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Hours Of The Virgin, None, Presentation In The Temple, Paris, France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1504

Hours Of The Virgin, None, Presentation In The Temple, Paris, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Sext of the Hours of the Virgin was to be read midday. Typically, None of the Hours of the Virgin is accompanies, as it is here, by an image of the Presentation in the Temple. The Virgin and Joseph have brought the baby Christ into the temple to show that he belonged to God.


Leaf From Gospel Lessons And Opening Of Passion According To John, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1504

Leaf From Gospel Lessons And Opening Of Passion According To John, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Mark sits at the opening of the Lesson with his symbol, the lion, in a woodcut designed by Jean Pichore. Mark, in front of a colonnade, holds his feather pen in the air while receiving his Gospel Book from his pouncing, cat-like lion. The borders around the recto depict a hunting scene in which men in contemporary costumes, blowing horns and carrying lances, chase through the forest after a handsome stag.


Hours Of The Virgin, None, Presentation In The Temple, Paris, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1504

Hours Of The Virgin, None, Presentation In The Temple, Paris, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Sext of the Hours of the Virgin was to be read midday. Typically, None of the Hours of the Virgin is accompanies, as it is here, by an image of the Presentation in the Temple. The Virgin and Joseph have brought the baby Christ into the temple to show that he belonged to God.


Leaf Ending The Penitential Psalms (142) And Opening Litany, Paris, France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaf Ending The Penitential Psalms (142) And Opening Litany, Paris, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Litany typically follows the Penitential Psalms, and invokes aid from God and the saints. Litany is organized in accordance to a hierarchy starting with God, the Son of God, the Holy Ghost, the Virgin Mary, the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Rachael; Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, and Virgins.


Leaf From Lauds, Hours Of The Virgin, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaf From Lauds, Hours Of The Virgin, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Lauds continues with Psalms of praise to God.


Psalter With Calendar, Litany And Alphabetical Index Of The Psalms, Italy, Folio 11, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Psalter With Calendar, Litany And Alphabetical Index Of The Psalms, Italy, Folio 11, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This portable Psalter is an example of the growing personal nature of worship in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. As it easily fits into the palm of one's hand, this Psalter likely resided on its owner's possession throughout the day, ready for prayers of the hour.


Poem, Have You Not Hard Of Floryda?, Unknown, Thomas Hallock Dec 1499

Poem, Have You Not Hard Of Floryda?, Unknown, Thomas Hallock

Early Visions Bucket

"One of the earliest poetic references to Florida appears in an anonymous and undated ballad, entitled 'the preme Rose in the grene forest.'"


Leaf From Vespers And Compline, Hours Of The Holy Spirit, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaf From Vespers And Compline, Hours Of The Holy Spirit, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf is rubricated in blue ink rather than in the standard red. The blue ink was derived from lapis lazuli, an expensive mineral that adds a luxurious appearance. Short exclamations such as antiphones, responses and versicles are written smaller to distinguish them from the other parts of the text.


Leaf From Lauds, Hours Of The Virgin, France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaf From Lauds, Hours Of The Virgin, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Lauds continues with Psalms of praise to God. The verso continues from the end of Psalm 148 to the end of Psalm 149.


Leaves From A Missal, Eastern France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaves From A Missal, Eastern France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

A Missal is the liturgical book containing the prayers and readings for the celebration of Mass.


Leaves From A Gradual, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaves From A Gradual, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Both the services of Mass and Divine Office required musical chant, which formed additional volumes referred to as choir books. The Gradual became the musical counterpart to the Missal, the Antiphonal to the Breviary. Graduals contained the music necessary for the Mass ceremony.


Leaf Ending The Penitential Psalms (142) And Opening Litany, Paris, France, Recto, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaf Ending The Penitential Psalms (142) And Opening Litany, Paris, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Litany typically follows the Penitential Psalms, and invokes aid from God and the saints. Litany is organized in accordance to a hierarchy starting with God, the Son of God, the Holy Ghost, the Virgin Mary, the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Rachael; Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, and Virgins.


Leaves From A Gradual, France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaves From A Gradual, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Both the services of Mass and Divine Office required musical chant, which formed additional volumes referred to as choir books. The Gradual became the musical counterpart to the Missal, the Antiphonal to the Breviary. Graduals contained the music necessary


Leaf From Vespers And Compline, Hours Of The Holy Spirit, France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaf From Vespers And Compline, Hours Of The Holy Spirit, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf is rubricated in blue ink rather than in the standard red. The blue ink was derived from lapis lazuli, an expensive mineral that adds a luxurious appearance. Short exclamations such as antiphones, responses and versicles are written smaller to distinguish them from the other parts of the text.


Leaves From A Missal, Eastern France, Verso, Unknown Dec 1499

Leaves From A Missal, Eastern France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

A Missal is the liturgical book containing the prayers and readings for the celebration of Mass.


Sacri Canonis Misse Exposito Brevis Et Interlinearis By Gabriel Biel, Folio 2, Recto, Gabriel Biel Dec 1498

Sacri Canonis Misse Exposito Brevis Et Interlinearis By Gabriel Biel, Folio 2, Recto, Gabriel Biel

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Canon of the Mass forms the central texts of missals and contains the readings for the celebration of the Eucharist. This text contains Biel's exegetical commentary in a smaller typeface.


