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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Leaf From Biblia Germanica, 1480, Recto, Unknown

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Processional [Hu 9]

Medieval Manuscripts

• Country of origin: Germany
• Date: ca. 1475
• Citations: unknown
• Provenance: unknown

Leaf From Speculum Historiale, Recto, Vincent Of Beauvais

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This leaf comes from Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum historiale (Mirror of History), which comprised part of the Speculum maius (The Great Mirror). The historiale recounts the history of the world from the Fall of man in the Garden of Eden through Vincent's lifetime.

Leaf From Speculum Historiale, Verso, Vincent Of Beauvais

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This leaf comes from Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum historiale (Mirror of History), which comprised part of the Speculum maius (The Great Mirror). The historiale recounts the history of the world from the Fall of man in the Garden of Eden through Vincent's lifetime.

Leaf From Speculum Humanae Salvationis, Verso, Unknown

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This leaf comes from an edition of the popular Speculum humanae salvationis printed in 1473 in Augusburg, Germany, by Günther Zainer. This particular leaf illustrates Zainer's use of a strong, bold Gothic type and short, squat figures with large heads bodily outlined with little or no shading.

Leaf From Speculum Humanae Salvationis, Recto, Unknown

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This leaf comes from an edition of the popular Speculum humanae salvationis printed in 1473 in Augusburg, Germany, by Günther Zainer. This particular leaf illustrates Zainer's use of a strong, bold Gothic type and short, squat figures with large heads bodily outlined with little or no shading.

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 …

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

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The Hour of Terce corresponds roughly with 9 a.m. In the manuscript from which this leaf originates, the following three Psalms were included: 119, 120, 121. In addition to these Psalms, and to versicles and responses, Terce typically consists of a hymn, antiphons, a capitulum, and orations.

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

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The Hour of Terce corresponds roughly with 9 a.m. In the manuscript from which this leaf originates, the following three Psalms were included: 119, 120, 121. In addition to these Psalms, and to versicles and responses, Terce typically consists of a hymn, antiphons, a capitulum, and orations.

Leaf From Gospel Lessons, Northern France, Verso, Unknown

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The end of the Gospel of John and the beginning of the Gospel of Luke.

Leaf From Gospel Lessons, Northern France, Recto, Unknown

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The end of the Gospel of John and the beginning of the Gospel of Luke.

Leaf Opening The Penitential Psalms, Cologne, Germany, Recto, Unknown

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The Seven Penitential Psalms (6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142), long associated with atonement, were ascribed in the Middle Ages to King David. The translation of Psalm 6 in this manuscript may ultimately derive from that of Geert Grote, but is in a German dialect closer to that of a Prayer Book now in Darmstadt, believed to have been produced in Cologne in the mid-fifteenth century.

Leaf Opening Vespers, Hours Of The Virgin, Bruges, Netherlands, Verso, Unknown

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Vespers was recited at early evening, and this text was often accompanied in Book of Hours by illustrations of the Flight into Egypt, or the Massacre of the Innocents. It was characteristic of the miniaturist Willem Vreland to use the latter as his subjec

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

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Nocturns, prayers initially recited by monks in the evening or early morning, were incorporated into Matins in Books of Hours because this Hour was usually said before dawn. The text of this leaf can be identified as for use of Troyes from the second and third lesson of the first nocture (Benedicta tu) read on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays.

Leaf With O Intemerata Prayer, Bruges, Southern Netherlands, Recto, Unknown

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This leaf contains the beginning part of the O intemerata (O immaculate virgin) prayer addressing the Virgin Mary. This prayer was most commonly found in Books of Hours, the comparable lay version of the liturgical Breviary.