title: Hand 4, initial with penwork, rubric, placemarkers.

text: Astor collection.

text: 8 scribes?

text: Opening initial with angel.

text: Parchment


mmsType: Item

field: dateCreated

keyDate: yes

point: start

point: end

title: Hand 5, placemarker and catchword.

sourceSystem: mms

namePart: Spoleto, Cherubinus de

type: personal

usage: primary

type: content

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

type: ownership

text: Astor collection.

text: 31-6 long lines in main text, ruled in pencil.  In index (ff. 438-40), 49 lines in three columns.  Occasional prickmark and catchword visible.

text: 8 scribes?

text: De Ricci, 1319.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Note in manuscript box.

text: Dr. Guest dates ms to the 14th or possibly 15th century.  Red foliation accurate only to f. 46; thereafter use penciled foliation.  Scribes: A, f. 1r-v; B, ff. 2-46; C, f. 47r-v; D, ff. 48-166v; E, ff. 168-335v; F, ff. 336-437v; G, f. 437v; H, ff. 438-40.

text: Initial pasted on to f. 1 obscures much of rubric and incipit.

text: Occasional initials -- some painted in red, blue, green and gold (including f. 1), others with penwork.  Red and yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: Opening initial with angel.

text: Parchment

text: Red foliation accurate only to f. 46; thereafter use pencil foliation, which appears every 10 folios.

title: Hand 5, placemarker and catchword.

supplied: no

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collectionTitle: Renaissance and medieval manuscripts collection, ca. 850-ca. 1600.


title: Opening of hand 6, painted initial and rubric.

text: Astor collection.

text: 8 scribes?

text: Opening initial with angel.

text: Parchment


title: End of hand 6; hand 7.

text: Astor collection.

text: 8 scribes?

text: Opening initial with angel.

text: Parchment

title: End of hand 6; hand 7.


title: Hand 8, page of tabula, explicit.

text: Astor collection.

text: 8 scribes?

text: Opening initial with angel.

text: Parchment

title: Hand 8, page of tabula, explicit.


title: Opening of calendar for the month of January, with entries on every line, in French.

namePart: Master of the Dunois Hours

type: topic

authority: lcsh

text: Church calendar

text: Owned 15th century by "Janne la Cavilliere demourant a Paris assez prez de la port de Baudez."  Owned 18th century by Dom Innocenzio Gil.  R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13844), bequeathed 1892.

text: 16-17 long lines (17 in calendar) ruled in red pencil, catchwords visible.

text: 2 scribes?, incl. secondary hand on f. 170

text: 3-line red and blue initials on gold fields; 1- and 2-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  Border designs of vines, leaves, flowers and fruit.  Rubrics.  Yellow daubs as placemarkers.  Red, blue and gold linefillers.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: De Ricci, 1319.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Paper has been pasted to the outer sides of the first and last folios.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of the gospel pericopes.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Opening of the gospel pericopes.


title: Miniature of the Annunciation with the Virgin reading a book (in a chemise binding?).

type: name

nameType: personal

authority: naf

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Gabriel (Archangel)

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Note of ownership in French. Initials, rubric, and linefillers.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Note of ownership of Janne La Cavilliere in French in the hand of the scribe.


title: Catchword, initials, rubric, placemarkers.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Crucifixion

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Jesus Christ

text: Crucifixion

text: Mary Magdalene, Saint

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 52.1

title: Crucifixion


title: Pentecost

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Pentecost

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 52.2

title: Pentecost


title: Suffrage of St. Michael archangel. Scribal hand 2. Explicit of text, different style of initials.

text: 5 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Church calendar

text: f. 440:  coat of arms of early owner.  R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13879), bequeathed 1892.

text: 32-34 lines in two columns, ruled in red and purple.  Catchwords visible.

text: 3?:  A, all to f. 434; B, ff. 434v-436v; C, ff. 437-439v?

text: Dr. Guest places this in Flanders? or Holland?

text: Large red and blue initials on gold fields.  2-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  Rubrics, yellow daubs as placemarkers, border designs.  Different decorating styles, ff. 434v and following.

text: Many illuminated initials.  Animal and human figures appear in borders.

text: Parchment

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Opening of text, illuminated initial, 2-line and 1-line initials, partial border design, rubrics and placemarkers.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Parchment


title: Initials, border with grotesque.  Rubrics, placemarkers.

authority: lctgm

text: Grotesques

text: Strawberries

text: Parchment


title: Catchword and initials, rubrics and placemarkers.

text: Initials

text: Parchment


title: Change of hand?  Change of decorating style.

text: Parchment


title: Hand 3? Beginning of service for St. Florus.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Coat of arms; of early owner?

text: Parchment

title: Coat of arms; of early owner?


title: Opening page of calendar, written in French.

text: Church calendar

text: Douglas sale, 1856.  R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13848), bequeathed 1892.

text: 12 long lines in main text (15-17 in calendar) ruled in purple pencil.  Prickings occasionally visible.

text: 2-line and 3-line red and blue initials on gold fields.  2-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  1-line gold and blue initials with blue or red penwork.  Border designs, blue and gold line fillers, rubrics, red daubs as placemarkers.

text: Nine miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of main text.  Miniature of Annunciation.  Border design, 3-line and 1-line initials, placemarker.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Flowers

type: temporal

text: Nine miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Nativity

text: Jesus Christ

text: Nativity

text: Nine miniatures.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 63.1

title: Nativity


title: 2-line and 1-line initials, linefillers and placemarkers.

text: Initials

text: Nine miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Latin and French text, initials, border design.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Nine miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of mass for the dead.

text: Priests

text: Funeral rites & ceremonies

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Nine miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Miniature of mass for the dead.


title: Explicit

text: Nine miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit


text: Church calendar

text: Owned (28 Nov. 1684) by Didier Monnot, at Roche (note on f. 187v).  R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13854), bequeathed 1892.

text: 14 long lines per page (17 in calendar), ruled in light red pencil.  Catchwords visible.

text: 2 scribes?, with change at f. 148?

text: De Ricci, 1320.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Gold initials on red and blue fields in many sizes.  Red, gold and blue linefillers.  Rubrics.  Some initials sprout vines and leaves in border; other border designs.  Yellow daubs as placemarkers, ff. 148 and following.

text: Parchment

text: Stubs of two folios at end.

text: Three miniatures.


title: Opening of main text, large gold initial, rubric, border design.

text: 2 scribes?, with change at f. 148?

text: Parchment

text: Stubs of two folios at end.

text: Three miniatures.


title: Initials, linefillers, catchword.

text: 2 scribes?, with change at f. 148?

text: Parchment

text: Stubs of two folios at end.

text: Three miniatures.

title: Initials, linefillers, catchword.


title: Miniature of the Visitation, initials, linefillers, border design.

text: Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Visitation

text: 2 scribes?, with change at f. 148?

text: Parchment

text: Stubs of two folios at end.

text: Three miniatures.


title: Miniature of Mary and Jesus, border design and initial, French text.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: 2 scribes?, with change at f. 148?

text: Parchment

text: Stubs of two folios at end.

text: Three miniatures.


title: Change of hand?  Pale yellow daubs as placemarkers appear f. 148; initials and linefillers.

text: 2 scribes?, with change at f. 148?

text: Parchment

text: Stubs of two folios at end.

text: Three miniatures.


title: Explicit and ownership notes.

text: 2 scribes?, with change at f. 148?

text: Parchment

text: Stubs of two folios at end.

text: Three miniatures.

title: Explicit and ownership notes.


title: First text, in cursive hand.

text: R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13872), bequeathed 1892.

text: 14-16 long lines per page (17 in calendar), ruled in red pencil, catchwords and prickings visible.

text: Parchment

text: Nine miniatures.

text: 4-line blue and red initials on gold fields.  3-, 2- and 1-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  Rubrics, border designs, linefillers, pale yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: De Ricci dates the ms. to the early 15th century, Guest to the 15th century.

text: Before calendar, 2 texts on ff. 1-3:  one in later hybrid hand (f. 1r-v); one in gothic (ff. 2-3).

title: First text, in cursive hand.


title: French text with 2-line initial, placemarker and rubric.

text: Parchment

text: Nine miniatures.


text: Church calendar

text: Parchment

text: Nine miniatures.


title: Coat of arms of unknown owner.

text: Coats of arms -- 1400-1499

text: Parchment

text: Nine miniatures.

title: Coat of arms of unknown owner.


title: Opening of main text, with initial, border design, placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: Nine miniatures.


title: Page of text with initials, rubric, linefillers, border design, catchwords.

text: Parchment

text: Nine miniatures.


title: Miniature of Virgin and Child, with diapered background. Large initial, border design. French text.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Parchment

text: Nine miniatures.


title: Example of different style of decoration prevalent at end of codex.  Blue initial with red penwork, yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: Nine miniatures.


title: Explicit of text.

text: Parchment

text: Nine miniatures.

title: Explicit of text.


title: Needlework attached to flyleaf.

text: Holy Shroud

text: Embroidery

text: Owned by Jacques Rosenthal; afterwards in collection of Joseph Martini.  Purchased for Spencer at Martini sale, 1934.

text: 1 hand, plus noting hands on last 2 folios

text: 16 long lines per page (18 lines in calendar), ruled in light red pencil, prickings visible.

text: 6-line and 3-line gold, blue or pink initials on gold, blue and pink fields.  2-line and 1-line alternating blue and gold initials with red and purple penwork.  Rubrics, pale yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Dr. Guest places this in Holland.  Both Guest and De Ricci date it to ca. 1450.

text: Needlework attached to verso of f. ii; six illuminated initials.  Animal figure in border, f. 13.

text: Parchment

title: Needlework attached to flyleaf.


title: Opening page of calendar; written in Latin and Dutch?.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Parchment


title: Opening of text with large illuminated initial showing Virgin and Child.  Other initials, rubrics, placemarkers, and border design with figure of lion.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Lions

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Parchment


title: Small initials with elaborate penwork.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Parchment

title: Small initials with elaborate penwork.


title: Partial border decoration, including peapods, and large gold initial.

text: Initials

text: Sweet peas

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Parchment


title: Leaf with historiated initial of the Resurrection

text: Jesus Christ

text: Resurrection

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Sweet peas

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 69.1


title: Leaf with pen-flourish decoration

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 69.2

title: Leaf with pen-flourish decoration


title: Large illuminated initial, border work, small initials, rubric, placemarkers.

text: Hell

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Parchment


title: Opening of Dutch? text.

text: Initials

text: Flowers

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Parchment

title: Opening of Dutch? text.


title: Explicit.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Notes in modern? hands.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 31

text: Parchment

title: Notes in modern? hands.


