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Bible leaf - Interpretationes Hebraicorum Nominum
- CA MRUASC C0003-S4-0102-07
- Item
- [12--]
Item is a leaf from a pocket Bible featuring what is likely a section of the Interpretationes Hebraicorum Nominum (Interpretations of Hebrew Names), an alphabetical list of proper names appearing in the Bible with a short commentary on their meaning, provided as an aid to scriptural study. This section covers I-M.
Bible leaf from William de Brailes' workshop
- CA MRUASC C0003-S4-0102-24
- Item
- [ca. 1240]
Item is a leaf from an English pocket bible containing verses 22:12-24:39 of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Leaf features illuminated initials and marginalia including a partial English translation of verse 24:1 ("Wisedome shall prayse herselfe and be honored in god and rejoyse in the middes of his people :". The leaf was produced in Oxford in the workshop of the prominent manuscript illuminator William de Brailes.
A partial transcription of the leaf reads: Beginning nequissimi enim...: "For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death... keep fidelity with a friend in his poverty, that in his prosperity also thou mayst rejoice... wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honored in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people and shall open her mouth in the churches of the most high, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power... he said to me: let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect. From the beginning and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him..."
Bible leaf from William de Brailes' workshop
- CA MRUASC C0003-S4-0102-16
- Item
- [ca. 1240]
Item is a leaf from an English pocket Bible containing verses 6-8 of the Book of Kings. The leaf was produced in Oxford in the workshop of the prominent illuminator William de Brailes. Leaf features illuminated initials and chapter numbers, crossed-out mistakes, and some marginal notes.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S4
- Series
- [ca. 1240]-[ca. 1275], [18--]
Series consists of leaves from pocket Bibles, and a complete Ethiopian Coptic Bible.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-10
- Item
- [14--?]
Item is an illuminated leaf, likely from a book of hours. The leaf features initials and line fillers in red, blue, and burnished gold.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-15
- Item
- [ca. 1450]
Item is a leaf from a book of hours.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-13
- Item
- [14--?]
Item is a very small leaf, likely from a book of hours.
Book of hours leaf [in German?]
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-12
- Item
- [14--?]
Item is a leaf from a book of hours in a vernacular language, possibly medieval German.
Books of hours and prayer books
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1
- Series
- [12--]-[ca.1460], predominant 1400-1460
Series consists of leaves and a bifolium from books of hours and other Christian devotional texts for the private use of laypeople (non-clergy), which were very popular in the late medieval period.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-11
- Item
- [14--?]
Item is a leaf, likely from a breviary, featuring a calendar of church feasts from July to December. A breviary is a liturgical book used by the clergy to celebrate the Divine Office (also known as the Liturgy of the Hours), and contains readings, hymns, psalms, and prayers.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-09
- Item
- [14--?]
Item is a leaf, likely from a breviary, featuring illuminated initials in painted gold on brown, blue, or red grounds. A breviary is a liturgical book used by the clergy to celebrate the Divine Office (also known as the Liturgy of the Hours), and contains readings, hymns, psalms, and prayers.
Breviary leaf with heavy rubrication
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-08
- Item
- [14--?]
Item is a heavily-rubricated leaf from a breviary. A breviary is a liturgical book used by the clergy to celebrate the Divine Office (also known as the Liturgy of the Hours), and contains readings, hymns, psalms, and prayers.
- CA MRUASC C0003-0225-12
- Item
- [between 1880 and 1930]
File contains a leaf from a Burmese black parabaik, or folding-book manuscript, that contains tattoo designs, including: birds, tigers (one eating a person), flags, and an elaborate hti (a Burmese umbrella, an important religious symbol and marker of high social status). Tattooing was a traditional practice of several ethnic groups (including the Shan people) in Burma / Myanmar until the 20th century, and had cultural, religious, and magical significance. The accompanying text is likely in Burmese or Shan.
Parabaik are made of thick paper from the bark of the paper mulberry tree that is sometimes blackened with charcoal like this one, and then written on with a white steatite (soapstone) pencil. The paper is then folded accordion-style and bound with protective covers.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S5
- Series
- [ca. 1300]
Series contains a leaf and fragments of leaves from books of canon (church) law.
