A Guide to the Rosenthal Medieval Manuscript Collection, 9th century-1767 Rosenthal Medieval Manuscript Collection 9772

A Guide to the Rosenthal Medieval Manuscript Collection, 9th century-1767

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Manuscript number

9772

Title

Rosenthal Medieval Manuscript Collection, 9th century - 1767

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of 208 manuscripts.

Collector

Bernard M. Rosenthal

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Rosenthal Medieval Manuscript Collection, MSS 9772, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

The collection was purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal, San Francisco, California, on December 21, 1971 (Accession 9772) and January 14, 1972 (Accession 9772-a).

Scope and Content Information

The Rosenthal Medieval Manuscript Collection was assembled by Bernard M. Rosenthal to serve as examples of the development of Latin script from the ninth to the sixteenth century. In describing the collection, Mr. Rosenthal wrote:

"The collection is primarily a tool, a laboratory, for teaching medieval Latin paleography and codicology. The range is such, however, that it can be used in other disciplines: the musicologist will find a good representation of medieval musical notation, the classicist can illustrate techniques of text identification and critical text editing, [and] the number of legal documents if sufficient for acquiring the basic skills of diplomatics.

"Practically all Western scripts are represented: Carolingian miniscules, Gothic miniscules, various types of bâtarde, cursives, the Italian round Gothic and littera bononiences , the humanistic miniscule and cursive, and the legal hands ranging from the neat deeds of the Bologna notaries to the "illegible" common law hands of 17th-century England. The countries of origin are Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and England.

"Most leaves are vellum, but some of the later ones are paper; sizes range from small 8vo to large folio. The state of preservation varies: many of the leaves have at one time served as covers of archival bundles or book-bindings and now show corresponding traces of use: fading, stains, cut edges, remains of glue, pen-and-ink scrawls, etc. Other leaves are in perfect condition. In all cases, even when the specimen consists of only a fragment of a leaf, there is enough text to establish the characterisitics of the script. The variable quality of preservation and the fragmentary nature of the material reflect the reality which confronts the scholar working with medieval primary sources."

Contents List

Box 1 Folder 1

Carolingian minuscule with Rustic Caps, 9th century

Fragment from a Lectionarium, with a large decorative capital; rustic caps used for headings.

Box 1 Folder 2

Carolingian minuscule with Rustic Caps, 9th century

Fragment from a Lectionarium, with three decorative large capitals; rustic caps used for headings.

Box 1 Folder 3

Carolingian minuscule, Unidentified text, 9th century

Four small fragments removed from the binding of Phillipps MS 16257.

Box 1 Folder 4

minuscule, with neumes, 11th century

German. Probably from a Gradual or Missal. The marginal notes are in German, in a 15th-century bastarda cursive.

Box 1 Folder 5

Carolingian minuscule, circa 1100

Central Europe? Probably from a Lectionary. Particularly interesting because of the very early neumes.

Box 1 Folder 6

Carolingian minuscule, 10th/11th century

Probably from an Office Book. A rather unusual minuscule; could be of the 11th century.

Box 1 Folder 7

Carolingian minuscule, 10th/11th century

Germany? Two double leaves from a Missale. The neumes supplied by a later hand (13th century).

Box 1 Folder 8

Carolingian minuscule with neumes, 10th/11th century

Germany? Probably from a Missale. Neumatic notation is without staves. Some peculiar punctuation marks.

Box 1 Folder 9

Carolingian minuscule, 10th/ 11th century

Bible fragment (3 Kings, 10). Identified and dated by Professor [Bernard?] Bischoff of Munich University.

Box 1 Folder 10

minuscule, circa 1100

Germany? Apparently from a Missale. With non-diastematic musical notation.

Box 1 Folder 11

Carolingian minuscule, 10th/11th century

Commentary or sermon on the Gospel of Mark, XI/I. Remains of a large decorative initial I.

Box 1 Folder 12

Carolingian minuscule, 11th/12th century

Responsorium, with musical notation. An unusually elegant script.

Box 1 Folder 13

minuscule, circa 1100 or early 12th century

S. German? From an Antiphonale? With non-diastematic neumes. The two fragments are part of the same leaf.

Box 1 Folder 14

Insular minuscule, circa 1100

Very similar to the St. Albams Prudentius (Cotton MS Titus), cf. British Museum, Schools of Illumination , part II, pl. 1a and 1b.

