Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Collection Overview
The Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection contains images of 21 unbound manuscript items and 10 bound manuscript items from the Special Collections of the University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library. These manuscripts were written in various locations across Europe and the Middle East, from early in the 12th century to the 17th century C.E.
Many of the texts are religious in nature. There are examples from Vulgate Bibles, the Koran, liturgical books, books of private devotion, handbooks for confessors, and a book of church law. Other texts include works by Cicero, Terence, Eberhard Hicfelt, and Ascanio Savorgnano; and contain topical works on medicinal herbs, the island of Cyprus, and the laws of Carpeneto, Italy. The collection also includes a contract and a will, both from Italy.
These beautiful books are often heavily illustrated or decorated, and provide examples of a wide range of scripts, both Gothic and later varieties. Most of the manuscripts are written on parchment, but several are made of paper, including the oldest item, a Koran leaf with a supplied date of 1106. The scope of the collection will facilitate studies of book history, codicology, paleography, and Medieval and Renaissance history.
Time Period Covered: 12th century - 17th century, C.E.
Published: April 30, 2010, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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Creator(s)
- Catholic Church [11]
- Bartholomew, of San Concordio, 1262-1347 [2]
- Terence [2]
- Antonius de Ruzinentis de Ripalta [1]
- Cagnino, Allessandro [1]
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius [1]
- Frederick II, King of Denmark and Norway, 1534-1588 [1]
- Hicfelt, Eberhard [1]
- Mohammed bin Kuzel Al Isawai [1]
- Savorgnano, Ascanio [1]
Format(s)
- text [38]
Genre(s)
- codices [38]
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Title: Summa de Casibus Conscientiae
Creator: Bartholomew, of San Concordio, 1262-1347
Date: 1400; 1450
Resource type: codices
The text of this alphabetically arranged confessor's handbook is preceded by a table of contents, fol. 1r-4r.
Title: Summa de Casibus Conscientiae
Creator: Bartholomew, of San Concordio, 1262-1347
Date: 1400; 1450
Resource type: codices
This copy of a confessor's handbook is incomplete.
Creator: Frederick II, King of Denmark and Norway, 1534-1588
Date: 1550; 1650
Resource type: codices
The text of this manuscript appears to be a copy of the Danish Church Ordinance of 1537, here applied to Frederick II's new royal patrimony of Ditsmarschen. The original ordinance, by Frederick's father, Christian III, established Danish ecclesiastical organization (Lutheran) and was based on the Augsburg Confession of 1530. The principle text (fol. 1-60) is followed by a register of the articles (fol. 61-65r). This is follwed by copies, in several later hands, of various documents, agreements, and "konighliche und furstliche Constitutionen" of Danish rulers from 1422-1635 (fol. 65v-110).
Title: Vulgate Bible
Date: [between 1200 and 1250]
Resource type: codices
Text is Jeremiah 3:22-7:13
Title: Vulgate Bible
Date: 1230
Resource type: codices
Text is I Chronicles (I Paralipomenon] 12:21-17:3, and II Chronicles (II Paralipomenon) 1:10-6:14.
Title: Vulgate Bible
Date: 1200; 1299
Resource type: codices
Text is Lamentations 4:17-end; Baruch 1:1-2:24.
Title: Vulgate Bible
Date: 1200; 1250
Resource type: codices
Text is Jerome's prologue to Isaiah and Isaiah 1:1-3:3.
Title: Vulgate Bible
Date: 1450
Resource type: codices
Text is Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) 3:3-8:7.
![Thumbnail: hec sunt statuta et ordinationex communis et hominum ac
universitatis loci carpeneti...[in red]Laws and Statutes of Carpeneto, Italy](http://cdi.uvm.edu/archives/manuscripts/mrmc006p001-thumb.jpg)
Title: hec sunt statuta et ordinationex communis et hominum ac universitatis loci carpeneti...[in red]
Creator: Antonius de Ruzinentis de Ripalta
Date: 1458
Resource type: codices
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