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    [Dominican hymnary and vesperal Psalter] Ms. Written on the Upper Rhine? In Latin. Title from: Medieval and renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, by Svato Schutzner. Binder's title: Expositio hymnorum. Library of Congress. Medieval and renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, 31 Ricci, S. de. Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.), p. 116, no. 172 Selected hymns from the Dominican breviary: leaves [1-24]. Vesper Psalms (with...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection (Library of Congress) - Catholic Church
    • Date: 1480
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    Liber vitasfratrum
    Text begins leaf [1]1: Spiritualis pulchritudinis vere amatori in xpo [christo] alteri sibi fratri Johan[n]i ordinis fratru[m] heremitaru[m] sancti augusti[ni] lectori in argentina Frater Jordanus inter eiusde[m] ordinis l[ect]ores mi[ni]m[us] cor unu[m] et a[n]i[m]am una[m] habere in do[m]ino
    Latin Ms. codex. Layout: 2 columns (215 x 65 mm). 40-42 lines per column. No visible rulings or frame. Script: Hybrida. Decoration: 1r, 22v, 97r, 120r contain vibrant boarder decorations of painted acanthus leaves, gold leaf, and large opening initials. The manuscript is otherwise unembellished. Chapter letters are three lines high and written in red ink. The text is rubricated throughout. Binding: Modern brown...
    • Contributor: Jordan
    • Date: 1450
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    [Breviary, Dominican use] Latin Ms. Codex. Layout: Single column of 18 lines, ruled in brown ink, visible pricking marks; written area: 63 x 44 mm. Script: Gothic textura. Decoration: 12 four-to-seven-line initials in burnished gold on painted grounds (22r, 87r, 115r, 120r, 140v, 145v, 171v, 179v, 187r, 203r, 206r, 210r); 1 four-line initial in blue with burnished gold interior (124r). Extending acanthus leaves in red, green, and...
    • Contributor: Catholic Church
    • Date: 1494
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    [Comoediae sex] : [Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timorumenos, Ade... Latin Ms. Codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Text: Andria (1r-17v), Eunuchus (18r-36v), Heauton Timorumenos (37r-53r), Adelphoe (53v-69v), Hechira (70r-83v), Phormio (84r-100r). Layout: Single column of 32 lines; written area 215 x 140 mm. Script: Humanistic minuscule. Error in incipit reads: Fatus (sic, natus) in excelsis tectis cartaginis alte. Decoration: Italian white vine stem border with gold leaf edge (1r). Three five-line illuminted white vine...
    • Contributor: Terence
    • Date: 1400
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    [Book of hours] Ms. Codex. Layout: Single column of forty-one lines, ruled in red ink; written area: 140 x 75 mm. Script: Bâtarde. Decoration: 13 full-page miniatures. 37 small minatures. Binding: Wooden boards covered in brown buckskin. Modern parchment pastedown and fly leaves. Laid paper is pasted to the verso of the front fly leaf and to the recto of the back fly leaf. Book of hours...
    • Contributor: Catholic Church
    • Date: 1450
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    [Vita Ciceronis : versus XII sapientium, vita Caesaris] Latin Ms. Codex. Text: Vita Ciceronis (3r-25v); Versus XII sapientium (26r-27r); Vita Caesaris (27v-65v). Layout: Single column of twenty-seven lines; written area 150 x 103 mm. Modern foliation in pencil beneath earlier foliation in ink. Lacking ff.1-2. Script: Humanist minuscule. Some annotations (1r-35r). Decoration: 2 illuminated initials with white vine-stem desigs on a background of blue, red, and sage green (3r, 27v). Headings in...
    • Contributor: Plutarch
    • Date: 1400
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    [Biblia latina] Latin Ms. Fragment. Layout: Double columns at least 137 mm high x 73 mm wide with at least 17 lines. Line height: 8 mm. Leaf numbered LXXIIII in red ink at the top of 1r. Rubrication. Ruling in brown ink. Parchment trimmed for use as a binding. Script: Gothic textualis. Text 1r: Luke 22:15-33. First line: [pas]/cha manducare vobiscu[m] Text 1v Luke 22:37-52. First...