Box 1 Folder 15

Carolingian minuscule, late 11th century

Germany. Probably from a Breviary.

Box 1 Folder 16

Small Cursive minuscule, 11th century

France? From Isidorus Hispalensis' Etymologiae , XIX. Of considerable paleographic and textual interest.

Box 1 Folder 17

minuscule, late 11th century

Commentary on the New Testament.

Box 1 Folder 18

Late Carolingian minuscule, circa 1125 - 50

Laudatio Phillippi apostoli (laudatio brevis) BHL, 991. With an initial P containing a bird devouring an animal.

Box 1 Folder 19

Early Gothic minuscule, late 12th century

S. Germany. Four fragments from a Psalter. Many transitional characteristics are in evidence. Some 14th century German marginalia.

Box 1 Folder 20

Late Carolingian minuscule, 12th century

Italy. From a Missale or Lectionary. A fine large script; note the frequent use of uncial capitals.

Box 1 Folder 21

Early Gothic minuscule, 12th century

South German? Prologus libri Iesu filii Syrach. With a smaller fragment from the same MS.

Box 1 Folder 22

Late Carolingian minuscule, 12th century

France? Unidentified prayer. Double leaf.

Box 1 Folder 23

Early Gothic minuscule, late 12th century

Germany. From a Missale, with neumes. Double leaf. Note the decorative initials and the different decorative patterns.

Box 1 Folder 24

Late Carolingian minuscule, 12th century

France. Commentary on Psalms 35 and 36. Double leaf.

Box 1 Folder 25

Early Gothic minuscule, late 12th century

France. Epistle of Saint Gregory to the Bishop of Taranto. Text entirely in French. Note spelling peculiarities; these can probably lead to accurate localization.

Box 1 Folder 26

Insular minuscule, Dictionary of Biblical names, circa 1200

England. This type of script is now thought to be the precursor of the Flemish bâtarde.

Box 1 Folder 27

Gothic minuscule, circa 1300

France. Unidentified scholastic text with profuse marginal and interlinear annotations by contemporary and later hands, in semi-cursive and cursive. Probably a manuscrit universitaire.

Box 1 Folder 28

Gothic minuscule, 12th/13th century

France. Unidentified theological text dealing chiefly with the Anti-Christ. Double leaf.

Box 1 Folder 29

Transitional minuscule, Priscianus, Grammatica, circa 1150

Italy? The Script is a Carlolingian minuscule already heavily influenced by Gothic.

Box 1 Folder 30

Carolingian minuscule, Corpus Juris Civilis, with interlinear notes, 12th century

Italy. An unusually early specimen of a Corpus Juris MS.

Box 1 Folder 31

Carolingian minuscule, Unidentified text, circa 1100

Germany? Possibly a commentary on the Benedictine or other monastic rule.

Box 1 Folder 32

Chancery minuscule, 1100-1135

England (Yorkshire). Notarial document regarding a piece of land. Undated, but in the reign of Henry I.

Box 1 Folder 33

Transitional minuscule, circa 1200 or slighlty later

Germany? Graduate with much musical notation.

Box 1 Folder 34

Gothica Textualis Formata, 13th/14th century

Germany? From a Missale.

Box 1 Folder 35

Gothic minuscule, circa 1250

Spain. Breviary with liturgical readings. Musical notation: squarish notes, but no staves.

Box 1 Folder 36

Gothic minuscule, Prophetia Malachiae, circa 1200

France. The main text in a large, formal minuscule; the commentary in a script about half as large, probably by the same scribe.

Box 1 Folder 37

Gothic minuscule, 13th century

Germany? Unidentified devotional text.

Box 1 Folder 38

Gothica Textualis, 13th/14th century

S. Germany (Austria?). Unidentified vocabularius, amo to amazones. A handsome, fully developed textual gothic minuscule.

Box 1 Folder 39

Gothic cursive, 13th century

France? Unidentified commentary, apprently on canon law. Note authorities cited in margins: St. Isidore, Basil, Gregory, etc.