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Flowers

text: Said to have belonged to Marguerite of Anjou and to have been in Henry Perkins sale.  R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13843), bequeathed 1892.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 16 long lines per page (17 in calendar), ruled in red pencil.  Catchwords visible.

text: 2-line red and blue initials on gold fields.  1-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  Rubrics, red/gold/blue linefillers, yellow daubs as placemarkers.  Design of vines, leaves, berries etc. in outer borders.  Some initials sprout vines and leaves.

text: Evidence that folio is missing between 11 and 12:  stub of folio visible, and text starts on John 1:10, without initial.  Also, French section begins on f. 110 in mid-sentence; another folio missing?

text: Parchment

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Opening page of text with border decoration.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 1 scribe.

text: De Ricci, 1320.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Parchment


title: Text with initials, linefillers, border design, catchword.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of French section, in mid-sentence.  Initials and border design.

text: Flowers

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: K. Avx  Covstavlx. stamped into front cover along with image of the Crucifixion.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Crucifixion

authority: aat

text: Bindings

text: "K. Aux. Coustiaulx" stamped in gold on binding (Katherine Auxcouteaux?). R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13864), bequeathed 1892.


title: Beginning of [Charter?] text pasted into binding.


title: Opening page of calendar; initials and border design.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers

text: Church calendar


title: Opening of main text -- gothic script erased and humanistic written in.  3-line initial and border design.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers


title: End of erasure, large initial, gothic script, border design.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers


title: Page of French text with initials, linefillers, and border design.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers


title: Explicit.  Initial, rubrics, linefillers, border design.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers


title: Explicit of [Charter?] text pasted into binding.


title: Opening page of calendar for the month of January including in red the feasts of Felix, bishop of Nantes (8 January) and Hilary, bishop of Poitiers (13 January).

namePart: Master of Jeanne de Laval (fl. 1430-1480)

text: Church calendar

text: R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13849), bequeathed 1892.

text: 1 hand, plus noting hand, in hybrida, on f. 145v

text: 12-14 long lines (17 in calendar), ruled in light red pencil.

text: Large blue, red, and gold initials on gold and blue fields.  2-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  1-line red and blue initials.  Rubrics, yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: Twelve miniatures.

text: Two sets of foliation; description follows underlined folio numbers which appear ever 10 leaves.

text: De Ricci and Dr. Guest place this manuscript in France; De Ricci says western France, Dr. Guest suggests Nantes?  De Ricci dates it to the 15th century, Dr. Guest to 1450-1475.


title: Opening of text and miniature of descent from Cross; large initial and full border.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Angels

text: Flowers

text: Jesus Christ

text: Burial

text: Parchment

text: Twelve miniatures.


title: Coronation of the Virgin

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Flowers

text: Coronations

text: Parchment

text: Twelve miniatures.

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 55

title: Coronation of the Virgin


title: Gold initials and hand in different size.

text: Initials

text: Parchment

text: Twelve miniatures.


title: Miniature of Flight into Egypt, initials and border.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Jesus Christ

text: Flight into Egypt

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers

text: Parchment

text: Twelve miniatures.


title: Explicit of main text.

text: Parchment

text: Twelve miniatures.

title: Explicit of main text.


title: Suffrage to St. Apollonia praying for relief "a tetro dolore dentium."

text: Parchment

text: Twelve miniatures.


title: Opening page of calendar, written in French.

text: Church calendar

text: R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13851), bequeathed 1892.

text: 15-17 long lines per page (17 in calendar), ruled in red pencil, catchwords visible.

text: Parchment

text: Five miniatures

text: Large red and blue initials on gold fields.  2-line and 1-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  Red and blue linefillers.  Rubrics.  Full border decoration on pages with miniatures; elsewhere, partial border decoration.

text: 2 scribes?:  A, ff. 1-148v; B ?, ff. 150-152, plus noting hand, ff. 148v-149v


title: Opening of main text with initials, rubric, placemarkers.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Parchment

text: Five miniatures


title: Catchword, initials and linefillers.

text: Parchment

text: Five miniatures

title: Catchword, initials and linefillers.


title: Miniature of mass for the dead?  Large initial, border decoration.

text: Priests

text: Funeral rites & ceremonies

text: Parchment

text: Five miniatures


title: Opening of French text, border decoration, large initial, rubric.

text: Parchment

text: Five miniatures


title: End of hand 1, note hand.

text: Parchment

text: Five miniatures

title: End of hand 1, note hand.


title: Explicit and sample of hand 2.

text: Parchment

text: Five miniatures

title: Explicit and sample of hand 2.


title: Opening of text, miniature with border decoration, initials.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers

text: First owners:  Pierre Gaude de St. Ellier and his wife Isabelle Clabault (arms in border, f. 42v).  J.A.J. Lignieres de Bommy collection (stamp f. 60).  R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13888), bequeathed 1892.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 17 long lines ruled in very light red pencil.

text: 2-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  1-line blue and gold initials with opposing color penwork.  Larger white/blue initials on gold fields.  Gold and blue linefillers.  Rubrics and yellow daubs as placemarkers.  Border designs.

text: 6 miniatures and 14 historiated initials.

text: De Ricci, 1320-1.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Dr. Guest places it tentatively in Paris or Tours?  De Ricci dates it to the late 15th century, Dr. Guest to 1450-1475.  Notes in modern hand, f. 1.

text: Notes on provenance in modern hand, f.1.

text: Parchment


title: Annunciation to the Shepherds; large initial, border design, placemarkers.

text: Shepherds

text: Angels

text: Jesus Christ

text: Nativity

text: Flowers

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Small miniature in border, small initials, linefiller, rubric and arms of first owner.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Pietà

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Historiated initial and another coat of arms.

text: Monks

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Stamp of second known owner.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

title: Stamp of second known owner.


title: Explicit.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


text: J. Lenox collection.

text: 1-line gold iniitals on red and blue fields. 2- and 3-line blue and red initials on gold fields.  Rubrics.  Border designs.  Red, blue and gold linefillers.

text: 15 long lines per page (17 in calendar), ruled in light red pencil.  Occasional catchword visible.

text: 7 miniatures.

text: De Ricci dates it to the 15th century, Dr. Guest to the second half of the 15th century.

text: De Ricci, 1321.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of main text, miniature of Annunciation with border decoration, initials and linefiller.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: J. Lenox collection.

text: 7 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Catchword, small initials, rubrics, border decorations and linefillers.

text: J. Lenox collection.

text: 7 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of Virgin and Child, opening of French text.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Angels

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers

text: J. Lenox collection.

text: 7 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: General legislative correspondence, 1876 January - March

namePart: Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886

type: admin

text: Box 31, folder 6-11

typeOfResource:
text
still image

text: Correspondence

rights: Based on a high-level review of this collection, it appears that many of the items are unpublished. We are presuming much of the content is public domain, but are unable to say with certainty for each item. A secondary review at container/item level would need to happen to confirm copyright status.

collectionTitle: Samuel J. Tilden papers


title: Miniature of Resurrection, initial, French text.

text: Resurrection

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: J. Lenox collection.

text: 7 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit, border design, initial, rubric.

text: J. Lenox collection.

text: 7 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Opening page of calendar, written in French.  Border decoration.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Church calendar

text: R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13852), bequeathed 1892.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 1-line and 2-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  3-line blue initials on gold fields.  Red, blue and gold linefillers.  Border decorations.  Rubrics.  Yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: 15 long lines per page (16 in calendar), ruled in light red pencil, some catchwords and prickings visible.

text: Parchment

text: Seven miniatures.


title: Opening miniature (four Evangelists) and opening of main text.  Border designs, initial, rubric.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Evangelists (Bible)

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

text: Seven miniatures.


title: Miniature of the Annunciation, initials, linefiller.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

text: Seven miniatures.


title: Page of text with rubrics, initials, linefillers and catchword.  Border design.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

text: Seven miniatures.


title: Opening of text in French, initial and border design.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

text: Seven miniatures.


title: Explicit.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

text: Seven miniatures.

title: Explicit.


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Bought 1884 by J.J. Astor.

text: 11 miniatures.

text: 18 long lines per page (33 in calendar), ruled in ink and red pencil.  Prickings visible.

text: 2 scribes, with secondary hand on f. 83r-v in French.

text: De Ricci dates this to the 15th century, Guest to the second half of the 15th century.

text: Large red and blue initials on gold fields. 3-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  1-line blue and gold initials with blue and red penwork.  Red and blue linefillers, rubrics.  Yellow daubs as placemarkers.  Border decoration.

text: On f. 31, "Canticum angelorum secundum usum tornacensem."

text: Parchment

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Opening of main text, rubric, initials, border design.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Initials

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Bought 1884 by J.J. Astor.

text: 11 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of the Crucifixion, and border decoration.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Crucifixion

text: Bought 1884 by J.J. Astor.

text: 11 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Note of Tournai use; rubric, initials, placemarker.

text: Initials

text: Bought 1884 by J.J. Astor.

text: 11 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of death of Virgin.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Assumption

text: Bought 1884 by J.J. Astor.

text: 11 miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Miniature of death of Virgin.


title: Explicit.

text: Bought 1884 by J.J. Astor.

text: 11 miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Hand 2, text in French

text: Bought 1884 by J.J. Astor.

text: 11 miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Hand 2, text in French


title: Opening page of calendar, written in French, and miniature of seasonal activity.

text: Eating & drinking

text: Strawberries

text: Owned c. 1700 by Desiree Chemin.  R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13870), bequeathed 1892.

text: 1-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  2-line and 4-line blue initials on gold fields.  Red, blue and gold linefillers.  Rubrics.  Partial and full (around miniatures) border decoration showing leaves, vines and flowers.

text: 16 long lines per page, ruled in light red pencil, prickings visible.

text: 24 illustrations of seasonal activities in calendar, ff. 2-13v.  2 full-page miniatures, ff. 49 and 54.

text: A leaf appears to be missing between ff. 13 and 14 -- stub remains and text begins mid-sentence.

text: De Ricci dates this to the fifteenth century, Dr. Guest to the mid-15th century.

text: Parchment


title: Calendar and miniature of crushing grapes.

text: Wine industry

text: Parchment


title: Opening of main text in mid-sentence; border decoration and small initial.