Declaration of the sale of a house in Paris
- CA MRUASC C0003-S3-0102-18
- Item
- August 22, 1342
Item is a French contract regarding the sale of a house in the city of Paris.
Egyptian Coptic Euchologion leaf
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-37
- Item
- [15--?]
Item is a leaf from a Euchologion, one of the principal liturgical texts of the Coptic churches (as well as the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches). The text is written in Bohairic (an Egyptian dialect of the Coptic language, and the official liturgical language), with an Arabic translation. The leaf features some rubrication and a marginal illustration of a cross on the verso.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-26
- Item
- [ca. 1440]
Item is a leaf from an English book of hours containing verses 22:5-23:4 of the Book of Psalms. The leaf may have been produced at Syon Abbey (a wealthy monastery of the Bridgettine Order that was located east of London on the north bank of the River Thames in the parish of Isleworth), but this claim (from the seller's description) remains unsubstantiated. The leaf features illuminated initials of burnished gold and a floral border on the recto. Surviving English books of hours are rare, as many were destroyed during the English Reformation.
A partial transcription of the leaf reads: Beginning with "In conspectus meo..." : "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."
Beginning with the illuminated letter D of "Domini est terra..." : "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers. Who shall ascend into the mountains of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place? The innocent in hands, and the clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour..."
- CA MRUASC C0003-S4-0102-25
- Item
- [between 1250 and 1275]
Item is a leaf from an English pocket bible, possibly from East Anglia, containing verses 10:30-12:41 of the Book of Mark. Leaf features illuminated initials and marginalia.
A partial transcription of the leaf reads: "Et sorores, et matres, et agros..." : "and sisters , and mothers, and children... the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many... Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord... My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations. But you have made it a den of thieves... Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's... And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is like to it; thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself..."
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-35-02
- Item
- [13--]
Item is a leaf from an illuminated psalter featuring initials, line fillers, and leafy borders in red, blue, and burnished gold. The borders are inhabited by a pointing figure (recto), and a downward facing human-animal hybrid with a tall hat (verso).
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-35-01
- Item
- [13--]
Item is a leaf from an illuminated psalter featuring a marginal illustration of a bird, as well as initials, line fillers, and leafy borders in red, blue, and burnished gold.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-35
- File
- [13--]
File contains two leaves from an illuminated psalter that feature illuminated initials and line fillers in red, blue, and burnished gold. The leaves also feature three-quarter borders on both sides depicting long tendrils terminating in trefoils and containing marginal illustrations of humans/hybrid creatures and a bird. A psalter is a book containing the Book of Psalms and often other devotional texts such as a liturgical calendar, Litany of Saints, and Office of the Dead.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S4-0030-01
- Item
- [18--]
Item is an Ethiopian Coptic manuscript Bible with an accompanying leather carrying case. The codex consists of 140 goatskin parchment leaves, with text in Ge'ez (the liturgical language of the Ethiopian church) written in red and black ink, with occasional annotations throughout. The codex is illustrated with 9 full-page illuminations in colour, and 5 decorative headpieces in black, red, and blue. The binding is in traditional Ethiopian Coptic style and features wooden boards (the back board has been crudely repaired) and a leather spine.
Flemish book of hours bifolium
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-27
- Item
- [ca. 1450]
Item is a continuous bifolium from a book of hours produced in Flanders. The text follows the Use of Sarum (Salisbury), an English variant of the Roman rite for public worship, indicating that it was produced for the English market. The two leaves constituting the bifolium contain the latter part of a Litany of Saints, and feature illuminated initials and burnished gold lettering. A partial transcription of the leaves reads:
Beginning with the illuminated letter "U" ut oculos...: "That it may please thee to look upon us with eyes of mercy... Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world, spare us O Lord... Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us..."
Beginning with the illuminated letter "D" deus...: "O God, Whose property is always to have mercy and to spare, receive our petition; that we and all thy servants who are bound by the chain of sin may, by the compassion of thy goodness mercifully be absolved..."
Beginning with the illuminated letter "I" in...: "Show with clemency O Lord they unspeakable mercy unto us: that thou both acquit us of our sins and deliver us from the pains, which for them we deserve..."
