title: Text with placemarkers and rubric.  Half-page miniature of Absalom and a woman in bed.

text: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.


mmsType: Item

field: dateCreated

keyDate: yes

title: Rubric and full-page miniature of Absalom and devils.

sourceSystem: mms

namePart: Schlapperitzi, Cunradus

type: personal

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: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: About 180 colored drawings showing Old Testament scenes.  At opening of main text, woodcut initial showing the Annunciation.

text: According to a note in the dossier, one of the illustrations is dated 1445.  The note does not indicate which folio this date is on.

text: Colored flowers in some borders.  Red initials, red and blue puzzle initials.  Rubrics, red placemarkers.  Some border designs have suffered losses through trimming.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: There are occasional pencil foliations throughout, of which only some are correct.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.

supplied: no

rights: Can be used inside free NYPL exhibition catalogs and in free NYPL brochures

rights: Can be used in advertising for NYPL exhibitions, on catalog covers, in press kits, or fundraising activities

rights: Can be sold through 3rd party print partner (e.g., New York Times)

rights: Can be used in products created by NYPL for commercial gain (e.g., Library Shop, CDs, DVDs, etc.)

rights: Nothing dated after the 16th century. Therefore, all images are in the public domain and can be used freely, without restriction.

rights: We believe that this item has no known US copyright restrictions. The item may be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

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


title: Text with placemarkers and rubric.  Miniature of Absalom caught in a tree by his hair.

text: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.


title: Text with placemarkers and rubric.  In one column, miniature of one man killing another.

text: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.


title: Text with rubric and placemarkers.  Miniature of men killing giants.

text: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.


title: Text with rubric and placemarkers.  In one column, miniature of King David and another man.

text: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.


title: Text with rubric and placemarkers.  In one column, miniature of David rebuked.

text: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.


title: Text with rubric, placemarkers and large red initial.  Over two pages, a miniature of an angel killing people.

text: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.


title: Explicit of main text.

text: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.

title: Explicit of main text.


title: Text in note hand, with dates.

text: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.

title: Text in note hand, with dates.


title: Final page of volume in note hand, showing dates.

text: Quaritch, 1874.  Lenox collection.

text: De Ricci, 1331.  Library dossier.

text: Up to 40 lines in two columns.


point: start

point: end

title: Opening of text, large letter with penwork, small initials and linefillers, hierarchy of scripts.  Large penwork feather drawn in border.

text: Astor collection

text: De Ricci, 1332.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: 37-52 lines in two columns; ruled in pen.

text: Paper

text: Human faces included in penwork, f. 161r-v.

text: Each word begins with 1-line, 2-line or 3-line red initial.  Red line-fillers, penwork and place-notes.  At opening of each letter, 7-line to 10-line red and blue "puzzle" initials with red and black penwork -- sometimes penwork extends into border.


title: Page of text, initial P with elaborate penwork.

text: Astor collection

text: Paper


title: Initial Z, elaborate penwork.

text: Astor collection

text: Paper

title: Initial Z, elaborate penwork.


title: Explicit, penwork with human faces.

text: Astor collection

text: Paper

title: Explicit, penwork with human faces.


title: Front cover of manuscript: vellum page from 15th century missal.

text: Owned (1594) by "Christophorus Baro a Wockenstain."  Given in 1905 by Rev. Joseph H. McMahon.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 18-22 long lines, ruled in some places in red pencil

text: 2?:  A, ff. 1-115; B, ff. 115v-116

text: 36 lines in 2 columns

text: A thick black substance obscures some of the text in the right column.

text: De Ricci and Guest date this manuscript to c. 1500; note in the manuscript case states that it predates 1500.

text: De Ricci, 1332.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Note in manuscript case.

text: Dimensions above are for front cover only; the vellum is too brittle to unfold it and measure entire piece.  Sources do not give place of origin for this.

text: Paper

text: Parchment

text: Rubrics

text: Rubrics, 2-line initial in red, 5-line initials in red and blue.


title: Bookplate of Christophorus Baro, 1594.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 2?:  A, ff. 1-115; B, ff. 115v-116

text: 36 lines in 2 columns

text: Paper

text: Parchment

text: Rubrics

title: Bookplate of Christophorus Baro, 1594.


title: Opening of text, hand 1, rubrics.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 2?:  A, ff. 1-115; B, ff. 115v-116

text: 36 lines in 2 columns

text: Paper

text: Parchment

text: Rubrics

title: Opening of text, hand 1, rubrics.


title: End of hand 1, explicit of main text.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 2?:  A, ff. 1-115; B, ff. 115v-116

text: 36 lines in 2 columns

text: Paper

text: Parchment

text: Rubrics

title: End of hand 1, explicit of main text.


title: Hand 2, explicit.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 2?:  A, ff. 1-115; B, ff. 115v-116

text: 36 lines in 2 columns

text: Paper

text: Parchment

text: Rubrics

title: Hand 2, explicit.


title: Back cover of manuscript:  vellum page of 15th century missal.

text: 1 scribe.

text: 2?:  A, ff. 1-115; B, ff. 115v-116

text: 36 lines in 2 columns

text: Paper

text: Parchment

text: Rubrics


value: undated

title: Calling cards

originInfo: undated

dateCreated: undated

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

authority: naf

type: admin

text: Box 34, folder 11

title: Calling cards

typeOfResource:
text
still image

authority: lctgm

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: Hand 1, opening of text with rubric, space left for initial.

text: Number 8328 and 1454 in old catalogs; Astor collection.

text: De Ricci, 1332.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Notes by Dr. A. C. de la Mare.

text: 1469 May 15

text: 42-52 long lines, ruled in pencil, catchwords (twice vertically in the center of the lower margin!) and prickings occasionally visible.

text: Paper

text: Rubrics, placemarkers, charts. 2-line red initials.  Space frequently reserved for incompleted intitials.  Some initals added in plain ink in margin.

text: Dated 1469 on ff. 47, 168. Hands: 1 (ff. 1-40v); 2 (41-48v); 3 (49-59v); 4 (59v-116v or 2 hands?, changing at f. 89); 5 (117-124v, 138v-139v); 6 (124v-138); 7 (140-168); 8 (169-178v); 9 (179-241v); 10 (242).  On f. 116v, colophon "scripta Mantue."

text: 10 hands.

text: Other works in this volume:  Tractatus de ellectionibus...; De interrogationibus tractatus...; Tractatus de nativitatibus...; Tractatus de imbribus et aeris mutationibus...; Tractatus de revolutionibus annorum ....


title: Hand 2, note with date.

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: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Hand 2, note with date.


title: Opening of 'De interrogationibus,' hand 3.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.


title: Page of text with catchword.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Change from hand 3 to hand 4, chart.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Change from hand 3 to hand 4, chart.


title: Canals, 1874

text: Box 34, folder 12-14

title: Canals, 1874

text: Correspondence


title: Change of hand at beginning of f. 89?

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Change of hand at beginning of f. 89?


title: Opening of 'De nativitatibus' hand 5, rubrics and place-markers, space left for initial.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.


title: Hand 5 and hand 6.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Hand 5 and hand 6.


title: Hand 7.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Hand 7.


title: Note of date.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Note of date.


title: Opening of 'De imbribus,' hand 8.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Opening of 'De imbribus,' hand 8.


title: Hand 9.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Hand 9.


title: Use of gothic bookhand for rubric.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Use of gothic bookhand for rubric.


title: Explicit of main text.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Explicit of main text.


title: Note of contents, hand 10.

text: 1469 May 15

text: Paper

text: 10 hands.

title: Note of contents, hand 10.


title: Opening of text, rubric, hierarchy of scripts, large initial on gold field with painted design in border, hand 1.

text: Given by Thomas Minturn to the Astor Library.

text: De Ricci, 1332.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: 60 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil, catchwords and some prickings visible.

text: Paper

text: Large initials on gold field, ff. 1 and 317, with design extending into margin.  Hierarchy of scripts.  Rubrics and sentence markers.  12-line and 5-line red and blue initials with opposing color penwork.

text: Flyleaves are vellum.

text: 2: A, ff. 1-363v; B, ff. 363v-396


title: 5-line blue initial with penwork, catchword.

text: Paper

text: Flyleaves are vellum.

text: 2: A, ff. 1-363v; B, ff. 363v-396


title: Large initial with painted design in border.

text: Paper

text: Flyleaves are vellum.

text: 2: A, ff. 1-363v; B, ff. 363v-396


title: Canals, 1875

text: Box 34, folder 12-14

title: Canals, 1875

text: Correspondence


title: Transition from hand 1 to hand 2.

text: Paper

text: Flyleaves are vellum.

text: 2: A, ff. 1-363v; B, ff. 363v-396

title: Transition from hand 1 to hand 2.


title: Explicit, in hand 2.

text: Paper

text: Flyleaves are vellum.

text: 2: A, ff. 1-363v; B, ff. 363v-396

title: Explicit, in hand 2.


title: Opening of text, two-line gold initial on blue and green field with flourish in border, red and blue initials, rubrics, placemarkers. Coat of arms.  Note that ink has run somewhat.

type: topic

authority: lcsh

text: Cosmography

text: Collection of Marchese Girolamo d'Adda, at Milan. Collection of Charles Fairfax Murray, Florence.  Obtained from Gilhofer and Ranschburg, of Vienna.  Coat of arms on f.1.

text: This manuscript is currently stored in a box marked De Ricci 110.  The real De Ricci 110 is unbound, and stored in a folder.

text: 24-26 long lines, ruled in pencil, prickings occasionally visible.  Catchwords visible.

text: Paper

text: Four winds are personified in a miniature, f. 13.

text: Maps, charts and drawings throughout, in many colors, including gold.  Rubrics and two-line alternating red and blue initials. Gold initial on green and blue field on f. 1, with decoration extending into border.   Red daubs as placemarkers.


title: Text with three charts in gold, blue, and other colors.  Red and blue initials, rubrics.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Text with red and blue initials, rubrics, two charts.

