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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.

Damaged document with very faded script. , Possibly fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Description: Document on parchment, written in a documentary hand. Script is very faded and illegible, but evidence of raised ascenders on top line. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly e.56.

Dates: Possibly fifteenth century.

Fragment taken from a binding. , Possibly fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Description: Faded, mostly illegible script, probably in a chancery hand. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly b.56.ID Number: CornellMedMS_012_004.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_012_004darker.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_012_003.jpg (b); CornellMedMS_012_003darker.jpg (b); CornellMedMS_012_002.jpg (c); CornellMedMS_012_002darker.jpg (c); CornellMedMS_012_001.jpg (d); CornellMedMS_012_001darker.jpg (d).

Dates: Possibly fifteenth century.

Fragment taken from a binding. , Possibly fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Description: Written in Latin on parchment. Faded, mostly illegible script, probably a Hybrida script. Ruling and a red capital “Q”. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly c.56.ID Number: CornellMedMS_013_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_013_002.jpg (b, c); CornellMedMS_013_002_darker.jpg (b, c); CornellMedMS_013_003.jpg (d); CornellMedMS_013_003_darker.jp (d).

Dates: Possibly fifteenth century.

Fragment from an unidentified book. , Possibly fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Description: Badly damaged parchment fragment from a book removed from a binding. Only small section of faded text remains in a Cursiva script. Provenance: Formerly folder 56.k.ID Number: CornellMedMS_007.jpg (a).

Dates: Possibly fifteenth century.

Mutilated bifolia from the Speculum Doctrinale by Vincent of Beauvais. , Fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Semitexualis Formata script. Text almost completely rubbed off, but red rubrication and paraphs still clear. Provenance: Formerly j.56

Dates: Fifteenth century.

Three nested bifolia of Statuta criminalia from Lucca, Italy. , Fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Gothico-Antiqua script. Three bifolia forming most of a quire. Provenance: Brought in 1888 in Lucca, Italy, by George Burr for the President White Library. De Ricci B62.ID Number: CornellMedMS_008_002.jpg (1a); CornellMedMS_008_001.jpg (1b); CornellMedMS_008_004.jpg (2a); CornellMedMS_008_003.jpg (2b).

Dates: Fifteenth century.

Two fragments from a glossed book. , Fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Description: Two fragments written in Latin on parchment and taken from the same glossed book, probably in a Semitextualis Libraria script. Taken from a binding. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly folder g.56 (1-2).

Dates: Fifteenth century.