Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, containing the remains of a book of hours, probably Use of Rome. All illuminations have been excised and there are few complete sections except for the Penitential Psalms (63r-75v) and the Office of the Dead (82r-112v). These texts are followed by two prayers to Saint Lazarus in Latin (113v- 115r ). Folios 115v-116v contain a personal narrative in French by Sister Collette d'Oisellet of the Hospice of Beaune, the owner of the volume. She describes being miraculously healed from paralysis in 1497 at Autun cathedral through the relics of Saint Lazarus; an annotation records her decision to remain at the Hospice of Beaune to care for the poor. Her account is followed by two additional prayers, also in French
Description:
In Latin and Middle French., Ownership inscription of Sister Alix de Besançon on 116v., Nineteenth-century printed bookseller description, annotated in pen, affixed to 116r., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textura (Book of Hours); bâtarde (personal narrative and final prayers)., Layout: single column, 14-16 lines (Book of Hours)., Decoration: rubricated. Many small decorated initials, gilt; some two-line initials, also gilt. Some line-filler decorated bars. Many ivy leaf borders with gold leaves and colored blossoms. All leaves that might have contained illuminations appear to have been excised from the volume., and Binding: modern amateur binding of reddish velvet over pasteboard. Needlepoint flowers and leaves on both covers; the embroidered word "Heures" on the front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
France., France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Autun (France)
Subject (Name):
Oisellet, Collette d'., Lazarus, Saint (Poor man from the Gospel of Luke), Cathedral of Saint-Lazare (Autun, France), Hospices civils de Beaune., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Relics, Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miracles, Nuns, Women, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, illuminated, containing the "Arma Christi" poem and other prayers, in Dutch, including prayers ascribed to Popes Sixtus IV and Alexander VI. The prayers are preceded by a rubric instructing readers to kneel as they recite the prayers in order to obtain an indulgence
Description:
In Dutch., Layout: single column of text., Script: gothic., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue. Large miniature at head of roll containing a bust of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, displaying his stigmata, and surrounded by the "arma Christi" (also known as the Instruments of the Passion). On a blue ground in gold frame. One large decorated initial immediately below miniature. Text accompanied by decorated borders on both sides., and Binding: section of leather sewn to top of scroll. Accompanied by seventeenth-century? fabric case with fabric and metal appliqués.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Dutch, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of a tour guide of Italy, including descriptions of notable sights as well as directions from "London to Rome as also from one Citie to another in all Ittaly." The text is organized by city, and "translated out of the high Germane into the English tongue by Captayne Henry Bell." Includes some verses in Latin and English
Description:
Phillipps MS 16427. and Binding: cloth covered boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Name):
Bell, Henry, Captain.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, Latin poetry, Travel, Description and travel, and Religious life and customs