Box 1 Folder 40

Gothic Textualis, late 13th century

France. Unidentified legal text in a small, compressed script.

Box 1 Folder 41

Gothic Textualis, late 13th century

Unidentified canon law text in a small, much abbreviated roundish Gothic. On the bottom margin: verses on the three marriages of St. Anne.

Box 1 Folder 42

Gothic Text Cursive, 13th century

France. Unidentified devotional verses: rules for what portion of the Bible to read in a given time of the year.

Box 1 Folder 43

Gothica Textualis, 13th century

France (Paris). Probably a manuscrit universitaire. Double leaf. See Destrez, Pecia, p. 1.1.

Box 1 Folder 44

Gothic minuscule, circa 1200

France (Paris). Natural science text (de aere, vaporibus et eorum condensatione). At foot of page, addenda by a contemporary or somewhat later hand, cursive.

Box 1 Folder 45

Gothic Text Cursive, 13th century

France? Unidentified scholastic text, probably a commentary. A much abbreviated and compressed text. The underscored portions might be the passages being commented on.

Box 1 Folder 46

Gothica Textualis, Roffredo di Benevento, Ordo judiciarius, 13th century

Italy.

Box 2 Folder 47

Littera Bononiensis, 13th century

Italy. Unidentified commentary.

Box 2 Folder 48

Small Gothic minuscule, 13th century

France. Two leaves from an Old Testament. This kind of small, elegant script was used extensively for Bibles in France and England in the 13th century. 1 Judges, 2 Ezechiel.

Box 2 Folder 49

Early Gothic minuscule, early 13th century

Germany. Two small framents from a Breviary, fiendishly glued together upside-down by a book binder.

Box 2 Folder 50

Gothic Text minuscule, 13th/14th century

Law text; extensive use is made of technical abbreviations. A good professional hand, probably German. Apparently written in some haste, hence occasionally almost a cursive.

Box 2 Folder 51

Italian Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Italy. Unidentified commentary or homiletic text.

Box 2 Folder 52

Gothic Text Cursive, 13th century

Italy. Vocabularius juris? Perhaps Hugutio de Pisa, Liber derivativus.

Box 2 Folder 53

Italian Gothic minuscule, 13th century

Italy. Unidentified ecclesiastical text. Note the added text in a slightly later cursive: a dialogue on Biblical topics. Double leaf.

Box 2 Folder 54

Italian Gothic, late 13th century

Italy. Perhaps a Summa (Bartholomaeus Pisanus?). Includes De duello, de naufragiis, etc. Double leaf.

Box 2 Folder 55

Gothic minuscule, 13th century

Italy? Biblical commentary, with interlinear and marginal gloss.

Box 2 Folder 56

Gothic minuscule, 13th century

Italy? Conessionale. Double leaf.

Box 2 Folder 57

Bâtarde Text Cursive, 13th century

France. Unidentified devotional text. Double leaf.

Box 2 Folder 58

Gothic minuscule, 13th century

Italy. Apparently a grammatical or philosophical text. The script seems to be rather hasty.

Box 2 Folder 59

Gothic minuscule, 13th century

Unidentified, probably philosophical text. Extremely abbreviated script.

Box 2 Folder 60

Gothic minuscule, mid 13th century

Italy. Virgil, Aeneid, mostly Book V. Double leaf.

Box 2 Folder 61

Gothic Book Cursive, 13th century

Unidentified classical verses. The script is rather unusual and the text probably of great interest.

Box 2 Folder 62

Gothic minuscule, early 13th century

Germany? Probably a Missale, with musical notation. Four leaves. The neumes and their text seem to be by a different hand.

Box 2 Folder 63

Insular Notarial Script, 13th century

England. 2 documents: they are undated, but were written during the period of Henry III, 1217-1272 or Edward I, 1273-1307.

Box 2 Folder 64

Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Italy. Unidentified scientific text, possibly relating to the quadratura circuli; other portions mention Pythagoras and mathematical topics.

Box 2 Folder 65

Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Germany. Text dealing with delegati, vicarii.

Box 2 Folder 66

Rounded Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Northern Italy (Bologna). Corpus Juris Civilis (or last wills). Note instructions to the rubricator on the extreme bottom margin.

