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Fragment of a border (9.1) and a cut-out initial “M” (9.2) from a choir book, from Italy., Fourteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9.1 and 9.2
Scope and Contents
Description: 9.1: A fragment of border decoration (20 x 4cm) with blue, tan, and mauve acanthus leaves, gold dots, and an egret-like bird. 9.2: The initial “M” on the verso painted in tan on a blue field and decorated with red, mauve, and blue acanthus leaves was cut from a fourteenth-century Italian choir book on parchment. The recto side of the fragment contains square musical notation written on red staff lines with Gothic text. 9.1 and 9.2 possibly cut from the same...
Dates:
Fourteenth century.
Leaf from a hymnal with musical notation., Fourteenth to fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Description: Written in Latin on parchment in a high-grade Textualis Formata (Textus Quadratus) hand, with square musical notation on red, 4-line staves. Including alternating red, blue, and black capitals with pen flourishes on the black initials. Taken from a binding.Provenance: Formerly folder 1.
Dates:
Fourteenth to fifteenth century.
Initial “E” with Adoration of the Magi taken from a choir book, possibly from Germany., Mid-fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Description: The burnished gold initial is set in a red field decorated with gold filigree designs. Vestiges of a green foliate border are evident in the upper and left margins. The interior of the letter is filled with a scene of the Adoration of the Magi. In the lower portion, two magi converse while the third kneels before the Virgin and Child sitting on a red bed. Joseph observes from behind a pillow on the left while two of the kings’ attendants hold a discussion on...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century.
Foliate initial “C” from a choir book, from Italy., Mid-fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Description: A pink “C” on parchment decorated with white filigree, outlines in red and set against a burnished gold ground. Brilliant blue, green, and pink acanthus sprays emanate from the top and bottom portion of the letter. The tan ground of the initial sets off three luxuriant buds on stalks springing from a clump of varied leaves. Apparently cut from an Italian choir book, probably Lombard. The reverse side contains large gothic script, and square musical notation...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century.
Initial “E” with Adoration of the Magi from a choir book, from Northern Italy., Mid-fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Description: The letter “E” (116 x 119 mm) is made of thick pink, blue, and green acanthus sprays, while similar foliate decoration, arranged symmetrically, fills the left and bottom margins. The richness of the design, and the form of the curling acanthus is similar to Lombard decoration of the middle of the fifteenth century. This cutting is apparently from a lavishly decorated choir book. Both sides of the fragment contain large gothic script, and square musical...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century.
Document with seal in Middle German., Fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Description: Document written in Cursiva script in Middle German on vellum. Green wax seal with figure of a saint remains attached on tag. Provenance: Formerly MS C82.
Dates:
Fifteenth century.
One bifolium from a Psalter, from Northern Italy., Fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Description: Two leaves (one bifolium) written in Latin on parchment. Twenty one lines of text in two columns. A double folio which begins ‘Adoremus Dominum’ and ends ‘Et percussit inimicos’, containing the first part of Psalm 73 and a portion of the last half of Psalm 77. Initials in red and blue, decorated with pen flourishes. Some square musical notation in four staves on the recto of the first folio. Provenance: Obtained by A. D. White circa 1895....
Dates:
Fifteenth century.
Initial “S” from a Gradual from Germany or Bohemia., Fifteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Description: The letter “S” lavishly decorated with blue acanthus, is set against a burnished gold ground enframed with a red band. Red, blue, and white acanthus sprays curve through the interior of the design. Nude putti cavort among the foliage while a figure reads a book from a pulpit below. An infant figure of Christ holding a crossed orb appears above. High grade Gothic textura script on the verso, with musical notation.Provenance: Obtained in...
Dates:
Fifteenth century.
Remnant of a Book of Hours, annotated in the following centuries, with eight leaves (including three bifolia) in an eighteenth century binding, from France., Fifteenth century (and later annotations).
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
Description: Remnant of a Book of Hours annotated and augmented in the following centuries, in numerous scripts (including Textualis Formata, Gothico-Antiqua, Hybrida Libraria) and written in Latin and French on parchment. Includes an inscription on the front pastedown dated 1768 naming one of its owners: Jean Hersmulle Duport, doctor of theology (Sorbonne), who taught physics at the Sulpician Grand Seminary of St Irénée, and then became curate of Loire, a village between...
Dates:
Fifteenth century (and later annotations).
Initial “B” with blue vine detail., Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
Description: Illuminated initial “B” from a music manuscript with 4-line staves. Shape of “B” has been pricked into the manuscript prior to painting. The initial “B” is in gold, and surrounded by blue vines and enclosed by a red border. Provenance: Formerly folder 10.1ID Number: CornellMedMS_073_001.jpg (a).
Dates:
Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.