Fragments (Object portions)
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
Book of Hours leaf with floral border, circa 1400-1499
Item is a leaf from a Book of Hours manuscript. Verso left margin has a strip of botanical decoration common to Books of Hours of this period, featuring strawberries and floral designs.
Box 1: Medieval Paleography Specimens, Later Middle Ages
Includes 1 box with 10 leaves from Medieval manuscripts on vellum, including excerpts from manuscripts, commentary on canon law, and devotional materials. Collection of manuscripts purchased as teaching tools for Special Collections and medieval studies classes.
Breviary leaf, circa 1350-1450
Manuscript is a miniature-size leaf from a breviary (the text for the Divine Office), written in black and red ink.
Calendar leaf, Use of Paris, circa 1450-1500
Manuscript is a calendar leaf from a Book of Hours or Psalter.
Choir book leaf, circa 1400-1499
Leaf containing a music score from a choir book. Depicts lyrics in latin and musical notations.
Commentary on canon law, circa 1300-1399
Manuscript leaf recovered from binding. Leaf contains commentary on canon law.
Detached leaves and facsimiles, 1516-1829
Various disbound leaves from books printed from 1516-1829 (1245 A.H.), each accompanied by a facsimile print of the title page of its respective volume.
Excised initials, ca. 16th century
A packet of excised initials from early printed books, previously owned by Coella Lindsay Ricketts.
Greek leaf with marginalia, ca. 16th-17th century
Early modern printed leaf in Greek with extensive handwritten marginalia.
Leaf from a German Bible, 16th-17th c.
Excised leaf from a German Bible, printed in blackletter and featuring an engraved illustration of armies meeting (as described in the book of Judges). The text is from the book of Judges.