Box 2 Folder 67

Rounded Gothic minuscule, late 13th century

Italy. Unidentified legal text (Instrumentum ... debitoris).

Box 2 Folder 68

Gothic minuscule, late 13th century

N. Italy. Perhaps from Petrus Comestor, Historical scholastica. A very professional Italian Gothic hand.

Box 2 Folder 69

Rounded Gothic minuscule, late 14th century

Italy. Unidentified secular text, with cursive ms notations.

Box 2 Folder 70

Rounded Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Italy. Classical poem.

Box 2 Folder 71

Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Italy. Ovid, Metamorphoses, with marginal and interlinear annotations. Manuscripts of this text of such relatively early date are unusual.

Box 2 Folder 72

Rounded Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Italy. Commentary on Luke.

Box 2 Folder 73

Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Italy. Missale? A stately script, but probably from a provincial scriptorium. Double leaf.

Box 2 Folder 74

Gothic minuscule, 14th century

France. Breviary?

Box 2 Folder 75

Gothic Semi Cursive, 14th century

Italy. Herbal: canna mellis, Coriandrum, Camphora, etc.

Box 2 Folder 76

Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Italy. Dante, Divina Commedia. A relatively early example of a Divine Comedy manuscript.

Box 2 Folder 77

Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Germany. Missale, with neumes. A fine, almost monumental hand.

Box 2 Folder 78

Rounded Gothic minuscule, 14th century

N. Italy. Index to an encyclopedia, from Ampulla to Apoplexia.

Box 2 Folder 79

Gothica Textualis, 14th century

Italy. Pandectae, xlviii: De nuntiaturis. Probably written by two hands, one recto, one verso. Not what one would call a characteristic law hand.

Box 2 Folder 80

Gothic minuscule, 14th century

Flemish? Probably a Lectionary. Note the very angular, compressed script. Double leaf.

Box 2 Folder 81

Rounded Gothic minuscule, late 14th century

Italy. Missale? The music on four-line stabes. A liturgical Italian hand, moving towards the Bolognese.

Box 2 Folder 82

Gothic Cursive, 14th century

Unidentified text. The unrelated note in the bottom margin is in German.

Box 2 Folder 83

Gothic Cursive, circa 1300

France? Unidentified historical text. Double leaf.

Box 2 Folder 84

Gothic Cursive, early 14th century

France. Probably a scholastic text. An extremely abbreviated script, perhaps by a student.

Box 2 Folder 85

Insular Cursive, circa 1300-1320

England. Unidentified text; probably notes from lectures on logic (several mentions of Aristotle). A school-hand, perhaps Oxford or west England.

Box 2 Folder 86

Document, early 13th century

Box 2 Folder 87

Document, 1248

Box 2 Folder 88

Document, 1348

Box 2 Folder 89

Notarial Cursive, late 14th century

Italy (Pergola near Pesaro). Legal document, executed in the time of Pandolfo Malatesta. On paper, double leaf.

Box 2 Folder 90

Document, May 1, 1322

England.

Box 2 Folder 91

Document, December 6, 1332

England.

Box 2 Folder 92

Document, June 24, 1341

England.

Box 2 Folder 93

Document, July 25, 1392

England.

Box 2 Folder 94

Document, 14th century

England.

OS Box V-1 Folder 95

Beneventan Script, 11th century

Southern Italy. Gregorius. Moralia in Job. An outstandingly interesting example of Scriptural Beneventana, formerly owned by Professor E.A. Lowe, who also wrote the definitive monograph on this script. scriptura Beneventana , formerly owned by Prof. E. A. Lowe, who also wrote the leading and definitive monograph on this script.

Box 3 Folder 96

Carolingian Minuscule, [late?] 11th century

Central Italy. Unidentified text pertaining to the Gospel of Mark.

Box 3 Folder 97

Carolingian Minuscule, 10th century?

From the apocryphal Acta Pauli et Theclae -- the episode of Queen Trifena.

Box 3 Folder 98

Carolingian Minuscule, circa 1125

Italy. De officiis presbyteri, and some canons. Note archaic elements in the script.

Box 3 Folder 99

Carolingian Minuscule, 11th century

Commentary on the seven days of Creation, and, more generally, on the number 7.

