fragments (object portions)

Item is a leaf from a Book of Hours manuscript. Verso left margin has a strip of botanical decoration common to Books of Hours of this period, featuring strawberries and floral designs.

Includes 1 box with 10 leaves from Medieval manuscripts on vellum, including excerpts from manuscripts, commentary on canon law, and devotional materials. Collection of manuscripts purchased as teaching tools for Special Collections and medieval studies classes.

Manuscript is a miniature-size leaf from a breviary (the text for the Divine Office), written in black and red ink.

Manuscript is a calendar leaf from a Book of Hours or Psalter.

Leaf containing a music score from a choir book. Depicts lyrics in latin and musical notations.

Manuscript leaf recovered from binding. Leaf contains commentary on canon law.

Various disbound leaves from books printed from 1516-1829 (1245 A.H.), each accompanied by a facsimile print of the title page of its respective volume.

Excised leaf from a German Bible, printed in blackletter and featuring an engraved illustration of armies meeting (as described in the book of Judges). The text is from the book of Judges.

Excised leaf from a German Bible with explanatory gloss, with text from the book of Zephaniah. Printed in blackletter sometime in the early modern period - Germany has a very long tradition of blackletter printing. Also contains marginal biblical gloss, printed in a smaller blackletter type.

Excised leaf from a sermon collection printed in the early modern era in Europe, this sermon on the topic of virginity. Possibly the same text as contained in Cambridge, Jesus College Library, JCOL/Q/G/29.