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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.'"

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 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 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

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 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.

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, 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 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 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.

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.

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.

Rb 006 Guide To Menninger Collection On Psychiatry And Psychoanalysis, John P. Mcgovern Historical Collections & Research Center

Rare Books Finding Aids

In June, 2003, the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library became the owner of the Menninger Foundation’s Library of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. This fine gift included their clinical library of books and journals, the historical and rare book collections, and complete runs of the Menninger publications. This is a wide-ranging rare book collection of more than 3000 titles pertaining to psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis in both adults and children. The publications by and commentaries about Sigmund Freud are extensive. See more at RB 006.

Summa De Arithmetica Geometria Proportioni & Proportionalita, Luca Pacioli

Individual and Corporate Publications

This illustration is the title page to the 1494 edition of the Summa de arithmetica geometria proportioni & proportionalita published in Venice by Paganino de Paganini.

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, 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.