OS Box V-1 Folder 100

Carolingian Minuscule, circa 1100

De peccato originali. Note archaic script, probably from a provincial scriptorium.

OS Box V-1 Folder 101

Carolingian Minuscule, early 12th century

Italy. Book of Kings. Fully developed "Carolingian revival" script, which served as basis for the formation of the humanistic script.

OS Box V-1 Folder 102

Carolingian Minuscule, 12th century

Italy? Probably from a Missale. Note the uncial capitals of some headings.

OS Box V-1 Folder 103

Late Carolingian Minuscule, 12th century

Unidentified text, perhaps a sermon on the Gospel of John. An exceptionally large script.

OS Box V-1 Folder 104

Carolingian Minuscule, with miniature and large caps, circa 1125-1150

Italy. Double leaf from a giant Bible (Book of Job); with a large historiated initial with the figure of Job. Uncial caps are used for the explicit, large ones for the INCIPIT LIBER IOB ... HUS. Faded.

OS Box V-1 Folder 105

Late Carolingian Minuscule, early 12th century

Italy. Lectio or commentary on the Gospel of Luke. A very elegant, professional script, probably from a major scriptorium. Some 16th-century ricordanze on the bottom margin.

Box 3 Folder 106-107

Early Gothic Minuscule, late 12th century

Germany? Two large fragments, probably form an Antiphonal; the fragments seem to be consecutive. Each text line accompanied by music.

OS Box V-1 Folder 108

Early Gothic Minuscules, early 12th century

France? Deuteronomy, I-II, 4. The commentary in the left column is in a smaller script than the main text. On the extreme right, directions to the rubricator for filling in the titles.

OS Box V-1 Folder 109

Transitional Minuscule, circa 1150

Probably from Kings I.

OS Box V-1 Folder 110

Late Carolingian Minuscule, circa 1200

Italy? Book of Kings.

OS Box V-1 Folder 111

Carolingian Minuscule, circa 1200

Italy. Biblical dictionary? Double leaf. Unusual entry on fol. 2r, dated Pavia 1466: Emi ab hebreo Ange(l?)o ducatus xi... This may refer to the purchase of the present MS. Note the unusual multiple ruling.

Box 3 Folder 112

Transitional Minuscule, circa 1150

Italy. Unidentified grammatical text, apparently in the form of a mnemonic verse. Some later interlinear notes in cursive script.

Box 3 Folder 113

Gothic Cursive, 13th century

Paris. Probably from Aristotle. Metaphysica . Heavily abbreviated script, probably from a "manuscrit universitaire" used by Sorbonne students.

OS Box V-1 Folder 114

Monumental Gothic Minuscule, early 13th century

Spain. Unidentified Bible commentary.

Box 3 Folder 115

Gothic Book Cursive, 13th century

France. Probably a fragment from a work of Thomas Aquinas. Double leaf. See Destrez, Pecia, pl. 6.

Box 3 Folder 116

Gothic Cursive Minuscule, 13th century

France. Unidentified philosophical text or commentary. Double leaf. See Destrez, Pecia, pl. 5.

Box 3 Folder 117

Text Minuscule, early 14th century

Italy. Bonaguida Aretinus, Summa introductoria super officio advocationis. The script is a transition between Italian Gothic and littera bononiensis. Double leaf.

OS Box V-1 Folder 118

Littera Bononiensis, late 13th century

Bologna. Double leaf from a law commentary. A very fine example of what seems to be an early type of Bologna law hand.

Box 3 Folder 119

Italian Gothic Minuscule, late 13th century

Vocabularium juris, from Penitentia to Postulatio.

Box 3 Folder 120

Gothic Minuscule, 13th century

Italy. Unidentified religious text, possibly from a Tractatus de Vitiis et Virtutibus. Double leaf.

OS Box V-1 Folder 121

Monumental Gothic Minuscule, circa 1300

France. Ecclesiasticus, Cap. XXIII, 24 - XXIV, 13.

Box 3 Folder 122

Rounded Gothic Minuscule, 14th century

Unidentified text, apparently a history of the world, based on the Old Testament, St. Isidore, Orosius, etc. Double leaf.

Box 3 Folder 123

Littera Bononiensis, 13th/14th century

Italy. Table of Biblical names. Double leaf.

