"8vo (18 x 13.8 cm, 7.125 x 5.25"). [1] f. Leaf from a 13th-century liturgical psalter, for the Diocese of Rome: The text begins with the last words of Psalm 35; then follow the antiphon "Expugna i[m]pugnantes me" for that psalm, the incipit "Revela" (for the antiphon "Revela Domino viam tuam" that accompanies Psalms 36–37 as the 11th and 12th psalms for matins on Monday in the Roman office), and the complete text for Psalm 36.nnAfterwards, on the verso, is the beginning of Psalm 37. The text is not that of the Gallican (or Vulgate) psalter, the one in general use in the West, but rather the text of the old Roman psalter, which was peculiar to the diocese of Rome. Such Roman psalters are, as might be expected, rarer than Gallican ones.nnThe text is in two columns of 30 lines; it is faintly ruled with a dry stylus, the first line of text being above the top rule (apparently—the ruling is very faint). There is 1 two-line blue initial on the recto, with pen tracery in red running along half the page of text. On the verso is a two-line initial in red, with a pen flourish in purple running up half the page of text. There are also 20 one line red initials—nine on the recto, and eleven on the verso—and 20 one-line blue initials—nine on the recto and eleven on the verso. The red ink is the orange-red usually encountered in Italian manuscripts. There is a faint catchword in the lower margin of the verso.nnLight soiling, lower and inner edge tattered. Text intact, though the ink from some of the letters, including some of the blue initials, has flaked off, especially lower down on the verso, leaving only a faint impression of some letters. Possibly recovered from a binding. Clever matting could obscure damage, were that desired.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439492/datastream/PDF/view

"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

"Textualis hand. Double-column format. Written almost entirely in red. Two illuminated two-line initials and one 8-linennilluminated initial. Upper outer corner of the single leaf torn with loss of vellum and some few letters on two lines of each page. One illuminated initial unfortunately has "eaten" through the vellum, which is brittle; one edge is chipped, with a separated portion present that contains a few letters on each of six lines, on each side.",Measurements: 13.2 cm x 8.5 cm,The brittle leaf was scanned within it's plastic sleeve to avoid further damage.,Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439441/datastream/PDF/view

"114 x 210 mm. (4 1/2 x 8 1/4)." Single column, nine lines of text with neumes, written in two sizes of an extremely fine romanesque book hand. Rubrics in red capitals, large capitals in red. Marginal annotations in an early (but not contemporaneous) hand. Recovered from bindings, so somewhat yellowed, one leaf with elongated worming (not affecting text), one side of one leaf mostly obscured by binder's glue, but one leaf entirely legible, and both rather well preserved, especially given their history.nnAmong the texts included here are Mass texts (1) for Ash Wednesday, (2) for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday (Isaias 38:3-6) and the Gospel of Matthew 8:5-13 (though the scribe has mistakenly written John), and (3) for the Friday after Ash Wednesday (including Isaias 58:6-8).",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439458/datastream/PDF/view

"...including music notation in neumes.nnProvenance:nnThere is little doubt that the leaf has a Germanic origin and that it is mid-twelfth century in date. One feature of this leaf enables it to be more specifically attributed. This is the style of the ampersand and the letter 'g' which are exactly the same as on the leaf that was Lot 1 of the Korner sale at Sotheby's, 19th June 1990. That leaf was attributed to the workshop that supplied manuscripts for St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg during the period 1147-1167. The scribe of this leaf may either have worked in this workshop, or very close to it. One noted authority has suggested the leaf may be of Austrian origin.nnVerso:nn26 lines of text in Latin written in dark brown ink in one column on parchment. A fine mid-12th century proto-gothic script int wo sizes, rubrics in red. The Verso is decorated with ten initials of various sizes in bright red. There are no signs at all that the leaf has been ruled. There is a sewn repair to the vellum in the inside margin that was made before the leaf was written on which the scribe has carefully avoided. 11 lines include music notation in St Gall neumes (see Notes). The responses, versicles and antiphons (in the smaller script) are setto music using neumes written without staves. Where words of the chant are split to relate to the melody of the neumes, the parts are connected by red lines.nnRecto:nnAs Verso with a further six lines with music notation and four red initials. At the top of Recto is a folio number CCXXXIII in a 13th or 14th century hand.nnSource:nnProbably Southern Germany, Salzburg, but possibly Austria (see Provenance)."nnThis leaf has presumably been used as a cover for a later pastedown. A fold can be seen down the outside edge andall four edges have been trimmed, presumably to remove unsightly damage. The parchment is browned and there is a degree ofsurface dirt but overall the leaf is in remarkably good condition for its extreme age.,Measurements: 25.5 cm x 16 cm,Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439463/datastream/PDF/view