    • Date: 1400
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    Speculum regum. Partial text and commentary. Manuscript, on paper, 2 columns, rubricated. Leaves 1-12 misbound between leaves 25 and 26. Begins (leaf [1a]): Speculu[m] r[e]gu[m] co[m]pos[i]tu[m] p[er] Gotfridu[m] Viterbien[sem]; ends (leaf [16b]): Hic a Papa Hono[r]io in Basilica S[an]cti Petri coronat[us]. Et sic e[st] finis hui[us] op[er]is n[unc] laus Deo et o[mn]ib[us] s[an]ctis. Followed by the anonymous Tractatus de occultatione vitiorum sub specie virtutum, beginning (leaf [17a]): Incipit tractat[us] de...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Godefridus
    • Date: 1478
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    [De duodecim Caesaribus]
    XII Caesares
    Latin Ms. Codex. Text: Julius Caesar (1r-18v); Augustus (18v-44v); Tiberius (45r-61r); Caligula (61r-74v); Claudius (74r-84v); Nero (84v-97v); Galba (97v-102r); Otho (102r-104v); Vitellius (105r-109r); Vespasian (109r-113v); Titus (114r-116r); Domitian (116r-121v). Layout: 1 column; 37 lines per page; written area 200 x 113 mm; no visible ruling. Script: Italic script. Decoration: Italian white vine stem border inhabited by animals and vignettes representing a jousting scenes and...
    • Contributor: Suetonius
    • Date: 1400
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    [Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical d... An early parent to the modern almanac, these "monthly rules" are often found in astrologically focused medical manuscripts. In the Rosenwald copy, the twelve months of the year, titled in red ink for easy locating, border the central figure affectionally known to medievalists as "Vein Man." Instructions pertaining to each vein surround the body in a system of circles that connect to the pertinent...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1410
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    De re militari. Manuscript on paper. Signatures (with catchwords at end of each): [a-s¹⁰, t²⁺]. Humanistic script. Illuminated initials; headings in red; sepia drawings colored in part. Leaves [106]-[107] and a few leaves at end wanting. Leaf [Ia]: ELENCHVS ET INDEX RER[um] militarium; leaf [4a]: Ad MAGNANIMVM ET ILLVSTREM HEROA SIGISMVNDVM PANDVLFVM MALATESTAM ... ROBERTI VALTVRRII REI MILITARIS VOLVMINVM PREFATIO; leaf [181b]: (book 12, last chapter): plurima...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Franck, Peter - Valturio, Roberto
    • Date: 14??
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    [Bucolica]
    First line of text reads: P.V.M. Bucolica eglog[a]e p[ri]ma. Int[er]locutores
    Latin. Ms. Codex. Text: Eclogues 1-10. Layout: Single column of 33 to 37 lines; written area 154 x 100 mm. Foliated in modern pencil. Script: Southern textualis rotunda. Decoration: 1 Six-line initial (1r), 2 three-line initials (2r, 9v), and 7 two-line initials (3r, 5r, 6r, 7v, 8v, 11v,12v) at the opening of each Ecologue. Binding: Wooden boards with visible nail heads and leather back....
    • Contributor: Virgil
    • Date: 1400
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    De re militari. When this military treatise was completed around 1460, the patron, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, distributed a number of manuscript copies to rulers such as Louis XI, Francesco Sforza, and Lorenzo de' Medici. Twenty-two handwritten copies survive. In 1472, the book appeared in print in this Latin edition, which was followed in 1483 by an Italian version. The novelty of the publication lay less in the...
    • Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Valturio, Roberto
    • Date: 14??
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    [Psalterium] Latin Ms. Fragment. Layout: Single column at least 86 mm high x 65 mm wide and at least 18 lines. Line height: 4 mm. Parchment cut at the top for use in a binding. Pricking parks visible on untrimmed margin of 1v. Script: Hybrida. Decoration: 2-line initials in alternating red and blue ink at the beginning of psalms. Single line initials in alternating red...