text: Cosmography

text: Zodiac

text: Paper


text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Text with red and blue initials, rubrics, one chart.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Text with red and blue initials, rubrics, one chart showing map of the world.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Text (beginning of book three), map and miniature showing four winds.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Text with red and blue initials, rubric, two maps including one T map.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Text with map filling blank spaces, small drawings of cities, including skyline of Cairo in lower right corner.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Text with drawing of tower of Babel.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper

title: Text with drawing of tower of Babel.


title: Text with red and blue initials, map.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper

title: Text with red and blue initials, map.


title: Text with red and blue initials, rubrics, map with small drawings of cities.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Text with red and blue initials, map with small drawings of unlabelled cities.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Text with red and blue initials, rubrics, map with small drawings of cities, church.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Text with red and blue initials.  Map with small drawings of unlabelled cities.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Page of text with map and catchword.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper

title: Page of text with map and catchword.


title: Explicit, with map and red and blue initials.

text: Cosmography

text: Paper


title: Full page drawing of tall ship.

namePart: Dati, Gregorio (1362-1436)

text: Erased arms of first owner.  Obtained from E.P. Dutton.

text: The foliation of this manuscript is incorrect.

text: 3 8-line verses per page, ruled in very light ink.  Collation:  I#^5#; II-III#^6#; IV-V#^4#.  Quire I originally had 6 folios -- only stub of final folio survives.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.

text: 3-line initials open main sections -- first one is painted in many colors, others red or blue with penwork.  Alternating 1-line red and blue initials with red or purple penwork. Many charts, maps and drawings.  Rubrics.  Coat of arms and border design f.2

text: 1 hand; plus several cursive hands on charts

title: Full page drawing of tall ship.


title: Opening of text, 3-line initial and painted border design.  1-line initials and coat of arms.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


title: Page of text with 3-line initial and penwork, smaller initials, rubrics, and chart of heavens.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


title: Text with red and blue initials.  Map stretching across both pages, with small drawings of cities.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


title: Text with red and blue initials.  Map with small drawings of cities.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


title: Text with red and blue initials.  Map.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.

title: Text with red and blue initials.  Map.


title: Text with red and blue initials.  Map with small drawing of city.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


title: Text with red and blue initials.  Map with small drawings of cities, church.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


title: Page of text with initials and map showing Troy and Rhodes?  Note hand with cursive elements.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


title: Text with red and blue initials. Map.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.

title: Text with red and blue initials. Map.


title: Text with red and blue initials.  Three charts.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


title: Page of text with maps, including T-map. Rubric and initials.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


title: Page of text with rubrics, initials and drawing of Tower of Babel.

text: Babel, Tower of

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.


title: Explicit.  Initials and rubric.

text: Parchment

text: Sun, four winds have human faces.

title: Explicit.  Initials and rubric.


value: late 15th century

title: Opening page of calendar

text: Bought 1860 by John Allan; Frederic Ferris Thompson collection; given by Mrs. F. F. Thompson, 1923.

text: De Ricci, 1332.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: 17 long lines (and 17 in calendar), ruled in pencil, catchwords visible.

text: Parchment

text: 1-line and 2-line red and blue initials.  Rubrics.  Red and blue linefillers.  Occasional 5-line red initial on gold field with flowers decoration extending into border.

title: Opening page of calendar


title: Opening of text, rubric, 1-line and 2-line 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: Parchment


title: Page of text with catchword.

text: Parchment

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Explicit

text: Parchment

title: Explicit


title: Note on final leaf.

text: Parchment

title: Note on final leaf.


title: Opening page of calendar.  Note of ownership at bottom:  "Conventus Ratisbonensis Carmelitarum Discalceatorum."

text: Church calendar

text: Owned (16th c.) by the "Conventus Ratisbonensis Carmelitarum Discalceatorum" (f.1).  Joseph Barrois collection; sold 1849 to Earl of Ashburnham; his sale to Maggs, 1901.  Given by Mrs. F. F. Thompson, 1923.

text: 1 large miniature of crucifixion; many illuminated initials; border decoration include animal figures.

text: Large initials (5-line, 7-line etc.) in many colors -- green, blue, orange, gold -- on elaborate multi-colored fields.  Designs extend into border. Rubrics, 1-, 2- and 3-line red and blue initials with opposing color penwork, daubs of red as placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: 29 long lines (32 in calendar), ruled in pen, catchwords visible.

text: De Ricci, 1333.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: Foliation ends with f. 13; some photos are from center of book, and no foliation is given.


title: Opening of text.  Large illuminated initial (Christ in Majesty), smaller initials in various colors and in red and blue. Rubrics and placemarkers.  Border decoration including animals and insects.

type: name

nameType: personal

text: Jesus Christ

text: Parchment

title: Historiated initial of Christ in Majesty; border includes a cat licking its bottom, a beetle, a moth, a stork and a rabbit, as well as a lion whose design originates in engraved playing cards.


title: Historiated initial of the Nativity; border includes a moth, as well as the side view of a pink rose, whose design originates in engraved playing cards.

text: Flowers

text: Jesus Christ

text: Nativity

text: Parchment


title: Leaf with Pentecost

text: Pentecost

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 36.2

title: Leaf with Pentecost


title: Opening page of a section of music; the burnished gold ground of the initial, enlivened by radiating lines of brushed gold, is characteristic of this artist.

text: Parchment


title: Staves of music left in light brown, not in red.

text: Parchment


title: Full page miniature of crucifixion.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Crucifixion

text: Parchment

title: Full page miniature of Crucifixion; John holds what appears to be a book in a chemise binding; the blank shield in the lower margin appears never to have been filled in (one might have expected to find a small cross in this location).


title: Explicit

text: Parchment

title: Explicit


title: Coats of arms of owners.

namePart: Des Courtils, comtesse

text: 19th century bookplate of the comtesse Des Courtils; old woodcut, with La Marck and Cleves arms.  Bequeathed by Anne D. Thomson, 1924.

text: De Ricci, 1333.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: 23 long lines, ruled in red, prickings visible, particularly at the end of the manuscript.

text: Parchment

text: 3 full-page miniatures and 28 small miniatures of the Fouquet school.

text: 1-line blue and gold initials with red and blue penwork; 2-line blue, red and white initials on gold fields, illuminated with flowers and animals.  Border decorations including vines, flowers, fruit, etc. -- mostly partial borders, but some full.

title: Coats of arms of owners.


title: Carrying of the Cross

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 48.2

title: Carrying of the Cross


title: Annunciation

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 48.1

title: Annunciation


title: Opening of list of incipits of psalms, including French rubric.  1-line blue and gold initials with penwork.

text: Parchment


title: Prayer for dead. 1-line blue and gold initials with red and blue penwork, rubric.

text: Parchment


title: Full-page miniature and opening of psalms. 5-line historiated gold initial.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with 1-line blue and gold initials with red and blue penwork, 2-line initials on gold fields decorated with flowers and grotesque, and border decoration.

text: Parchment


field: copyrightDate

title: Opening of Jerome's prologue, hierarchy of scripts, 6-line decorative initial, 2-line red initial.

text: Written at Lande'vennec in Brittany.  In the SW of England by s. X#^med#; in Italy, s. XVIII; Marquess of Blandford sale (1819) to Booth; by Payne and Foss to Sir T. Phillipps; sold privately to the Rosenbach Co.  Presented by Edward S. Harkness, 1928.

text: 1-line and larger red initials throughout, red and blue daubs as place markers.  Large decorative initials at opening of each gospel.  Tables ff. 7-12v, with decorative arches.

text: 1? or 3 very similar (according to E. K. Rand, quoted by Morey, p 645).

text: 26-35 long lines (29 most common), ruled in drypoint.  Prickings and quire signatures visible.

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Dated to the third third of the ninth century in H. Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Tempe AZ:  Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2001) p. 133, n. 866.5.

text: Parchment

text: This manuscript is paginated at the beginning; it is foliated in the lower verso, and in the upper recto from f. 19 on.  Folio numbers are supplied here.

text: f. 13:  4 Evangelist symbols, with Christ; f. 51v Mark's symbol; f. 75v Luke's symbol; f. 115v John's symbol.


value: late 10th century?

title: Canon table, with decorative arches.

originInfo: late 10th century?

dateCreated: late 10th century?

text: Birds

text: Arches

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: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

title: Canon tables with decorative arches with birds.


title: Canon tables with decorative arches.

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

title: Canon tables with decorative arches.


title: Canon table with decorative arches.

text: Arches

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

title: Canon table with decorative arches.


title: Canals, 1876

text: Box 34, folder 12-14

title: Canals, 1876

text: Correspondence


title: Canon tables with decorative arches.

text: Arches

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

title: Canon tables with decorative arches.


title: Canon tables with decorative arches with animals.

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Symbols of four evangelists, and Christ.

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of Gospel of Matthew.  Section of parchment around the large initial has been cut out -- text of next folio is visible through the hole. Rustic capitals.

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Possible change of hand, or simply change of pen/ink.

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Musical notation above bottom line.

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

title: Musical notation above bottom line.


title: Explicit of prologue and incipit of Gospel of Mark.  Unusual symbol for Mark:  a horse.

text: Symbols

text: Horses

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of Gospel according to Mark, hierarchy of script, large decorative initial, smaller initials.

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Full-page miniature of symbol for Luke, with full decorative border.

text: Symbols

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment

title: St. Luke.


title: Opening of Luke's gospel, with large decorative initial.  Decorative capital and small initial.

text: Initials

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Full-page miniature of symbol for John, with full decorative border.  Prickings visible.

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: Borders (Ornament Areas)

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of John's Gospel.  Large decorative initial.  Decorative capitals and smaller initials.

text: Initials

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Circulars, 1840-1848

text: Box 34, folder 15-17

title: Circulars, 1840-1848

text: Correspondence


title: Page of text with quire signature visible.