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of Virgin and Child [Flight into Egypt?], large initial on gold, linefiller, full border design.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Jesus Christ

text: Flight into Egypt

text: Parchment


title: Smaller initials, linefillers and rubrics.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Front cover of binding with silver plaque of Moses striking the rock.

text: Moses (Biblical leader)

text: Bindings

text: R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 1-line and 2-lineold initials on red and blue fields. 3-line blue initials on gold fields. Border decorations. Red and blue linefillers. Rubrics. Yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: 14 miniatures. Animal and human figures sometimes appear in borders.

text: 15 long lines per page (17 in calendar) ruled in red pencil. Prickings and some catchwords visible.

text: Classmark formerly  De Ricci Ms. 41.

text: De Ricci, 1321.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: Parchment.

text: Photos chosen so as not to damage the very tight binding.


title: Page of calendar for the month of February, in French, with entries for each day; border decoration includes a winged grotesque.

text: Wyverns

text: Church calendar

text: Classmark formerly  De Ricci Ms. 41.

text: Parchment.


title: Miniature of John the Baptist and seemingly different style of border decoration. Text in gold.

text: Jesus Christ

text: John, the Baptist, Saint

text: Birds -- 1400-1499

text: Flowers

text: Classmark formerly  De Ricci Ms. 41.

text: Parchment.


title: Opening of main text, miniature of John the Evangelist, initial, rubric and border decoration.

text: Grotesques

text: Eagles

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Birds -- 1400-1499

text: Classmark formerly  De Ricci Ms. 41.

text: Parchment.


title: Annunciation set in an elaborate church; grotesques include an armored merman aiming an arrow at an angel that grows from a flower, with trellises of grapes and flowers in the background.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Mermen

text: Classmark formerly  De Ricci Ms. 41.

text: Parchment.


title: Page of text.

text: Classmark formerly  De Ricci Ms. 41.

text: Parchment.

title: Page of text.


title: Suffrage of All Saints with rubrics in French and text in Latin.

text: Flowers

text: Classmark formerly  De Ricci Ms. 41.

text: Parchment.


title: Opening of French text of the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin; precisely designated border in C-shape triggered by 3-line initial, and on the right in a band corresponding to the height of the text block.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Birds -- 1400-1499

text: Classmark formerly  De Ricci Ms. 41.

text: Parchment.


title: Opening page of calendar, written in French.  Border decoration.

text: Church calendar

text: R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13857), bequeathed 1892.

text: 1- and 2- line gold initials on red and blue fields. 4-line red and blue initials on gold fields.  Border decorations.  Rubrics.  Red, blue and gold linefillers.  Yellow daubs as placemarkers.  Different style initial etc. ff. 147v and following.

text: 14 long lines per page (17 lines in calendar).  Ruled in red ink, catchwords visible.a

text: 14 long lines, ruled in red, prickings visible.

text: Five miniatures.

text: Missing folio between ff. 12 and 13:  text starts mid-sentence and stub of former folio visible.

text: Modern note of contents on inside front cover.

text: On ff. 152v-153v, birth announcements

text: Parchment

text: Partial border design on all borders; full borders around miniatures. 3- and 2-line blue and red initials on gold fields.  1-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  Red and blue linefillers, rubrics, yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: Several scribes?, plus cursive hand, s. XVI, for birth notices, ff. 152v-153v

text: Six miniatures.


title: Opening of text, initials, marginal note.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Five miniatures.

text: On ff. 152v-153v, birth announcements

text: Parchment

text: Six miniatures.


title: Small initial with border decoration, rubrics, placemarkers, catchword.

text: Five miniatures.

text: On ff. 152v-153v, birth announcements

text: Parchment

text: Six miniatures.


title: Miniature of the Visitation; initials, border.

text: Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Visitation

text: Flowers

text: Five miniatures.

text: On ff. 152v-153v, birth announcements

text: Parchment

text: Six miniatures.


title: Small initials, linefiller.

text: Five miniatures.

text: On ff. 152v-153v, birth announcements

text: Parchment

text: Six miniatures.

title: Small initials, linefiller.


title: Explicit; part of text in French.

text: Five miniatures.

text: On ff. 152v-153v, birth announcements

text: Parchment

text: Six miniatures.

title: Explicit; part of text in French.


title: General legislative correspondence, 1876 April - December

text: Box 31, folder 6-11

text: Correspondence


title: Opening of text.  Miniature of Annunciation, initials, full border design.

text: Owned 1540-43 by De la Haye family of Lintot(?) -- birth entries on ff. 152v-153v.  R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13865), bequeathed 1892.

text: 16th century birth notices written on last two folios.

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

type: citation/reference

text: De Ricci, 1321.


title: Page of text with linefillers, small initials and border design.

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: De Ricci, 1321.


title: Miniature of King David.

text: Prayer

text: David, King of Israel

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: De Ricci, 1321.

title: Miniature of King David.


title: Miniature of the Holy Trinity and French text.

text: Trinity

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: De Ricci, 1321.


title: Explicit of main text.

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: De Ricci, 1321.

title: Explicit of main text.


title: First page of birth announcements from the sixteenth century.

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: De Ricci, 1321.


title: Opening page of calendar, border decoration.

text: R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 18 long lines per page (17 in calendar). Ruled in red pencil.  Small gold initials on red and blue fields; larger red and blue initials on gold. Border designs (full and partial borders); red and blue linefillers, "rubrics" in blue.  Minatures.

text: Binding very tight; photos chosen from front and back to avoid damaging it during photography.

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: De Ricci, 1322.


title: Opening of main text, miniature of John the Evangelist. Other figures in border design.

text: Eagles

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

nameType: corporate

text: Beast of the Apocalypse

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: De Ricci, 1322.


title: Miniature of Mark, small initial, border design, "rubrics" in blue.

text: Mark, Saint

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: De Ricci, 1322.


title: Miniature of Virgin and Child enthroned and opening of French text.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Angels

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: De Ricci, 1322.


title: Different border style, small initials, linefillers, French text.

text: Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: De Ricci, 1322.


title: Opening of text and miniature of zodiac, seasonal activities.

text: Eating & drinking

text: Aquarius (Astrology)

text: Early owner:  Debreuse.  From Tilden Library, given 1895.

text: 1 hand.

text: 1- and 2-line gold initials on blue, red and green-brown background. 4- and 5-line blue, red and grey initials on backgrounds of same colors.  Rubrics.  Border designs.

text: 33 long lines per page, ruled in very light pencil, with borders ruled in red pencil.  Catchwords.

text: Catchword at bottom of final folio, suggesting missing leaves at the end.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 45.

text: De Ricci, 1322.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Miniatures.  Some border designs have animal figures.

text: Pagination in top left is incorrect from p. 194 forward; from that point, add one digit.

text: Parchment


title: For June: the month's activity (scything the hay), and the month's zodiac (Cancer).

text: Hay

text: Cancer (Astrology)

text: 1 hand.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 45.

text: Parchment


title: Ownership note by early owner, "Debreuse."

text: 1 hand.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 45.

text: Parchment


title: Portrait of praying owners, with coat of arms displayed on the altar cloth; image of the giant St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child across the river.

text: Prayer

text: Jesus Christ

text: Christopher, Saint

text: 1 hand.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 45.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of a primer: alphabet, Ave Maria, Pater Noster, and rubric for the creed. Miniature of Jesus teaching the twelve apostles to pray the "Our Father"; Annunciation.

text: Prayer

text: Jesus Christ

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Apostles

text: 1 hand.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 45.

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of John the Evangelist on Patmos, with the eagle holding the saint's pen case; line fillers on last two text lines to justify the right margin of text.

text: Eagles

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 1 hand.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 45.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit; initials and rubrics.  Text ends mid-word and catchword at bottom -- indication that folios are missing at end?

text: 1 hand.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 45.

text: Parchment


title: Arrest of Christ

text: Judas Iscariot

text: Jesus Christ

text: Passion

text: 1 hand.

text: Classmark formerly De Ricci Ms. 45.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 53.2

title: Arrest of Christ


title: Calendar page with zodiac symbols.

text: Zodiac

text: Church calendar

text: Erased inscription at end: "Ces presentes heures appartiennent. . . fille. . . Breton 1696.  Last belonged to Sir Alexander Campbell.  R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: De Ricci dates this to the 15th century, Dr. Guest to the second half of the 15th century.

text: Miniatures. Borders often have animal or grotesque figures.

text: Parchment

text: Small gold initials on red and blue fields; some larger blue and red initials.  Red and blue linefillers.  Rubrics.  All folios have outside borders decorated; some have full borders.

title: Calendar page with zodiac symbols.


title: Calendar page with image of seasonal activity.

text: Farming

text: Church calendar

text: Sowing

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of main text with miniature of John the Evangelist and border decoration with grotesque and animal, initial, rubric, linefiller.

text: Eagles

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Beast of the Apocalypse

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of David, with scene of killing of Goliath in margin.

text: Prayer

text: David, King of Israel

text: Goliath (Biblical giant)

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with initials, border design includes beast.

text: Wyverns

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of Bernard and demon, border design, small initials, linefillers.

text: Devil

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Opening page of calendar, written in French.

text: Church calendar

text: Collection of Marchese Panciatichi, Florence.  From the R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13860), bequeathed 1892.

text: 13 miniatures.

text: 14 long lines per page (17 in calendar).  Ruled in red pencil.  Catchwords visible.