Box 3 Folder 124

Littera Bononiensis, 14th century

Italy. Corpus Juris Civilis. The main text surrounded by gloss in smaller script; with added notes in contemporary cursive.

OS Box V-1 Folder 125

Literra Bononiensis, 14th century

Italy. Corpus Juris Civilis. Note that the size of the script used in the gloss is the same as that of the main text, actually even somewhat larger.

Box 3 Folder 126

Gothic Minuscule, late 14th century

Italy. Lectionary. Note the penwork decorating the initials.

OS Box type="Oversize"3 Folder 127

Gothic Minuscule, 14th century

Italy. Commentary on a medical text.

OS Box V-1 Folder 128

Gothic Minuscule, early 14th century

Lectionarium.

Box 3 Folder 129

Gothic Minuscule, 13th/14th century

France. Apparently a commentary on the Old Testament or a history of ancient times. Double leaf.

Box 3 Folder 130

Gothic Minuscule, 14th century

Italy. "Dominica prima de adventu." Note the strong lateral compression. Half of a double leaf.

Box 3 Folder 131

Late Gothica Textualis, 14th century

Italy. Legendae sacntorum. This type of clear, rounded Gothic was used immediately before -- and concurrently with -- the humanistic reform.

OS Box V-1 Folder 132

Gothic Minuscule, 14th century

Flemish. Antiphonale, with music on four-line stave. Some passages in Dutch. Note the later correction slip pasted in.

OS Box V-1 Folder 133

Gothic Minuscule, 14th century

Germany or Austria. Antiphonale. A vigorous large script. Note the fine penwork in the initial G.

Box 3 Folder 134

Insular Cursive, early 14th century

England. Statuta Angliae. Part of the text is in French. Double leaf.

OS Box V-1 Folder 135

Notarial Cursive, 1366

Italy. A very large legal document on two pieces of vellum pasted together.

OS Box V-1 Folder 136

Papal Chancery Minuscule, 1354

(Avignon). Privileges conferred upon the chapels of Karlberg and Muhlbach in the diocese of Wurzburg, by Innocent VI, November 20, 1354. With an endorsement by the rector of Muhlbach, in German, 1370 (Gothic cursive). Very large folio; without seal.

OS Box V-1 Folder 137

Notarial Cursive, circa 1350

Italy. A summary of cases relating to matrimony; some French details might point to Avignon. Note that the verso is blank.

OS Box V-1 Folder 138

Document, 1333

Spain (Valladolid). Apparently a privilege, granted by King Ferdinand. The accomplished script indicates that the document was executed at the Royal chancery. The lead seal is lacking. This item is also available on microfilm, reel M-205.

Box 4 Folder 1

Gothic Minuscule, 15th century

Probably Flemish. Unidentified ecclesiastical text. (Missale?) This script is also called Textualis Gothica formata. 2 specimens.

Box 4 Folder 2

Gothic Minuscule Textualis Gothica Formata, 15th century

Flemish Book of Hours. Double leaf, the second one blank but ruled.

Box 4 Folder 3

Gothic Minuscule, 15th century

France. From a calendar (November / December). A characteristic late French Gothic batarde minuscule.

Box 4 Folder 4

Insular Minuscule, late 15th century

England.

Box 4 Folder 5

Humanistic Miniscule, 15th century

Italy. Commentary on a classical text (its passages are underlined). The scripts is not a pure bookhand; it retains elements of cursive. On the verso is the mirror offset from the book for which this leaf served as binding.

Box 4 Folder 6

Humanistic Minuscule, 15th century

Italy. Cicero, De amicitia. Double leaf.

Box 4 Folder 7

Printed Gothique Batarde, 15th/16th century

Paris. Two characteristic leaves, printed on vellum, from a Livre d'Heures. Unidentified but probably Paris, ca. 1500. The initials are entered by hand, the surrounding decoration is metal-cut.

Box 4 Folder 8

Roman Type, circa 1518

Paris: Hardouyn. The use of this Roman type was rather unusual for Livres d'Heures. This one, too, is printed on vellum and has the initials filled in by hand.

Box 4 Folder 9

Gothic Type, 15th/16th century

Germany. Unidentified printed fragment, on vellum, which at first sight could be taken for a manuscript.

