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This file provides summary guidance to the medieval and Renaissances in the libraries of the Johns Hopkins University. Unless otherwise noted, all works are in Latin. References are made to the de Ricci Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada and the Bond / Faye Supplement to de Ricci. Brief citations to certain other reference tools also are made. These manuscripts are listed on Digital Scriptorium. For more information contact Thomas M. Izbicki.
Germany, s. xv, by a Franciscan. II + 268 + IV ff. Provenance: Georgius Augustinus Geisler, 1651; Hermann Collitz; purchased by the Linguistic Society of America, 1946. Accession Number: 186,014.
fol. 1r-8v Calendar; fol. 8v Zodiac chart; fol. 9v-13r Liturgical Rubrics; fol. 15r-268v Breviary. Census, vol. 1, p. 857: MS 2; Supplement, p. 194: MS 18.
France, s. xiii. I + 128 + I ff. Provenance: VR. Accession Number: 182,627.
fol. 1r-128v Odo Cantuariensis OSB, Moralia super psalmos; fol. 128v Capitula distinctionum (mutilated at end).
Supplement, p. 193: MS 12.
Low Countries (?), 1471. III + 178 + I ff. Provenance: Acquired in 1886 from Caspar René Gregory. Accession Number: 28,990.
fol. 1r-125r Cicero, De officiis (text missing between fol. 29v-30r: Lib. 1, 85 in med.-88 in med.); fol. 125v-131v Idem, De somnio Scipionis; fol. 132r-144v Idem, In Catalinam oratio prima; fol. 145r-156r Idem, In Catalinam oratio secunda; fol. 156v-167r Idem, In Catalinam oratio tertia; fol. 167v-177r Idem, In Catalinam oratio quarta; fol. 177v-178r Grammatical notes.
Census, vol. 1, p. 755: MS 8.
Flanders, s. xv (ca. 1462). III + 153 + VII ff. Provenance: "Sr M v h Ao" (Brigittine nun); Hermann Collitz; purchased from the Linguistic Society of America, 1946. Accession Number: 186,016.
fol. 1r-6r Commendatio defunctorum; fol. 6r-58r Breviary, Bridgittine Use (Latin & Dutch); fol. 58r-71r Hours of the Holy Spirit; fol. 71r-114r Office of the Dead, Bridgittine Use; fol. 114r-122v Penitential Psalms; fol. 122v-131r Litany, Bridgittine Use; fol. 131v-144v Psalms 77, 88 & 105 with prayers; fol. 144v-146r Verse in honor of the Virgin Mary (Walther, IC 19037) with prayers; fol. 146r-v Confiteor; fol. 146v-147v Prayers; fol. 147v-151r Litany, Brigittine Use; fol. 151r-152v Prayers.
Supplement, pp. 193-94: MS 15.
N. France (Rouen?), s. xv. 127 ff. Provenance: Additions in an English hand; George T. Strong (1837)." Accession Number: 41,705.
fol. 1r-47v Hours of the Blessed Virgin; fol. 48r-57r Penitential Psalms (mutilated: Ps 6:10-end; 31; 37; 50; 101; 129; 142); fol. 57r-60r Gradual Psalms; fol. 60r-v Antiphon, "Ne reminiscaris"; fol. 60v-67r Litany; fol. 67v-70r Hours of the Holy Cross; fol. 70r-72v Hours of the Holy Spirit; fol. 72v-97v Office of the Dead; fol. 97v-103v Prayers to the Virgin Mary; fol. 104v-108r Les xv joies de Nostre Dame; fol. 108r-112r Les vii requestes.
Census, vol. 1, p. 754: MS 4; Supplement, p. 193. Illuminations at fol. 1r (damaged), 28r, 67v, 73r.
N. France (Tournai?), s. xv2. 103 ff. Provenance: George T. Strong. Accession Number: 41,705.5.
fol. 1r-6v Calendar (in French); fol. 7r-11v Hours of the Holy Cross; fol. 12r-15v Hours of the Holy Spirit; fol. 16r-49v Hours of the Blessed Virgin; fol. 49v-51v Prayer to the Virgin Mary; fol. 52r-58v Prayers (Latin & French); fol. 59r-66v Penitential Psalms; fol. 66v-70r Litany; fol. 71r-102v Office of the Dead, Tournai use.
