Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Collection Overview
The Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection contains images of 21 unbound manuscript items and 10 bound manuscript items from the Silver Special Collections Library of the University of Vermont. These manuscripts were written in various...
Show moreThe Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection contains images of 21 unbound manuscript items and 10 bound manuscript items from the Silver Special Collections Library of the University of Vermont. These manuscripts were written in various locations across Europe and the Middle East, from early in the 12th century to the 17th century C.E.
Many of the texts are religious in nature. There are examples from Vulgate Bibles, the Koran, liturgical books, books of private devotion, handbooks for confessors, and a book of church law. Other texts include works by Cicero, Terence, Eberhard Hicfelt, and Ascanio Savorgnano; and contain topical works on medicinal herbs, the island of Cyprus, and the laws of Carpeneto, Italy. The collection also includes a contract and a will, both from Italy.
These beautiful books are often heavily illustrated or decorated, and provide examples of a wide range of scripts, both Gothic and later varieties. Most of the manuscripts are written on parchment, but several are made of paper, including the oldest item, a Koran leaf with a supplied date of 1106. The scope of the collection will facilitate studies of book history, codicology, paleography, and Medieval and Renaissance history.
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Pages
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- Aucupatorium herodiorum, ex antiquorum philozophorum dictis per magistrum ebirhardum hitfelt collectum et translatum in laycum ydeoma.
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This is probably a 17th c. copy of a 15th c. book on Falconry.
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- Book of Hours
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Text is from a set of Responsories.
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- Book of Hours
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Text is Psalms (Iuxta LXX) 123:6-124:5.
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- Book of Hours
- Date Created
- undated
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Text is from the Litany of the Saints.
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- Book of Hours
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Texts are canticles from Psalms (Iuxta LXX) 119:7-122:4.
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- Book of Hours
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- Book of Hours?
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Text is Habacuc 3:9-18.
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- Book of Hours?
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Text is probably part the daily office for lay individuals according to the Sarum Use. This leaf begins in a reading from Genesis 3 in the middle of verse 1.
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- Book of Hours?
- Date Created
- undated
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- Book of Hours?
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- Book of Hours?
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Text is Psalm (Iuxta LXX) 118:21-40.
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- Breviary
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Text is Lessons 1-7 for the Feast of the Circumcision.
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- Contract
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- 1442-11-06
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- Eunuchus
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Text is from the end of Act 2 through the beginning of Act 3 of The Eunuch.
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- Gradual
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Text is from the Mass beginning with a communion proper.
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- hec sunt statuta et ordinationex communis et hominum ac universitatis loci carpeneti...[in red]
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- 1458
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- Hecyra
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Text is from the end of Act 4 through the beginning of Act 5 of The Mother-in-Law.
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- Hours of the Virgin Mary
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Text is from the sixth reading of the service at matins for the Virgin.
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- In commemoratione defunctorum
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Text is a liturgy for observing a vigil for the deceased. The Office of the Dead is use of Paris as shown by the responses to the nine lessons, beginning respectively: Qui lazarum (image 23), Credo quod (image 25), Heu michi (image 27), Ne recorderis (image 36), Domine quando (image 38),...
Show moreText is a liturgy for observing a vigil for the deceased. The Office of the Dead is use of Paris as shown by the responses to the nine lessons, beginning respectively: Qui lazarum (image 23), Credo quod (image 25), Heu michi (image 27), Ne recorderis (image 36), Domine quando (image 38), Peccantem me (image 40), Domine secundum (image 50), Memento mei (image 52), Libera me domine de morte eterna (image 54). The second text in this codex is the Recommendation of Souls (images 75-105).
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