text: Change of hand, f. 23v?  Different hand ff. 127-130v?

text: De Ricci dates this manuscript to the 15th century, Guest to the second half of the fifteenth century.

text: Parchment

text: Small gold initials on red and blue fields.  Larger blue and white initials on red fields.  Full and partial border decorations.  Red and blue linefillers.


title: Opening of main text, miniature of John Evangelist.  Initial, border design.

text: Eagles

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 13 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Change of hand? Large initial.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 13 miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Change of hand? Large initial.


title: Miniature of Annunciation.  Figure of monkey and cat playing a musical instrument in border.  Initials.

text: Monkeys

text: Cats

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Animals in human situations

text: 13 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Text with "branch" linefiller, initials, catchword, border design.

text: 13 miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: French text and sample of possible third hand?

text: 13 miniatures.

text: Parchment


value: 1875 May - Jun

title: Adulterated milk bill

originInfo: 1875 May - Jun

dateCreated: 1875 May - Jun

text: Box 32, folder 1

title: Adulterated milk bill

text: Correspondence


text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Church calendar

text: Bought at La Ferte-Milon (1781) apparently by Paignon Dijonval; vicomte de Morel-Vinde sale (1823).  From R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13845), bequeathed 1892.

text: 14 long lines in main text; 17 lines in calendar.  Ruled in red pencil.

text: Parchment

text: Six miniatures.

text: 1- and 2-line gold initials on red and blue fields;4- and 5-line gold and blue initials.  Outside border decorated on all folios; some have full border decorated.  Red and blue linefillers.


title: Opening of main text, large initial, full border decoration, rubric, linefiller.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers

text: De Ricci, 1322.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Parchment

text: Six miniatures.


title: Miniature of Annunciation, border design with merman playing horn, initials, linefiller.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Mermen

text: Parchment

text: Six miniatures.


title: Page of text with border design, initials, linefillers and rubrics.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Parchment

text: Six miniatures.


title: Explicit of text.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Parchment

text: Six miniatures.

title: Explicit of text.


title: Opening page of calendar, decoration in outer border, written in French.

text: Church calendar

text: R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 16 long lines per page, ruled in red pencil.

text: All folios decorated with flowers, vines, flourishes etc in outside borders.  Some have full border decoration.  Small gold initials on red and blue fields. Larger white and initials on gold fields.  Red/blue/gold linefillers.  Rubrics.

text: Eight miniatures.  Occasional human figures in borders.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of main text.  Initials, rubric, linefillers, border design.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of St. Martin dividing his cloak, full border design with nun at prayer, rubric, large blue initial.

text: Prayer

text: Beggars

text: Nuns

text: Martin,

text: Parchment


title: Small initials and linefillers.

text: Parchment

title: Small initials and linefillers.


title: Full-page miniature of Trinity.

text: Angels

text: Trinity

text: Parchment

title: Full-page miniature of Trinity.


title: Asylums

text: Box 32, folder 2

title: Asylums

text: Correspondence


title: Opening of French text, border decorations.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Parchment


title: German arms, 16th century.

text: German arms, 16th century, on f. 1v.  Owned ca. 1850 by William C. Rowland.  R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: De Ricci dates this to the 15th century, Guest to the second half of the 15th century. Manuscript is not foliated, except f. 95.

text: 22 miniatures. Some borders contain figures of grotesques.  Gold initials on red and blue fields. Larger white and blue initials on red and gold fields. Rubrics; red, blue and gold linefillers. Border designs.

title: German arms, 16th century.


title: Opening page of calendar, written in French.  Border decoration with grotesque.

text: Dragons

text: Church calendar

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.


title: Miniature of St. Stephen, large white initial, full border design.

text: Stephen, Saint, d. ca. 36

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Stoning


title: Miniature of David and Goliath. Initials, border, placemarkers.

text: David, King of Israel

text: Goliath (Biblical giant)

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)


title: Page of text with small initials and linefillers.

text: Grotesques

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)


title: Explicit.

text: Grotesques

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

title: Explicit.


title: Miniature of Christ, rubric, small initial, note of owner A.A. Smets in upper right corner.

namePart: Colombe, Jean (fl. 1463-1498)

text: Jesus Christ

text: Thorpe catalog.  A.A. Smets of Savannah.  R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 21 long lines, ruled in red, catchwords occasionally visible.

text: 54 small miniatures.

text: De Ricci, 1323.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Dr. Guest places this manuscript in France or Flanders, and dates it to the late 15th century.  De Ricci dates it to ca. 1500.

text: Parchment

text: Small gold initials on red fields.  Rubrics.  Yellow daubs as placemarkers.


title: Page of text with small initials, rubric, yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: 54 small miniatures.

text: Parchment

text: Lenox Library ownership stamp.


title: Prayer Book (Troyes Use)

text: 54 small miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Prayer Book (Troyes Use)


title: Miniature of St. Ambrose, small initial, catchword.

text: Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d.397

text: 54 small miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Prayers, miniatures of Sts. Mary Magdalene and Barbara

text: Mary Magdalene, Saint

text: Barbara, Saint

text: 54 small miniatures.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 59


title: Miniature of St. Helena and True Cross, initial, placemarkers.

text: Crosses

text: Helena, Saint, ca. 255-ca. 330

text: 54 small miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: 54 small miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


value: 1876 Jan - Feb

title: Binghampton Inebriate Asylum

originInfo: 1876 Jan - Feb

dateCreated: 1876 Jan - Feb

text: Box 32, folder 3

text: MSS File Id #39643

title: Binghampton Inebriate Asylum

text: Correspondence


title: Hands 1 and 2.  Initials.

text: Owned 16th century by Pierre Debargues.  R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13892), bequeathed 1892.

text: 1-line and 2-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  4-line blue and red initials on gold fields.  Some border decoration, often sprouting from initials.  Rubrics.  Red, gold and blue linefillers.

text: Notes at beginning and end of main text.

text: 14 long lines, ruled in very light red pencil.  Catchwords visible.

text: 4 scribes?:  A, ff. 1v, 230; B, ff. 2-3; C, text; D, ff. 226-228v

text: Parchment

title: Hands 1 and 2.  Initials.


title: Opening page of calendar, written in French, border decoration.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Church calendar

text: Parchment


title: Main hand (hand 3), initials, border decoration, rubrics, catchword.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Initials

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of main text.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of main text.


title: Beginning of hand 4 -- notes.

text: Parchment

title: Beginning of hand 4 -- notes.


title: Last page of notes, in hand 1.

text: Parchment

title: Last page of notes, in hand 1.


value: 1875 Apr - Jun

title: Brooklyn assessment bills

originInfo: 1875 Apr - Jun

dateCreated: 1875 Apr - Jun

text: Box 32, folder 4

text: MSS File Id #39644

title: Brooklyn assessment bills

text: Correspondence


title: Opening page, hand 1, initials and rubric.

text: From R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 12 long lines per page, ruled in light red pencil.  Traces of some catchwords in lower margins.

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 60.

text: De Ricci places this manuscript in Italy; Dr. Guest suggests France?

text: Gold and blue initials with red and black penwork.  Larger gold initials on red and blue fields with vines sprouting into border.  Rubrics.  Full border decorations around miniatures.

text: One miniature, f. 88.

text: Parchment


title: Initials, trace of catchword.

text: Initials

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 60.

text: One miniature, f. 88.

text: Parchment

title: Initials, trace of catchword.


title: Opening of hand 2.

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 60.

text: One miniature, f. 88.

text: Parchment

title: Opening of hand 2.


title: Miniature of mass for the dead.  Full border decoration, initial, rubric.

text: Funeral rites & ceremonies

text: Mass

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 60.

text: One miniature, f. 88.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of text.

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 60.

text: One miniature, f. 88.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of text.


title: Miniature of Augustine, opening of text, full border design, initial, hand 1.

namePart: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

text: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Miniature on f. 1 has Crequy arms.  R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 18-23 long lines, ruled in light red pencil, catchwords visible.

text: 2- and 1-line blue and gold initials with red and blue opposing color penwork. More elaborate 4-line gold and blue initials with puzzle design.  Red, gold and blue linefillers.  Rubrics.

text: At least 2 scribes:  A, ff. 1-156; B, ff. 161-247v (but ff. 179-190, 243-247v different?

text: Parchment

text: Two miniatures:  f. 1 shows Augustine; f. 177v shows God, angels, evangelist symbols.

text: With prayers.


title: Page of text in hand 1, initial, catchword.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: De Ricci, 1323.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Parchment

text: With prayers.


title: Opening of new section, in hand 2.  Initials and linefillers.

text: Parchment

text: With prayers.


title: Miniature of God, Evangelist symbols.

text: God

text: Evangelists (Bible)

text: Parchment

text: With prayers.

title: Miniature of God, Evangelist symbols.


title: Opening of hand 2 in larger version, or different hand?

text: Parchment

text: With prayers.


title: Smaller version of hand 2, or new hand?

text: Parchment

text: With prayers.

title: Smaller version of hand 2, or new hand?


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

text: With prayers.

title: Explicit.


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Church calendar

text: R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 1 scribe?; a second hand, ff. 147-161?

text: 20 long lines per page (17 in calendar), ruled in very light red.

text: Binding is very tight, which precludes taking many photos.

text: Guest places this manuscript in France, possibly Soissons.  De Ricci notes that it contains two mentions of Soissons.

text: Large red and blue initials on gold fields.  Small gold initials on red and blue fields.  Border decoration, red/gold linefillers, rubrics.

text: Parchment

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Opening of main text, border design, large and small initials, linefillers.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Initials

text: 1 scribe?; a second hand, ff. 147-161?

text: Parchment


title: Possible beginning of new hand?  Initials, rubrics, placemarkers.

text: 1 scribe?; a second hand, ff. 147-161?

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: 1 scribe?; a second hand, ff. 147-161?