Census, vol. 1, p. 754: MS 5. Illuminations at fol. 7r, 12r, 16r, 55r, 59r, 71r.
Germany, s. xvi 410 pp. Provenance: Bought from W.H. Allen, Philadelphia (1947). Accession Number: 186,016.
pp. 1-410 Hours and prayer (in German), contents: pp. 8-136 ordered according to the liturgical hours; pp. 136-241 prayers for various occasions; pp. 241-275 prayers for the different days of the week; pp. 276-279 prayer for the dead; pp. 279-301 penitential psalms; pp. 301-315 litany; pp. 316-328 seven brief psalms; pp. 328-333 prayers; pp. 333-336 Hymn "Vexilla regis"; pp. 336-342 prayers and hymns to Saints Anne and Catherine; pp. 342-349 Nine admonitions; pp. 349-391 Marian devotions; pp. 392-394 prayer to Saint Margaret; pp. 395-402 prayers at mass; pp. 403-408 intercessory prayers; pp. 409-410 prayers to the Virgin Mary.
Supplement, p. 193: MS 14.
Italy, s. xv. I + 34 + II ff. Provenance: George Stephens (1851) from Smith, Old Compton Street, London; Tenney Frank (1908) in Philadelphia; presented by his widow (1939). Accession Number: 184,5026
fol. 1r-34r Franciscus Barbaro, De re uxoria.
Census, vol. 1, p. 858; Supplement, p. 194: MS 19; Kristeller, Iter Italicum, vol. 5, p. 212.
Germany, 1458. 177 ff. Provenance: "Ex Bibliotheca monasterii Amorbach ordinis sancti Benedicti"; nearly illegible stamp, "Furst Leiningen hofbibliothek"; stamp, "J. S. Norton M. D."; Hermann Collitz.
Inside Front Cover: Fragment of the Office of the Dead; fol. 1r Table of contents>; fol. 1v-2r De diebus; fol. 2v De angelorum choris; fol. 3v-4r De officiis angelorum; fol. 4v De praedicatore (Walther IC no. 9435); fol. 4v De penis inferni (Walther IC no. 20207); fol. 4v De inferno (Walther IC no. 6580); fol. 5r Notes on readings from the gospels; fol. 5r De annis virginis Mariae (Walther IC no. 20497); fol. 5r Note concerning the "Pater noster" fol. 5r De genealogia trium Mariarum (Walther IC no. 1060); fol. 5r De tribus Herodibus (Walther, IC 1564); fol. 5r-6r Prologues of the gospels (Stegmüller RB no. 556); fol. 6r-64r Sunday gospels with glosses; fol. 64v Note on readings from the gospels; fol. 65r-99v Concordantia evangelistarum de passione Domini cum
glossis); fol. 105r-123v Figurae veteris testamenti comparatae novo; fol. 124r De castoribus; fol. 126r-146r De naturis quarundarum avium et aliarum bestiarum; fol. 155r-160r De virtutibus aliquorum lapidum; fol. 162r-v De virtutibus aliquorum arborum; fol. 165r-169r Tabula epistolarum et evangeliorum per totum annum; fol. 169v-171v Tabula epistolarum et evangeliorum de sanctis (incomplete); fol. 172r-173r Tabula epistolarum et evangeliorum communis sanctorum; Inside Back Cover: Fragment of the Office of the Dead.
Census, vol. 1, p. 857: MS 1; Supplement, p. 200 (listing this MS as
"untraced").
Germany, 1417 by Iohannes Müntzmeister et al. 150 ff. Provenance: dominus Bertoldus (fol. 12rb mg.); Charterhouse at Ostheim. Accession Number: 28,991.
