Fifteenth Century (dates CE)

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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Table of contents: Augustine, Liber de fide ad Petrum; One or possibly two fragments (16 lines) attributed to Bruno Sigiensis. Fragments exhort the reader to bear contumely and injury in silence and not to answer accusations in order to please God.

Abstract ff. 1r-33v [Title:] Liber Questionum et Solutionum Philonis in Genesi.Questio Prima. Inc.: Quare quadraginta annorum erat Ysaac cum nupsisset ei Rebecca? Nuptie mature sapienti quadragenarie sunt: bonum est. enim prius exerceri [added in margin: et concrescere] eruditionem diuinis spectaculis, nullo alterius desiderio occupatam. Expl.: Illi namque per corona adipiscenda species gestant optimas pro uictoria et laude exercicii hy uero usque ad terrestreas peregrinando deueniunt...

Abstract This is a military treatise from ancient Greece, in a Latin translation by an eminent Greek humanist and diplomat who spent most of his adult life in Italy, serving the city of Venice and the Pope. There is no modern edition or census of the surviving manuscripts of this important text (possibly surviving in only fifteen manuscripts, including this copy). It is extremely rare on the market, with only one sale since 1947 recorded in the Schoenberg Database.Table of contents: Ad...

Abstract This is an Italian manuscript from the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century that contains miscellaneous liturgical texts including: various prayers, both in Latin and Italian, including a prayer by Thomas Aquinas and prayers at the Elevation of the Host; the Office of Saint Catherine; The Mass in honor of Mary; the Beginning of John's Gospel; and the Athanasian Creed. There are five full illuminated borders (fols. 1, 12, 51, 70v, and 71) probably added in the eighteenth century. An early...

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This is a German manuscript from the first half of the fifteenth century, which contains two texts along with their tables of contents: Albertus Magnus' Mariale and Jacobus de Voragine's De laudibus beatae mariae virginis. The manuscript is composed of two distinct parts and there is some loss of text.

Abstract This is a book of hours from the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century from Italy, Use of Rome. There are eleven full-page miniatures surrounded by full borders, which include the full Infancy cycle for the Hours of the Virgin, as well as miniatures for the Short Hours of the Cross and the Short Hours of the Holy Spirit. Previous owners include the Discalced Augustinians of San Carlo, Turin in the eighteenth century, Eleanor Cross Marquand, and Allan P. Marquand.Table of...

Abstract ff. 1r-115v Inc.: Secundum legem debet mori Iohannis xix per gracia in principio sermonis impetranda aduerto singulariter de die ista quam hodie ipse auctor tocius gracie pro peccatoribus gratuite exorauit.Expl.: Et hoc notat magister suzo doctor// Ends imperfectly. f. 114 ruled but blank.An unidentified narrative of the passion that incorporates many lengthy citations from the Bible and Biblical commentators including Anselm, Albert the Great, Augustine, Bede, and...

Abstract This manuscript is a mid-fifteenth-century Dutch prayerbook. Beginning with a section of prayers to the Virgin interspersed with rubrics listing the Psalms in order and dividing the Psalms and prayers by the days of the week (pp. 1-133), many additional prayers to the Virgin follow, including prayers attributed to Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard, and Saint Francis. A few prayers are directed to Jesus Christ. Written on parchment, the book is modestly decorated with a few puzzle initials and...

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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.