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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…

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.

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…

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…

"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…

"From Flemish Book of Hours. A striking leaf with the customary wide margins and very careful workmanship. This manuscript, circa 1250-1300, reflects the Flemish or Northern French influence in the few initial letters where a clay base is encrusted…

"From a 13th century MS., being a liturgical book similar to portions of the modern missal. This example is typical of the period when small manuscripts first came into vogue, and the large bold script of the 12th Century had given place to fine,…

"From an early legal manuscript, 1280-1320 A. D., an original handwritten folio leaf of a very early and rare Italian codex of civil and canon law combined. The work is executed in double columns of the finest gothic book hand of the period and is a…

From a Latin manuscript dated 1434, containing the "sermones" of Simon de Cremona, prepared in the Scriptorium (as monastic writing-rooms were called) of the famous Carthusian monastery at Buxheim. Caspar Misnensis was the scribe, and he informs us…

"From Los Virtuosos Varones, author unknown. A Portuguese manuscript on the nobility of the Portuguese aristocracy, circa 1450. An unusual work on fine paper with the distinctive barbed design of the initial letters that mark it with the Portuguese…