Box 4
Contains 30 Results:
Fragment from a book taken from a binding. , Fifteenth century.
Description: Written in Latin on thick parchment from a large book and written in a Hybrida Formata script. Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly h.56.
Fragment from the Codex Justinius, Book VIII. , Fifteenth century.
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a Semitextualis Libraria script. Damaged partial leaf of Codex Justinius, Book VIII, probably parts 9-10. Red capitals and rubrication have survived better than the brown ink of the main hand itself, which is very faded.Provenance: Donated by Fleda Meyers. Formerly i.56.
Leaf from a Rabbinic legal commentary, probably from Spain. , Probably fifteenth century.
Description: Written in Hebrew on parchment. From a legal commentary text and probably concerning laws of damages. Taken from a binding.Provenance: Formerly folder O.
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.