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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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.