Box 4
Contains 30 Results:
Fragment of Isidore’s Etymologies, VIII 5.39-6.3. , Fifteenth century.
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.
Two leaves from Cicero, Marcus Tulluis, Oratio pro Milano. , Fifteenth century.
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.
Leaf from a highly decorated Book of Hours in Dutch, with illuminated initial “H” with crucified Christ. , Fifteenth century.
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).
Leaf from Italian service book with illustration of St John with Lamb. , Fifteenth-century.
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).
Fragment from a printed glossed book. , Late fifteenth-century.
Description: Heavily glossed book in Latin, printed on parchment. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly d.56.
Folio from a gradual. , Ca. 1480.
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.
Bifolium of relic list of St. Thiébaut in Thann, in German. , Dated 1499.
Bound document of a conveyance of a piece of olive grove near Cordoba (Spain), in Spanish. , Dated 10th February 1503.
Two bound leaves of a chirograph concerning the exchange of two watermills near Oxford. , Dated 1596.
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.
Fragment from the bottom border of a medieval book with a number of later hands. , Probably late medieval parchment.
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