Box 4 Folder 10

Gothic Minuscule, circa 1400

Italy? From a service book. Antoher example of Gothica Textualis formata.

Box 4 Folder 11

Gothic Minuscule, 15th century

Germany? Lectionary? Note the resemblance to printing type of the same period.

Box 4 Folder 12

Gothic Minuscule, 15th century

Liturgical text. Humanistic influence is evident in the script.

Box 4 Folder 13

Humanistic Gothic, 15th century

Italy. Liturgical text. Humanistic influence is stronger in this script than in the preceding one.

Box 4 Folder 14

Text Minuscule, circa 1400?

Italy? Pontificale (Benedictio cevrei Paschalis). The script is very difficult to date and could be earlier. Note the use of ... above abbreviated words.

Box 4 Folder 15

Gothic Minuscule, circa 1400

Italy. Breviary? Double leaf.

Box 4 Folder 16

Gothic Minuscule, 15th century

France. Livres d'Heures, in French. Very characteristic for the standard type of prayer book as opposed to the deluxe illuminated kind.

Box 4 Folder 17

Gothic Minuscule, 15th century

Probably Germany. Commune sanctorum (from a Breviary?). Double leaf.

Box 4 Folder 18

Batarde Minuscule Cursive, 15th century

Lowlands? Prayer Book. Double leaf.

Box 4 Folder 19

Cursive, 15th century

Italy? Sermon on old age. On paper. There is little, if any, humanistic influence on this script.

Box 4 Folder 20

Various scripts, 15th/16th century

Probably Poland. Two calendar leaves, containing numerous names and obits. The calendar leaves are 15th century; the entries are from the 15th century to about 1575. The names all point to Poland as the place of origin. The scripts range from an accomplished Gothic minuscule to a hasty cursive.

Box 4 Folder 21

Text Cursive, 15th century

Italy. Unidentified mathematical text on paper.

Box 4 Folder 22

Late Cursive, 15th/16th century

Italy. Two paper leaves from a scientific manuscript: wind rise and astronomical diagrams.

Box 4 Folder 23

Humanistic Text Cursive, 15th century

Italy. Unidentified schema, apparently related to commercial topics.

Box 4 Folder 24

Gothic Cursive, circa 1500

Germany. Latin grammar, 6 leaves. A characteristic, neatly written German cursive. Probably the grammar was written by a student for his own use.

Box 4 Folder 25

Papal document, 1618

Rome. Part of the seal box intact.

Box 4 Folder 26

Papal document, 1767

Box 4 Folder 27

Cursive, 1419

Italy. Inventory, mostly clothes and household articles, hastily drawn up by a notary, probably for probate.

Box 4 Folder 28

Papal Chancery Minuscule, 1443

Siena. Papal bull addressed to the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Scalocchio, Città di Castello. Issued by Pope Eugene IV while at Siena. Without the seal.

Box 4 Folder 29

Insular Minuscule, circa 1475

England. Missale. Double leaf. A traditional English liturgical hand, based on 13th-century models.

Box 4 Folder 30

Humanistic Cursive, 15th century

Italy. Unidentified Roman history (the Civil War). Double leaf, with mirror offset of the incunable it served as binding. The script is a cursive textualis.

Box 4 Folder 31

Roman Type, 15th century

Italy. Classical poem. The leaf clearly illustrates the influence of the humanistic hand on type design.

Box 4 Folder 32

Gothic Liturgical Type, 15th century

Germany. Missale (Kanon), printed on vellum. Unidentified edition, ca. 1500. A striking example of the influence of gothic script on early type design.

OS Box V-1 Folder 33

Gothic Minuscule, 15th century

Italy. Antiphonale, with music on 4-line staves. Note the intricate penwork in the initial F.

OS Box V-1 Folder 34

Schedel Hartmann, 1493

Nuremberg: Koberger. A leaf (fol. 282) from the famed Schedel chronicle (Goff S-307).

OS Box V-1 Folder 35

Liturgical type and music, 16th century

France. Unidentified edition of an Antiphonale, printed on vellum, the music on 5-line staves. With anthropomorphic initials. A striking example of the survival of much earlier models. Double leaf.

