Illuminations (paintings)

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Incomplete copy of the Khamsah containing small portions of Makhzan al-asrār, most of Laylī va Majnūn, about half of Khusraw va Shirīn, and the first third of Haft Paykar; Iskandarnāmah is missing. 24 color illustrations, some unfinished.

Abstract This is a French book of hours written about 1450. Although the text itself is complete, several leaves have been removed, probably containing illuminations, and possibly, in quire XVI, additional suffrages. There are three- to four-line illuminated initials and full borders on four sides containing drolleries marking the beginnings to major sections. The leaves following fol. 89r, with the exception of f. 118r and 180r, are considerably less ornate and complex than the earlier pages. There...

Abstract This is a fifteenth-century French book of hours, with lacunae throughout. There are three genealogical entries throughout the calendar in French in different hands below the text, suggesting previous ownership by the de Lys family and the Bonefant family.Table of contents: Calendar of Bayeaux, in French, in red and black, rather sparse; Hours of the Virgin, use of LeMans; Penitential Psalms beginning imperfectly with the second Psalm; Litany of the Saints; Gospel of John...

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This is a mid-fifteenth century book of hours from Northern Flanders, use of Rome.

Table of contents: Calendar of Flanders, with entries pointing to Brussels, including important feasts; Short Office of the Cross; Mass of the Virgin concluding with the four gospel pericopes; Office of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms and Litany; Office of the Dead.

Abstract This fifteenth-century Italian manuscript contains six texts: Giannozzo Manetti, Oration to Nicholas V (fols. 1r-10v); Poggio Bracciolini, oratio ad summum pontificem Nicolaum V (fols. 11r-19r); Franciscus de Padua de Florentia, Letter to Nicholas V (fols. 19r-24r); Leonardo Bruni, Oratiuncula ad Martinum V (fols. 24r-26r); Leonardo Bruni, State Letter for the Commune of Florence to the Emperor (fols. 26v-27v); Leonardo Bruni, State letter for the Commune of Florence to the Council of Basel...

Abstract This manuscript contains a mid-fifteenth century French book of hours.Table of contents: Text obliterated from f. 1r. Gospel Pericopes; Obsecro te... [masculine forms; Leroquais, LH 2.346-47] begins and ends imperfectly; Hours of the Virgin, use uncertain; Suffrages to the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter, and Nicholas; Resumption of the Hours of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms, beginning in middle of the first Psalm; Litany of the Saints; Short Hours of...

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This manuscript contains a mid-fifteenth century Book of Hours.

Table of contents: Calendar of Bruges; Short Hours of the Holy Cross; Short Hours of the Holy Spirit; Mass of the Virgin, use of Rome; Obsecro te... [masculine forms; Leroquais LH 2.346-47]; Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome; Penitential Psalms and Litany; Office of the Dead, use of Rome, only one Nocturn; Suffrage to St. Sebastian.

Abstract This is a Book of Hours from the second quarter of the fifteenth century from Flanders, use of Sarum. There are fourteen full-page miniatures with borders on three sides, which include the Passion cycle for the Hours of Virgin and of Saints Michael, Barbara, and John the Baptist for the suffrages, as well as miniatures of the Last Judgment for the Penitential Psalms, a Funeral Service for the Office of the dead. The Raising of Souls to God for the Commendation of Souls, and Christ with...

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Table of contents: Series of definitions beginning with dialectics and continuing with "sonus" and "vox;" Summary of Aristotle, De Interpretatione; Summary of Porphyry, Isagoge; Summary of Aristotle, Categoriae; Summary of Aristotle, Analytica Priora; Summary of Aristotle, Topica.

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Book of astronomical tables to mark the rising and setting of the moon and planets for 1277 (1860-1861) and horoscope.