Text from the Decretals on Excommunication
Type: Leaves & Fragments
Genre: Law & Politics, Other Text Manuscripts
Liber sextus Decretalium issued by Pope Boniface VIII between 1296 and 1298. Single folio on…
Manuscripts
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Folio from the Chester Beatty Hours Dated 1408
Type: Leaves & Fragments
Genre: Bible & Scriptural, Illuminations & Miniatures, Books of Hours & Devotions
The Chester Beatty Hours. Single folio on vellum. France (Paris), dated 1408. 175 mm x…
The First Leaf-Book Created for American University Libraries: Otto F. Ege’s “Original Leaves from Famous Books, Eight Centuries”
Type: Leaves & Fragments
Genre: Bible & Scriptural, Theology & Philosophy, Pastoral Care, Law & Politics, Literature & Humanities, Other Text Manuscripts
THE IMPORTANT DESIGN PROTOTYPE OF EGE’S FIFTY ORIGINAL LEAVES FROM MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS Otto F. Ege,…
Monumental Italian Homiliary with Inhabited Initial
Type: Leaves & Fragments
Genre: Liturgy & Music, Bible & Scriptural, Illuminations & Miniatures, Theology & Philosophy
Romanesque Homiliary. Single folio on vellum. Central Italy, either Tuscany (possibly Pisa) or Rome, ca….
The Only Known Manuscript from the Priory of Notre Dame de Fargues in Albi
Type: Leaves & Fragments
Genre: Liturgy & Music, Bible & Scriptural, Theology & Philosophy
Noted Missal. Two bifolia on vellum. Southern France, doubtless Albi, ca. 1325: 213 mm x…
Square Neumes from a Thirteenth-Century Noted Breviary
Type: Leaves & Fragments
Genre: Liturgy & Music, Bible & Scriptural, Pastoral Care
Portable Noted Breviary with Handsome Neumes. Single folio on vellum. Northern Italy, ca. 1250-1300: 312…
Rare Text in a Manuscript from Pontigny, ca. 1170, Copied from a Sixth-Century Exemplar
Type: Leaves & Fragments
Genre: Bible & Scriptural, Theology & Philosophy
Didymus the Blind, De spiritu sancto in the Latin Translation of St. Jerome. Single folio…
Handsome Initials in an Italian Gradual
Type: Leaves & Fragments
Genre: Liturgy & Music, Bible & Scriptural, Illuminations & Miniatures
Two Initials on a Single Fragment from a Magnificent Gradual. Single fragment on thick vellum….
Leading Textbook of Latin Grammar in the Middle Ages
Type: Leaves & Fragments
Genre: Literature & Humanities, Other Text Manuscripts
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae. Single folio on vellum. Italy, second half of the thirteenth century: 200…
Gigantic Romanesque Copy of a Grammar Text in Four Columns
Type: Leaves & Fragments
Genre: Pastoral Care, Literature & Humanities
Papias the Grammarian, Elementarium doctrinae rudimentum. 8 fols. on vellum: two sets of four consecutive…