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Opening of calendar.

text: Church calendar

text: At beginning and end, arms of early Flemish owners, including Schoten arms, 1543.  R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 21 long lines per page, ruled in pencil.

text: De Ricci comments that this manuscript has Cambrai commemorations. Guest places it in Flanders? and Cambrai.  Visible in crack of inside front cover, under paper, are strips of medieval manuscript, but too little shows to identify text.

text: Four miniatures, two coats of arms.

text: Large gold, gray and blue initials on blue, green and gold fields.  Small gold initials on red, blue and green fields.  Rubrics.

text: Parchment

title: Opening of calendar.


title: Opening of main text, initials, rubrics.

text: Four miniatures, two coats of arms.

text: Parchment


title: Coat of arms of early owner (Schoten arms), plus other coats of arms.

text: Four miniatures, two coats of arms.

text: Parchment


title: Large and small initials, rubrics and notes.

text: Four miniatures, two coats of arms.

text: Parchment


title: Round miniatures of souls in torment, skull, and sun.

text: Skulls

text: Hell

text: Four miniatures, two coats of arms.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit, including end of French text and some Latin phrases. Rubric.

text: Four miniatures, two coats of arms.

text: Parchment


title: Second coat of arms of early owner.

text: Four miniatures, two coats of arms.

text: Parchment

title: Second coat of arms of early owner.


title: Opening page with border decoration, initials, linefillers and blue lettering.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Flowers

text: Arms of the Hericourt family (Artois).  Bought by Tumin at sale in Paris, 1870.  R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 29 long lines per page, ruled in very light red pencil.

text: De Ricci dates this manuscript to the 16th century, Dr. Guest to ca. 1500.  Binding is too fragile to photograph miniature.

text: Insects and birds in borders, ff. 1 and 32.  Miniature of flagellation of Christ, f. 31v.

text: Large white or blue initials on gold or red fields.  Medium gold initials on blue fields.  Small gold initials on red and blue fields.  Red/gold and blue/gold linefillers.  Rubrics.

text: Parchment


title: Prayer in French, initials, placemarkers, blue lettering.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Initials, placemarkers, blue lettering, gold "branch" linefiller.

text: Initials

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Opening page, table of contents.

text: Arms of first owner, f.2.  Said to have belonged to Colonel Fesch.  John Broadley sale (London, 1832) to Thorpe.  Bought 1835 by A.A. Smets.  R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 1 scribe?

text: 3 small miniatures.

text: 36 long lines, ruled in light purple.  Catchwords and some prickings visible.

text: Border designs around miniatures, with flowers, leaves, vines and penwork.  Occasional blue initials on gold field; alternating blue and red initials with opposing color penwork.  Placemarkers in red and blue, rubrics, marginal notes.

text: De Ricci, 1323-4.  Temple article.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: Final rubric f. 208:  Explicit a este ce present livre le jour Sainct Francois, quart Octobre l'an mil iiii#^c# xlii.  Temple cites this, 1442, as the date.  De Ricci and Guest say ca. 1470.

text: Parchment

title: Opening page, table of contents.


title: Opening of first book, miniature with large blue initial, border design, arms of first owner, placemarkers, rubric.

text: Prayer

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: 1 scribe?

text: 3 small miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of book two, miniature, initial with penwork and blue initial on gold, border design.

text: Kings

text: 1 scribe?

text: 3 small miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of third book, initial, border design, catchword.

text: Priests

text: Preaching

text: 1 scribe?

text: 3 small miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Last page of main text, with final rubric and date.

text: 1 scribe?

text: 3 small miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Bibliographical note.

text: 1 scribe?

text: 3 small miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: Bibliographical note.


title: Opening of introduction, border design, large initial, rubric.

namePart: Aristotle

namePart: Hermonymus, Georgius

namePart: Georgius, Gio.

text: Initials

text: Arms on f.7, apparently Engelbert de Cleves, comte de Nivernois.  Comte Leon d'Ourches collection (Nancy); sold to Charron, 1811.  Payne and Foss.  George Templeton Strong sale, 1878.  Bought 1878 by J.J. Astor; gift of Astor to library.

text: 7-12 long lines, ruled in light pencil.

text: Border designs, rubrics, large and small initials in gold, blue and red.

text: De Ricci, 1324.  Murphy article.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: For Greek incipits and explicits, see photos.

text: Parchment

text: f. 7v shows two swans holding coat of arms; ff. 8 and 24 have large initials with grotesques.  Animal figures in some borders


title: Coat of arms of early owner.

text: Swans

text: 7-12 long lines, ruled in light pencil.

text: Parchment

title: Coat of arms of early owner.


title: Opening of main Latin text, full border, initial with grotesque.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Initials

text: 7-12 long lines, ruled in light pencil.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of Latin text.

text: 7-12 long lines, ruled in light pencil.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of Latin text.


title: Opening of Greek text, border design, initial with grotesque.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 7-12 long lines, ruled in light pencil.

text: Parchment


title: Page of Greek text with small initials, note in lower border.

text: 7-12 long lines, ruled in light pencil.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of Greek text.

text: 7-12 long lines, ruled in light pencil.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of Greek text.


title: Ownership note of Marye de Cambrye, wife of Quentin de Tolnare (or de Tollnaire) in 1582, with promise to pay reward if the book were returned to her.

text: Made for the otherwise unknown kneeling cleric in the image on f.115v.  Owned (1582) by Quentin Tollenaere (de Tolnare) and his wife Marie de Cambry (f. 1).  R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 17 long lines per page, ruled in red.  Some prickings still visible.

text: 2 scribes?, with second beginning on f. 116

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest date this to ca. 1500.  Border on ff. 82v-83 is dated 1544.

text: De Ricci, 1324.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Many full page miniatures, and smaller portraits of saints and evangelists.

text: Parchment

text: Very elaborate and varying border decoration.  Large gold initials on blue/green/red/etc. fields.  Small gold initials on red and blue fields.  Rubrics and linefillers.


title: Opening page of calendar for the month of January.

text: Church calendar

text: Parchment


title: Christ, half length and blessing; in the lower border verses in Dutch.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Parchment


title: Renaissance candelabra in the border; in the lower margin, verses in Dutch.

text: Initials

text: Parchment


title: John the Evangelist on Patmos.

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Parchment

title: John the Evangelist on Patmos.


title: Different style of border, initials, rubric, miniature of Annunciation.

text: Flowers

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Parchment

title: Annunciation and beginning of Hours of the Virgin.


title: Miniature of Flight into Egypt, initials, rubric, linefillers.  Border dated 1544.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Flight into Egypt

text: Parchment

title: Miniature of Flight into Egypt; border dated 1544 in small plaques on the outer margins.


title: Different scribe or different script style; border of strewn flowers, insects, bird.

text: Butterflies

text: Flowers

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Parchment


title: Small miniature of Mary Magdalene and explicit.

text: Mary Magdalene, Saint

text: Parchment


title: Note in French.

text: R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 17 long lines, ruled in pencil.  Catchwords visible.

text: Parchment

text: Some titles in majuscule script, rubrics, red initials.

title: Note in French.


title: Opening of text, majuscules, rubric, French text.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Latin text, catchword, initials, rubric.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Miniature of Jean Hayton, in his Premonstratensian robes, offering his book to Clement V.  Rubric, puzzle initial and small initial, linefiller.

namePart: Hayton, Frère (ca. 1235-ca. 1314)

namePart: Associate of the Master of Apocalypse

text: Popes

text: Clement V, Pope, ca. 1260-1314

text: Hayton, Frère, ca. 1235-ca. 1314

text: From the Astor collection.

text: De Ricci, 1324.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: 36 long lines per page (sometimes 2 columns), ruled in red.  Catchwords visible.

text: 4 miniatures

text: Dr. Guest dates this to the 15th century; De Ricci and analysis in dossier date it to the 14th century.  Haithon composed #tLa Fleur des Histoires# in 1307, thus it must be later than that.

text: Parchment

text: Simple alternating red and blue initials throughout. Red and blue initials with puzzle design at opening of books.   Red and blue placemarkers and linefillers.  Rubrics.


title: Caesar Augustus, his wife and son at table, receiving homage and gifts from another king, Cosserosach, and his attendant. Initials, rubrics, linefillers, placemarkers.

text: Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.

text: kings

text: To 499

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: From the Astor collection.

text: 4 miniatures

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 85.1


title: Miniature of uniting of the Tartars.  Placemarkers, rubric, initial.

text: Genghis Khan, 1162-1227

text: Dreams

text: From the Astor collection.

text: 4 miniatures

text: Parchment

title: Dream-vision of Ghenghis Khan who sees a man on a white horse foretelling the destiny of the Tartars; other moments of Tartar history, with camels and an elephant in the background.


title: Page of text with catchword showing through in shadow from the other side of the leaf.

text: From the Astor collection.

text: 4 miniatures

text: Parchment


title: Hayton enumerating to a pope and two rulers the four considerations for a war: just cause, sufficient power and funds, accurate knowledge of the enemy, suitable weather.

text: Clement V, Pope, ca. 1260-1314

text: Hayton, Frère, ca. 1235-ca. 1314

text: From the Astor collection.

text: 4 miniatures

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of text 1, incipit of Liber provinciarum.

text: From the Astor collection.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 4 miniatures

text: Notes on f. 56v in a contemporary hand?

text: Parchment


title: Added notes in a later hand, including 4 lines in Flemish on the causes of war as bad counsel and lack of wisdom, and 8 lines in French punning on the word "corde" (string).

text: From the Astor collection.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 4 miniatures

text: Notes on f. 56v in a contemporary hand?

text: Parchment


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Church calendar

text: Formerly in St. Stephen's chapel, Westminster.  Given away in 1549 by the last Dean, John Chamber.  Subsequently in collections of Strode, Finch, and Rev. John Disney.  Given in 1884 by J.J. Astor.

text: 1 (perhaps 2, second on f. 162)

text: 36 lines (33 in calendar) in two columns, ruled in purple.  Prickings and catchwords visible.

text: De Ricci, 1324-5.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Dr. Guest places the manuscript in London.  De Ricci dates it to the early 15th century, Guest to the late 15th century.

text: Elaborate border work and initials at openings of sections.  Medium gold initials on red and blue fields.  Small alternating gold and blue initials with opposing color penwork.  Penwork flourishes in border, including leaves colored green.  Rubrics.

text: Initial on f. 9 shows performance of mass.

text: Parchment

text: The foliation here begins on the second vellum leaf.  But the consistent 8-folio quire structure and the vellum's appearance suggest that it should begin on the first vellum leaf; therefore, all folio #s here are one higher than those written in volume.

