tabor in mandatis tuis", and ends "consumationis vidi finem
latum". This folio contains on the verso a beautifully painted foliate initial "M"
with a green acanthus spray in the margin. There are three other smaller decorated
initials. There is square musical notation on red, four line staves. Folio numbered
369 begins "xi alleluia", and ends "gaudebunt labia mea dum". An initial "R" on the
verso is enclosed in a field of carefully wrought pen scrolls and is accompanied by
a semi-naturalistic foliate border with blue flowers. The size, format, ruling, script,
and even the numberation of the folios of these two pages appear to be almost identical,
suggesting that although the decoration is different, these leaves may be from the
same choir book. Provenance: Obtained in Europe in 1878 by A. D. White. Formerly Calkins no. 32; De Ricci, II,
1236; folders 71 and 72.
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| Mapcase Folder 3 |
Three bifolia from an antiphonary from Northern Italy with musical notation and decorated
initials.
|
Fifteenth century. | |
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Size: All approximately 561 x 404 mm (376 x 269 mm). Four staves: 34.5mm.
|
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Scope and Contents
Description: Three bifolia from an antiphonary with square musical notation on red, 4-line staves.
Written in Latin in a high-grade Southern Textualis Formata (Rotunda) script on parchment.
Leaves numbered 146 – 151. Red rubrication, and alternating red and blue initials
decorated with pen flourishes. Text begins "Agnus coram tondente se" and ends, "Quem
terra pontus ethera", and contains part of the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin.
Provenance: Obtained in April 1885 for A. D. White from Dotti of Florence. Formerly Calkins,
no. 37; De Ricci, II, 1236; and folder 70.
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| Mapcase Folder 4 |
Leaf from a Gradual with musical notation and decorated initials.
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Fifteenth century. | |
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Size: 478 x 339 mm (391 x 246 mm). Four line staves: 21.5 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin in a (Iberian?) Textualis Formata (Rotunda) script. Folio 160 of
a parchment gradual. Square notation on red, four line staves. Red rubrication and
decorated initials.Provenance: Gift presented by H. Peter Kahn, March 20, 1991. Formerly folder 74a, Kahn no. 15.
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| Mapcase Folder 5 |
Leaf from a Gradual with musical notation.
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Fifteenth century. | |
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Size: 545 x 382 mm (362 x 257 mm). Three staves: 22.5 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a high-grade Southern Textualis Formata (Rotunda)
script. From a Gradual, with some square musical notation on red, three-line staves.
Alternate red and blue initials, and red rubrication. Text on flesh side quite faded.
Provenance: Gift presented by H. Peter Kahn, March 20, 1991. Brought in Rome. Formerly folder
74b.
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| Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Fragment from a printed glossed book.
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Late fifteenth-century. |
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Size: 115 x 401mm (302 x 80 mm incomplete).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Heavily glossed book in Latin, printed on parchment. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly d.56.
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| Mapcase Folder 8 |
Historiated border from the Great Choir Book of Ferdinand and Isabella, Castile, Spain.
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Ca. 1479-1492. | |
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Size: frame 510 x 260 mm (item 381 x 104 mm).
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Description: An elaborate historiated border on parchment, including the royal arms of Aragon
and Castile surmounted by an eagle with a halo, together with the royal device of
a bundle of seven arrows representing Ferdinand and a yoke representing Isabella (Y
stood for yugo and for Ysabel and F stood for flechas and for Fernando, but there
might also be some gender symbolism). Also present are all kinds of animals climbing
through the foliage. This fragment comes from what was once a magnificent manuscript
commissioned by Ferdinand of Aragon (1452-1516) and Isabella of Castile (1451-1504),
and probably illuminated by Juan de Carrion, who was working in Avila in the 1470s
and is mostly remembered for his illumination of the choir books of the cathedral
of Avila. Other leaves or fragments of the manuscript were acquired by the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge University, and the Princes of Liechtenstein. In his Spanish Illumination
J. Dominguez Bordona calls this manuscript "one of the most sumptuous and artistic
series of choirbooks in all Spain." See also the Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art
and Architecture, vol. 2, p. 547. Provenance: Acquired in September 2015 by Laurent Ferri.
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| Box 4 | Folder 28 |
Folio from a gradual.
