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A leaf from a Franciscan Gradual (liturgical book of texts and music of chant sung by the choir in response to the celebrant of the Mass), Italy, on vellum. Written in a Gothic hand in black ink with rubrics and four four-line staves in red. Large initial “L” painted in red.
Latin
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circa 1400-1500 |
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A leaf from a medieval manuscript Augustinian Breviary, Italy, Use of Rome, on very thin vellum. There are two columns of twenty-eight lines written in brown ink in two sizes of a very small, rounded Gothic liturgical hand. This is the text of a ferial Psalter.
Latin
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circa 1450-1500 |
| Box 1, Folder 3 |
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A leaf from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht, the style of decorations and the litanies point to eastern Netherlands, most likely Liège. The manuscript evidently belonged to a convent of Augustinian nuns. St. Augustine leads the confessors in two litanies and the prayers for the dying are only used for female nuns.
Latin; Dutch
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circa 1450 |
| Box 1, Folder 4 |
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An incunabula leaf from the Holy Bible. Reynaldus de Novimagio with Theodorus de Reynsburch printed it in Venice, Italy. The leaf contains fifty-three lines of unadorned text (versal indents with guide letters) printed in double columns on paper.
Latin
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1478 |
| Box 1, Folder 5 |
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A leaf from a medieval manuscript Bible on vellum, Paris, France. There are fifty lines of double text in microscopic-miniscule Gothic script. Book headings, chapter numbers, one versal initial “E” in blue and red pen work with a large dragon. The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 26.
Latin
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circa 1250-1275 |
| Box 1, Folder 6 |
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A leaf from medieval manuscript Breviary. Germany, Use of Cologne. Thirty-one lines in small gothic script written in double columns with dark brown and red ink. Two two-line illuminated initials alternating in deep blue with delicate red penwork, and red with delicate violet penwork; thirty-five one-line illuminated initials alternating in deep blue and red.
Latin
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circa 1375 |