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Last page of calendar of feasts; explicit.

text: Church calendar

text: Above, plus  Library dossier.

text: Parchment


title: Portrait of William Tyndale, and title page, on later paper.

text: Bought 1808 by Henry White; sold 1815 to George Offor (who believed it to be the work of William Tyndale); his sale (1865).  Bought by James Lenox from Henry Stevens.

text: De Ricci, 1334.  De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Paper

text: 26 full page drawings of biblical scenes, highlighted with gold and red. Human figures appear in some borders around texts.

text: Full decorated borders around texts, including some work in gold.  3-line initial at beginning of each text selection -- last one done in gold.

text: Folios iv-xvi contain pictures of Tyndale, notes on the ms by George Offor including a comparison with the 1525 printed edition of Tyndale's Bible, and a drawing of Christ. This ms said to be 1502/62, but suspected to be a 19th c. forgery on old paper.

text: On ff. i - xvi, notes on the manuscript by George Offor, etc.


title: Beginning of notes by George Offor, with his reproduction of the watermark found in the older paper.

text: Paper


title: Beginning of chart comparing text of this manuscript with that of 1525 printing.

text: Paper


title: Drawing pasted onto first sheet of old paper, and bookplate of first known owner, Henry White.

text: Paper


title: First page of text, with elaborate border design, including some gold.

text: Paper


title: Drawing which accompanies text on 3v -- woman washes Christ's feet and dries them with her hair.

text: Paper


title: Christ and the Devil, with gold and red.

text: Paper


title: Page of text; border design includes human figures.

text: Paper


title: Last page of text, with elaborate border.

text: Paper


title: Invoice for binding of this manuscript, pasted in.

text: Paper


title: Opening page of calendar for the month of January. A column was constructed intentionally to hold the numbering of the days of the month, executed in blue ink and in arabic numerals.

text: Books of hours

text: Church calendar

text: Robert S. Holford collection.  Sir George L. Holford collection.  Given to the library in 1931 by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness.

text: 1-line and 2-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  3-line white initials on gold fields. Rubrics, placemarkers, linefillers in blue, gold and red.  Architectual border designs around large miniatures.

text: 16 large and 22 small miniatures.

text: 23 long lines (33 in calendar), ruled in light red pencil.

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest date this to ca. 1520.

text: De Ricci, 1334.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Parchment


title: Full-page miniature in many colors with architectural border.

text: Books of hours

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: 16 large and 22 small miniatures.

text: Parchment

title: St. John the Evangelist holding the cup of poison that has already killed several others; in the background, John on the island of Patmos.


title: Opening of main text.  2-line initial, rubric, linefiller, placemarker.

text: Books of hours

text: 16 large and 22 small miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Small sqaure miniature of Luke writing as the ox watches.

text: Books of hours

text: Writing

text: Luke, Saint

text: 16 large and 22 small miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Circulars, 1853-1859

text: Box 34, folder 15-17

title: Circulars, 1853-1859

text: Correspondence


title: Full page miniature of the betrayal of Christ by Judas; in the background Peter sheathes his sword, as Malchus lies on the ground with blood streaming from his ear.

text: Books of hours

text: Jesus Christ

text: Betrayal

text: Judas Iscariot

text: 16 large and 22 small miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Annunciation and beginning Hours of the Virgin

text: Books of hours

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Gabriel (Archangel)

text: 16 large and 22 small miniatures.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 62.2


title: Raising of Lazarus

text: Books of hours

text: Raising of Lazarus (Miracle)

text: Jesus Christ

text: Miracles

text: 16 large and 22 small miniatures.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 62.3

title: Raising of Lazarus


title: Explicit of text.  Miniature of St. Barbara and her tower, set into the text space.  2-line initial, linefiller and rubric.

text: Books of hours

text: Barbara, Saint

text: 16 large and 22 small miniatures.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of calendar, scene of seasonal activity.

text: Given by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1931.

text: 13 long lines (17 in calendar), ruled in red.

text: Parchment

text: Calendar borders show seasonal activities; full- & partial-page miniatures.  Border designs include humans/animals.

text: 1-line and 2-line white and red initials on gold fields.  5-line initials in gold, blue, red, green etc..  Border designs on gold background with leaves, flowers, fruit.  Rubrics. White, gold and red line fillers.

text: Manuscript has been foliated incorrectly, missing first two and last seven folios. Thus the folio numbers given here are two higher than those written into manuscript.


title: June page of Calendar

text: Given by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1931.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 65.3

title: June page of Calendar


title: Opening of text, elaborate border, 5-line initial, 1-line initial, rubric.

text: Given by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1931.

text: Parchment


title: Crucifixion

text: Given by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1931.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 65.2

title: Crucifixion


title: Full-page miniature of Crucifixion.

text: Given by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1931.

text: Parchment

title: Full-page miniature of Crucifixion.


value: 1860-1885 and undated

title: Circulars, 1860-1885 and undated

originInfo: 1860-1885 and undated

dateCreated: 1860-1885 and undated

text: Box 34, folder 15-17

title: Circulars, 1860-1885 and undated

text: Correspondence


title: Text with gold border and small image of Luke.

text: Given by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1931.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with initials, gold border with flowers and insects.

text: Given by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1931.

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of Battle for Soul of the Deceased and Office of the Dead

text: Given by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1931.

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 65.1


field: dateIssued

value: late 14th cent

title: Lectionary of the Acts and Epistles]

title: [Lectionary of the Acts and Epistles]


title: Signature of former owner, Jn. Onion.

text: Astrological geomancy

text: Signature of Jno. Onion on flyleaf; gift of unknown donor, 1935.

text: De Ricci, Supplement, 329. Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier, esp. notes by Victor Palsits.

text: f. 1 is a numerical indicator on vellum.  Remaining 13 folios are on paper.

text: 28 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Paper

text: Three-line red initials at top of each page.

text: Dr. Guest's chart says early 15th century?  Vellum numerical indicator measures 193 x 56.

text: Experimentarius is 12th century astrological geomancy translated into Latin verse from Arabic.  This manuscript contains marginal notes in Middle English.

title: Signature of former owner, Jn. Onion.


title: Table (f.2) partially covered by vellum indicator (f.1).

text: Astrological geomancy

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: 28 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Paper


title: Table.

text: Astrological geomancy

text: 28 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Paper

title: Table.


title: Chicago & Great Northern Railway

text: Box 35, folder 4

title: Chicago & Great Northern Railway

text: Correspondence


title: Opening of text, red initial, marginal notes.

text: Astrological geomancy

text: 28 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Paper


title: Chicago & Great Western Railway

text: Box 35, folder 5

title: Chicago & Great Western Railway

text: Correspondence


title: Middle English marginal note: "As it is often tymes seyn...."

text: Astrological geomancy

text: 28 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Paper


title: Illinois Central Railroad Co.

text: Box 35, folder 6

text: MSS File Id #39710

title: Illinois Central Railroad Co.

text: Correspondence


title: Last page of text, with red initial.

text: Astrological geomancy

text: 28 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Paper

title: Last page of text, with red initial.


title: Metropolitan Railway

text: Box 35, folder 7

text: MSS File Id #39711

title: Metropolitan Railway

text: Correspondence


title: Binding

namePart: Demon Binder

usage: primary

text: Signature of W. Temple; gift from William Longley to John Lee, according to inscription; John Lee's bookplate.  Given by I. N. Phelps Stokes in 1937.

text: De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Manuscript is foliated 1-6, and then 1-225.  First vellum leaf is not part of 12-folio quire structure, and thus is classed with first iv leaves.  Folios 26-29 (numbered 20-23) are not vellum, but a rough woven substance, perhaps a kind of cloth?

text: 40 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil, with prickings, catchwords, and quire numbers visible.

text: Parchment

text: Opening initial decorated with figure of grotesque.

text: 7-line opening intial in red, blue, green, gold.  Throughout, openings of main sections have large (3-lin, 5-line etc) initials in these colors.  Also, 2-line red and blue initials with opposing penwork, and 1-line red and blue placemarkers.  Rubrics.

text: Sources disagree as to place and date this was written.  De Ricci, Supplement, says England, early 15th century.  Dr. Guest's chart says France?, perhaps Paris?, 13th century.

text: Important for binding; 15th c. Cambridge "Demon Binder," blind stamped with identifiable stamps.

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 5

title: Binding


title: Opening of text, large initial, rubrics and placemarkers.

text: Parchment


title: Two columns of text, painted initial and initials with penwork. Placemarkers , rubric, marginal notes.

text: Parchment


title: Montclair & Greenwood Lake Railway Co.

text: Box 35, folder 8

text: MSS File Id #39712

title: Montclair & Greenwood Lake Railway Co.

text: Correspondence


title: Two columns of text, initials, placemarkers, rubric, quire signature (IIII) and catchword.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of text, placemarkers.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of text, placemarkers.


title: Solicitation letters, 1854-1882

text: Box 35, folder 9-11

title: Solicitation letters, 1854-1882

supplied: yes

text: Correspondence


title: Opening of text, large historiated initial on diapered background with some damage. Border decoration with grotesques, 2-line blue initial.

text: Belonged since 18th century to Marquess of Lothian; his sale (1932) to G. Wells.  Library of Mrs. Morris Hawkes, New York; her gift.

text: De Ricci, 1686 and Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: Folio 70 is only a stub; there are 69 full folios.  Eight quires of eight folios each, and one of six.

text: 30 lines in 2 columns, ruled in pencil, with prickings, catchwords and quire numbers visible.

text: Parchment

text: Figures (partially obscured) in large opening initial; border design on f. 1 includes grotesques.

text: 9-line opening initial in red, blue, gold on lozenge background.  Red and blue border designs.  2-line blue and gold initials, extending into border, with opposing color penwork.

text: This is the only manuscript preserving the text of this 14th century French romance.  The text on f. 70r-v seems to lack the decoration and verse structure of other folios, therefore may possibly not be part of main text.

title: Floriant and Florete embracing, historiated initial.


title: Page of text with initials, border design and quire number.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with catchword.

text: Parchment

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Solicitation letters, 1883

text: Box 35, folder 9-11

title: Solicitation letters, 1883

text: Correspondence


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Stub of f. 70.

text: Parchment

title: Stub of f. 70.


title: Opening chart.

text: Purchased in 1940 from H. P. Kraus.

text: Great variation in number of lines per page -- up to about 35.  One column.  Not ruled.

text: Paper

text: Titles underlined in red; various charts and tables.

title: Opening chart.


title: Title of work and incipit.