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Text opens with the rubrics (=liturgical directions) for the blessing of salt and water.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 1 (perhaps 2, second on f. 162)

text: Parchment


title: Initial with scene of mass, border and rubrics.

text: Priests

text: Flowers

text: Altars

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: 1 (perhaps 2, second on f. 162)

text: Parchment

title: First Sunday in Advent: historiated initial, priest at altar.


title: Page of text, medium and small initials, penwork in border, interesting cross-out.

text: 1 (perhaps 2, second on f. 162)

text: Parchment


title: Two different hands, or different sizes of the same hand?  Prickings clearly visible.

text: 1 (perhaps 2, second on f. 162)

text: Parchment


title: Page with music.  Initials, rubrics and placemarkers; prickings clearly visible.

text: 1 (perhaps 2, second on f. 162)

text: Parchment


value: 1875 Apr - May

title: Buffalo reassessment bill

originInfo: 1875 Apr - May

dateCreated: 1875 Apr - May

text: Box 32, folder 5

text: MSS File Id #39645

title: Buffalo reassessment bill

text: Correspondence


title: Here bigynneth a rule that tellith in whiche chapiters of the bible ye may fynde the lessons, pistles and gospels.

text: Name "John papell".  Lenox collection.

text: 30-35 long lines, in 2 columns in main text, in 6 columns in list of lessons.  Ruled in pencil, catchwords visible.

text: Blue initials with red penwork; some gold initials on colored fields, rubrics, placemarkers.

text: Conrad Lindberg places this manuscript (his number 201) in the group called the Later Version, and calls it a complete New Testament (Lindberg, pp. 337-9).  De Ricci and a dossier note call this Purvey's version of Wycliffe's translation.

text: De Ricci, 1325.  Lindberg article.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: Later version, containing the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodocians (following Colossians); its table lists lections from the Old Testament as well as those from the epistles and gospels.

text: Parchment

text: Professor Paul Acker dates this manuscript to ca. 1420.

text: We thank Professor Paul Acker for his notes on this manuscript.

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 320


title: Opening of main text, with rubric, initial and penwork.

text: Name "John papell".  Lenox collection.

text: Parchment

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 320


title: Page of text, paragraph marker, catchword.

text: Name "John papell".  Lenox collection.

text: Parchment

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 320


title: John 14, penwork initial

text: Name "John papell".  Lenox collection.

text: Parchment

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 320

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 15

title: John 14, penwork initial


title: Shift from hand 1 to hand 2.

text: Name "John papell".  Lenox collection.

text: Parchment

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 320

title: Shift from hand 1 to hand 2.


title: Explicit.

text: Name "John papell".  Lenox collection.

text: Parchment

text: 2 scribes; second begins f. 320

title: Explicit.


title: Opening of rule for finding lessons. Initials, rubrics.

namePart: Wycliffe, John (d. 1384)

text: Early owners:  John Powndell, John Oxburg, Thomas Stateville, J. S. Linden.  Given 1788 by Walter Taylor to Rev. William Romaine, and in 1841 by Mrs. Romaine to J. B. Storry.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci places this manuscript in the 15th century; Dr. Guest places it in the early 15th century.  Professor Paul Acker dates it to ca. 1430.

text: Later version, containing on ff. 119-121v an additional and otherwise unknown prologue to the Epistle to the Romans, possibly of Wycliffite authorship; the table lists lections from the Old Testament as well as those from the epistles and gospels.

text: De Ricci, 1325.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: In Rules for Finding Lessons (ff. 1-12v), 34-6 lines in six columns.  In main text, 35 lines in two columns. Ruled in pencil.  Catchwords and prickings still visible.

text: Large blue initials on gold fields or gold initials on red/blue fields, with long extensions into margins.  Smaller blue initials with red penwork.  Blue placemarkers.  Rubrics.  Notes of chapter number in upper margin.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of main text.  Large initial on gold field with decorations extending into border, rubric, placemarkers.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with smaller blue initial and penwork.

text: Parchment


title: Mark 1, decorated initial

text: Initials

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 16

title: Mark 1, decorated initial


title: Catchword.  Note of chapter and verse in upper margin.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Charter reform

text: Box 32, folder 6

text: MSS File Id #39646

title: Charter reform

text: Correspondence


title: Note of contents and dating the binding to November 1661.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Bought 1576 by Robert Ardern of Barwick, from Mr. Englatt of Norwich; given 1661 by Anthony Webster to Richard Saxton, whose widow gave it to Hyme Hariot in 1664. Sold by Francis Fry to Sir William Tite, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: 34 lines in six columns in Rule for Finding Lessons; 34 lines in two columns in main text.  Ruled in pencil, catchwords visible.

text: De Ricci, 1325.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest. Library dossier.

text: F. 1 has more ownership notes.  De Ricci states that this is Purvey's version of Wycliffe's translation.

text: Large blue initials on gold and red fields with long extensions into borders.  Small blue initials with red penwork.  Rubrics, placemarkers, notes of chapter numbers.

text: Parchment

text: Between ff. 1 and 2 are sewn four paper leaves from 1661 (ff. 1a-d) containing notes on content, quotations, ownership information.


title: Clinton County fisheries

text: Box 32, folder 7

text: MSS File Id #39647

title: Clinton County fisheries

text: Correspondence


title: Ownership notes.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Parchment

title: Ownership notes.


title: Ownership notes.

text: Parchment

text: Up to 22 lines per page.

title: Ownership notes.


title: Ownership notes.

text: Parchment

title: Ownership notes.


title: Initial on a gold ground; foliate border.

text: Parchment


title: Mark 1, decorated initial

text: Initials

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 17

title: Mark 1, decorated initial


title: Court session efficiency bill

text: Box 32, folder 8

text: MSS File Id #39648

title: Court session efficiency bill

text: Correspondence


title: Small initial and penwork. Opening of main text.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Parchment

text: 1 hand.

text: Dated to ca. 1661 from notes in these pages.

text: Elaborate border designs in red and black.

text: Paper


title: Large initial with decoration extending into borders.

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Parchment

text: Professor Paul Acker dates this manuscript to ca. 1420.


title: Disbandement of 79th Regiment

text: Box 32, folder 9

text: MSS File Id #39649

title: Disbandement of 79th Regiment

text: Correspondence


title: Page of text with catchword

text: Parchment

text: We thank Professor Paul Acker for his notes on this manuscript.

title: Page of text with catchword


title: Page of calendar, with signature of Duke of Gloucester?

text: On first leaf, a signature reading "a uous me ly/ Glouce(stre)"?  Has been interpreted that it was owned by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III. Owned 1850 by Thomas Banister of the Inner Temple.  Given 1884 by J. J. Astor.

text: 45 lines in two columns in main text, 67-8 lines in calendar.  Ruling in drypoint and occasionally in pen.  Catchwords and prickings visible.

text: De Ricci says this manuscript has 210 folios.

text: Parchment

text: Professor Paul Acker dates this manuscript to ca. 1390.  Guest dates it to the late fourteenth century, De Ricci to the fourteenth century..

text: Blue initials with red penwork.  Numbers of verses in margins.  Sometimes columns outlined in brown.

text: De Ricci and notes in dossier state that this is the original version of Wycliffe's translation, thus pre-1400.  Note on last front  paper flyleaf says 1371.


title: Gloucester signature'

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: De Ricci, 1325.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

title: 'Gloucester signature'


title: Opening of text, blue initials with red penwork, verse numbers, marginal notes.

text: Parchment


title: Docks, wharves and slips

text: Box 32, folder 10

text: MSS File Id #39650

title: Docks, wharves and slips

text: Correspondence


title: Page of text with catchword.

text: Parchment

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Mark 1, penwork initial

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 14

title: Mark 1, penwork initial


title: Explicit of text; notes in different hands.

text: Parchment


title: Note of content and date, in modern hand.

text: Parchment


title: Note of ownership in upper right corner.

text: Early owners Matthew Lee and Thomas Hucknell Lee in 18th century English catalog.  From R. L. Stuart collection (no. 13895), bequeathed 1892.

text: De Ricci, 1325-6.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Notes tucked into manuscript.

text: Parchment

text: Part of the manuscript contains sections of the first and last treatises; presumably the original pages were lost and replaced at a later date, including ff. 2-2v, ff. 8v-9 and f. 98.

text: ff. 2v-8v are part of commentary on first commandment; f. 98 appears to be part of treatise on the mirror of chastity.

text: De Ricci and notes in manuscript say this hand is later than the main hand, which is 14th century.


title: Transition from Part 1 to Part 2; two words of text overlap?

text: Parchment


title: Opening of Part One in "later hand."

text: Parchment

title: Opening of Part One in "later hand."


title: Page of text with placemarkers, initial with penwork and catchword.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of text of part two.

text: Parchment

title: Opening of text of part two.


title: Explicit of Part 2, with catchword.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of Part 2, with catchword.


value: 1875 Apr - Dec

title: Education

originInfo: 1875 Apr - Dec

dateCreated: 1875 Apr - Dec

text: Box 32, folder 11

text: MSS File Id #39651

title: Education

text: Correspondence


title: Second part of text in later hand.

text: Parchment

title: Second part of text in later hand.


title: Page of calendar for March.

text: Sold July 1886 by Ellis and Scrutton to Charles H. Kalbfleisch.  Given by Alexander Maitland.

text: 2 (possibly more), with second on f. 141v & pastedown

text: Calendar colored in green, red and blue.  Red and blue initials with opposing color penwork.  Red and blue daubs and symbols as placemarkers.  Large initials on red, gold and blue backgrounds.

text: De Ricci places this manuscript in England, s. XIII; Dr. Guest places it in France, possibly in Paris, ca. 1250s.  Note in dossier says main illumination is French, while calendar feasts and binding are Dutch or German.