(e) 385mm. by 224mm., letter in Flemish of Jan van Raust, seigneur of Cantecroy and Mortsel, near Antwerp, dated 1 September 1438, 24 lines in light brown ink in a secretarial hand, 4 tags present, 2 seals missing, 2 present (that of arms of Jan van Raust in excellent condition), overall outstanding condition

Letters of Jean de Maillen, lieutenant of Claude de Wahau in his lordship of Baillonville, provost of the castle lands &c of Poillevache concerning rents from property at Doische being two related documents, attached now together by seal tags, the earlier of 10 June 1541 (parties including Guillaume de le Loye on behalf of chevalier Hean de Warisoul) and the later of 19 Jan. 1542 (parties including Jean de Warisoul, and Thierry, Baron de brandenbourg and lord of the castle of Bioul) with named witnesses from the fief of the prévôté de Poillevache, different persons for each document, who added their seals Dated: 10 June 1541, 19 Jan. 1542. French

Letter of Attorney, on vellum, ca 57 x 273 mm., with seal tag (lacking seal), 4 December 1362 Letter of attorney from Thomas Playce of Bolleby (Boulby) to Dom William de Buston, parson of the Church of Esynvtone (Easington), and John de Whetelay, to deliver seisin to John de Buston, Joan his wife and heirs of John, in two messuages and eight bovates of land in Bolleby. Given at Bolleby in Whiteby strand, the Sunday after the feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle, 36 Edward III (4 December 1362)

Rectangular vellum, 30.5 x 11.7 cm, written in Latin, 7 lines, brown ink, in a nice, legible hand, flourished monogram on the 2cm fold at bottom, from which hangs Mocenigo's substantial lead seal. Ink very slightly faded in places, three 1cm holes affecting text, else good.

"A land grant with warranty for land in Cowick. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4". 16 lines. Vellum a bit browned, a few small stains, but with virtually no text obscured, and generally in very good condition. This appears to be a 13th century grant with warranty. Adam, son of William, the merchant, of Cowick (West Riding), grants to William of Cargil one section of land in Cowick. Witnessed by John, son of Thomas de Snayth, cleric, and John Godard, Hugh, son of Alan."

Vellum. Oblong (26 x 46.5 cm; 10.375 x 18.25"). [1] f.On 20 January 1583 Besils Ffetyplace sold Ockholt (a.k.a. Ockwell's) Manor to Robert Scrope, Thomas Ridley ,and Francis Pigott. In this present instrument they "enfeoff it with the lands known as Burnhams to William Cox, William Day, Robert Silitoe, and William Raynor, all of Eton, as trustees for Anne, wife of the Provost William Day, for her life, and afterwards for her son and heir William Day" (The Berkshire Archaeological Journal, p. 24).nnThe verso has two slightly later addenda.nnA handsome Elizabethan-era manuscript on vellum, elegantly and legibly indited in sepia ink.nnSee: The Berkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 24. No. 1, pp. 19–27, for a full account of the history of Ockholt Manor. Top edge scalloped; old folds. One of the three wax seals still present. Overall, very good condition. (28111)",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439401/datastream/PDF/view