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Ca. 1480. |
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Size: 282 x 225 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Single folio on vellum, from Eastern France or possibly Germany. Response, Versicle,
and Offertory for the Octave of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Seven
four-line staves in red (15.5 mm). Decorated with three staff-high initials in yellow
wash, else rubricated. Trimmed in lower margin, some discoloration.Provenance: Acquired circa October 2015 by Laurent Ferri.
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| Mapcase Folder 5bis |
Motu proprio by Pope Innocent VIII
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1488 | |
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Size: 330 x 190 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Single folio on paper, Rome, dated 7 October "anno quarto" (1487), Latin in italic
script. The document is mutilated on the right side with substantial loss of text.
The lines "Fiat ut petitx si me videntem. I." and "Fiat ut [remainder torn away]"
appear to be written in Pope Innocent VIII's own hand.Provenance: Acquired circa 1900 by Andrew Dickson White. First line is in a large, narrow script,
with decorated initial.
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| Mapcase Folder 5bis |
Papal bull signed by Innocent VIII
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1488 | |
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Size: 360 x 510 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Single folio on vellum, dated 4 Id. Julii 1488, Latin in italic script, reserving
the appointment of the Master of the Spanish order of St. James of CompostelaProvenance: Acquired circa 1900 by Andrew Dickson White. First line is in a large, narrow script,
with decorated initial.
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| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Bifolium of relic list of St. Thiébaut in Thann, in German.
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Dated 1499. |
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Size: 309 x 101/205 mm (245 x 65 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Complete bifolium on vellum in German. Single column, up to 34 lines, in red ink
with occasional elaborate cadels. This unusual document records the re-organization
of holy relics at the important medieval collegiate church of St. Thiébaut in Thann
(founded 1332). Written in the East Oberdeutsch dialect of German and dated 1499,
this complete text describes a transfer of saints' relics in 1458, as overseen by
the lay brothers Johannes Schürer, Michael Feyrlin, and Conrad Weyssman. The relics
were removed from monstrances and organized in a reliquary, here called a Tafel, and
therefore probably a box with cells carved from porphyry. When relocated, the relics
were situated in individual cells given coordinates identified in our manuscript.
Among a list of fourteen bones, two teeth, three pieces of fabric, and three splinters
from the True Cross, is the tooth of the exceptionally rare Saint Aurelia. She accompanied
Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins down the Rhine, but staying behind at Strasbourg due
to illness, she missed the chance for martyrdom. The relics listed in this text include
cloth from the Virgin's robe and a tooth of Thann's patron saint, Thiébaut. Faded
mid seventeenth-century notes at the end of the text have not yet been deciphered.Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri in 2013.
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Initial "B" with blue vine detail.
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Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century. |
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Size: 102 x 111 mm (75 x 73 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Illuminated initial "B" from a music manuscript with 4-line staves. Shape of "B"
has been pricked into the manuscript prior to painting. The initial "B" is in gold,
and surrounded by blue vines and enclosed by a red border. Provenance: Formerly folder 10.1ID Number: CornellMedMS_073_001.jpg (a).
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Initial "E" with grapes and flowers, from Italy.
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Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century. |
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Size: 82 x 84 mm (73 x 73 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Illuminated initial "E" from a music manuscript with 4-line staves. The gold initial
"E" is decorated with grapes and blue and red flower details. Provenance: Formerly folder 10.2ID Number: CornellMedMS_072_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_072_002.jpg (b).
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Illumination from a choir book featuring illustration of St. Peter and assembled saints,
from Italy.
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Early sixteenth century. |
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Size: 207 x 182 mm (207 x 182 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: In this illustration cut from a large choir book, St. Peter is shown in the center
of the composition holding a key. Flanking him are St. Jerome and St. John the Baptist
on the left, and St. Catherine and St. Lawrence on the right. Behind, a row of saints
without attributes lead a host of other saints indicated by a further row of halos.Provenance: Obtained in Europe, circa 1895, by A. D. White. Formerly Calkins, no. 51; De Ricci,
II, 1237, B. 49; folder 05.ID Number: CornellMedMS_071_001.jpg (a).
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Leaf from an antiphonal for Good Friday, made in Saragossa, Spain, with intricate
initials. Tiny pinpricks in both the regular and elegant "N" and "O" reveal that a
compass was used.
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Early sixteenth century. |
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Size: 490 x 326 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: .Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri in December 2014.
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Illuminated vellum manuscript leaf from a book of hours.