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: Purchased in 1940 from H. P. Kraus.

text: Paper

title: Title of work and incipit.


title: Page of text with title underlined in red, including author's name.

text: Purchased in 1940 from H. P. Kraus.

text: De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Paper


title: Text with table.

text: Purchased in 1940 from H. P. Kraus.

text: Paper

title: Text with table.


title: Explicit.

text: Purchased in 1940 from H. P. Kraus.

text: Paper

title: Explicit.


title: Opening of text, with six medallions showing creation of the world.  Initials and rubrics.

text: Presented by Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Benoliel.

text: Above, plus chart by Dr. G.B. Guest and library dossier.

text: Roll

text: Scroll


title: Medallions showing Creation of Adam and Eve; Adam, Eve, and Serpent; God questioning Adam and Eve.

text: Roll

text: Scroll


title: Roll, image 3

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 3


title: Roll, image 4

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 4


title: Roll, image 5

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 5


title: Roll, image 6

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 6


title: Roll, image 7

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 7


title: Roll, image 8

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 8


title: Roll, image 9

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 9


title: Roll, image 10

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 10


title: Roll, image 11

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 11


title: Roll, image 12

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 12


title: Roll, image 13

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 13


title: Roll, image 14

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 14


title: Roll, image 15

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 15


title: Roll, image 16

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 16


title: Roll, image 17

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 17


title: Roll, image 18

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 18


title: Roll, image 19

text: Roll

text: Scroll

title: Roll, image 19


title: End of the geneology of the French kings, in the middle column.

text: Roll

text: Scroll


title: End of the geneology of the English kings, in the far right column.

text: Roll

text: Scroll


title: Gospel of John

text: John 17:4 - 18:1

text: Incipit: //δωκας μοι ἵνα ποιήσω

text: Fragment, originally an inner bifolium of a quire.  Not bound.

text: Charles F. Gunther of Chicago; sale by American Art Association 1925; library of Wilberforce Eames of Brooklyn, NY; bequeathed by Eames to NYPL in 1940.

type: citation/reference

text: Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America. Part II: The New York Public Library, Manuscripta 50.1 (2006) 21-76, here 43-45

title: Gospel of John


title: Sticherarion [Ornamented initial].

text: ff. 1r-200v written by one scribe, ff. 201r-216v in second hand, ff. 217r-221v in third hand.

text: Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann,

text: Two of the twenty-eight quires are not original.

text: Dark brown blind-stamped leather over pasteboard.

text: With late Byzantine muscial notation.

title: Sticherarion [Ornamented initial].


title: Anthropomorphic (portrait of Christ) and zoomorphic (bird) initial.

text: Birds

text: Jesus Christ

text: Script: Liturgical minuscule

text: Seven elaborately ornamented initials in the Wallachian style; ornamenal motifs include vegetation, birds, snakes, rabits, praying human figures, angels, Christ (f. 4v).

text: Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America. Part II: The New York Public Library, Manuscripta 50.1 (2006) 21-76, here 47-49.


title: Anthropomorphic (angel) and zoomorphic (snake) initial

text: Snakes

text: Script: Liturgical minuscule


title: Zoomorphic initial (bird).

text: Birds

text: Flowers

text: Script: Liturgical minuscule

title: Zoomorphic initial (bird).


title: Liturgy of the Presanctified.

text: Script: Liturgical minuscule

title: Liturgy of the Presanctified.


title: Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic initial

text: Animals

text: Script: Liturgical minuscule

title: Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic initial


title: Anthropomorphic (portrait of Christ) and zoomorphic (bird, snake) initials.

text: Birds

text: Jesus Christ

text: Script: Liturgical minuscule


title: Anthropomorphic initial.

text: Angels

text: Script: Liturgical minuscule

title: Anthropomorphic initial.


title: Anthropomorphic initial.

text: Script: Liturgical minuscule

title: Anthropomorphic initial.


title: Headpiece; ornamented initial.

namePart: Parthenios, Monachos Hagioreitēs

namePart: John Chrysostom, Saint (d. 407 )

text: Old binding, likely original; dark brown leather over pasteboard, blind-stamped with a crucifixion.

text: Dedicated by scribe to church in Great Lavra of St. Athanasios on Mt. Athos; Charles F. Gunther of Chicago; sale by American Art Association 1925; library of Wilberforce Eames of Brooklyn, NY; bequeathed by Eames to NYPL in 1940.

title: Headpiece; ornamented initial.


title: Liturgy

title: Liturgy


title: Scribal colophon with a date.

text: Colophon: Γέγραπται ἡ παροῦσα θεία λειτουργία χειρὶ Παρθενίου ἱερο(μον)άχ(ου). ἀφιέρωται δὲ ἐν τῷ καθολικῷ ναῷ τοῦ ὁσίου καὶ θεοφόρου π(ατ)ρ(ὸ)ς ἡμῶν Ἀθανασίου, εἰς τὴν σεβασμίαν λαύραν. ἐν ἔτοι (sic) σ(ωτη)ρίῳ ,αχξη'. καὶ οἱ ἱερουργοῦντες….

title: Scribal colophon with a date.


title: End of codex.

title: End of codex.


title: Opening of text with large initials and hierarchy of script.  Rubrics.

text: Monastery of Saint-Martin of Tournai; bought 1897 by G. Dunn; his sale (1913) to Leighton.  Obtained by Wilberforce Eames for his library (Brooklyn, NY) from W. M. Voynich.  Bequeathed by Eames in 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2313. De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: 29 long lines, ruled in drypoint, prickings visible.  Above top line.  Certain folios (23 and 39 for example) ruled horizontally and vertically.  Five 8-folio quires followed by one 10-folio quire.

text: Parchment

text: Two red 7-line opening initials.  Hierarchy of scripts in red on f. 1v (uncial, square capitals).  Throughout, 1-line red initials.


title: Text with note of ownership and warning by monastery of St. Martin of Tournai -- "Liber sancti martini tornacii servantii benedictio auferenti maledictio amen." Prickings clearly visible.

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: Greek writing in lines 13, 15, 16 and 24, with transliteration written above. Initials.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with 1-line red and blue initials. Prickings clearly visible.  Marginal note.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit with initial and another note from St. Martin's.

text: Parchment


title: Hand 1, beginning of table of chapters.

text: Early owner Jan Wydeteyn. Wilberforce Eames obtained it in 1926 for his library (Brookly, NY) from W. M. Voynich.  Gift of Mr. Eames in 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2313.  De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Notes in manuscript box.

text: This manuscript has been misfoliated by including the two modern vellum leaves in the front.  Thus the folio numbers given here are two lower than the ones written in the manuscript.

title: Hand 1, beginning of table of chapters.


title: Beginning of main text; 5-line initial with elaborate puzzle work and penwork in border.  2-line initial with penwork. Smaller initials.  Book name and chapter name.  Red daubs as sentence markers.


title: Page of text with initials, additional text in margins, and in bottom margin scribe's directions for initial "t iiii".


title: Galatians and prologue, pen-work initials

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 10


title: End of Apocalypse

title: End of Apocalypse


title: Opening of Interpretation of Hebrew Names.


title: Binding

text: Folio 1 is inscribed:  "e libris Gulielmi Chapple, 1775."  Wilberforce Eames acquired it for his library (Brooklyn, NY) in 1926 from W. M. Voynich.  Gift of Eames, 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2313.  De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Note in manuscript.

text: Note pasted into flyleaf says that William Chapple was West Country topographer, according to Dictionary of National Biography.

text: Part I, 18-19 long lines, ruled in drypoint (visible in lower left corner).

text: Part I, parchment

text: 1-line red, blue and green initials.

text: Part II, 1 scribe

text: 60 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil, with occasional prickings visible.  Interpretation of Hebrew names in four columns.

text: Part II, parchment

text: Human and animal figures in opening initial.  Occasional animal figures in subsequent initials.

text: Opening initial and some subsequent initials (6-line, 8-line etc) have long extensions into border, in gold, blue, red etc.  Alternating 2-line red and blue initials with opposing penwork.  Red and blue chapter #s and book names. Rubrics and placemarkers.

text: Sources disagree as to place and date of this manuscript.  De Ricci places it in England ca. 1300.  Guest places it in England, possibly Oxford, ca. 1230s.  Later hands write notes in margin, on last folios.

text: Part I, 1 scribe

text: Span of folios for text includes pages of notes.

text: reproduce at angle to include spine

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 9.2

title: Binding


title: Opening of part one, with ex libris of William Chapple, 1775.  1-line red and blue initials.

text: Part I, parchment

text: 1-line red, blue and green initials.

text: Part II, 1 scribe

text: Part II, parchment

text: Part I, 1 scribe


title: Explicit of Part 1.

text: Part I, parchment

text: 1-line red, blue and green initials.

text: Part II, 1 scribe

text: Part II, parchment

text: Part I, 1 scribe

title: Explicit of Part 1.


title: Opening of text in part two.  Large initial with long tail, including human and animal figures.  Rubric, name of book, and red placemarkers.  Marginal notes.

text: Part I, parchment

text: 1-line red, blue and green initials.

text: Part II, 1 scribe

text: Part II, parchment

text: Part I, 1 scribe


title: Genesis page

text: Part I, parchment

text: 1-line red, blue and green initials.

text: Part II, 1 scribe

text: Part II, parchment

text: Part I, 1 scribe

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 9.1

title: Genesis page


title: Red and blue initials, chapter numbers, placemarkers, marginal notes.

text: Part I, parchment

text: 1-line red, blue and green initials.

text: Part II, 1 scribe

text: Part II, parchment

text: Part I, 1 scribe


title: Opening of psalms, 8-line initial and smaller initials.

text: Part I, parchment

text: 1-line red, blue and green initials.

text: Part II, 1 scribe

text: Part II, parchment

text: Part I, 1 scribe


title: End of Apocalypse with extensive notes.

text: Part I, parchment

text: 1-line red, blue and green initials.

text: Part II, 1 scribe

text: Part II, parchment

text: Part I, 1 scribe

title: End of Apocalypse with extensive notes.


title: Opening of Interpretation of Hebrew Names. 6-line initial extending far into border, smaller initials, placemarkers.

text: Part I, parchment

text: 1-line red, blue and green initials.

text: Part II, 1 scribe

text: Part II, parchment

text: Part I, 1 scribe


title: Close of main text with extensive notes.

text: Part I, parchment

text: 1-line red, blue and green initials.

text: Part II, 1 scribe

text: Part II, parchment

text: Part I, 1 scribe


title: Large opening initial with miniature of Jerome and border design.  3-line blue and red initials, placemarkers.

text: Armorial bookplate of J. Mee Mathew.  Wilberforce Eames obtained it for his library (Brooklyn, NY) in 1926 from N. F. McGirr.  Bequeathed by Mr. Eames, 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2313.  De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Opening initial shows Jerome writing, in cardinal's habit.  Miniature of Christ in Majesty, f.4.

text: 6-7 line initials in pink, green, blue, gold.  Some border decoration -- see f. 1.  Alternating 3-line blue and red initials.  Occasional 5-line blue and red initials with opposing penwork.  Rubrics, placemarkers, book names and chapter numbers.

text: Dr. Guest's chart places this manuscript in either Germany (as De Ricci held), or possibly Italy.  Notes written in the manuscript indicate that the main text was finished in 1458, and the Interpretation of Hebrew names in 1463.

text: 49-50 lines in two columns, ruled in pen.  Interpretation of Hebrew names in three columns.

