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Document with seal in Middle German., Fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
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.
Dates:
Fifteenth century.
One bifolium from a Psalter, from Northern Italy., Fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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....
Dates:
Fifteenth century.
Initial “S” from a Gradual from Germany or Bohemia., Fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
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...
Dates:
Fifteenth century.
Remnant of a Book of Hours, annotated in the following centuries, with eight leaves (including three bifolia) in an eighteenth century binding, from France., Fifteenth century (and later annotations).
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
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...
Dates:
Fifteenth century (and later annotations).
Initial “B” with blue vine detail., Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 18
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).
Dates:
Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.