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Fragment of Isidore’s Etymologies, VIII 5.39-6.3. , Fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Gothico-Antiqua script in one writing block with no decoration.Provenance: Lost descriptions by Mary Wack, May 1978 and Robert Fagueira, June 1976. Formerly folder e.24.

Dates: Fifteenth century.

Two leaves from Cicero, Marcus Tulluis, Oratio pro Milano. , Fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

Description: Both leaves are written in Latin on flesh side of parchment only in a Gothico-Antiqua script. Taken from a binding.Provenance: Restored and donated to Cornell by Mrs Fleda Meyers. Formerly folder f.1.

Dates: Fifteenth century.

Leaf from a highly decorated Book of Hours in Dutch, with illuminated initial “H” with crucified Christ. , Fifteenth century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Description: Written in Dutch in a Northern Textualis Formata script on parchment. Highly decorated on the recto with illumination of the crucified Christ with Mary, another saint (perhaps Mary Magdalene) and bird pricking its own breast; an angel on the edge of the right margin; and detailed calligraphic pen work. Provenance: Formerly Ferrini 64.ID Number: CornellMedMS_009_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_009_002.jpg (b).

Dates: Fifteenth century.

Leaf from Italian service book with illustration of St John with Lamb. , Fifteenth-century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Description: Written in Latin on high-quality parchment in a Textualis Formata (Rotunda). Highly decorated leaf with image of St John with lamb in initial “N” on the recto and an illuminated “L” on the verso. Alternating red and blue initials with decorative pen work and flourishes extending into the marginal and inter-linear space, red rubrication. Provenance: Formerly Ferrini folder 59 (Z 1).

Dates: Fifteenth-century.

Fragment from a printed glossed book. , Late fifteenth-century.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

Description: Heavily glossed book in Latin, printed on parchment. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly d.56.

Dates: Late fifteenth-century.

Folio from a gradual. , Ca. 1480.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Description: Single folio on vellum, from Eastern France or possibly Germany. Response, Versicle, and Offertory for the Octave of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Seven four-line staves in red (15.5 mm). Decorated with three staff-high initials in yellow wash, else rubricated. Trimmed in lower margin, some discoloration.Provenance: Acquired circa October 2015 by Laurent Ferri.

Dates: Ca. 1480.

Bifolium of relic list of St. Thiébaut in Thann, in German. , Dated 1499.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents Description: Complete bifolium on vellum in German. Single column, up to 34 lines, in red ink with occasional elaborate cadels. This unusual document records the re-organization of holy relics at the important medieval collegiate church of St. Thiébaut in Thann (founded 1332). Written in the East Oberdeutsch dialect of German and dated 1499, this complete text describes a transfer of saints’ relics in 1458, as overseen by the lay brothers Johannes Schürer, Michael...
Dates: Dated 1499.

Bound document of a conveyance of a piece of olive grove near Cordoba (Spain), in Spanish. , Dated 10th February 1503.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents Description: Written in Spanish on parchment in a Cursiva script. Four leaves (two bound bifolia), approximately 35 lines per page; a few later annotations; stitched; some light soiling, sometime folded, modern summary in pencil on blank verso of final leaf, but generally in very good condition. A conveyance by Fernando Paez, son of Garcia Paez, and Ines del Cana Veral, wife of Fernando, citizens of Cordoba in the precinct of San Miguel, to Fernando, son of Fernando de...
Dates: Dated 10th February 1503.

Two bound leaves of a chirograph concerning the exchange of two watermills near Oxford. , Dated 1596.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a late Cursiva Formata script. Two leaves are corded together and contain the same text. Typical of a chirograph, the top of the leaves have a wavy cut.Provenance: Formerly folder q.54.1-2.

Dates: Dated 1596.

Fragment from the bottom border of a medieval book with a number of later hands. , Probably late medieval parchment.

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

Description: Remainder of a decorated initial evident at top of fragment, and evidence of pricking and ruling, but body of page cut away. Later eighteenth-/ nineteenth-century hands at bottom of page.Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly folder 56.a

Dates: Probably late medieval parchment.