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of Christ, book name at top of page.

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 psalms with hierarchy of initials; blue initials with red penwork.

text: Parchment


title: End of Apocalypse with note of date.

text: Parchment

title: End of Apocalypse with note of date.


title: End of interpretation of Hebrew names with note of date.

text: Parchment


title: Large opening initial with angel of Matthew.  Border design with animals.  Rubric and red placemarkers.

text: Angels

text: William Bragge sale (1876) to Ellis for Sir Thomas Brooke.  Rev. Ingham Brooke sale (1913) to Maggs.  Obtained in 1926 by Wilberforce Eames for his library (Brooklyn, NY) from W. M. Voynich.  Bequeathed by Mr. Eames, 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2313-14.  De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Notes in manuscript.

text: 25 lines in two columns, ruled in very light pencil, prickings visible.

text: Parchment

text: Initials with human and animal figures.

text: Elaborate opening initials and border designs in green, blue, red, gold, purple etc.  1-line alternating red and blue initials with flourishes extending up and down the margin.  Rubrics, red daubs as placemarkers, and names of books in red.

text: De Ricci places this in Italy; Dr. Guest seems less confident about this placement.  In many places the ink of the text is very faded.  Notes at end are dated 1239 and 1257.  See photos.

text: 1 scribe, plus others for calendar, notes

text: Contains four gospels, Acts, Epistle of James, Epistles of Peter, Epistles of John, Epistle of Jude, Apocalypse, and then the Pauline Epistles.  Calendar extends from 221v-224.  Various notes from 1239 and 1257 on ff. 224v-226.


title: Small initials, and marginal note with names of Magi.  Name of book in red.

text: Parchment

text: Initials with human and animal figures.


title: Page of text with music drawn in lower margin -- square notation on red staves.

text: Parchment

text: Initials with human and animal figures.


title: Music -- square notation on brown stave.  Text and initials.

text: Parchment

text: Initials with human and animal figures.


title: Opening of John with elaborate initial showing eagle.  Smaller initials, placemarkers.

text: Eagles

text: Parchment

text: Initials with human and animal figures.


title: Opening of Paul to the Romans; elaborate initial with portrait of Paul.  Smaller initials, placemarkers.

text: Paul, the Apostle, Saint

text: Parchment

text: Initials with human and animal figures.


title: Opening of calendar; in later hand with Franciscan entries.

text: Parchment

text: Initials with human and animal figures.


title: Chronological notes for 1257.

text: Parchment

text: Initials with human and animal figures.

title: Chronological notes for 1257.


title: Note dated 1239.

text: Parchment

text: Initials with human and animal figures.

title: Note dated 1239.


value: second half of the 13th century

title: List of contents in modern hand.

text: Bibliotheca Swaniana.  Obtained by Wilberforce Eames in 1925 for his library (Brooklyn, NY) from W. M. Voynich.  Bequeathed by Eames, 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2314.  De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: f.1 has list of contents in modern hand.  This New Testament contains four gospels, Apocalypse, Acts to ch. 12, Epistle of James, Epistles of Peter, Epistles of John, Epistle of Jude, Hebrews.  Names of books written at top of page not always accurate.

text: 24 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil.

text: Parchment

text: Large (6-line and larger) initials opening gospels with figures of evangelists or Bible stories, some animal figures.

text: 4-line opening initials in red, gold, blue.  Smaller 2-line initials in gold on red and blue backgrounds.  Names of books and chapter numbers in red and blue.  Red daubs as placemarkers.  Rubrics in red or gold.  John 13-18 written in red and blue.

text: 1 hand.

title: List of contents in modern hand.


title: Opening of Matthew with large initial showing dream of Joseph.  Rubric in red and gold.  Red placemarkers, name of book in red and blue.

text: Parchment

text: 1 hand.


title: Explicit -- end of Hebrews.  Note that name of book at top of page (Jude) is incorrect.

text: Parchment

text: 1 hand.


title: Opening of Mark showing large initial with evangelist and his symbol.  Rubric and placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: 1 hand.


title: John, figure-initial

text: Parchment

text: 1 hand.

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 3

title: John, figure-initial


title: Opening of John XIII with 2-line initial.  John 13-18 are written with verses alternating red and blue.

text: Parchment

text: 1 hand.


title: Opening of Jerome's prologue (Novum opus facere), with large initial done in puzzle design, with penwork.  Rubric and name of book in red.

text: Duke of Sussex; his sale (1844) to J. Wilks; his sale (1847) to Lilly.  C.J. Spence sale (1906); sale by Sotheby to Quaritch (1911).  Wilberforce Eames obtained it from N. F. McGirr, who purchased it 1926 from W. M. Voynich. Bequeathed by Eames in 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2314.  De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest. Note in ms by A.I. Doyle,1980


title: Opening of Matthew, with large puzzle initial and rubrics.


title: Page of text with small initial, chapter number, and correction in right and lower margin.


title: Page of text with catchword.

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Explicit of Gospel of John; beginning of prologue for Gospel of Matthew.


title: Note of provenance.

text: Note f. 1 suggests commisioned 1455 by Henric de Mulro and Hille his wife.  Charles F. Gunther sale (1925) to L.C. Harper for Wilberforce Eames.  Bequeathed by Eames, 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2314.  De Ricci, Supplement, 329.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Notes in manuscript.

text: 35 lines in two columns, ruled in pen.  Very few prickings visible.  Catchword, f. 139v.

text: Parchment

text: Alternating blue and red initials in various sizes (from 1-line to 11-line) with varying amounts of penwork.  Rubrics, red daubs as placemarkers, book numbers in upper margin.  On f. 2r-v red crosses serve as placemarkers.

text: Ownership note indicates this book was commisioned or completed in 1455.

title: Note of provenance.


title: Opening of first text.  3-line initial with opposing penwork.  1- and 2-line initials.  Cross-shaped placemarkers.  Rubrics.

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 calendar.

text: Parchment

title: Opening of calendar.


title: Opening of text (Ad te levavi animam meam) with 11-line puzzle initial with elaborate penwork extending the length of the left border, and into bottom margin. Small initials and rubrics.

text: Parchment


title: Page of music.

text: Parchment

title: Page of music.


title: Page of text with initials of various sizes, some penwork, and catchword.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Charles F. Gunther sale (1925) to L.C. Harper for Wilberforce Eames.  Bequeathed by Eames in 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2314.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Manuscript consists of first quire of 6 folios, followed by 22 quires of 10 folios each.  The final quire has 9 folios, but a stub remains attesting that it originally had 10 folios.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Parchment

text: One miniature in initial on f. 10 -- King David.

text: Large 6-line initials on gold fields, with flower designs extending into borders.  Alternating red and blue initials (1- and 2-line).  Rubrics, red placemarkers.

text: Scribal note says this manuscript was completed in 1499.  On front flyleaves, a modern hand lists incipits of psalms.  Scribes:  one hand writes main text and the other  is written in on ff. 230v-233.  Second hand may also appear in lower margin of f. 8.

text: At least 2 scribes.

text: Calendar shows that this psalter was for Dominican use, and written by Do. Jo. Keck.

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: First page of text, with red and blue initials and placemarkers.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Parchment

text: At least 2 scribes.


title: 6-line blue initial on gold field, with flower design extending into border.  Miniature of King David.  Two lines of music.  Rubrics, small initials, placemarkers.

text: Harps

text: Musicians

text: David, King of Israel

text: 18 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Parchment

text: At least 2 scribes.


title: Explicit of main text, end of hand one.  Colophon with name of scribe and date of writing.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Parchment

text: At least 2 scribes.


title: Beginning of text written onto last few folios, in different hand.  Red initials.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in pen.

text: Parchment

text: At least 2 scribes.


title: Opening page of calendar, large gold initial on red and blue field, smaller initials.

text: Number 20 in unknown library.  George Livermore sale (1894).  Obtained by Wilberforce Eames from L.C. Harper.  Bequeathed by Eames, 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2314.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.

text: This manuscript has occasional but correct foliation in the lower left corner.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Parchment

text: 2 miniatures in large initials -- Virgin and Child and risen Christ.  Human and angel figures in borders.

text: 2-line, 3-line and larger gold initials on red and blue fields.  Alternating 1-line blue and gold initials with opposing color penwork.  Rubrics and placemarkers.  Extensive flora border designs.


title: Opening of main text.  Large initial on gold field with miniature of Virgin and Child.  Multi-colored border design with human figure.  2-line and 1-line initials, rubrics and placemarkers.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with hierarchy of initials and border design.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Parchment


title: Large initial showing risen Christ, border design with figure of angel, smaller initials.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.  Red daubs as placemarkers.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.  Red daubs as placemarkers.


title: Large initial with miniature and grotesques.  Full border design.  Coat of arms.  Blue rubric.  Opening of De officiis. Stamp of library of Antoine Moriau.

namePart: Cicero, Marcus Tullius

text: Arms of first owner f. 1 (possibly Minio of Venice or Valmerana of Vicenza). Stamp of Antoine Moriau, Paris (ca. 1750). Henry Allen collection; Samuel Allen sale (1920. Obtained by Wilberforce Eames in 1926 from W. M. Voynich.  Bequeathed by Eames, 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2315.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: 21 long lines, ruled in light pencil, catchwords visible, occasional prickings visible.  28 quires of 8 folios.

text: Parchment

text: Miniature in 10-line initial, f. 1.  Initial formed by gold grotesques.

text: Full border on f. 1, quarter-borders on opening page of later texts.  Initial f. 1 on red and blue field.  Coat of arms.  2-line and 3-line initials in gold, red, and blue.  1-line placemarkers in gold, red, blue.  Rubrics in red and blue. Names of texts.

