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France; Middle 15th Century. Latin Text; Lettre de Somme. Jerome, the father of the Latin Church and translator of the Bible, shows in his writing his active participation in the controversies of his day (c. 332 to 420 A.D.). With the frequent use of…

France; Middle 15th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

Books of Hours, beautifully written, enriched with burnished gold initials, and adorned with miniature paintings, were frequently the most treasured possessions of the devout and…

Italy; Middle 15th Century. Latin Text; Rotunda or Round Gothic Script, square rhetorical neumes.

Epistolaries are among the rarest of liturgical manuscripts. Their text consists of the Epistles and Gospels with lessons from the Old Testament for…

France (Limoges); Middle 15th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

The provenance of this manuscript is clearly designated as Limoges because of the inclusion of certain parts of the masses proper to this diocese, and because of the…

Italy; Middle 15th Century. Latin Text; Humanistic Script.

The known part of Livy's great life work, the History of Rome, was completed about the year 9 A.D. The finished work consisted of one hundred and forty-two books, of which only thirty-five…

Italy; Late 15th Century. Latin Text; Humanistic Book Hand. This text on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard by St. Thomas Aquinas, the "Angelic Doctor," was the forerunner of the latter's great work Summa Theologica. It is most unusual to find the…

France; Late 15th Century. Latin Text; Lettre Bâtarde.

This composite text includes the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I (St. Gregory the Great, 540-604 A.D.), which are largely autobiographical, and his writing on the lives and miracles of the early…

Germany (Würzburg); Late 15th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script, Gothic Notation. This leaf from the Book of Psalms was written in the Benedictine monastery of St. Stephan in Würzburg and dated 1499 A.D. The book hand closely…

The Netherlands; Late 15th Century. Latin Text; Bold Angular Gothic Script.

In general, the Books of Hours produced for the devout layman in the Netherlands at the end of the 15th century were written in Dutch. This particular example, however, is…

Germany; Late 15th Century. Latin Text; Semi-Gothic Script.

The Vulgate Bible, a translation credited to St. Jerome, was adopted by the Catholic Church as the authorized version. This leaf was written in Germany nearly sixty years after the…