Western Manuscripts at Bridwell Library to 1650

 

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Bridwell MS 1


[Biblia latina], Genesis 1:1, f. 4r.

Title: [Biblia latina].
Origin: [England or Northern France: c. 1250].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 506 leaves. 20 x 14 cm. Double columns of 50 lines. Textblock: 14.5 x 9.5 cm.


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Bridwell MS 2


[Missal], f. 6r.

Title: [Missal]. Use of Rome
Origin: [Italy: 14th century].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 193 leaves. 35 x 24 cm. Double column of 24 lines. Textblock: 21 x 16.5 cm. 

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Bridwell MS 3


[Bulla]

Title: [Bulla. Epistolae et privilegium. "Quotiens illud a nobis" ].
Origin: [Ferentino, Italy: 11 January 1174].
Description: Manuscript on parchment. Broadside. 70 x 53 cm. Single column of 30 lines. Textblock: 42 x 45 cm. Seal missing.


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Bridwell MS 4


Vita Santa Chiara vergine, f.1r

Author: Ugolino Verino.
Title:Vita di Santa Chiara vergine.
Language: Italian.
Origin: Florence, Italy: 1496.
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 39 leaves. 21 x 13 cm. Single column of 19 lines. Textblock: 14 x 8.5 cm.

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Bridwell MS 5


Epistola, f.1r

Author: Pseudo-Eusebius of Cremona and Pseudo-Augustine.
Title: Epistola ad Damasum et Theodorum Senatorem de morte Hieronimi. Bound with: In vita Hieronimi presbiteri and  Pseudo-Augustine. De admonitione ad comitem Aurelianum.
Origin: [Zadar, Croatia], 18 November 1469.
Description: Manuscript on paper. 86 leaves. 21.4 x 14.5 cm. Single column of 27 lines. Textblock: 15 x 9 cm.

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Bridwell MS 6


[Biblia latina], Initial "I", Genesis 1:1, f. 5r.

Title: [Biblia latina].
Origin: [Paris: c. 1250].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 613 leaves. 18 x 11 cm. Double columns of 42 lines. Textblock: 12.5 x 8.5 cm.

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Bridwell MS 7


[Wycliffite New Testament], John 1:1.

Title: [Wycliffite New Testament].
Origin: [England: c. 1400].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 164 leaves. 27 x 19 cm. Double columns of 43 lines. Textblock: 21 x 13.5 cm.

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Bridwell MS 8


[Missal], f. 7r.

Title: [Missal]. Use of Sarum.
Origin: [Salisbury, England: c.1418].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 253 leaves. 45 x 33 cm. Double columns of 39 lines. Textblock: 34 x 21cm.

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Bridwell MS 9


[Book of Hours],
Hours of the Virgin, Matins, Annunciation, f. 19r.

Title: [Book of Hours]. Use of Sarum.
Origin: [Flanders (Ghent?): c. 1420].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 160 leaves.  18.5 x 12.8 cm.  Single column of 16 lines.  10.5 x 6.5 cm.

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Bridwell MS 10


[Gradual], f. 10r.
 

Title: [Gradual].
Origin: [Spain:  c.1600].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. [194 leaves]. 52 x 36 cm. Single column of 6 staves with musical notation. Textblock: 44 x 26.5 cm.

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Bridwell MS 11


[Antiphonal], f. 101r.

Title: [Antiphonal].
Origin:
[Spain: 17th century].
Description:
Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 128 leaves. 53 x 37 cm. Single column of 5 staves. Textblock: 46.5 x 23 cm.
 

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Bridwell MS 12


[Lectionary], f. 1
7v.

Title: [Lectionary].
Language:
Greek.
Origin:
[Byzantium: c. 1150].
Description:
Manuscript on parchment. 18 leaves. 34 x 26 cm. Double columns of 20 lines. Textblock: 19.5 x 15 cm.
 

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Bridwell MS 13


[Book of Hours]. Use of Sarum,
 f. 142r.

Title: [Book of Hours]. Use of Sarum.
Origin:
[France, St. Omer?: c.1330].
Description:
Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 164 leaves. 10 x 6 cm. Single column of 15 lines. Textblock: 5.5 x 3.7 cm.
 

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Bridwell MS 14


[Book of Hours]. Use of Rome,
 f. 14r.

Title: [Book of Hours].Use of Rome.
Origin:
[Florence or Fiesole, Italy, c.1470].
Description:
Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 198 leaves. 13 x 9 cm. Single column of 13 lines. Textblock: 6.4 x 4.8 cm.
 

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Bridwell MS 15


[Book of Hours]. Use of Rome,
 f. 73r.

Title: [Book of Hours].Use of Troyes(?).
Origin:
[France (Burgundy-Champagne): c. 1480].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 125 leaves. 18 x 13 cm. Single column of 20 lines. Textblock: 12.5 x 6.7 cm.

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Bridwell MS 16


[Book of Hours]. Use of Rome,
 f. 2r.

Title: [Book of Hours]. Use of Rome.
Origin: [Flanders: c. 1525].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 210 leaves. 22 x 15 cm. Double columns of 62 lines. Textblock: 10.5 x 9.3 cm.

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Bridwell MS 17


[Missal]. Dominican Use. f.70r.

Title: [Missal]. Dominican Use.
Origin: [Bohemia: c.1380].
Description: Manuscript on parchment. 167 leaves. 14 x 10 cm. Double columns of 37 lines. Textblock: 10.3 x 7 cm.

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Bridwell MS 18


[Book of Hours], f. 67v-68r.