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest place this manuscript ca. 1470.

text: 1 scribe.

text: De Officiis (3 books), ff. 1-136.  Paradoxa, ff. 137-154v.  De amicitia, ff. 155-190v.  De Senectute, ff. 191-224v.


title: Quarter border, 3-line red initial on gold and blue field, rubric, opening of Paradoxa.

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: 1 scribe.


title: Quarter border, 3-line blue initial on red and gold field, rubric, opening of De amicitia.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.


title: Page of text with catchword and 1-line red and gold placemarker.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.


title: Quarter border, 3-line blue initial on red and gold field, rubric, opening of De senectute.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.


title: Opening of text with 5-line initial with puzzle design, rubric, and 3-line initial.  Ex libris of J.B.P.H. Caque.  Quire letter and foliation in lower margin.

text: Stamp (1775) of J.B.P.H. Caque of Reims.  Sir T. Phillipps collection; Phillipps sale (1910) to Maggs; Albert M. Todd collection; his sale to L.C. Harper.  Wilberforce Eames collection, bequeathed 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2315.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Note in manuscript.

text: De Ricci places this manuscript in France; Dr. Guest says France?  Notes in manuscript place it in Italy, perhaps written by French scribe.  Date: colophon mentions year when Eugenius IV and Duke of Milan died (1447) but perhaps this copied from exemplar?

text: 1 scribe.

text: The duke of Milan mentioned in the colophon was Filippo Maria Visconti.

text: 44 long lines, ruled in light pencil.  Prickings visible.  Catchwords and quire letters/foliation visible.  11 quires of 12 folios, followed by 1 quire of 6 folios.

text: Parchment

text: 3-line alternating blue and red initials.  Occasional larger (4- or 5-line) initials with puzzle designs, some with penwork.  Rubrics.


title: Page of text with catchword.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Beginning of next quire; page of text with initials and rubrics.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of text, with colophon indicating date.  Fact that year is left blank may indicate that dating clause (referring to death of Pope and Duke) was copied from exemplar.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of text with rubric of rustic capitals, large initial, 1-line red initials, coat of arms, gold flourishes and notes in red and black ink.

text: Arms of the Maffei family of Volterra; Dr. Anthony Askew sale (1785) to Michael Woodhull; his sale (1886); Howell Willis sale (1894); Sotheby sale to Leighton; Albert M. Todd sale to L.C. Harper.  Wilbeforce Eames collection, bequeathed 1940.

text: 2 scribes.

text: 30 long lines, ruled in drypoint.  Catchwords and prickings visible.  Three quires of ten folios, followed by final quire with nine surviving folios; stub at end shows that this quire also originally had ten folios.

text: Change of hands, f. 18v

text: De Ricci, 2315.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Notes in manuscript.

text: Parchment

text: Stag shown in coat of arms, f. 1.

text: Three large (5- 7- and 9-line) gold initials on blue, green and red fields.  On f. 1, hierarchy of scripts with rustic capitals.  1-line red initials.  Rubrics.  Coat of arms.


title: Page of text with catchword.

text: 2 scribes.

text: Change of hands, f. 18v

text: Parchment

text: Stag shown in coat of arms, f. 1.

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Second large initial, one-line red initials, notes in margin.

text: 2 scribes.

text: Change of hands, f. 18v

text: Parchment

text: Stag shown in coat of arms, f. 1.


title: Change of hand in middle of page.

text: 2 scribes.

text: Change of hands, f. 18v

text: Parchment

text: Stag shown in coat of arms, f. 1.

title: Change of hand in middle of page.


title: Explicit.

text: 2 scribes.

text: Change of hands, f. 18v

text: Parchment

text: Stag shown in coat of arms, f. 1.

title: Explicit.


title: Rubric in humanistic, large initial, opening of text.  Notes in red, ex libris of Friedrich de Schennis.

namePart: Eutropius (4th cent.)

text: From the collections of Friedrich de Schennis and of Arnold Mettler Specker of St. Gall.  Obtained in 1926 from W.M. Voynich by Wilberforce Eames for his library (Brooklyn, NY).  Bequeathed by Eames, 1940.

text: 6-line opening blue initial on red and gold field with gold fruit.  2-line alternating red and blue initials.  Rubrics.  Red placemarkers.

text: De Ricci and Dr. Guest place this manuscript ca. 1500.  Note pasted into end of manuscript gives date as ca. 1400.

text: 28 long lines, ruled in light pencil, catchwords and quire letters/foliation visible.   7 quires of ten folios each, plus 3 folios.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with 2-line blue initial, rubric, notes.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with catchword.

text: Parchment

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: End of text of Eutropius, beginning of Paul the Deacon's continuation.

text: Parchment


title: End of Paul the Deacon, beginning of Landolfus Sagax's continuation.

text: Parchment


title: Beginning of extracts from Strabo.  In line above, mark and note of addition. In lower right corner, quire letter and foliation.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit.  Addition in humanistic hand.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.  Addition in humanistic hand.


title: Large gold initial with white vinestem on blue field. Opening of "De conjuratione Catiline", with rustic capitals.

namePart: Sallust (86-34 B.C.)

text: Catiline, ca. 108-62 B.C.

text: Initials

text: Belonged ca. 1700 to William Blakestone Bowes, of Streatlam Castle; passed by inheritance (1767) to the Earl of Strathmore; Strathmore sale (1922) to Dobell.  Obtained in 1925 from W.M. Voynich by Wilberforce Eames.  Bequeathed by Mr. Eames, 1940.

text: 1 scribe (different hand writes last few lines, f. 138v)

text: 19 long lines, ruled in drypoint.  Prickings occasionally visible.  Quire letters intact.  12 quires (A-M) of ten folios each, followed by one (N) with eight folios, and a final quire (O) with ten folios.

text: Four large gold initials (3- 4- and 5-lines) on blue fields with white vinestem.  Alternating 2-line red and blue initials.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of "De bello Jugurthino." Large gold initial on blue field with white vinestem, capitals. Marginal note.

text: Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.

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: 1 (different hand writes last few lines, f. 138v)

text: Parchment


title: Red initial; quire signature "e" visible; marginal notes.

text: Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of text, partially blurred and rewritten? Note in later hand.

text: Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.

text: Parchment


title: Note of ownership at top of folio.

text: Early inscription:  Terentius Ioannis e Barborum familia�sancti Leonis.  Obtained in 1926 by Wilberforce Eames from W.M. Voynich.  Bequeathed by Mr. Eames, 1940.

text: De Ricci, 2316.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Note in manuscript.

text: Of first iii leaves, first two are paper, and the third is vellum, with the ownership note reproduced above.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in drypoint.

text: Parchment

text: Gold initials on f. 1r-v have butterfly, Cupid, and bird perched on them.

text: Large gold initials outlined in red, with white vinestem on blue background. 2-line and 3-line blue initials throughout.  Rubrics.  Names of books at top of page in red.  Names of parts throughout in red.  Hierarchy of script  --  rustic capitals.

text: Note in manuscript says it was written in South Italy in the late 15th century.

text: 1 scribe.

title: Note of ownership at top of folio.


title: Opening of text, with large initials (with butterfly and Cupid figures).  Rubrics and rustic capitals.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in drypoint.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.


title: Page of text with large initial and figure of bird. Rustic capitals in heading and names of parts.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in drypoint.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.


title: Page of text with rustic capitals and 2-line blue initial.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in drypoint.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.


title: Explicit and epitaph.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in drypoint.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.

title: Explicit and epitaph.


title: Very large green and blue initial on gold and red field; opening of text.

text: Obtained in 1926 by Wilberforce Eames from W.M. Voynich.  Bequeathed by Eames, 1940.

text: 19 long lines, ruled in drypoint.  Catchwords visible.  7 quires with 10 folios per quire.

text: Parchment

text: Large green initial on gold background outlined in red, with blue interlacing vines.  1-line blue initials and rubrics.

text: Note in manuscript says this was written ca. 1460 in Venice.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Some of opening of text not present in this manuscript -- portion in brackets above.  Perhaps this was to be written in more formal script but was never completed.


title: Page of text with 1-line initials and rubrics.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.


title: Page of text with catchword.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.

title: Page of text with catchword.


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.

title: Explicit.


title: Opening of prologue, large puzzle initial, rubrics and placemarkers.

namePart: Hugo, Argentinensis (ca. 1210-ca. 1270)

text: Early signatures of Robert Notte, W. Catesby, and John, Early of Warwick.  Obtained in 1926 from W.M. Voynich by Wilberforce Eames for his library.  Bequeathed by Eames, 1940.

text: 30 long  lines per page, ruled in pen.  Prickings and catchwords visible.  16 quires of 8 folios each, followed by 1 quire of 12 folios, 2 quires of 10 folios, and 1 quire of 2 folios, with a leaf (Part II) inserted between ff. 161 and 163.

text: Parchment

text: Opening 5-line red/blue puzzle initial with penwork.  Alternating 2-line or 3-line red and blue initials with crude opposing-color penwork.  Red and blue placemarkers.  Rubrics.

text: De Ricci and Guest cite Albertus Magnus (?) as author.  Note in manuscript says that this work has been attributed to several authors, including Albertus, but is in fact the work of Hugh of Strassburg, who flourished at the end of the 13th century.

text: 1 scribe, plus noting hands ff. 161v, 163r-v

text: According to table of contents, this work has seven books:  1. De natura divinitatis(?); 2.  De creaturis; 3.  De peccatis; 4. De humanitate dei; 5.  De virtutibus et gratia; 6.  De sacramentis; 7.  De fine mundi.  Main text ends f. 161; notes follow.


title: Page of text with catchword, 2-line initial with penwork.