    • Contributor: Catholic Church
    • Date: 1400
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    [De verborum significatione, et aliea]
    Miscellanea
    Latin Ms. Codex. Layout: Italic humanist script in a single column. Binding: modern Italian brown calf. Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p.1188, no. 7. Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 134 Gift of Dr. Ernest C. Richardson, December 15, 1934. Library of Congress...
    • Contributor: Festus, Sextus Pompeius
    • Date: 1400
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    [Littera indulgentiarum] Latin Ms. Fragment. Layout: Single block of text 110 mm high x 230 mm wide and 22 lines. Line height: 5 mm. Seal removed from lower margin leaving a hole in the parchment. Right side of parchment trimmed leaving text wanting. The last numbers of the date are wanting, so the parchment reads: MCCCCXX. Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in...
    • Date: 1420
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    [Book of hours: use of Sarum] Ms. Codex. Layout: Single column of twenty-one lines, ruled in purple ink; written area: 115 x 80 mm. Script: Gothic textura. Decoration: 16 large miniatures Illuminated by a follower of the Masters of the Gold Scrolls (active 1415-1455). Binding: Brown morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 'Sangorski & Sutcliffe' in gilt lettering to the inner front board. Use: English use indicated by the presence...
    • Contributor: Catholic Church
    • Date: 1420
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    [Bible in Latin]
    Byname: Biblia latina | Text begins, vol. 1: Incipit epistola beati Iheronimi presbiteri ad Paulinu[m] de omnibus diuine historie libris Capl'm primum | Text begins, vol. 2: Incipit Prefacio b[ea]ti Iheronimi presbiteri In libro ysaie prophete
    Ms. codexes. Latin. Title and description taken from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 1, p. 41-61, by Svato Schutzner. Very regular littera textualis formata, one hand throughout. Ink black to grayish black. Two columns, 60 lines. Decoration: initials, mostly unfinished, and some borders. Several historiated initials ... probably by more than...
    • Contributor: Mainzer Dom - Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius) - Bernhard - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1452
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    [Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum] Latin Text: Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum, book 4 chapter 54. Layout: Two columns at least 174 mm high x 83 mm wide of at least 30 lines. Line height: 6 mm. 3-line initials in red. Rubrication and minimally annotated margins. Parchment rubbed and in poor condition. Trimmed for use as a binding. Script: Gothica hybrida. Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and...
    • Contributor: Joannes
    • Date: 1400
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    Panagios Taphos 27. Eutropius History (Latin). 15th cent. 138...
    • Contributor: Eutropius, 4th Cent
    • Date: 1400
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    [Book of hours : fragments] Ms. Written in France. Most sections of the text are incomplete. In Latin. Modern binding has spine title: Psalterium. Library of Congress. Medieval and renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, 47 Gift of Mrs. Carley Dawson, 1967.
    • Contributor: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection (Library of Congress) - Catholic Church
    • Date: 1400
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    [Benedictine rule for nuns in Middle English ; a Middle Engli... Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by Svato Schutzner. Three scribes: scribes 1 and 2 use an old-fashioned vertical Gothic; scribe 3 uses a small anglicana currens with thorn. Decoration (on fol. 1-63 only): blue display-type letters, blue...
    • Contributor: Benedict - Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1400
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    [Prayerbook] Latin, German. Ms. Codex. Layout: Single column of thirteen lines; written area: 55 x 35 mm. Script: Gothic textura. Decoration: 12 large illuminated initials in the style of the Göttingen model book with marginal sprays or three-sided borders of scrolling acanthus in red, blue, pink, and green, grounds and infills of black with liquid gold filigree. Two-line initials alternatively of liquid gold or blue...
    • Contributor: Catholic Church
    • Date: 1440
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    [Book of hours: use of Rouen] Latin, French. Ms. Codex. Layout: Single colum of fifteen lines, ruled in red ink, visible prick marks; written area: 95 x 58 mm. Script: Gothic textura. Decoration: 8 large miniatures with richly inhabited foliate borders. Use: Localization to Rouen indicated by the presence of the following feasts: Translatio St. Ouen (5 May), Translatio St. Romain (16 June), Dedication of the Cathedral Notre-Dame de l'Assomption...
    • Contributor: Catholic Church
    • Date: 1400