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Book of Hours printed and hand illuminated vellum leaf in Latin and late medieval French, Paris, circa 1520
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
The leaf is from the Hours of the Cross at Vespers. It includes the hymn "De cruce deponitur." The Latin text of the hymn begins with the blue initial "D" and the French with the red "H."De cruce deponitur hora vespertina.
Fortitudo latuit in mente divina,
talem mortem subiit vitae medicina.
Heu, corona gloriae iacuit supina.A poetic English translation reads:At the hour of eventide...
Dates:
circa 1520
"Obsecro Te" and "O intermerata" prayers to the Virgin. Vostre Book of Hours printed vellum leaf, Paris, circa 1505
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
The leaf is from the Prayers section in a Book of Hours. The two prayers are to the Virgin.
Information derived from dealer description.
Dates:
circa 1505
Book of Hours from a Vostre edition printed on vellum, Paris, circa 1512
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
The text on both Recto and Verso is a passage from John 18. Recto includes verses 15-28 and Verso verses 28-40. In the 5th line from the top of Recto, Verse 17 reads Dixit ergo petro ancilla ostaria numquid et tu ex discipulis es hominis istius dicit ille non sum. (The maid therefore was that portress saith to Peter: Art thou not also one of this man's disciples? He saith I am not.) Verse 27 begins in the third line from the bottom: ...
Dates:
circa 1512
Book of Hours leaf, Northeastern France (probably Arras), circa 1520
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Medieval manuscripts and early printed materials collection, circa 1201-1520, contains medieval manuscript and printed fragments of Bibles and Books of Hours from the 13th through 16th centuries. The majority of collection items originate from France.
Dates:
circa 1520
Epistle of Paul to the Galatians. Glossed incunable Bible leaf, Basel, 1498
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
The text is from the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians. The red "D" begins Chapter 2: Deinde post annos quattuordecim iterum ascendi Hierosolyma cum Barnaba adsumpto et Tito. Ascendi autem secundem revelationem et contuli cum illis evangelium quod praedico in gentibus seorsum autem his qui videbantur ne forte in vacuum currerem aut curcurrissem. (Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabus, and took Titus with me also. And I went up by...
Dates:
1498