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Initial “E” with grapes and flowers, from Italy., Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19

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).

Dates: Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 6532, Medieval manuscript fragments

Illumination from a choir book featuring illustration of St. Peter and assembled saints, from Italy., Early sixteenth century.

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 20

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,...

Dates: Early sixteenth century.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 6532, Medieval manuscript fragments

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., Early sixteenth century.

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22

Scope and Contents

Description: .Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri in December 2014.

Dates: Early sixteenth century.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 6532, Medieval manuscript fragments

Illuminated vellum manuscript leaf from a book of hours., Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 23

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....

Dates: Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 6532, Medieval manuscript fragments

Initial “S” with flowers and initial “Q” with landscape, from Italy. , Sixteenth century.

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21

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...

Dates: Sixteenth century.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 6532, Medieval manuscript fragments

Fragment from a manuscript, probably a Bible., Mid-eleventh century.

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1

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).

Dates: Mid-eleventh century.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 6532, Medieval manuscript fragments

Three leaves from Bede’s Homiliae, from Italy., Late eleventh or early twelfth century.

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2

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...

Dates: Late eleventh or early twelfth century.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 6532, Medieval manuscript fragments

Leaf from the Acta Martyrii, including the martyrs of Sebaste., Late eleventh to twelfth century.

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3

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.

Dates: Late eleventh to twelfth century.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 6532, Medieval manuscript fragments

Two leaves from a Bible containing the Books of Ezra/ Nehemiah (folio 4) and Judith (folio 5). , Twelfth century.

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4

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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).

Dates: Twelfth century.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 6532, Medieval manuscript fragments

Leaf from Antiphonal with decorated initial “E” with blue wolves from Italy., Last quarter of the thirteenth century, 1280.

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5

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...

Dates: Last quarter of the thirteenth century; 1280.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 6532, Medieval manuscript fragments

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Initial “E” with grapes and flowers, from Italy., Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.

Illumination from a choir book featuring illustration of St. Peter and assembled saints, from Italy., Early sixteenth century.

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., Early sixteenth century.

Illuminated vellum manuscript leaf from a book of hours., Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.

Initial “S” with flowers and initial “Q” with landscape, from Italy. , Sixteenth century.

Fragment from a manuscript, probably a Bible., Mid-eleventh century.

Three leaves from Bede’s Homiliae, from Italy., Late eleventh or early twelfth century.

Leaf from the Acta Martyrii, including the martyrs of Sebaste., Late eleventh to twelfth century.

Two leaves from a Bible containing the Books of Ezra/ Nehemiah (folio 4) and Judith (folio 5). , Twelfth century.

Leaf from Antiphonal with decorated initial “E” with blue wolves from Italy., Last quarter of the thirteenth century, 1280.

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