"Folio (29.9 x 22.8 cm, 11.75 x 9"). [1] f. This missal leaf contains the propers for the eighth Sunday after Pentecost, part of the communion and the post-communion prayer for the seventh, and the beginning of the ninth, including part of the epistle. The text is in black, some black initials being lined in red, with rubrics in red and with five red decorative initials and seven blue. Of these, five of the red and six of the blue are two lines in height (the remaining two being one line in height), although the pen tracery on some of these, in red, is up to eight lines in height.nnThe text is written in a round Italian gothic script, in two columns of 31 lines per column. The blind-ruling guiding the scribe's alignment of his text can be seen; the pricking holes showing how the blind-rules were laid on, can be seen also.nnSome light soiling, light cockling; at outer margin, where a small tab was apparently removed, slightest thinning of vellum." nnMissal: Inclina aurem tuam accelera ut eruas me,Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439455/datastream/PDF/view

"12mo (in all appr. 14 x 18.5 cm, 5.5 x 7.25"). [2] ff. Written in a beautiful clear Italian humanistic hand, this double leaf is probably from a breviary or book of hours. It begins with part of the responsory following the sixth lesson in the office for the dead, and continues with the antiphon incipit, "Complaceat tibi," and the beginning of Psalm 39 (40), as the seventh psalm in that office (opening the third nocturn). The second leaf in this bifolium continues with Psalm 41:2, Psalm 41 being the ninth psalm at matins of the dead (i.e., the third psalm of the third nocturn). While humanistic hand—a distinctive element of the Renaissance style—is more usually associated with classical manuscripts, it was, as this leaf exemplifies, also used for liturgical and devotional texts.nnThe recto of the first leaf has 1 two-line initial E in gold on a reddish purple background with blue inside the strokes of the E, both the blue and the pink having white tracery within. This leaf also contains a total of 14 decorative one-line initials, 6 gold and 8 blue, the latter with fine red tracery. The few short rubrics are in a brownish red. The text, 15 lines to the page, is lightly ruled in blind with a stylus; the top line of text is above the first line of ruling. The stylus was drawn across the hair side of the parchment, and the top lines of ruling run through the gutter.nnIn a simple white mat with both sides of both leaves visible. Vellum a lovely creamy white on the flesh side (the verso of the first and the recto of the second leaf); the hair side is darker, especially in the top margin. Remnants of binding thread remain in the lower part of the gutter.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439309/datastream/PDF/view

Italy; possibly, but not certainly, southern Italy (i.e., calendar lists St. Januarius, Anthony of Padua, and Athanasius, the Neapolitan). Late 15th or early 16th century. Three leaves (16 x 11.1 cm). Southern textualis hand. Ink-flourished initials in violet, red, and blue, with some gilding. Three two-line illuminated initials. One leaf with a square excised and filled with paper.