Box 4 Folder 36

Gothic Minuscule, 15th century

Italy. Missale, with neumes. Double leaf.

Box 4 Folder 37

Gothic Type, 15th century

Germany. Missale? Printed on vellum; the similarity to contemporary manuscripts is enhanced by some of the red initials; printed or manuscript? Double leaf.

Box 4 Folder 38

Humanistic Gothic, 15th century

Italy. Epistola in evengelistis. The script, though basically Gothic, shows marked humanistic influence.

OS Box V-1 Folder 39

Notarial Cursive, mid-15th century

Ferrara. Legal contract involving one "Dominus Raynaldus de Ariostis" -- perhaps an ancestor of the poet. Very characteristic script used in this type of transaction; date unfortunately cut off.

OS Box V-1 Folder 40

Batarde Minuscule, 15th century

France. XX. Comment le roy doit estir doctible en persuasion (Du regimes des princes?). Text in French. A highly developed and elegant batarde.

OS Box V-1 Folder 41

Notarial document, 1507

In French.

OS Box V-1 Folder 42

Notarial document, 1531

In French.

OS Box V-1 Folder 43

Notarial document, 1564

In French.

OS Box V-1 Folder 44

Notarial document (real estate transaction), 1555

Padova. Note that the script is very close to Cancelleresca.

Box 4 Folder 45

Notarial document, 1522

Nice (S. France).

OS Box V-1 Folder 46

Notarial document: last will, 1521

Prato (Italy).

OS Box V-1 Folder 47

Notarial document: sale of land, 1548

Barcelona. This item is also available on microfilm reel M-205.

Box 4 Folder 48

Notarial document, 1538/40

England. With seal intact.

Box 4 Folder 49

Latin bond 1547-1548

With seal intact.

OS Box V-1 Folder 50

Notarial document, 1626

England.

Box 4 Folder 51

3 specimens of "Common law hand" 1667-1696

Westminster.

OS Box V-1 Folder 52

Notarial Cursive, 1466

Italy (Siena). Very long legal document detailing the purchase of several pieces of land. Three pieces of vellum pasted together.

Box 4 Folder 53

Notarial document, 1471

Bologna. Four-page legal document; very characteristic notarial cursive.

OS Box V-1 Folder 54

Notarial Cursive, 1426

Spain (Teruel). Legal document, in Spanish. Note the resemblance to French batarde. This item is also available on microfilm reel M-205.

Box 4 Folder 55

Notarial Cursive, 15th century

England. 1 of a series of 11 English notarial documents.

Box 4 Folder 56

Notarial Cursive, 1405

England. 2 of a series of 11 English notarial documents. With seals intact.

Box 4 Folder 57

Notarial Cursive, 1413

England. 3 of a series of 11 English notarial documents.

Box 4 Folder 58

Notarial Cursive, 1415

England. 4 of a series of 11 English notarial documents. With seal intact.

Box 4 Folder 59

Notarial Cursive, 1425

England. 5 of a series of 11 English notarial documents. Fragment of seal.

Box 4 Folder 60

Notarial Cursive, 1430

England. 6 of a series of 11 English notarial documents. With seal intact.

Box 4 Folder 61

Notarial Cursive, 1441

England. 7 of a series of 11 English notarial documents.

Box 4 Folder 62

Notarial Cursive, 1439

England. 8 of a series of 11 English notarial documents. With seals intact.

Box 4 Folder 63

Notarial Cursive, 1478

England. 9 of a series of 11 English notarial documents. With seal intact.

Box 4 Folder 64

Notarial Cursive, 1445

England. 10 of a series of 11 English notarial documents. With seals intact.

Box 4 Folder 65

Notarial Cursive, 1451

England. 11 of a series of 11 English notarial documents. Partial seal.

OS Box V-1 Folder 66

Notarial Batarde Cursive, 1469

France (Paris). Legal document, in French.

OS Box V-1 Folder 67

Notarial Batarde Cursive, 1481

France (Paris). Legal document, in French.

OS Box V-1 Folder 68

Notarial Cursive, 1437

Castelnuovo, near Fermo. Last will of one Vanni Pucciarelli. With some (later) endorsements. Drawn up buy the imperial notary "Magister Antonellus."

OS Box V-1 Folder 69

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