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: Final page of table of contents, followed by ownership notes.

text: De Ricci, 2316.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Note in manuscript.

text: Parchment


title: Page of notes.

text: Parchment

title: Page of notes.


title: Text of early 14th century(?) folio.  Blue initials and yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: 45 lines in two columns, ruled in pen,

text: Four blue initials on recto, with yellow daubs as placemarkers.  Red placemarkers in one note hand on verso.

text: Note in manuscript states that this is a page from an early 14th century manuscript sewn into this manuscript.  It does not place this folio, but the initials perhaps suggest England.

text: 1 main scribe, plus 3 note hands.


title: End of main hand; three note hands.  Signature of Catesby.

text: Parchment


title: Page of notes, with signature "Catesby" repeated.

text: Parchment


title: Final page of notes.

text: Parchment

title: Final page of notes.


title: Opening page of calendar.  Initials and rubrics.

text: Bequeathed 1940 by Wilberforce Eames.

text: 12 folios only; presumably first and last quires of original manuscript.

text: 29 lines in two columns (33 lines in calendar), ruled in light red pencil.  Prickings visible.

text: Parchment

text: 1-line and 2-line red and blue initials.  Rubrics.  Pale yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: None of the sources give a place where this manuscript was written.

text: Part of "canticle of Zachary."  First passage on f. 7 is Luke 1: 71-9.


title: Opening of final quire, from canticle of Zachary (Luke 1: 71-9). Initials.

text: Bequeathed 1940 by Wilberforce Eames.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text -- list of saints.

text: Bequeathed 1940 by Wilberforce Eames.

text: Parchment

title: Page of text -- list of saints.


title: Explicit.

text: Bequeathed 1940 by Wilberforce Eames.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit.


title: Ex libris markings.

text: Sir T. Phillipps; his sale (1898).  Collection of Felix M. Warburg, bequeathed 1937.  9 ex libris pasted into inside front cover -- see photo.

text: De Ricci, 1849.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: f. 141 is pasted onto back cover.

text: 38 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil, prickings rarely visible.  Catchwords visible.  17 quires of 8 folios each, followed by 1 quire of 5 folios.  Final folio (f. 141) is pasted into back cover.

text: Parchment

text: f. 116:  initial containing drawing of grotesque.

text: Large blue and red initials, often in elaborate puzzle design, with penwork extending into margins.  Alternating 1-line red and blue initials.  Rubrics.  Daubs of yellow as placemarkers.

text: Note at end of manuscript apparently dates it to 1408.

title: Ex libris markings.


title: Opening of text.  Large and medium puzzle initials with penwork.  1-line red and blue initials. Rubrics.  Daubs of yellow as placemarkers.

text: f. 141 is pasted onto back cover.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with catchword, large initial (without penwork) and rubric.

text: f. 141 is pasted onto back cover.

text: Parchment


title: Page of text with initial with drawing of grotesque.

text: f. 141 is pasted onto back cover.

text: Parchment


title: Explicit, with dating clause.

text: f. 141 is pasted onto back cover.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit, with dating clause.


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Arms of first owner f. 13.  Felix M. Warburg collection, bequeathed 1937.

text: 16 long lines (17 in calendar), ruled in red.

text: Parchment

text: 6 full page miniatures.  In borders around miniatures are found human and grotesque figures.

text: 3-line and 4-line red or blue initials on opposite color fields with gold decoration.  1-line and 2-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  Red, blue and gold line fillers.  Rubrics.  Yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: De Ricci places this manuscript in France; Dr. Guest places it in Flanders.  De Ricci dates this manuscript to ca. 1470,  Dr. Guest to ca. 1460.

text: At least 2, with second on ff. 119v-122v,

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Miniature of John the Evangelist, 3-line initial, border with grotesques and coat of arms.

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 1-line initials and linefillers.

text: Parchment


title: Beginning of hand 2, in French and Latin.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of calendar, in French.

namePart: Master of Morgan 366 (fl. 1470-1475)

text: Obtained in Italy for Felix M. Warburg collection; bequeathed 1937.

text: 22 long lines (33 in calendar), ruled in red pencil, occasional catchword visible.

text: Parchment

text: 12 full-page miniatures.  In borders around miniatures, human figures and grotesques appear.

text: 2-, 3- and 4-line red and blue initials on opposing background with gold decoration.  1-line gold initials on alternating blue and red background.  Rubrics (red and blue) and red, blue and gold linefillers.  Full borders around miniatures.

text: De Ricci and Dr. Guest date this manuscript to ca. 1470.

title: Opening of calendar, in French.


title: Opening of text, large initial, miniature of Resurrection with instruments of crucifixion, border design with grotesque and bird.

text: De Ricci, 1849.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Parchment


title: Leaf with miniature of the Lamentation

text: Lamentation (Art)

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 58.1

title: Leaf with miniature of the Lamentation


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

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of David watching Bathsheba bathe, initial, border design, rubric and linefiller.

text: Bathing

text: David, King of Israel

text: Bathsheba (Biblical figure)

text: Parchment


title: Death on a Bull

text: Bulls

text: Death

text: Parchment

text: Splendor of the Word, PBL # 58.2

title: Death on a Bull


title: French text in red.

text: Parchment

title: French text in red.


title: Miniature of the Trinity, initial, border design.

text: Supernatural beings

text: Trinity

text: Parchment


title: Explicit of main text.

text: Parchment

title: Explicit of main text.


title: Prayers added at the end of the manuscript.

text: Parchment


title: Opening page of calendar.

text: Church calendar

text: Felix M. Warburg collection, bequeathed 1937.

text: 15 miniatures.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in red pen.

text: 2-line and 1-line gold initials on alternating blue and red fields.  Rubrics and linefillers.  Daubs of pale yellow as placemarkers.

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest date this manuscript to ca. 1490.

text: De Ricci, 1850.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: Jean Bourdichon, closely related to

text: Parchment

title: Opening page of calendar.


title: Small miniature of John the Evangelist, 2-line initial, rubric, linefiller, yellow daubs as placemarkers.

text: Writing

text: John, the Apostle, Saint

text: 15 miniatures.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in red pen.

text: Jean Bourdichon, closely related to

text: Parchment


title: Miniature of Mary and Elizabeth (the Visitation).  2-line and 1-line initials in gold on red and blue fields.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: 15 miniatures.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in red pen.

text: Jean Bourdichon, closely related to

text: Parchment

title: Visitation.


title: Miniature of King David playing his harp. 2-line gold initial on blue field.

text: Harps

text: David, King of Israel

text: 15 miniatures.

text: 18 long lines, ruled in red pen.

text: Jean Bourdichon, closely related to

text: Parchment

title: King David.


title: Opening of text (some damage from glue); writing in gold.

text: Samuel Putnam Avery; his sale (1919) to A. Stern.  Felix M. Warburg collection, bequeathed 1937.

text: 17 long lines per page, ruled in red.  Prickings occasionally visible.

text: Parchment

text: 3-line and 4-line initials in many colors, on fields highlighted by gold.  Some have vines and flowers growing from them which extend far into borders.  1-line alternating red and blue initials.  "Rubrics" in gold and blue.  Red lines as placemarkers.

text: Final 21 folios are ruled but left blank.

text: 1 scribe


title: Page of text with multi-colored initials, gold writing, and placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe


title: Page of text with multi-colored initials, border design, gold writing and red lines as placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe


title: Text with large initial and placemarkers.  Passage written in blue.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe

title: Explicit.


value: 1884-1886 and undated

title: Solicitation letters, 1884-1886 and undated

originInfo: 1884-1886 and undated

dateCreated: 1884-1886 and undated

text: Box 35, folder 9-11

text: Correspondence


title: Birth announcements (1548/9) of children of Gui de Geneve and Catherine, sister of the baron de Ray.  Ex libris of Astorga library.

namePart: Bourdichon, Jean (1457?-1521?)

text: Erased arms of first owner at foot of crucifixion miniature; birth notices (1548-9) on inside front cover.  Bookplate of comte de Monlaur; Marques de Astorga collection; bookplate of Prince Crouy-Chanel.  Collection of Felix M. Warburg, bequeathed 1937.

text: 33 long lines per page, ruled in red pencil.

text: Parchment

text: 13 large and 5 small miniatures.  Borders often contain animal figures.

text: Border designs on each page.  1-line and 2-line gold initials on red and brown fields; red, brown and gold linefillers.  Larger initials in various colors (blue, brown, gold) on contrasting color fields.  Rubrics in blue and red.

text: Jean Bourdichon ?

text: De Ricci points out that this manuscript has a Paris calendar, and Dr. Guest places it tentatively in Paris.

text: 1, plus noting hands at start and end


title: Prayers in note hand.

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: Jean Bourdichon ?

text: 1, plus noting hands at start and end

title: Prayers in note hand.


title: Opening page of calendar.  Border design, writing in red and blue.

text: Parchment

text: Jean Bourdichon ?

text: 1, plus noting hands at start and end


title: Miniature of Annunciation, with elaborate border and initials.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Parchment

text: Jean Bourdichon ?

text: 1, plus noting hands at start and end


title: Small miniatures of Sts. Catherine and Barbara; border design, initials, and writing in blue.

text: Parchment

text: Jean Bourdichon ?

text: 1, plus noting hands at start and end


title: Miniature of the Crucifixion, with erased coat of arms of first owner.

text: Jesus Christ

text: Crucifixion

text: Parchment

text: Jean Bourdichon ?

text: 1, plus noting hands at start and end


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

text: Jean Bourdichon ?

text: 1, plus noting hands at start and end

title: Explicit.


title: Prayers in another note hand.

text: Parchment

text: Jean Bourdichon ?

text: 1, plus noting hands at start and end

title: Prayers in another note hand.


title: Note of ownership.

text: Note on f.1:  "Desiderius Galiotus notarius civis Bisuntinus huiusmodi libellum praecum Joannae Gigouber uxori suae emit Bisuntii 17 Martii 1572."  Felix M. Warburg collection, bequeathed 1937.

text: De Ricci, 1851.  De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: 19 long lines per page (22 in calendar), ruled in red pencil, prickings and catchwords visible.

text: Parchment

text: 11 large and 5 small miniatures.  Borders around large miniatures contain animal, human and grotesque figures.

text: 2-line, 3-line and 4-line white and pink initials on gold fields.  1-line gold initials on red or brown fields.  Rubrics.  Red slashmarks as placemarkers.  Around miniatures, full gold borders with flowers etc.