Sacri Canonis Misse Exposito Brevis Et Interlinearis By Gabriel Biel, Folio 1, Verso, Gabriel Biel Dec 1498

Sacri Canonis Misse Exposito Brevis Et Interlinearis By Gabriel Biel, Folio 1, Verso, Gabriel Biel

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Canon of the Mass forms the central texts of missals and contains the readings for the celebration of the Eucharist. This text contains Biel's exegetical commentary in a smaller typeface.


Leaf From Biblia Latina With Commentary By Nicholas Of Lyra, Recto, Unknown Sep 1497

Leaf From Biblia Latina With Commentary By Nicholas Of Lyra, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf comes from a quarto edition of the Vulgate, printed in 1497. The text is surrounded with commentary by the Franciscan friar Nicholas of Lyra.


Leaf From Biblia Latina With Commentary By Nicholas Of Lyra, Verso, Unknown Sep 1497

Leaf From Biblia Latina With Commentary By Nicholas Of Lyra, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf comes from a quarto edition of the Vulgate, printed in 1497. The text is surrounded with commentary by the Franciscan friar Nicholas of Lyra.


Leaf From Stultifera Navis, Verso, Unknown Dec 1496

Leaf From Stultifera Navis, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Stulifera navis, or Ship of Fools, is a didactic satire that narrates the journey of 112 fools to the paradise of fools, "Narragonia."


Leaf From Stultifera Navis, Recto, Unknown Dec 1496

Leaf From Stultifera Navis, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Stulifera navis, or Ship of Fools, is a didactic satire that narrates the journey of 112 fools to the paradise of fools, "Narragonia."


Leaf From Obsidionis Rhodiae Urbis Descriptio By Guillaume Caoursin, Recto, Guillame Caoursin Dec 1495

Leaf From Obsidionis Rhodiae Urbis Descriptio By Guillaume Caoursin, Recto, Guillame Caoursin

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Considered one of the first contemporary historical narratives, Guillame Caoursin's Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio chronicles the siege of Rhodes in 1480.


Leaf From Obsidionis Rhodiae Urbis Descriptio By Guillaume Caoursin, Verso, Unknown Dec 1495

Leaf From Obsidionis Rhodiae Urbis Descriptio By Guillaume Caoursin, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

Considered one of the first contemporary historical narratives, Guillame Caoursin's Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio chronicles the siege of Rhodes in 1480.


Leaf From Summa De Casibus Conscientiae (Or Summa Angelica) By Carletti De Chivasso, Recto, Carletti De Chivasso Jun 1492

Leaf From Summa De Casibus Conscientiae (Or Summa Angelica) By Carletti De Chivasso, Recto, Carletti De Chivasso

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

These leaves come from the summa de Casibus Conscientiae, written by the fifteenth-century theologian Carletti de Chivasso (1411-1495). A dictionary of moral theology, the summa became Carletti's most well-known work and subsequently was referred to as the summa angelica.


Leaf From Summa De Casibus Conscientiae (Or Summa Angelica) By Carletti De Chivasso, Verso, Carletti De Chivasso Jun 1492

Leaf From Summa De Casibus Conscientiae (Or Summa Angelica) By Carletti De Chivasso, Verso, Carletti De Chivasso

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

These leaves come from the summa de Casibus Conscientiae, written by the fifteenth-century theologian Carletti de Chivasso (1411-1495). A dictionary of moral theology, the summa became Carletti's most well-known work and subsequently was referred to as the summa angelica.


Leaf From Hortus Sanitatis, Recto, Unknown Jun 1491

Leaf From Hortus Sanitatis, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Hortus sanitatis (Garden of Health) is an encyclopedia on the medicinal properties of plants compiled from several classical authors, including Galen, Albertus Magnus, and most notably the first-century Greek author Dioscorides.


Leaf From Hortus Sanitatis, Verso, Unknown Jun 1491

Leaf From Hortus Sanitatis, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Hortus sanitatis (Garden of Health) is an encyclopedia on the medicinal properties of plants compiled from several classical authors, including Galen, Albertus Magnus, and most notably the first-century Greek author Dioscorides.


Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 31 Hortus Sanitatis, Jacob Meydenbach Dec 1490

Pages From The Past. History Of The Written Word. Various Leaves - No. 31 Hortus Sanitatis, Jacob Meydenbach

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

No abstract provided.


Leaf From Legenda Aurea Sanctorum By Jacobus De Voragine, 1488, Recto, Jacobus De Voragine Dec 1488

Leaf From Legenda Aurea Sanctorum By Jacobus De Voragine, 1488, Recto, Jacobus De Voragine

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf comes from the luxury edition of the Legenda aurea printed by Anton Koberger in 1488. The edition contains 250 woodcut illustrations each designed in a narrow rectangle and spread across two colomns of text.


Leaf From Legenda Aurea Sanctorum By Jacobus De Voragine, 1488, Verso, Jacobus De Voragine Dec 1488

Leaf From Legenda Aurea Sanctorum By Jacobus De Voragine, 1488, Verso, Jacobus De Voragine

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf comes from the luxury edition of the Legenda aurea printed by Anton Koberger in 1488. The edition contains 250 woodcut illustrations each designed in a narrow rectangle and spread across two colomns of text. The hand-colored woodcut depicts the martyrdom of Saint Quiricaus, a bishop and priest from Ostia, Italy, persecuted under Alexander Severus in 235 C.E.