"Elizabethan vellum indenture, dated 1593, referencing Hugh Middleton, London goldsmith. About 19 x 10", on ruled vellum; roughly 800 words in English, written in a solid secretary hand. Two vellum pendant strips are attached, one retaining a red was lump seemingly with an illegible seal impression. Endorsement and docketing texts in English and Latin in Italic and Gothic scripts. Date 20 March 1593 and concernint an agreement between Jane Middleton of Llanfarnay, county Debighe [Wales] (widow of Richard Middleton) and her son John Middleton on the one part and Thomas Middleton, of London, Esquire, on the other part, and referencing a previous indenture in which Hugh Middleton of London, Goldsmith, had sold the messuage of Henllay (also in Denbighe), to Thomas, brother of Richard. Witnessed by Robert Salseburye, John Challoner, and Anthony Challoner, with their signatures. Hugh Middleton eventually went on to devise the scheme for bringing fresh water to London; he and one brother Thomas Middleton (probably identical with the Thomas Middleton of this document) have been described as among the "merchant adventurers" of Elizabethan London. Middleton seems likely to have been related to the Challoners, also prominent in Elizabeth's London: one can trace some of these family connections even in Wikipedia. In short, while this indenture records a seemingly mundane transaction in a remote part of the kingdom, a number of important Londoners were involved, and the document is especially interesting as a result."

(d) 232mm. by 148mm., letter in German from the "Burgermestere ind rait der stad de Sost" or mayor and council of the town of Soest, near Dortmund, dated 23 February 1438, 17 lines, written in light brown ink in a clear German secretarial hand, tag with remnants of seal now detached, some wear and folds, else in good condition;nn"Soester RatsurkundennTranskriptionnn1. Wy burgermestere ind rait der stad te Sost bekennen in duss openen breve vor uns unndnn2. vor alle unse borgere unde ingesettene unnd vor alle de jene, de des te donde hebt gehat off to dondenn3. hebn mogen van dusser burger wegn. So als Heinrich van Swansboll,droste in der tyt to Lunen, mit ge-nn4. richte opgehalden unde bekummert vor data dys breves, endels unser borger gud, myt namen Stevennn5. Kremers, Cerd Stevens unde andere ere medegessellen, und unser borger gud, dat he ungs gutlichennn6. umme bede wiln das nogeborn junchern Gerhardes van Cleve, greven tor Marke, unsen genedigennn7. junchern lois gelaten, quÿt gegeven, unde weder overgelevert unnd unsen burgern vursgreven gehantnn8. rekent hevet. So day wÿ uns des bedanken unde so wat schaden dar van komen is unde unwille.nn9. Wy unde unse burger [...]* tegen Henriche vurgenannt, unde tegen, de jene, de des mit eme to donde hebtnn10. gehat, dar um. Dar van is Heinrich und de jene, dey des mit eme te donde hat hebt mit uns,nn11. unsen borgeren und ingesetten vorgenannt gutlichen, genslichen unde to grunde gescheiden, tonnn12. ewigen dagen sunder argelist. Unde wy schelden Henriche vorgenannt, unde de des mit eme te don-nn13. de hebt gehat, beÿ uns unde unse burger unnd ingesettene der stad to Sost unnd vor all dey-nn14. ene, de des halben wegn to donde hebt gehat, of to donde hebn mogen, dar van quÿt vrigennn15. ledich und los [es]** sybder argelist, so vrigh als sey des werenm, vor der tÿt, ee de vurs kummer schach.nn16. Unde hebt des bekanntinisse unde to tuge der warheit unser stad Secret an duss breiff donnn17. hangen. De geven is des enisten gudenstage an der vasten na der gebort Criste verinteynhundert innn18. achtundertigst [....}***nnRegestnnDer Rat und der Bürgermeister der Stadt Soest geben bekannt, dass de Amtsdroste von Lünen, Heinrich von Zwansbell, der Güter der soester Bürger Steven Kremers und Cord Stevens sowie weiterer soester Bürger gerichtlich beschlagnahmt hat, auf Drängen seines Herm Gerhard von Kleve, dem Grafen von der Mark, den Bürgern zurückgeben muss. Der Rat und die Bürgerschaft soests versöhnt sich mit Henirich von Zwansbell und dtellt den friedlichen Zustand vor der Beschlagnahmung wieder her.nnAngukündight und angehängt wird das Siegel der Stadt Soest.nn1438, 26. Februar. (?)nn* Unleserlich (Falz).nn** Unleserlich (Falz).nn***Unleserlich",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439510/datastream/PDF/view

