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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Creator: Hicfelt, Eberhard
Date: 1600; 1699
Resource type: codices
This is probably a 17th c. copy of a 15th c. book on Falconry.
Title: Book of Hours
Creator: Catholic Church
Date: undated
Resource type: codices
Text is from the Litany of the Saints.
Title: Book of Hours
Creator: Catholic Church
Date: 1425; 1475
Resource type: codices
Texts are canticles from Psalms (Iuxta LXX) 119:7-122:4.
Title: Book of Hours
Date: 1450; 1499
Resource type: codices
Text is Psalms (Iuxta LXX) 123:6-124:5.
Title: Book of Hours?
Creator: Catholic Church
Date: 1250; 1299
Resource type: codices
Text is Psalm (Iuxta LXX) 118:21-40.
Title: Book of Hours?
Creator: Catholic Church
Date: 1325; 1375
Resource type: codices
Text is probably part the daily office for lay individuals according to the Sarum Use. This leaf begins in a reading from Genesis 3 in the middle of verse 1.
Title: Book of Hours?
Creator: Catholic Church
Date: 1250; 1299
Resource type: codices
Text is Habacuc 3:9-18.
Title: Breviary
Creator: Catholic Church
Date: 1300; 1350
Resource type: codices
Text is Lessons 1-7 for the Feast of the Circumcision.
Title: Copiosa discrittione delle cose di Cipro ed le ragioni in favore o contra diverse openioni
Creator: Savorgnano, Ascanio; Cagnino, Allessandro
Date: 1578
Resource type: codices
In addition to the principle text, there is a prefatory epistle from Francesco Marcaldi to Scipione Bonleo (fol. 2).
Title: Eunuchus
Creator: Terence
Date: 1450; 1499
Resource type: codices
Text is from the end of Act 2 through the beginning of Act 3 of The Eunuch.
Title: Gradual
Creator: Catholic Church
Date: 1500; 1599
Resource type: codices
Text is from the Mass beginning with a communion proper.
Title: Hecyra
Creator: Terence
Date: 1450; 1499
Resource type: codices
Text is from the end of Act 4 through the beginning of Act 5 of The Mother-in-Law.
Title: Hours of the Virgin Mary
Creator: Catholic Church
Date: 1450; 1499
Resource type: codices
Text is from the sixth reading of the service at matins for the Virgin.
Title: In commemoratione defunctorum
Creator: Catholic Church
Date: 1450; 1499
Resource type: codices
Text is a liturgy for observing a vigil for the deceased. The Office of the Dead is use of Paris as shown by the responses to the nine lessons, beginning respectively: Qui lazarum (image 23), Credo quod (image 25), Heu michi (image 27), Ne recorderis (image 36), Domine quando (image 38), Peccantem me (image 40), Domine secundum (image 50), Memento mei (image 52), Libera me domine de morte eterna (image 54). The second text in this codex is the Recommendation of Souls (images 75-105).
Title: Marci Tullii Ciceronis De amicicia liber...
Creator: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Date: 1375; 1425
Resource type: codices
Texts contained in this codex are Cicero's De amicitia, Paradoxa, De senectute, and the text known as "Sallust's invectives."
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