Medieval Manuscripts

This Book of Hours of the Use of Rome appears to have been produced in Flanders for a member of the Ayala family in Spain, as it contains a coat of arms identifiable with this Spanish family (fol. 3r: Argent, two wolves passant sable in pale, a bordure gules charged with eight saltires or), as well as Spanish rubrics for a series of fifteen unusual prayers that appear to be associated with Giles of Rome (fols. 109r-188v, beginning lacking), and an inquisition verification inscription on fol. 181v, dated to 1573.

This Book of Hours was produced in France, likely in Paris, around 1420. It contains a calendar, in French, with Parisian saints (fols. 1r-12v), followed by the Gospel Lessons (fols. 13r-16v), and the Obsecro te and O intemerata (fols. 17r-23r). The core of the book is composed of the Hours of the Virgin of the Use of Rome (fols. 25r-77v); the Penitential Psalms, Litany and Prayers (fols. 79r-94r); the Hours of the Cross (fols. 94v-97r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 97v-100r); and the Office of the Dead (fols. 100v-129v).

This manuscript is a commission issued by Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521, addressed to Andrea Valerio, concerning Valerio's duties, rights, and obligations while holding the position of podestà (civil administrator) of Piran, a mainland community in Slovenia under Venetian control.

This manuscript is a carta executoria issued under the authority of Philip II of Spain in favor of Agustin de Yturbe of Seville, in response to his pleito de hidalguia (litigation to establish noble status), issued in Granada on 12 January 1593. The text is followed by signatures (f. 69r). The volume opens with elaborate full-page miniatures of the Yturbe family praying before the Virgin Mary as the Mulier Amicta Sole; a double portrait of John the Baptist and Saint Augustine; and a scene of Saint James vanquishing the Moors above the Yturbe coat of arms (fols. 1v-2r).

This manuscript is a Gradual, in Latin, fifteenth-century manuscript on parchment, written in Italy. Originally 188 folios, now 175 folios. Bound in original wooden boards and brown leather.

This Antiphonal was produced in Tuscany (likely Pisa) in the second quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains material from the Temporale and Sanctorale for Septuagesima and the Pre-Lenten season. It contains three large historiated initials by an artist working in a style close to that of Francesco Traini. The miniatures depict King David playing the psaltery before God (f. 21), the Martyrdom of Saint Agnes (f. 146), and the Martyrdom of Saint Agatha (f. 257).

This manuscript is a Portolan chart, most likely created in the nineteenth century as a forgery of a sixteenth century chart. This is a single parchment leaf, focused on what is currently the northern half of South America and southern North America. A bit of west Africa is seen on the far right. Current North America is labeled as "Hispania Nova", with "Nova Franza" labeled up the east coast. Current South America is labeled "Peru" and Bresil". Port/city names are written along all coasts. "Cuba," "Hispaniola," and "Bremuda" are included.

This manuscript is a fragment, consisting of five parchment leaves, possibly from the same manuscript. Four of the leaves are paired into bifolia (glued together at the center), the fifth leaf is a singleton. The lower sections of the folios are worn and curled, with some tearing; a tear on fol. 1 has been repaired with thread.

This is a fifteenth-century collection of medical texts, De Artetica and De Calculosa Passione, written by Antonio Guainerio. It was written in Italy, and a note on the inside cover in a modern hand dates the manuscript to 1490. The texts are known to be by Guainero, although this manuscript attributes them to Pope Nicholas V.

Three maritime charts bound in contemporary parchment over paper board. The first chart shows the 26th to the 51st northern gradations, the coasts of England and Ireland south to Madeira and the Canary Islands, including the coasts of Spain and France. The second chart shows the whole of the Mediterranean, including the coasts of the eastern Mediterranean and Northern Africa. The third chart shows the Mediterranean from the Meridian of Gallipoli (Italy) to Dakar, Africa, including part of the Atlantic Ocean and the coasts of Spain and Portugal.

This is a fifteenth-century manuscript copy of Virgil's Aeneid on paper, written in Italy and dated 22 February 1462. There are many textual corrections, annotations and drawings in a later hand. Bears the inscription "Michael Bone."

This manuscript is a calligraphic copy of Veterinariae medicinae libri ii by Jean Ruel, physician of Francis I. Ruel translated Greek veterinary texts by authors such as Apsyrtus, Hierocles, Pelagonius, Theomnest, Eumelus, Anatolius, and Hippocrates into Latin and compiled them into a single work. The manuscript was likely copied from the edition printed in 1530, even though it is divided into three books rather than two as in the printed edition.

This damaged Book of Hours was likely produced in Northeastern France or Flanders in the late fourteenth century or early fifteenth century. The manuscript begins with a Calendar, which is lacking its first and last months. The book contains the Hours of the Virgin for Franciscan Use, followed by the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit, the Penitential Psalms followed by a separate section containing the Litany, Prayers, and Collects (beginning lacking), and the Athanasian Creed followed directly by the Obsecro te. The book concludes with Suffrages (fols.

This Book of Hours for the Use of Paris was produced in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. It begins with a calendar (fols. 1r-12v), which is followed by the Gospel Lessons, Obsecro te, and O intemerata (fols. 13r-24v); a bifolio with suffrages to the Holy Spirit, Trinity, Saint Nicholas, All Saints, and Saint Catherine, in a different hand (fols. 25r-26v); the Hours of the Virgin with multiple pages missing (fols. 27r-84v); Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 85r-99v); Hours of the Cross (fols. 100r-103v) and Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols.

This Book of Hours for the Use of Rome was most likley produced in Tours in the decades around the year 1500. It contains a calendar with numerous Tours saints (fols. 1r-6v), followed by the Gospel Lessons, Obsecro te, and O intemerata (fols. 7r-17r). The central section is composed of the Hours of the Virgin for the Use of Rome (fols. 19r-86v), with the Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit intercalated (these begin on fols. 42r and 43v respectively).

This Book of Hours of the Use of Rome was produced in France, likely in Lyon, in the second decade of the sixteenth century. The miniatures are similar in style to those of the Master of the Entry of Francis I, named after a manuscript now in Wolfebüttel (Cod. Guelf. 86.4 Extrav.). The calendar (fols. 1r-12v) is illustrated with twenty-four bas-de-page vignettes showing the labors of the months and the zodiac. This is followed by the Passion According to Saint John (fols.

This book is a fourteenth-century copy, in Dutch, of Joannes Cassianus' Collationes patrum.

This document is a deed of release recording that William Pyx, Nicholas Bocher, Thomas Kingsnoth relinquish their claims to land called Stacys in Plickle or Pluckle (possibly Pluckley, in Kent) to John Hert de Hothfeld (Hothfield, also in Kent). The deed was issued at Pluckley in the first regnal year of Richard III (30 May 1484). The Latin text is written in Gothic cursive script. The lower edge of the document is folded and has three parchment tags, two with small wax seals and the third with remnants of wax.

These manuscripts are fragments of leaves from a fifteenth-century copy of the Middle English Brut chronicle. The original manuscript was written in anglicana script in two columns, with decorated initials. The text on the fragments concerns King Constantine and King Vortyger (Fragment A); King Engist and King Vortyger (Fragment B); and Godwin, Earl of Essex, and Edward the Confessor (Fragment C).