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-01
- Item
- [ca. 1450]
Item is an illuminated leaf from a book of hours from Bruges in Flanders.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S5-0102-14-02
- Item
- [12-- or 13--]
- CA MRUASC C0003-S5-0102-14-03
- Item
- [12-- or 13--]
- CA MRUASC C0003-S5-0102-14-01
- Item
- [12-- or 13--]
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-03-03
- Item
- [ca. 1460]
Leaf features an illuminated panel border with a fantastical creature, possibly an insect with the head of a bearded man.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-03-02
- Item
- [ca. 1460]
Leaf contains an illuminated panel border with a fantastical creature, possibly a double-headed dragon.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-03-01
- Item
- [ca. 1460]
Leaf is decorated with an illuminated panel border featuring a fantastical creature, likely a griffin.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-03
- File
- [ca. 1460]
File contains three leaves from an illuminated book of hours from Northern France, possibly Paris. The leaves are decorated with elaborate panel borders, some inhabited by fantastical creatures, as well as illuminated initials and line fillers.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-02
- Item
- [ca. 1400]
Item is a leaf from an illuminated breviary from Northern France. Verso features a zoomorphic initial featuring a dragon, and several other illuminated initials and line fillers in red, blue, and burnished gold. A breviary is a liturgical book used by the clergy to celebrate the Divine Office (also known as the Liturgy of the Hours), and contains readings, hymns, psalms, and prayers.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-28
- Item
- [ca. 1475]
Item is a leaf from a French breviary containing verses 1:20 to 2:12 of the Book of Genesis, including the Creation of Man. The leaf features illuminated initials with floral designs and rinceaux in bright colours and burnished gold.
A partial transcription of the leaf reads:
Beginning with the illuminated letter D of "Dixit etiam..." : "God also said: Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth... and God created the great whales... and the evening and the morning were the first day..."
Beginning with the illuminated letter D of "Dixit quoque..." : "And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creatures in its kind..."
Beginning with the illuminated letter E of "Et vidit deaus..." : "And God saw that it was good. And he said : let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts and the whole earth..."
Beginning with the illuminated letter E of "Et creavit..." : "And God created man to his own image... increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule..."
Beginning with the illuminated letter D of "Dixitque..." : "And God said: behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon earth... and the evening and morning were the sixth day... and on the seventh day God ended his work... he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it... and the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul..."
A breviary is a liturgical book used by the clergy to celebrate the Divine Office (also known as the Liturgy of the Hours), and contains readings, hymns, psalms, and prayers.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S4-0102-04
- Item
- [ca. 1260]
Item is an illuminated leaf from a French pocket Bible, likely from Paris. The leaf features text from the Book of Obadiah in minute Gothic miniscule script in two columns. The recto features an elongated whimsical creature (possibly a griffon?) between the two columns of text, and the verso contains a 6-line historiated initial depicting the prophet Obadiah seated and holding a scroll.
French processional choirbook leaf fragment
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-40
- Item
- [14--]
Item is the upper portion of a processional choirbook leaf that had been reused as a binding cover. Fragment includes seven lines of text and music in square notation capturing verses 1-3 (recto) and 6-11 (verso) of Psalm 94. As indicated by the heading on the recto which reads 'In honore beatissime', this leaf would have been used for the feast of a female saint.
French processional gradual leaf
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-30
- Item
- [ca. 1550]
Item is a leaf from a processional gradual, a choir book containing the music used in processions during the Mass. The bookseller's description notes that "the opening leaf of the parent manuscript states this was a 'Gradual for the Carthusian Order'... from the Royal Workshop of Henri II" in Paris. The text of this leaf is for use on Holy Saturday, and is decorated with two large illuminated initials featuring flowers and a strawberry on liquid gold grounds, as well as three smaller initials and three paraphs.
The illuminated C begins part of Exodus 15:1-2: "Cantemus domino...": "Let us sing to the Lord: For he is gloriously magnified: The horse and the rider He has thrown into the sea: My helper and protector. He has brought salvation to me. He is my God, and I will glorify him: The God of my father, and I will exalt him. The Lord has destroyed war: Almighty is His name..."
Beginning with the illuminated letter V: "Vinea...": " My beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. And he enclosed it with a fence and made a ditch around it, and planted it with the choicest vine..."