Bookseller description:nn"[MANUSCRIPT - HERALDRY - GENEALOGY - DAMMANT (DAMANT) FAMILY]. [Heraldic pedigree of François and Nicolas Damant].n[Southern Low Countries (Brussels or possibly Courtrai/Kortrijk?)], [ca. 1600/20?]. Folio (ca. 38 x 24.5 cm). Manuscript in French on paper, written in brown ink in a neat French secretary hand (a neatly upright gothic cursive), on both sides of the first 6 leaves, with the explanations of the coats of arms written in a finely executed italic. With 43 ink-drawn coats of arms, that of Louise de Sicleers (the wife of François Damant) and the same arms where it appears quartered in the arms of others, coloured in red and white by a contemporary hand. One coat is helmed and crested, with mantling added in pencil; another helmed, with crest, supporters and mantling added in pencil. Formerly sewn, apparently together with other items, but perhaps never bound.nnManuscript containing the narrative pedigree of the two brothers François (ca. 1535-1611) and Nicolas Damant (ca. 1531-1616), both members of the important Damant (written as "Dammant" in the manuscript) family, which held important positions in the Habsburg Netherlands. Their father, for example, Pierre Damant, was councillor and courtier to Charles IV. At least Nicolas was born in Brussels and also died there, but François died at Courtrai/Kortrijk, His son François Damant was councillor and garde joyaux (keeper of the library) to the dukes of Burgundy. He married Louise de Sicleers. François's brother, Nicolas, was magistrate and statesman in the Habsburg Netherlands. He became councillor to the Council of Brabant, appointed by the Duke of Alva in 1568, and master of requests of the Brussels Privy Council before he became Chancellor of Brabant in 1585. He also became garde des sceaux (keeper of the seals) and garde joyaux of Philips II. He married Barbara Brant. Like most members of the family, François, Nicolas and their father Pierre were all members of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Ordre de la Toison d'Or), then the most prestigious and historic order of chivalry in the world. The present manuscript is in fact a genealogical family tree written in a narrative style, describing the several ancestors of Francois and Nicolas, as well as their children. It is illuminated with ink-drawn coat of arms of the Damant family members, together with the coat of arms of the families that are related to the Damant family by marriage. The arms that has been coloured is: gules, a lion rampant argent (the Sicleers arms and the 1st and 4th quarters of the Bidolte arms). The latest date mentioned in the text is 1598 and we find no reference to the deaths of François (1611) or Nicolas (1616) Damant, so the manuscript may have been written shortly before their deaths (the watermarks, noted below, would allow a date shortly before or shortly after).nnThe manuscript is written and drawn on a single quire of paper from a single stock, with a somewhat squarish sheet on the borderline between Crown and Demy (about 37.7 x 47.8 cm), collating: [A] 12 (- A12) = 11 ll, with A7-11 blank. The six written leaves are numbered [1], 2-6 in a contemporary hand, but the leaves were apparently later sewn together with other items, very likely a heraldic or genealogical collection, including a leaf inserted between leaves 5 and 6 (or an error in the numbering), so that the modern page numbers in pencil are irregular ([153-154?], 155-162,165-176). The paper is watermarked (from the mould side): horn on an uncrowned shield, the single-wire cord of the horn topped with a Saint Andrew's cross = -, with the wide end of the horn toward the centre of the sheet. The sheet shows 18 full-sized chain-spaces (average distance between chainlines 24.3 mm), a tranchefile about 11 mm beyond the last regular chainline at both ends and about 10 mm further to the deckle. The two twin wateermarks measure 44.5 x 41 mm (in the left half-sheet, centred on the 5th chain-space) and 48 x 50 mm (in the right half-sheet, centred on the 14th chain-space). We find no exact match to the watermarks in the literature, but the closest are Heawood 2640-2647 (Antwerp 1598-1612), particularly 2640 and 2646, and Piccard VII.X.121 (Mainz 1621).nnThe first (singleton) leaf and five bifolia are untrimmed, with all deckles intact, formerly sewn at 4(?) stations but never glued or pasted. With a few very small holes in the paper, mostly in the folds, a few leaves slightly darkened and frayed at the fore-edge, otherwise in very good condition. A very interesting early 17th-century heraldic pedigree of one of the most important noble families of the Habsburg Netherlands.nn6, [5 blank], ll. For Francois and Nicolas Damant: Louis Galesloot, "Damant (Nicolas)" in: Biographic nationale (1873), pp. 647-649; Luc Jean Joseph Van der Vynckt, Nederlandsche beroerten onder Filips II, vol. 4, p. 522.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439372/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

"Two leaves (15.7 x 11 cm). Textualis hand. Four or five one-line illuminated initials per page and line-fillers (some unusual). One two-line illuminated initial."

