Medieval Manuscript Leaves
Title
Medieval Manuscript Leaves
Subject
medieval manuscripts
Description
Denison University Archives & Special Collections holds 72 medieval manuscript leaves that date between **** and ****. Medieval is defined by the time period of ****-****. Manuscript is defined by the object being handwritten rather than printed. A leaf is defined as being a single page out of a book, also sometimes called a folio.
Collection Items
E0100 Leaf from an Italian Pocket Bible
The Bible from which this loose leaf has been taken was created nearly 750 years ago. The vellum is especially thin and the script is exceptionally small (probably written with a raven's feather), making it a remarkable scribal accomplishment.…
E0101 Leaf from an Italian copy of Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
Denison already owns a leaf from this same source manuscript (Fifty Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts,item 40). Other loose leaves are owned by the University of Minnesota, Fordham University, Smith College, Oberlin College, the Rhode Island School of…
E0102 Leaf from a Florentine Psalter and Hymnal
Denison already owns a leaf from this same source manuscript (Fifty Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts portfolio box, item 32). Other leaves from the same source manuscript are owned by the University of Texas at Austin, the Franciscan University of…
E0103 Leaf from an Italian Book of Hours circa 1500
This leaf is from one of the smallest manuscripts Ege ever owned: a personal prayer book designed to be carried in a dress pocket. Only three other specimens are known to exist, in the collections of Samford University, Dartmouth College, and the…
E0104 Leaf from an Italian Book of Hours
This leaf comes from the very first medieval manuscript Otto Ege ever owned; he bought it in Philadelphia in 1911 when he was 23 years old. Denison already owns another leaf from the manuscript (shelfmark Z109.O74, leaf 4); others are owned by…
E0105 Leaf from a Dutch Book of Hours
This is one of only two leaves from its source manuscript currently known to exist; the other is in the Rauner Library at Dartmouth. It's of particular interest not only because it's in a vernacular language (i.e, not Latin), but because of the…
E0106 Leaf from an Italian Psalter
Denison owns another leaf from this same source manuscript (shelfmark Z109.O75, leaf 6). Only three other specimens are known to exist, owned by Central Washington University, Smith College, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
E0107 Leaf from a Flemish breviary
Denison already owns one leaf from this same source manuscript (in the Fifty Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts portfolio, item 18). Other leaves are owned by Boston University, Columbia University, and the REading (PA) Public Museum. The defining…
E0108 Leaf from an Italian missal
Leaves from this mass-book, while in some ways very ordinary, are easy to spot because of the unusual amount of friction they all show; the manuscript was clearly in regular use for many years before being dismembered. Six other leaves are known to…
Leaf from a 15th century breviary
"From a 15th century breviary manuscript or by a monastic scribe, probably in the Low Countries or in Northern France, circa 1490. Compact Gothic lettering is typical of all medieval breviaries and similar small books of devotion, as is the fine…