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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.
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.
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.
Two leaves from a Bible containing the Books of Ezra/ Nehemiah (folio 4) and Judith (folio 5). , Twelfth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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).
Dates:
Twelfth century.
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.
Leaf from a Breviary with decorative “C” initial., Late thirteenth to early fourteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
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...
Dates:
Late thirteenth to early fourteenth century.
Leaf from an Antiphonal with historiated “A” initial of a female saint preaching, from Italy., Mid-fourteenth century, 1350.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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...
Dates:
Mid-fourteenth century; 1350.
Single folio on vellum from a Decorative Breviary, from Flanders., Mid-fourteenth century, 1350.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6 bis
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...
Dates:
Mid-fourteenth century; 1350.
Illuminated leaf from "Les Grandes Chroniques royales" Compostela, Paris, France, 1350-1375
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
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...
Dates:
1350-1375
Bronze seal matrix from England., Fourteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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...
Dates:
Fourteenth century.