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Il Tempio Ravivato Di S. Maria Della Pace, Posto Nel Chiostro Esteriore De Rr. Pp. Dell' Ordine De Predicatori De' Santi Gio: E Paolo Di Venetia, Francesco Carboni

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Short history of devotion to an icon of Santa Maria della Pace in the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, including verse and reported miracles.

Vita Seraphicae Virginis S. Mariae Magdalenae De Pazzis, Florentinae Ordinis B.V. Mariae De Monte Carmelo Regularis Observantiae Iconibus Expressa., Abraham Van Diepenbeek

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This folio contains a series of engravings created to celebrate the life and miracles of a Florentine Carmelite nun, Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, on the occasion of her canonization in 1669. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi was canonized on April 28, 1669, and was one of only five women canonized in the 17th century performed in Saint Peter’s Basilica.

Suite of 49 numbered engravings and a title page made after drawings by van Diepenbeeck and engraved by Frederik Bouttats Jr., Gaspard Bouttats, Martin Bouché, Davit Clouwet, Pieter van Lisebetten and Adriaen Lommelin.

The Virtual Carmelite Museum (https://carmelites.info/museum/) has provided …

Leaf From A 1663 Eliot Indian Bible: Jeremiah Xl, Xlii-Xliii

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This is the first Bible printed in what is now the United States and is in a Native American language. John Eliot, a Cambridge scholar, Christian missionary, translator and linguist, learned the Wôpanâak dialect of the tribes of colonial New England with the assistance of several native speakers. His New Testament translation was printed in 1661. Two years later, he completed the Old Testament in Wôpanâak. His translations documented a language that didn’t exist in written form before his translation.

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Completorium Romanum, Primus Et Secundus Chorus: Alma Redemptoris, Ave Regina Coelorum, Giovanni Asola

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Compline, or night prayers of the Divine Office, with two additional in honor of Mary, "Alma Redemptoris" and "Ave Regina Cœlorum." This piece is the tenor part of a work composed for three voice parts.

Book Of Hours (Use Of Rouen), Master Of The Ango Hours, Active 1515-1531

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Illuminated manuscript by the Master of the Ango Hours, approximately 1520-1530.

145 vellum leaves, 20 lines per page, ruled in red; written in brown ink with red rubrics. Includes 14 large miniatures with gold borders; 20 smaller miniatures throughout. Binding is late sixteenth or early seventeenth French red morocco with gilt tooling.

Contents: Calendar -- Sequence of the Gospels -- Passion sequence -- Obsecro te, O intemerata and other prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary -- Hours of the Virgin (Use of Rouen) in the mixed form with the Hours of the cross and the Hours of the Holy Spirit …

Heures A L'Usage De Rouen, Catholic Church

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112 leaves. 19 woodcut and metal-cut full-page illustrations; borders illustrating religious and secular subjects with captions in French. Initials and line endings in gold on red or blue background.

Antoine Vérard, publisher; Chambolle-Duru, binder.

The letters Ro at the bottom of pages in some sections denotes the Use of Rouen, a variation specific to that region.

See Hilary Maddocks, “A book of hours by Anthoine Vérard in the University of Melbourne Library,” University of Melbourne Collections 16 (June 2015):15-24 about a similar copy in the University of Melbourne Library, providing background on the publisher, artists, and book trade in early …

Vellum Leaf From A Medieval Manuscript Connected To Otto Ege, Catholic Church

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Manuscript leaf on vellum: 175 mm x 132 mm (112 mm x 69 mm)

18 lines of black gothic script with red and blue initials, rivers-style pen flourishing in red.

Leaf from a devotional manuscript containing a psalter, broken up and sold by Otto Ege and his wife Louise, with his label identifying it as number 43 from his collection. Ege sold other leaves from this manuscript as leaf 43 in his Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts portfolios. This leaf contains Psalms 9:37 through 11:5 (Septuagint numbering).

Identified by Ege’s label as a from a book of hours, although …

Annunciation: Manuscript Leaf From A Book Of Hours, Catholic Church

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Manuscript leaf on vellum: 166 x 110 mm, color illustrations, illuminations

Annunciation miniature from Matins, the first hour of the Office of the Virgin. From a book of hours produced in the mid-15th century. Floral border on shell gold surrounds miniature of Gabriel kneeling before Mary on recto; floral border on left side of verso outlined in red next to 16 lines of gothic script in black ink with illuminated initials and line-fillers.

Calendar From Book Of Hours; Use Of Paris, Catholic Church

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Manuscript on vellum (13 unnumbered leaves), bound: color illustrations, illuminations; 167 x 135 mm, bound to 172 x 140 mm

Calendar of saints' feast days from a French Book of Hours, use of Paris, which was evidently intact in the late 18th century when the descriptive note on the original first flyleaf was handwritten and dated 4 February 1792 by one 'Rouxeau', priest of Le Loroux-Bottereau. Rouxeau is assumed to be Julien-Pierre Rouxeau (1734-1811); the calendar as currently bound includes the 19th century bookplace of H. Arthur Baker.

Date is estimated from the 18th century owner's handwritten comment: "Ces heures, …

The Decline Of Interest In Mariology As A Theological Problem, Charles W. Neumann

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