Title: [Book of Hours]. Use of Troyes.
Origin: [France: c.1400 ].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 112 leaves. 17 x 12 cm. Single column of 16 lines. Textblock: 10.5 x 7.4 cm. Imperfect.

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Bridwell MS 19


[Breviary]. Use of Rome. f. 8r.

Title: [Breviary]. Use of Rome.
Origin: [Northern Italy: 15th century ].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 264 leaves. 12 x 9 cm. Double columns of eight staves. Textblock: 7 x 5 cm.

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Bridwell MS 20


[Canticum canticorum]. f. 1r.

Title: [Canticum canticorum.]
Language: Dutch.
Origin: [Netherlands: 15th century].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on paper. 159 leaves. 21 x 15 cm. Textblock: 15.2 x 11 cm.


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Bridwell MS 21


[Breviary]. f. 96r.

Title: [Breviary]. Benedictine Use.
Origin: [Northern Italy: After 1431].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 477 leaves. 12 x 8 cm. Double columns of 33 lines. Textblock: 9.3 x 6 cm.


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Bridwell MS 22


[Lillium medicinae]. f. 5v.

Author: Bernardus de Gordonio (c. 1260-1318).
Title: [Lilium medicinae].
Language: Hebrew.
Origin:Escalona, Spain, 11 January 1466.

Description: Manuscript on paper. 243 leaves. 18 x 13 cm. Single column of 27 to 29 long lines. Textblock: 16 x 10.5 cm.

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Bridwell MS 23


[Psalms and English Catholic Tracts], f. 2r.

Title: [Psalms and English Catholic Tracts].
Language: English.
Origin: [England: 17th century].
Description: Manuscript on paper. 76 leaves. 19 x 15 cm. Single column of 33 lines. Textblock: 15.2 x 11 cm.

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Bridwell MS 32


[Devotions to Saint Anne], f. 1r.

Title: [Devotions to Saint Anne].
Language: Dutch.
Origin: [Netherlands: c.1500].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on vellum. 81 leaves. 14 x 10 cm. Single column of 24 lines. Textblock: 8.5 x 6 cm.


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Bridwell MS 34


[
Apologia], f. 1r.

Author: Marsilio Ficino.
Title:
Apologia Marsilij Ficini pro multis florentinis ab antichristo Hieronimo Ferrariense, hypocritar[um] summo deceptis: ad collegiu[m] Cardinalium.
Origin: [Italy: 1498].
Description: Manuscript on paper. 4 leaves. 20.6 x 14.4 cm. Single column 32 lines. Textblock: 18.3 x 11 cm.

 

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Bridwell MS 35


[
Biblia latina], f. 161v.

Title: [Biblia latina].
Origin: [Northern France?: c. 1225].
Description: Decorated manuscript on parchment. 210 leaves. 22 x 15 cm. Double columns of 62 lines. Textblock: 10.5 x 9.3 cm.


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Bridwell MS 45


[
Convenience]

Title:[Convenience].
Language: Spanish.
Origin: Jerez, Spain: 1510.
Description: Manuscript on parchment. 1 leaf. Complete. 24 x 30 cm. Single column of 10 lines. Textblock: 5 x 23.5 cm.

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Bridwell MS 46


[Carta executoria]

Title: [Carta executoria].
Language: Spanish.
Origin: Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain: 1567.
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 54 leaves. 35 x 25 cm. Single column of 38 lines. Textblock: 21 x 13 cm.

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Bridwell MS 47


[Carta executoria]

Title: [Carta executoria].
Language: Spanish.
Origin: Calcada, Spain: 1552.
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 18 leaves. 32 x 24 cm. Single column of 40 lines. Textblock: 21.5 x 15 cm.

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Bridwell MS 57


[Chronicle of England], f. 8r.

Title: [Chronicle of England].
Language: English.
Origin: [London: c. 1650].
Description: Manuscript on parchment. 108 leaves. 35 x 25 cm. Quadruple columns of a varying number of lines. Final column of 50 lines. Textblock: 29 x 22.5.


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Bridwell MS 58


[Feast of St. Aphrodisius], p. 18.

Title: [Feast of St. Aphrodisius].  [Die XXVIII. Aprilis Festum S. Aphrodisii primi Episcopi Bilterrensis martyris & civitatis patroni].
Origin: [Béziers: after 1622].
Description: Manuscript on paper. 216 pages. 22 x 13 cm. Single column of 19 lines. Single column of six staves. Textblock: 14.5 x 9 cm.


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Bridwell MS 68


[Confessionale defecerunt scrutantes scrutino], f. 20r.

Author: St. Antoninus Florentinus (1389-1459), Archbishop of Florence.
Title: [Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutino].
Origin: [Italy: c.1460].
Description: Manuscript on parchment. 204 leaves. 15 x 10 cm. Single column of 24 lines. Textblock: 8.5 x 7 cm.


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Bridwell MS 91


[Nun's prayerbook], ff. 31v-32r.

Title: [Nun's prayerbook].
Language: German.
Origin: [Germany: c.1475].
Description: Illuminated manuscript on parchment. 185 leaves. 8 x 6.5 cm. Single column of 10-12 lines. Textblock:   5 x 3  cm.

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Bridwell MS 94


Roseum memoriale,

Author:  Petrus, von Rosenheim, ca. 1380-1433
Title: Roseum memoriale.
Origin: [Southern Netherlands?, 1460].
Description: Manuscript on paper. 79 leaves. 25 x 13 cm. Single column of 18 lines.  Textblock: 13 x 9.5 cm.

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