text: De Ricci, 1326.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: Main text:  24 long lines ruled in pencil.  Occasional prickings still visible.  Folios 9 and 12v-13v have two columns.

text: On f. 13, "Secunda tabula principalis Garlandi dicitur."

text: Parchment

text: Rhyme at the end of the Conpotus begins, "M. christi bis c. quarto deno quartus anno/ De sacro buscho discrevit tempora ramus  . . . (incorporating the date 1244).

text: Several other verses added in a noting hand at the end of the Cautele text.  On f. 141, an astronomical figure of the circles of the sphere.  Note in German on this leaf?

text: Various maps and large illuminated initials showing human figures, usually engaged in scientific activity.

title: Page of calendar for March.


title: Opening of first calendar, month of January, in red, green, blue and black.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Parchment


title: Page of calendar for February.

text: Parchment

title: Page of calendar for February.


title: Page of calendar for May.

text: Parchment

title: Page of calendar for May.


title: Page of calendar for July.

text: Parchment

title: Page of calendar for July.


title: Greenpoint ferry bill

text: Box 32, folder 13

text: MSS File Id #39653

title: Greenpoint ferry bill

text: Correspondence


title: Page of calendar for August.

text: Parchment

title: Page of calendar for August.


title: Page of calendar for October.

text: Parchment

title: Page of calendar for October.


title: Page of calendar for November.

text: Parchment

title: Page of calendar for November.


title: Page of calendar for December.

text: Parchment

title: Page of calendar for December.


title: Tabula principalis"

namePart: Garland, the Computist (11th cent.)

text: Parchment

title: "Tabula principalis"


title: Contia tabula"

text: Parchment

title: "Contia tabula"


title: Explanations for the charts on f. 7 (the "Terminus") and on f. 8v (the "Vera primatio").

text: Parchment


text: Parchment

title: "Tabula solis ad annum primum post bisextum..."


text: Parchment

title: "Tabula solis ad annum tertium post bisextum..."


value: 1874 Nov -Dec; 1875  May - Nov

title: Emigration

originInfo: 1874 Nov -Dec; 1875  May - Nov

dateCreated: 1874 Nov -Dec; 1875  May - Nov

text: Box 32, folder 12

text: MSS File Id #39652

title: Emigration

text: Correspondence


title: Page of calendar for April.

text: Parchment

title: Page of calendar for April.


title: Page of calendar for June.

text: Parchment

title: Page of calendar for June.


title: Page of calendar for September.

text: Parchment

title: Page of calendar for September.


text: Parchment

title: "Tabula terminorum" for the dates of Easter.


title: Greenwich Elevated Railroad

text: Box 32, folder 14

text: MSS File Id #39654

title: Greenwich Elevated Railroad

text: Correspondence


text: Parchment

title: "Tabula ad inveniendium in quo signo sit luna secundum veram eius primationem singulis mensibus."


title: Tabula solis in anno bisextum..."

text: Parchment

title: "Tabula solis in anno bisextum..."


text: Parchment

title: "Tabula solis ad annum secundum post bisextum..."


title: Table showing hours of sunset(?)

text: Parchment

title: Table showing hours of sunset(?)


title: Table and one column of text, blue initial with red penwork.

text: Parchment


title: Two columns with red and blue initials and penwork -- same hand as main text?

text: Parchment


title: Historiated initial and opening of the 'Compotus.'  Notes on content in margins.

namePart: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de (fl. 1230)

text: Parchment


value: 1875 Mar - Apr

title: Hay bailing bill

originInfo: 1875 Mar - Apr

dateCreated: 1875 Mar - Apr

text: Box 32, folder 15

text: MSS File Id #39655

title: Hay bailing bill

text: Correspondence


title: Chart showing the solar system with earth at the center.  It is surrounded by four grotesques, on blue, red, green and gold field.  Text with placemarkers.

type: geographic

text: Solar system

text: Parchment


title: Page of text, initial with penwork, rubrics and placemarkers.

text: Parchment


title: Notes in text expand the names of the months and the names of the zodiac; chart integrating months and zodiacal signs; animal and human figures.

text: Zodiac

text: Parchment


title: God seated in the center, surrounded by a circular serpent biting its own tail as a symbol of the returning cycles of the year.

text: Grotesques

text: Parchment


title: Circular diagram labeled "Garlandus" and "Dyonisius" with series of letters a-g and numbers 1-7.

text: Parchment


title: Circular chart correlating directions, winds, elements, seasons, temperaments, qualities, and ages; in the spandrels, grotesques, a fighting man and a queen.

text: Queens

text: Parchment


title: Orbit of the sun with corresponding light and dark sides of the moon.

text: Moon

text: Parchment


value: 1875 May - Nov

title: Insurance

originInfo: 1875 May - Nov

dateCreated: 1875 May - Nov

text: Box 32, folder 16

text: MSS File Id #39656

title: Insurance

text: Correspondence


title: Chart showing zodiacal signs and phases of the moon, with two animal figures, on blue, red, gold and green field.  Four-line red initial with blue penwork extending far into border, including frog's eggs.  Placemarkers.

text: Zodiac

text: Parchment

title: The earth in the center, surrounded by a tail-biting dog, the moon and its phases, the sun on its orbit, correlated to signs of the zodiac.


title: Chart of the decemnovenale cycle, the cycle of epacts, and the cycle of the "claves."

text: Parchment


title: Historiated initial of man holding a quadrant up to the sky, and opening of the 'Quadrans.'

text: Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)

text: Parchment


title: Historiated initial of a seated man holding an astrolabe, and opening of the 'De Sphaera.'

text: Astrolabes

text: Parchment


title: Manhattan Loan & Trust Company

text: Box 32, folder 17

text: MSS File Id #39657

title: Manhattan Loan & Trust Company

text: Correspondence


title: Chart showing solar system as concentric circles: Primum Mobile, the planets, fire, air, water, with earth at the center; in the spandrels, grotesques, a dog, a queen.

text: Solar system

text: Parchment


title: Chart of the seven climatic zones, with the torrid zone in the center and the poles at the extremes.

text: Parchment


title: Chart of relationships of the earth in the center, with the orbits of the moon and the sun.

text: Parchment


title: Monroe County treasurer's bill

text: Box 32, folder 18

text: MSS File Id #39658

title: Monroe County treasurer's bill

text: Correspondence


title: Diagram of a lunar eclipse, with earth casting a shadow cone.

text: Eclipses

text: Parchment


title: Diagram of an eclipse of the sun, with the moon casting a shadow cone.

text: Eclipses

text: Parchment


title: Historiated initial of man holding a compass, with opening of the 'Algorismus.'  Opening of text on pink and gold field.  Placemarkers.

text: Parchment

title: Algorismus, historiated initial, Scholar with Compass.


title: New Brighton dock bill

text: Box 32, folder 19

text: MSS File Id #39659

title: New Brighton dock bill

text: Correspondence


title: Historiated initial of a cleric (rather than the soldier of the word problem that the image illustrates) handing a round bread to a girl.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of main text, followed by added verses numbered 9 (repeated from the text) through 14.

text: Parchment


title: Circular diagram of an armillary sphere.

text: Parchment


title: On f. 141v, exagerated adiuration formula (parody?) and charms against the falling sickness, the bite of rabid dogs, to help sick animals or humans with toothache; on pastedown, elaborate dating for 1262, with the 12th episcopal year of Reginald of Paris.

text: Charms

text: Parchment


title: First page in Flemish, hand 1.

text: Douglas sale (1856).  From R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13884), bequeathed 1892.

text: 17 long lines in main text and calendar, ruled in pencil.  Some prickings still visible.

text: 3; 2 noting hands: 1, in Flemish, ff. 2, 14; second, f. 134.

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest give the date as ca. 1470.  Scribes:  hand 1 is main hand; hand 2 written in Flemish on ff. 2 and 14; hand 3 on f.134 -- may be much later.

text: De Ricci, 1326.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Large blue initials on gold.  2-line gold initials on blue and red fields.  1-line blue/gold initials with red or black penwork.  Gold/blue linefillers.  Rubrics.  Border designs around miniatures, at openings of main sections.  Placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: Some border designs contain human and animal figures.  Five miniatures, including crucifixion, annunciation, King David.

title: First page in Flemish, hand 1.


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Parchment

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Second page of Flemish.

text: Parchment

title: Second page of Flemish.


title: Large initial, hand 2, border design, opening of main text, initials, rubrics and linefillers, placemarkers.

text: Conversation

text: Initials

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of mass with Christ and instruments of crucifixion.  Border design.

text: Cardinals

text: Altars

text: Strawberries

text: Jesus Christ

text: Crucifixion

text: Parchment


title: Notes in hand 3 -- in French and Latin?

text: Parchment

title: Notes in hand 3 -- in French and Latin?


value: 1875 Jan - May

title: New capitol building

originInfo: 1875 Jan - May

dateCreated: 1875 Jan - May

text: Box 32, folder 20

text: MSS File Id #39660

title: New capitol building

text: Correspondence


title: Opening of calendar.

text: Douglas sale (1856); R.L. Stuart collection (no. 13889), bequeathed 1892.

text: 15 long lines in main text, 17 in calendar, ruled in ink.  Catchwords in section written by hand 2.

text: Parchment

text: Two miniatures:  Crucifixion and Christ descends into Hell.

text: Full border decoration around miniatures, and opening of main sections.  Some decoration in only one margin.  2-line gold initials on red and blue fields. Larger red and blue initials on gold fields.  1-line gold and blue initials with penwork.  Rubrics.

text: De Ricci and Dr. Guest date the ms. to ca. 1470 (cf. note on f. 72?).  Scribal hands: A, ff. 2-70v, 74-92; B, ff. 95-163v; C, ff. 70v-71; D & E, f. 72; F, ff. 92v-94v.

title: Opening of calendar.


title: Opening of main text, hand 1, border design, initials, rubrics, placemarkers.

text: Parchment


title: New York sheriff's bill

text: Box 32, folder 21

text: MSS File Id #39661

title: New York sheriff's bill

text: Correspondence


title: Hand 3

text: Parchment

title: Hand 3


title: Hands 4 and 5; note about date?

text: Parchment

title: Hands 4 and 5; note about date?


title: Miniature of Christ and the Resurrection of the dead.  Border design.

text: Parchment


title: Hand 6; space left for initial.

text: Parchment

title: Hand 6; space left for initial.


title: Hand 2 and catchword.  Initial with penwork, small initials, and rubric.

text: Parchment


title: Old Soldiers claims

text: Box 32, folder 22

text: MSS File Id #39662

title: Old Soldiers claims

text: Correspondence


title: Opening of text, initials, rubric, linefiller.

text: R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.


title: Page of text with initials, placemarkers, linefillers.


title: Page of text with catchword.