A gradual contains the music for the proper of the Mass, the part of the liturgy that varies according to the date (as opposed to the ordinary of the Mass, which is relatively constant). For example, chants for the proper (such as introits, graduals, tracts, alleluia, offertory and communion verses) would vary depending on which holiday or saint's feast day was being celebrated.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-38
- Item
- [between 1310 and 1320]
Item is an illuminated leaf from a psalter from Paris, featuring a number of inhabited initials and marginal illustrations depicting human-animal hybrids, a bird, and a crowned and bearded king.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-34
- Item
- [12--]
Item is an illuminated leaf from a miniature psalter-hour from France. A psalter-hours is a personal prayer book that was the precursor to Books of Hours. The leaf features initials and line fillers in red, blue, and burnished gold.
German noted breviary fragment
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0102-05
- Item
- [ca. 1450]
Item is a fragment of a leaf from a German noted (containing music) breviary, likely recovered from a binding. The recto features musical notation in Hufnagelschrift ("horseshoe nail script") neumes on 4-line staves, with lyrics relating to Easter. A breviary is a liturgical book used by the clergy to celebrate the Divine Office (also known as the Liturgy of the Hours), and contains readings, hymns, psalms, and prayers.
- CA MRUASC C0003-0358-02
- Item
- July 13, 1795
Item is an illuminated Ottoman Qur'an signed by the scribe, Muhammad al-Fardi, otherwise known as Hafiz al-Qur'an. Item is the 183rd Qur'an copied by al-Fardi. Item contains gold roundel verse markers, gold and polychrome marginal decorations, and flower designs marking each Surah.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0086-09
- Item
- [ca. 1475]
Item is a leaf from a missal from Italy that contains a reading from chapter 4 of the Gospel of Luke. The leaf features several illuminated initials in blue and red, and a marginal illustration of a face.
A partial translation of the text, beginning with the first illuminated 'I' reads: "At that time, Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever, and they besought him for her. And standing over her, he commanded the fever, and it left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to them."
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2-0086-10
- Item
- [11--]
Item is a trimmed leaf (some parts of the blank margins cut away when the leaf was reused to bind a later book) from a passionary , a collection of martyrs' legends that were read aloud during the celebration of the Divine Office. The leaf is ruled in plummet, written in 2 columns of 32 lines in a Romanesque bookhand, and marked for public recitation.
From the seller's description: "...the text comprising part of two readings for St Paul: the end of Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina no. 6659 (which usually begins Dehinc elapsis a passione sanctorum apostolorum…) and the beginning of BHL 6570: the rubric is now abraded, but probably reads Passio sancti Pauli ; the text opens C[um venissen]t Romam Lucas a Galatia Titus a Dalmatia … , and ends on the verso at … et ibant letantes & gaudentes... The folded-up part of the lower margin of the current leaf has a quire signature .I. , showing that this was the last leaf of the first quire of the parent volume; the text therefore probably refers to the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul on 25 January, rather than his more common feast (with St. Peter) much later in the year on 29 June."
- CA MRUASC C0003-0102-06
- Item
- [14--?]
Item is a leaf that was reused as the limp binding for a later work, the title of which appears to be partly visible on what was the spine. The leaf features rubrication and initials in red and blue.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S3-0102-22
- Item
- January 5, 1582
Item is a lease regarding the use of "the Great House" in Southampton, England.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S3
- Series
- 1342-1619
Series consists of English and French legal documents enacting or recording the transfer of property or rights from one person or group to another. Legal documents in this series include marriage settlements/contracts, property leases/declarations of sale, a will, a deed, an obligation, and a papal bull.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S5-0086-03
- Item
- [ca. 1300]
Item is a large leaf from an Italian copy of Liber Sextus Decretalium (the Sixth Book of Decretals), a collection of papal decrees concerning canon law (decretals) that was compiled by Pope Boniface VIII as a supplement to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX. The leaf features glossing, manicules, and paraphs and headings in red and blue.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S2
- Series
- [11--]-[ca. 1850]
Series consists of leaves from liturgical books (also known as service books), which were used by the clergy in the celebration of Christian public religious worship. Types of liturgical books in the series include breviaries, antiphonals, psalters, hymnals and gradual processionals.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S5-0102-14
- File
- [12-- or 13--]
File contains three fragments of manuscript leaves (possibly works of canon law) recovered from later bindings. Fragments 1 and 2 appear to be from the same manuscript, and possibly the same leaf. The fragments feature glossing in a number of medieval and modern hands, rubrication, and illuminated initials, paraphs, and marginal decorations, one in the form of a a mythical creature.