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Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century. |
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Size: 203 X 140mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Page from a book of hours, the recto with a (later inserted) miniature painting
(measuring approximately 90 X 61 mm) representing a kneeling nun, probably the patron
who commissioned the book, introduced to the Virgin Mary by her patron saint. On the
frame, one can read "S. A. BOURDEREUL"; on the verso, text with a full border of rinceaux,
including gold ivy leaves on hairline stems as well as floral buds and acanthus leaves.Provenance: Acquired in 2015 by Virginia Cole and Laurent Ferri
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| Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Bound document of a conveyance of a piece of olive grove near Cordoba (Spain), in
Spanish.
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Dated 10th February 1503. |
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Size: 275 x 210 mm (204 x 155 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Spanish on parchment in a Cursiva script. Four leaves (two bound bifolia),
approximately 35 lines per page; a few later annotations; stitched; some light soiling,
sometime folded, modern summary in pencil on blank verso of final leaf, but generally
in very good condition. A conveyance by Fernando Paez, son of Garcia Paez, and Ines
del Cana Veral, wife of Fernando, citizens of Cordoba in the precinct of San Miguel,
to Fernando, son of Fernando de Ecija, citizen of Cordoba, of a piece of olive grove
near Cordoba in the district called Arroyo de los Peñas, for 16,000 marks. Notarially
attested by Luis de Mesa, notary public of Cordoba. At the end (ff. 3v-4r) is a notarial
certificate dated 14 Februrary 1503, of delivery of possession in the presence of
Luis de Mesa and witnesses. Provenance: Acquired in Jan. 2014 by Laurent Ferri.
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Initial "S" with flowers and initial "Q" with landscape, from Italy.
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Sixteenth century. |
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Size: "S": 62 x 62 mm. "Q": 62/73 x 62 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Two gold decorated initials of "S" and "Q" probably from the same music manuscript
with 4-line staves from Italy. The "S" initial is surrounded with red, pink, and yellow
flower details. The "Q" initial contains a miniature landscape illustration in the
bowl of the "Q", with white-pink flowers in the bordering space. Both the "S" and
"Q" initials have a border in gold. Provenance: Formerly folders 10.3 and 10.4.ID Number: CornellMedMS_070_001.jpg (a, a); CornellMedMS_070_002.jpg (b, b).
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| Mapcase Folder 7 |
Leaf from a Gradual with musical notation and initials decorated with human faces.
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Sixteenth century. | |
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Size: 519 x 370 mm (420 x 255 mm). Seven staves: 33 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: From Italy. Written in Latin on parchment in Gothic script. From a Gradual, with
square musical notation on red, four-line staves. Two large initials, each decorated
with the face of a man (one young and bearded, the other older and clean-shaven),
and red rubrication. Text on hair side is somewhat faded. Provenance: Purchased in 2014.
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| Mapcase Folder 6 |
Single leaf from a Spanish Antiphonal (Santiago da Compostella, Spain)
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1525 | |
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Size: 620 x 420 mm (530 x 340 mm). Six staves: 105 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment. One leaf with text from the first antiphon for the
Office of Vespers on the feast of All Saints. Decoration: an immense initial O measuring
170 x 175 mm in red and blue "puzzle" style infilled with impressively intricate pen
work swirls within eight sections alternating in red and purple inks, all highlighted
in contrasting colors. These same pen-work features, in the same colors, fill a dense
border of "Moorish strap work" design on three sides. Provenance: Acquired in July 2014 by Laurent Ferri.
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| Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Two bound leaves of a chirograph concerning the exchange of two watermills near Oxford.
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Dated 1596. |
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Size: Leaf 1: 105 x 315 mm (67 x 203 mm). Leaf 2: 107 x 334 mm (78 x 309 mm).
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Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a late Cursiva Formata script. Two leaves are corded
together and contain the same text. Typical of a chirograph, the top of the leaves
have a wavy cut.Provenance: Formerly folder q.54.1-2.
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| Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Fragment from the bottom border of a medieval book with a number of later hands.
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Probably late medieval parchment. |
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Size: 414/111 x 526 mm.
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Scope and Contents
Description: Remainder of a decorated initial evident at top of fragment, and evidence of pricking
and ruling, but body of page cut away. Later eighteenth-/ nineteenth-century hands
at bottom of page.Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly folder 56.a
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| Mapcase Folder 12 |
Illuminated music leaf with modern historiated initials, from an antiphonary, Tuscany?,
15th century
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1400-1499 | |
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