"Two leaves (10.7 x 8 cm). Hybrida hand. One two-line initial on one leaf, with ink flourishes in margins; a total of 8 small initials (red alternating with blue; one-line high) on other pages."

TWO ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES WITH UNFINISHED MARGINAL DECORATION, FROM A BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN. TEXTS FROM NONE AND VESPERS FROM THE HOURS OF THE CROSS. (France, ca. 1415) 6 3/4 x 4 3/4". Single column, 16 lines, in a bold and attractive uncluttered gothic book hand. Each leaf with identical decoration: capitals struck with yellow, three one-line and three two-line initials in gold on a blue and magenta ground with white tracery, two line endings in the same colors, BOTH SIDES OF BOTH LEAVES WITH DELICATE DRAWINGS IN LIGHT BROWN INK OF FLORAL SPRAYS emanating from the two-line initials (and in the upper and lower margins of the recto of each leaf), THE DRAWINGS MEANT TO BE PAINTED IN, BUT THE WORK NEVER COMPLETED. Just a hint of soiling, some minor fading in the text without loss of legibility, otherwise in fine condition.nnThese leaves, which appeared consecutively in the Book of Hours from which they were taken, are excellent specimens of the illuminator's work in progress. It is clear from these examples that the scribe's work was done first and that another artisan, no doubt with higher status, followed up by painting the border decoration (a third person may have done the initials and line endings as an intermediate step)." nnBook of Hours (unfinished),Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439275/datastream/PDF/view

"EXQUISITE TINY ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, FROM A VERY FINE BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN. (France, Tours or Paris, ca. 1530) 4 1/2 x 2 1/2." Single column, 21 lines of text, written in a very fine, tiny, upright humanistic hand. Rubrics in red, varying numbers of paragraph markers and one- and two-line initials in gold on a black ground or the reverse (and often with red filigree elaboration), frequent delicate line fillers in various combinations of gold, black and red, featuring knotted rope and pruned branch motifs, text on both sides within a knotted ropework border in gold and black with convoluted tassels at the bottom. IN EXTRAORDINARILY FINE CONDITION, ESPECIALLY FRESH, CLEAN, AND BRIGHT.nnThese leaves come from the celebrated atelier known as the 1520s Hours Workshop. Even though they do not feature any miniatures or historiation, it is not overstating the case to say that even these text leaves are exquisite. The tiny and beautifully regular script and the delicate initials and line endings are impressive manifestations of scribal artisans working at the very top of their craft during the final flowering of illuminated manuscript production in France.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439303/datastream/PDF/view

"12mo (15.6 cm x 11.4 cm, 6.125 x 4.5"). [1] This leaf is from a lectionary giving the lessons from matins, and, given its size, is likely from a breviary. It begins with part of the second and the third short lesson for matins on the Tuesday in the octave of the Ascension and continues with the lessons for the Wednesday in the octave (altogether Rev. 1:16–20). Then, for the octave day, follows a sermon of St. Leo for the feast of the Ascension, and part of the Venerable Bede's homily on the gospel "Behold I send the promised of my father . . ." (Luke 24:49 ff.).nnOn the recto are seven initials: 1 four-line blue initial "P", 1 red two-line "E", and 3 one-line blue initials alternating with 2 one-line red initials; on the verso 1 two-line initial I, 1 two-line initial E, and 4 one-line blue alternating with 3 one-line red initials. The lines are ruled in gray-brown, with the first line of text below the top ruling. The text is written in a round gothic bookhand with many abbreviations, in black ink with the rubrics in bright red. The recto is numbered xlviii, in red, in the upper right-hand corner. In the center of the bottom margin of the verso is the catchword "babti" in black surrounded by tracery. Spanish illuminated leaves from this period are very uncommon.nnA light stain in the lower outer margin, and bare remnants of adhesive higher up on the recto.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439306/datastream/PDF/view