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest date this manuscript to ca. 1510.

text: 1 scribe, plus later note hand f. 7v

title: Note of ownership.


title: Opening page of calendar with French note at bottom.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe, plus later note hand f. 7v


title: Note in later hand.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe, plus later note hand f. 7v

title: Note in later hand.


title: Opening of main text. Small miniature, initials, rubric, placemarkers.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe, plus later note hand f. 7v


title: Full-page miniature of Annunciation, with border including grotesques.  4-line initial, placemarker and smaller initial, rubric in French, catchword.

text: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

text: Annunciation

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe, plus later note hand f. 7v


title: Explicit.  Initials, placemarkers, rubric.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe, plus later note hand f. 7v


title: Note of ownership with date?

text: Felix M. Warburg collection, bequeathed 1937.  Possible ownership notes, coats of arms, and birth notices -- see photos.

text: Full-page miniatures, illuminated initials, human and animal figures in borders.

text: Large yellow initials on pink, blue and green fields.  Smaller gold initials.  Border designs, rubrics and red placemarkers.

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest date this manuscript to ca. 1530.

text: 1 scribe, plus note hands at front and back.

text: 18-20 long lines per page, ruled in red. Quire structure:  one quire of eight folios, followed by one of seven folios, followed by six of eight folios each.

text: Parchment

title: Note of ownership with date?


title: Notes in Latin and German.

text: Parchment

title: Notes in Latin and German.


title: Coats of arms?

text: Parchment

title: Coats of arms?


title: Opening page of calendar, elaborate border design with human figures.

text: Parchment


title: Full-page miniature of the Trinity and worshippers.

text: Parchment


title: Opening of main text, large initial, border flourishes, placemarkers.

text: Parchment


title: Notes at end -- birth notices? (continue for several more pages).

text: Parchment


title: Opening of calendar.

text: Bequeathed in 1951 by Mary Stillman Harkness.

text: De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.

text: 17 long lines per page, ruled in red pencil.

text: Parchment

text: 4 full-page miniatures; borders around miniatures and elsewhere show animals and grotesques.

text: 1-line and 2-line gold initials on red and blue fields.  3-line and 4-line blue initials on gold fields.  Rubrics.  Red, blue and gold linefillers.  Occasional full border designs with vines, leaves, flowers etc.

text: Both De Ricci and Dr. Guest place this in France, but with question marks.  Dr. Guest dates it to the 15th century, while De Ricci does not give a date.

text: 1 scribe

title: Opening of calendar.


title: Miniature of John the Evangelist.  3-line blue initial, rubric, and full border with animals and grotesque.

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: 1 scribe


title: Marriage Certificate [between Harvey Burdell and Emma Augusta Cunningham], October 28th, 1856

authority: aat

text: legal documents

text: Marriage certificates


title: Various sizes of initials, rubrics, linefillers, full border with grotesques.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe


title: Miniature of skeletons accosting knights, large and small initials, linefiller, full border with grotesques.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe


title: Opening of text.  Large multi-colored initial (including gold), smaller red initial.  Rubrics, placemarkers.

text: Lord Vernon; his sale at Sotheby's (1918).  Purchased in 1952 or 1953.

text: De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Library dossier.

text: 36 lines in two columns, ruled in pencil.  Catchwords visible.  One quire of two folios, followed by eight quires of ten folios each.

text: Parchment

text: 6-line multi-colored initials on gold fields.  Alternating red and blue 4-line initials with opposing color penwork, often extending far into border.  Rubrics.  Red and blue placemarkers.  Daubs of yellow as placemarkers.

text: De Ricci does not give a place for this manuscript; Dr. Guest suggests Italy?  Notes in dossier also say that it is Italian.

text: 1 scribe.

text: Two pages of notes, in Italian, in modern hand, folios iv and v


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

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.


title: Large and small initial, placemarkers and rubrics, marginal note.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.


title: Explicit.

text: Parchment

text: 1 scribe.

title: Explicit.


title: Opening of text.  Three problems, all solved, with both white and black pieces shown.

text: Bequeathed by Gustavus A. Pfeiffer.

text: De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Pratesi article, in library dossier.

text: 3 chess boards drawn per page, with column of explanation in outside margin.  Ruled in red pen.  Catchword on f. 11v.  Prickings visible.

text: Paper

text: Guest says late 14th or early 15th century. Pratesi, in ref to watermark: "Quel marchio specifico risalirebbe al 1470 ma il tipo e` attestato a Fabriano dal 1424 e personalmente limiterei la datazione della copia in esame alla prima meta del secolo." (63)

text: F. Pratesi:  unlike most medieval books of chess problems, is not strictly organized by # of moves.  Identifies exemplar as a ms of the type "Civis Bononiae."  Gives specific information on the copying and unusual organization of this collection (65-6).


title: Three problems with only black pieces shown on charts.

text: Bequeathed by Gustavus A. Pfeiffer.

text: Paper


title: Three problems with no men shown on board; catchword.

text: Bequeathed by Gustavus A. Pfeiffer.

text: Paper


title: Three problems with black pieces shown on board.

text: Bequeathed by Gustavus A. Pfeiffer.

text: Paper


title: Three problems with end of explanations in main hand.

text: Bequeathed by Gustavus A. Pfeiffer.

text: Paper


title: Three problems with later hands and numbering, drawing.

text: Bequeathed by Gustavus A. Pfeiffer.

text: Paper


title: Opening of the "Capituli"; rubric and large red initial.  Eight signatures at bottom. Hand 1.

text: Presented in 1954 by Stanhope Bayne-Ficke.

text: De Ricci, Supplement, 330.  Chart by Dr. G.B. Guest.  Note in manuscript.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: 4:  A, ff. 2v-12v; B, ff. 13-15; C, f. 15r-v; D, ff. 15v-16; noting hand, f. 2v

text: Approval charters dated 1543 and 1545.

text: Parchment

text: Red initials, from 1-line to 4-line.  Rubrics and placemarkers.

text: Digital Scriptorium sequence #1


title: Page of text with rubric, large initial, and placemarkers.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Approval charters dated 1543 and 1545.

text: Parchment

text: Digital Scriptorium sequence #2


title: Receipts

text: MSS File Id #39785

text: Box 56, folder 1

type: date

text: 1847 - 1891, n.d.

title: Receipts

text: legal documents

text: receipts


title: Resolutions

text: MSS File Id #39786

text: Box 57, folder 2

text: 1838 - 1884, n.d.

title: Resolutions

text: legal documents


title: Miscellaneous documents

text: MSS File Id #39787

text: Box 57, folder 3

text: 1845 - 1871, n.d.

title: Miscellaneous documents

text: legal documents


title: Hand 2, opening of first approval document, by Paulus da Bergamo, a Franciscan.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Approval charters dated 1543 and 1545.

text: Approvals in three different hands, dated 1543 and 1545.  On f. 15 is the note "Bonifacius Solianus notarius mandate scrib(it?)"

text: Parchment


title: Complaint book

text: Box 57, folder 4

text: n.d.

title: Complaint book

text: legal documents


title: End of first approval document, including date.  Opening of second document, of Aloysius Schinelli.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Approval charters dated 1543 and 1545.

text: Parchment


title: End of second document, opening of third, by Iacobus Pisauro, bishop of Pavia. Large initials.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Approval charters dated 1543 and 1545.

text: Parchment


title: Text of third document.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Approval charters dated 1543 and 1545.

text: Parchment

text: Digital Scriptorium sequence #3

title: Text of third document.


title: End of third document, with date, and end of hand 2. Scribal notation.  Beginning of fourth document (of Nicholas de Michaelis?) in hand 3.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Approval charters dated 1543 and 1545.

text: Parchment


title: End of fourth document, and end of hand 3.  Opening of fifth document (of Benedictus Zatta), with date, and hand 4.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Approval charters dated 1543 and 1545.

text: Parchment


title: End of final document.

text: 24 long lines, ruled in pencil.

text: Approval charters dated 1543 and 1545.

text: Parchment

title: End of final document.


title: Opening of text, 1-line and 2-line red and blue initials, rubrics, hand 1.

text: Given by A. W. Parker.

text: The final folio, f. 67, is one half of a sheet from a music manuscript; the other half functions as the back pastedown..

text: Service book has 18-19 lines per page, ruled in very light pen, catchwords visible.  Quire structure:  one quire with one folio (pages missing), followed by seven quires of eight folios each, one quire of four folios, one quire of five folios, and a final leaf (pt. 2).

text: Parchment

text: Four illuminated initials.

text: 3-line gold initials on pink and blue fields.  1-line and 2-line red and blue initials.  Rubrics.

text: Printed and in-house sources refrain from proposing a date; a note tucked into the manuscripts suggests the late 15th century.

text: 4:  A, ff. 1-17v, 26-61; B, ff. 18-22; C, ff. 22v-23; D, ff. 62-66v

text: f. 67r-v and back pastedown 177 x 124

text: 10 lines of music and 9 lines of text per side of full sheet, ruled in drypoint.

text: Red, blue and black initials.  Rubrics.

text: None of the sources mentions music as part of the manuscript. Measurement given is of one half of the leaf, since measurement of fully unfolded leaf would damage binding.


title: Shift from hand 1 to hand 2.  Catchword, initials and rubrics.

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: Given by A. W. Parker.

text: Parchment

text: Four illuminated initials.

text: f. 67r-v and back pastedown 177 x 124

text: Red, blue and black initials.  Rubrics.


title: Hand 3, with initials.

text: Given by A. W. Parker.

text: Parchment

text: Four illuminated initials.

text: f. 67r-v and back pastedown 177 x 124

text: Red, blue and black initials.  Rubrics.

title: Hand 3, with initials.