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Fragment from a codex by Justinian, with historiated initials. From southern France., Ca. 1280.
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 25
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.
Dates:
Ca. 1280.
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)., Circa 1400, Italy.
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 27
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:
Dates:
Circa 1400; Italy.
Leaf from Lauda (song) book, from Italy. , Early fifteenth-century.
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 1
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...
Dates:
Early fifteenth-century.
Will of Margarita de Ballis, of Alcamo, Sicily. , 1408 (dated 1400 on page [3]).
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 26
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,...
Dates:
1408 (dated 1400 on page [3]).
Notarial Act (Codicil to a Will) from Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. , Dated November 1419.
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
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...
Dates:
Dated November 1419.
Leaf from Old French translation of Pseudo-Bonaventure's Stimulus amoris, Northern France. , 1420.
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2a
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.
Dates:
1420.
Nine Leaves from a Book of Hours (Use of Sarum) Produced in England, 1425 colophon, 16th century.
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2bis
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...
Dates:
1425 colophon; 16th century.
One account document from England. , Mid-fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 3
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.
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century.
Two leaves from a Book of Hours from France. , Mid-fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 4
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...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century.
Leaf containing Marian prayers in German., Mid-fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 5
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...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century.