Marriage contract between Jacques Mouvet and Francoise de Lounducourt
- CA MRUASC C0003-S3-0102-31
- Item
- 16 February 1594
Item is a French marriage contract between Jacques Mouvet and Francoise de Lounducourt.
Marriage settlement from Suffolk, England
- CA MRUASC C0003-S3-0102-21
- Item
- July 1560
Item is a marriage settlement from Suffolk, England relating to the marriage of Thomas Heyward and Margaret Bryan of Sudbury.
Medieval and early modern manuscript collection
- CA MRUASC C0003
- Collection
- [11--]-[19--?], predominant [12--]-[15--]
Collection consists of manuscript (written by hand) books, book fragments, and documents, predominantly from the medieval and early modern periods. Most items were produced in western and southern Europe (France, England, Flanders, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Spain), while others originated in Asia, northern Africa, the Middle East, and Russia. Many leaves are illuminated and feature decorative initials, borders, line fillers, marginal illustrations, etc.
The collection is arranged in series by manuscript type: books of hours and prayer books, liturgical books (containing leaves from psalters, breviaries, antiphonals, and graduals), charters (legal records), Bibles, and canon law.
- CA MRUASC C0003-0102-29
- Item
- [11--?]
Item is a fragment of a leaf from the Moralia in Job (also known as the Commentary on Job, Magna Moralia, or Moralia, sive Expositio in Job), a work of biblical commentary authored by Pope Gregory I (Saint Gregory the Great) in the late 6th century. The fragment is written in late Caroline miniscule or protogothic script. It also features several holes including a large parchment flaw at bottom, while those in the centre were probably created when the fragment was reused as a limp binding.
Obligation from Warwick, England
- CA MRUASC C0003-S3-0102-20
- Item
- December 22, 1551
Item is a bilingual obligation granting legal privileges to the signatory John Laptworthe.
- CA MRUASC C0003-0261-01
- Item
- [18-- or 19--]
Item is a palm-leaf manuscript from Southeast Asia (possibly Thailand), and is likely a Buddhist text in Pali. The text is written in 5 lines, possibly in Thai script. The manuscript is bound with a cord that passes through a central hole in the leaves and the boards. Both the boards and the manuscript's accompanying display stand are made of wood and painted black with gilt decoration.
Papal bull in the name of Pope Urban VIII
- CA MRUASC C0003-S3-0102-36
- Item
- 1642
Item is a papal bull issued by Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644). A papal bull is a public decree, letters patent, or charter issued by the pope of the Catholic Church. Bulls were issued by the Apostolic Chancery (also known as the Papal Chancellery) and were written in a heavily abbreviated and archaic form of Latin known as scrittura bollatica, and were often accompanied by a copy in ordinary script. This bull lacks the lead seal ('bulla,' the origin of the term 'papal bull') which was typically affixed to these documents (via the cord at bottom) as a form of authentication and to prevent tampering.
- CA MRUASC C0003-0086-07-01
- Item
- [18--]
Item is a leaf with a large miniature that seems to depict foot whipping (also known as falaka or bastinado).
- CA MRUASC C0003-0086-07-02
- Item
- [18--]
Item is a leaf with a full-page miniature that depicts five figures (one appears to be being pulled out of a hole in the ground with a rope) and a camel.
- CA MRUASC C0003-0086-07
- File
- [18--]
File contains two leaves with large miniatures that appear to be from the same Persian religious text.
- CA MRUASC C0003-S1-0102-19
- Item
- [ca. 1440]
Item is a manuscript leaf from a prayer book or book of hours in medieval Dutch.
- CA MRUASC C0003-0102-33
- Item
- [17--]
Item is a leaf from a Quran written in Nashki script and decorated with gold painted borders.