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Pilotage bill

text: Box 32, folder 24

text: MSS File Id #39664

title: Pilotage bill

text: Correspondence


title: Explicit.

title: Explicit.


title: Police and Police justices bill

text: Box 32, folder 25

text: MSS File Id #39665

title: Police and Police justices bill

text: Correspondence


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Belonged to Cistercian nuns at Oosteelkeloo.  R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: First and last folios have decorative paper pasted on outer sides.

text: 16 long lines ruled in pencil and pen.  Prickings visible towards the end of the manuscript.

text: Parchment

text: Alternating red and blue initials; larger initials have opposing-color penwork which spills over into border.  Rubrics.  Daubs of red as placemarkers.  Chapter numbers in upper margin.

text: 2:  A, ff. 1-166; B, ff. 166-167

text: Note on f. 169:  Spectat ad ecclesiam monialium ordinis Cisterciensis in Oosteekeloo.

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Opening of text, large initial with penwork, smaller initial, rubrics, placemarkers, hand 1.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: Parchment

text: 2:  A, ff. 1-166; B, ff. 166-167


title: Page of text with note in Flemish.

text: Parchment

text: 2:  A, ff. 1-166; B, ff. 166-167

title: Page of text with note in Flemish.


title: Prayers with decorative flourish around title.

text: Parchment

text: 2:  A, ff. 1-166; B, ff. 166-167


title: Change from hand 1 to hand 2.

text: Parchment

text: 2:  A, ff. 1-166; B, ff. 166-167

title: Change from hand 1 to hand 2.


title: Note of ownership.

text: Parchment

text: 2:  A, ff. 1-166; B, ff. 166-167

title: Note of ownership.


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Douglas sale (1856); R.L. Stuart collection, bequeathed 1892.

text: 21 long lines, ruled in pen, with prickings visible.

text: Parchment

text: 6 miniatures and 5 illuminated initials.  Occasional animas, human figures and grotesques in borders.

text: Large blue initials on gold fields.  Gold initials on red/blue fields. Blue and gold small initials.  Rubrics.  Border decoration ranging from elaborate full border to small flourishes on initials.  Red daubs as placefinders.  Blue and gold linefillers.

text: De Ricci says this manuscript was written in the 15th century; Dr. Guest places it in the late 15th century.  Scribes:  1 main hand.  Notes on f. 175v in cursive hand.

text: Notes on f. 175v.

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Opening of main text.  Initial with illumination (Virgin and Child), full border with angel figures.  Rubrics, small initials, placemarkers.

text: De Ricci, 1326.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Parchment

text: Notes on f. 175v.


title: Pages of text with various initials and border designs.

text: Parchment

text: Notes on f. 175v.


title: Miniature of Crucifixion and facing text page with historiated initial of the Man of Sorrows

text: Parchment

text: Notes on f. 175v.

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 70


title: Miniature of Resurrection, with border design.

text: Parchment

text: Notes on f. 175v.


title: Miniature of Christ descending into Hell, with border design.

text: Parchment

text: Notes on f. 175v.


title: Explicit of main text.

text: Parchment

text: Notes on f. 175v.

title: Explicit of main text.


title: Notes in cursive hands.

text: Parchment

text: Notes on f. 175v.

title: Notes in cursive hands.


title: Opening of letter, large initial, rubric.  Note of provenance at top.  Hand 1.

text: On f. 1:

text: De Ricci, 1327.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: 21-28 long lines, ruled in pencil.  Prickings and some catchwords visible.

text: Parchment

text: Within opening red initial on f. 8 is illustration showing kiss of bride and bridegroom.

text: Large red/blue initials at head of each main section -- some filled in with brown foliage.  Rubrics and red underlining.  Small red and blue initials throughout, daubs of red as placemarkers.  Red and blue initial opening book 4.

text: De Ricci places this manuscript in the 14th century, Dr. Guest  in the 15th century. Scribes:  Hand 1 (ff. 1-33v); 2 (ff. 34-64); 3 (ff. 64v-98v); 4 (ff. 99-186); 5 (ff. 186v-7).  Ff. 34-64 may contain more than one hand; hands 1 and 4 may be the same.

text: 5 scribes? (see notes and photos)

text: Notes on ff. 186v-187.

text: ADD Author before releasing.


title: Opening of main text with initial and illustration of kiss.

text: On f. 1:

text: Parchment

text: 5 scribes? (see notes and photos)

text: Notes on ff. 186v-187.

text: ADD Author before releasing.


title: Hand 2, with placemarkers and marginal note.

text: On f. 1:

text: Parchment

text: 5 scribes? (see notes and photos)

text: Notes on ff. 186v-187.

text: ADD Author before releasing.


title: Page of text with catchword and placemarkers.

text: On f. 1:

text: Parchment

text: 5 scribes? (see notes and photos)

text: Notes on ff. 186v-187.

text: ADD Author before releasing.


title: Hand 3, with initial, placemarkers, marginal note, and catchword.

text: On f. 1:

text: Parchment

text: 5 scribes? (see notes and photos)

text: Notes on ff. 186v-187.

text: ADD Author before releasing.


title: Hand 4 (perhaps same as hand 1?).

text: On f. 1:

text: Parchment

text: 5 scribes? (see notes and photos)

text: Notes on ff. 186v-187.

text: ADD Author before releasing.

title: Hand 4 (perhaps same as hand 1?).


title: Explicit of main text.

text: On f. 1:

text: Parchment

text: 5 scribes? (see notes and photos)

text: Notes on ff. 186v-187.

text: ADD Author before releasing.

title: Explicit of main text.


title: Notes, written in hand 5.

text: On f. 1:

text: Parchment

text: 5 scribes? (see notes and photos)

text: Notes on ff. 186v-187.

text: ADD Author before releasing.

title: Notes, written in hand 5.


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Rev. H. Drury sale (1827) to Thorpe; Duke of Sussex collection; his sale (1844) to Thorpe; J. Lilly; Lenox collection.

text: 27 lines in calendar; 17-27 long lines in text; ruled in pencil and pen.

text: Parchment

text: Large and small red and blue initials.  Some large puzzle initials with green decoration and elaborate penwork; others with just penwork, others unadorned.  Rubrics and placemarkers.

text: Dr. Guest proposed a dating to the 15th century.  Possible scribal division: A, ff. 1-8v, 10-202, 215-228v, 235-241v; B?, ff. 202-213; C (& D?), ff. 9r-v, 213v-214v, 228v-233v; E, f. 242

text: 4 scribes?

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Hand 3, red initials and rubrics.

text: Parchment

text: 4 scribes?

title: Hand 3, red initials and rubrics.


title: Opening of main text in hand 1, puzzle initial with penwork, small initials.

text: Parchment

text: 4 scribes?


title: Shift from main hand (hand 1) to different hand (hand 2) or just smaller version of hand 1?

text: Parchment

text: 4 scribes?


title: Hand 3 reappears.  Initials and rubrics.

text: Parchment

text: 4 scribes?


title: Return to main hand, initials.

text: Parchment

text: 4 scribes?

title: Return to main hand, initials.


title: Hand 4; explicit.

text: Parchment

text: 4 scribes?

title: Hand 4; explicit.


title: Coat of arms.

text: Friedrich Culemann sale (1870) to Quaritch; sold in 1874 to J. Lenox.

text: De Ricci, 1327.  Library dossier.

text: 38-47 long lines per page.  Ruled in pencil.

text: Parchment

text: 69 small contemporary woodcuts.

text: 1-line and 2-line red initials.  Rubrics.  Red slashes as placemarkers.  In section written by hand 1, ascenders of top line are often extended.

text: De Ricci dates this ms. to the 15th century; note in dossier places in in Ulm or Augsburg, ca. 1400.  Combination of printed woodcuts and manuscript is rare and valuable, especially on parchment.

text: 2:  A, ff. 1v-9v; B, ff. 10-17v, plus noting hands on f. 1

text: German Prayers illustrated with woodcuts.

title: Coat of arms.


title: Notes in various hands.

text: Listed in De Ricci, Seymour, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. N.Y.: H.W. Wilson, 1935; and Supplement, New York, N.Y.: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.

text: De Ricci, 1327.  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

text: 69 small contemporary woodcuts.

title: Notes in various hands.


title: Incipit of text in hand 1, rubric with extended ascenders, initials, placemarkers.  Woodcut of St. Jerome and the Lion.

text: De Ricci, 1327.  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

text: 69 small contemporary woodcuts.


title: Leaf with woodcuts of the Annunciation and Nativity

text: De Ricci, 1327.  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

text: 69 small contemporary woodcuts.

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 71


title: Text with initials and placemarkers, with two woodcuts (Expulsion from Eden and the Ark).

text: De Ricci, 1327.  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

text: 69 small contemporary woodcuts.


title: Change of hands:  hand 1 on f. 9v, hand 2 on f. 10.  Initials, rubrics, placemarkers.  1 woodcut on f. 9v, of Christ nailed to the Cross.  3 woodcuts on f. 10 (St. Paul; Guardian Angels; St. Catherine)

text: De Ricci, 1327.  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

text: 69 small contemporary woodcuts.


title: Wochentlich Andacht zu Seligkayt.

text: De Ricci, 1327.  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

text: 69 small contemporary woodcuts.

title: Wochentlich Andacht zu Seligkayt.


title: Page of text in hand 2; initials, rubrics, placemarkers.  Woodcuts of John the Baptist, a soul rescued from Hell, and Mary and all the saints.

text: De Ricci, 1327.  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

text: 69 small contemporary woodcuts.