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Letter To Sebenico, Dalmatian Coast, Croatia, 1496

Todd A. Herring Archival Collection

This letter, written in Genoese, most likely concerns matters of trade. At the time the letter was written. Sebenico, one of the oldest towns on the Dalmatian Coast, was under the control of the Republic of Venice, and was a very busy port. This item was included in the Scrawl and Order exhibit, http://lib.msstate.edu/exhibits/past/.

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

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.

Selected Pages From Liber Chronicarum, Hartmann Schedel

Selections from Special Collections

Liber cronicarum. [20], cclxvi, [6], cclxvii-ccxcix, [3] ℓ.; leaf [6] (of 3d group) and 2 last leaves blank. : woodcuts: illus.,maps. ; f. 70 cm.

Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Spring 2012.

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

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

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

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

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

No abstract provided.

Miniatures From The Book Of Hours [Hu Codex 1]

Medieval Manuscripts

Twelve miniatures from the Book of Hours [HU Codex 1]: John the Evangelist (leaf 16a), Pentecost (leaf 24a), Crucifixion (32a), Annunciation (leaf 43a), Visitation (Mary to Elizabeth) (leaf 55a), Nativity (leaf 69a), Annunciation to the Shepherds (leaf 73b), Adoration of the Magi (leaf 78a), Presentation in the Temple (leaf 92a), Flight into Egypt (96b), David and Goliath (111a), and Office of the Dead (leaf 135b).

• Country of origin: France
• Date: ca. 1490
• Citations: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, no. 2
• Provenance: McVitty
• miniatures, illumination, decorative borders

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

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.

Leaf From Opera By Jean Gerson, Verso, Jean Gerson

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf comes from volume 2 of Jean Gerson's three-volume Opera, printed by Johann Grüninger in 1488. This particular copy remains unfinished, as evidenced by the lack of hand-colored initials over the guide letters.

Leaf From Opera By Jean Gerson, Recto, Jean Gerson

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf comes from volume 2 of Jean Gerson's three-volume Opera, printed by Johann Grüninger in 1488. This particular copy remains unfinished, as evidenced by the lack of hand-colored initials over the guide letters.

Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Jesu By Ubertino De Casale, Recto, Ubertino De Casale

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu, written by the Franciscan monk Ubertino de Casale, is a meditation on the Passion of Christ, written in 1305. The Arbor vitae criticizes the church's organization and the established Franciscan Orders' less than stringent view on mendicant life. This text, printed in 1485 in Venice, is the only fifteenth-century edition of the work.

Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Jesu By Ubertino De Casale, Verso, Ubertino De Casale

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu, written by the Franciscan monk Ubertino de Casale, is a meditation on the Passion of Christ, written in 1305. The Arbor vitae criticizes the church's organization and the established Franciscan Orders' less than stringent view on mendicant life. This text, printed in 1485 in Venice, is the only fifteenth-century edition of the work.

Antiphonal [Manuscript Leaf, Hu 1]

Medieval Manuscripts

• Country of origin: Flanders (Belgium)
• Date: 1485
• Citations: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, no. 7.
• Provenance: McVitty (Ege)
• Other: Includes neumes, red and blue lettering and decoarations, historiated initial, and border images.

Tractatus Sancti Bonaventure Qui Vocatur Lignum Vite, Saint Cardinal Bonaventure

Special Collections Books

This item is a bound set of unpaginated, folio leaves taken from a longer work; it is only part of a book. The leaves are about 10.25 inches in height. The text by Bonaventure is a meditation on the life of Christ using an allegory of a tree and its fruits to denote various virtues. An English translation of this item’s title is “A Treatise of Saint Bonaventure which is Called the Tree of Life.” The title is usually spelled in Latin “Lignum Vitae.” These leaves are taken from the longer work Tractatus Sancti Bonauenture [Cologne, Germany: Bartholomaeus de Unkel, …

Leaf From Summa Praedicantium, Verso, John Bromyard

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf is from John Bromyard's Summa Praedicantium (Encyclopedia of Preaching), an alphabetically arranged encyclopedia of his sermons from 1330 to 1350.

Leaf From Summa Praedicantium, Recto, John Bromyard

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf is from John Bromyard's Summa Praedicantium (Encyclopedia of Preaching), an alphabetically arranged encyclopedia of his sermons from 1330 to 1350.

Leaf From Biblia Germanica, 1483, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf contains the text of Ezekiel, chapters twelve through fourteen. It comes from a German edition of the Bible printed by Anton Koberger.

Leaf From Biblia Germanica, 1483, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf contains the text of Ezekiel, chapters twelve through fourteen. It comes from a German edition of the Bible printed by Anton Koberger.

Leaf From Biblia Germanica, 1480, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf from a German Bible, contains the first three chapters of the book of Hosea.

Leaf From Biblia Germanica, 1480, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf from a German Bible, contains the first three chapters of the book of Hosea.

Leaf From Legenda Aurea Sanctorum By Jacobus De Voragine, 1480, Recto, Jacobus De Voragine

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf comes from an edition of the popular Legenda aurea sanctorum and includes hand-colored woodblock images. The German edition of the Legenda was printed in 1480 in Augsburg by Johann Bambler.

Leaf From Legenda Aurea Sanctorum By Jacobus De Voragine, 1480, Verso, Jacobus De Voragine

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This leaf comes from an edition of the popular Legenda aurea sanctorum and includes hand-colored woodblock images. The German edition of the Legenda was printed in 1480 in Augsburg by Johann Bambler.

Leaf From Matins, Hours Of The Virgin, Rouen, France, Verso, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

More than any other office of the Virgin, Matins offers the most varied collection of additional prayers, hymns, and psalms. Any number of these accessory texts could be recited along with the standard Hour at daybreak, serving to reinforce both the natural experience of a new day, and the metaphysical theme of the Incarnation as embodied by the text's traditional illumination, the Annunciation. The concluding hymn Te Deum laudamus, is a hymn of thanksgiving also reserved for the most exultant occasions of church and state, such as the coronation of a king, or the canonization of a saint.

Leaf From Matins, Hours Of The Virgin, Rouen, France, Recto, Unknown

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

More than any other office of the Virgin, Matins offers the most varied collection of additional prayers, hymns, and psalms. Any number of these accessory texts could be recited along with the standard Hour at daybreak, serving to reinforce both the natural experience of a new day, and the metaphysical theme of the Incarnation as embodied by the text's traditional illumination, the Annunciation. The concluding hymn Te Deum laudamus, is a hymn of thanksgiving also reserved for the most exultant occasions of church and state, such as the coronation of a king, or the canonization of a saint.

Incipit Liber Dyalogorum Beati Gregory Ad Petru[M] Diaconum Suum. Liber Dyalogorum, Gregory I

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

The Dialogues of Pope Gregory I (also called Gregory the Great) is a collection of four books of miracles, signs, wonders, and healings done by the holy men of sixth-century Italy.

Mammotrectus Super Bibliam By Johannes Marchesinus, Johannes Marchesinus

Sacred Leaves Manuscript Collection

This text, printed in 1478, originates from the shop of Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn and Petrus de Bartua. As a manual for clergy members, the Mammotrectus super Bibliam, (literally the "nourisher of the Bible") contains etymological explanations of complex words used in the Bible and liturgical services. It also includes descriptions of the canonical hours and various feast days of the church year.