fol. 1ra-11rb Hugo de Folieto (Ps. Hugo de S. Victore), Claustrum animae [Lib. III, cc. 1-10, 17] (Bloomfield nos. 0431, 5211); fol. 12ra-39rb Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius theologiae veritatis (incomplete); fol. 40va-53rb Summa vitiorum (Bloomfield no. 2221); fol. 53rb-69rb Summa virtutum (Bloomfield no. 3113; fol. 70ra-77ra Henricus de Langenstein de Hassia, Tractatus super Pater noster (Bloomfield no. 9022, 8180; T. Hohman, "Initienregister der Werke Heinrichs von Langenstein," Traditio 32 (1976): 399-426 at pp. 416-17 no. 200); fol. 77ra-80vb Idem, Tractatus super Ave Maria (Hohman, "Initienregister," p. 414 no. 158); fol. 81ra-93vb Tractatus missae; fol. 94ra-105vb Themata sermonum; fol. 106ra-115ra Dialogus super ortum paradisi (Bloomfield no. 3002); fol. 115ra-b Notes on loving God; fol. 115va-142rb Ps. Albertus Magnus, Paradisus animae (Walther, IC no. 19685); fol. 143r-148v Remedia super VII peccata principalia; fol. 148v-150v Moralia; fol. 151r De peccatis mortalibus (Bloomfield no. 2001).
Census, vol. 1, p. 754: MS 6.
Germany?, s. xv. I + 28 pp. Provenance: Georg Friedrich Creuzer of Heidelberg (1771-1858); acquired in 1886 from Caspar René Gregory. Accession Number: 28,987.
pp. 1-28 Vergilius, Bucolica cum glossis (mutilated: Ec. 1 Ec. 9 l. 6).
Census, vol. 1, p. 755: MS 7 (De Ricci lists 2 pp. of "Latin synonyms
with French translations" [s. xvi], which are not in evidence.)
N. Italy (Venice), ca. 1420-1440, illuminated by Cristoforo Cortese. I + 104 + I ff. Provenance: Apostolo Zeno; Biblioteca Marciana, missing by 1865; Dr. George Rosenthal; L'Art Ancien; Acquired 1949. Accession Number: 186,020.
fol. 1r-104v Marcus Trevisano, Liber de macrocosmo.
George Boas, "A Fourteenth Century Cosmology," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 98 (1954): 50-59 (from this MS). A transcription by Boas is shelved with the MS. Thorndike-Kibre col. 1247, 371.
Supplement, p. 194: MS 17.
France, s. xiii/xiv. 18 ff. Provenance: Charles S. Peirce. Accession Number: 41705.58.
fol. 1ra-4rb Radulphus Brito, Quaestiones in libros politicorum (incomplete); fol. 5r-12vb Quaestiones super libros analyticorum Aristotelis; fol. 13ra-18rb Aegidius Romanus OESA (?), Quaestiones in libros ethicorum (incomplete).
C. Lohr, "Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors Narcissus-Richardus," Traditio 28 (1972): 281-396 at pp. 388-89 (MS listed); C. Flueler, Rezeption und Interpretation der aristotelischen Politica im späten Mittelalter (Amsterdam, 1992), vol. 2, p. 100.
Census, vol. 1, p. 755: MS 9.
France, ca. 1200. III + 180 + II ff. PROV: Charles S. Peirce. Accesion Number: 9,940.
fol. 1ra-180rb Petrus Lombardus, Sententiae.
Census, vol. 1, p. 753: MS 2.
Germany, s. xv. 121 ff. Provenance: Arms and bookplate of "Christophorus Baro à Volckhénstain & Rodnegg, etc. M. D. XCIIII"; gift of John W. McCoy. Accesion Number: 38,066.
fol. 1r-4r Table of chapters; fol. 5r-69r Albertus Magnus, Secreta mulierum (in German); fol. 70r-71v Table of chapters; fol. 72r-110r Der Buch Trotula; fol. 112r-123r De curis mulierum (in German).
Census, vol. 1, p. 753: MS 3; M. Green, "The Development of the
Trotula," Revue d'Histoire des Textes 26 (1996): 119-203 at p. 180 (MS =
F. German 2. a.).
Low Countries (Louvain?), s. xv. 186 pp. Provenance: Charles S. Peirce (by 1884). Accession Number: 9,792.
pp. 1-172 Petrus Hispanus, Summulae logicales; pp. 175-185 De exponibilibus.
Census, vol. 1, p. 753: MS 1. MS not listed in Peter of Spain (Petrus Hispanus Portugalensis), Tractatus Called Afterwards Summule logicales: First Critical Edition from the Manuscripts, ed. L. M. De Rijk (Assen, 1972), pp. cxvi-cxx (Variant readings match De Rijk's "deterior" manuscripts: Tr. VI of edition, De suppositionibus, appears as Tr. VII; Tr. VII, De fallaciis or the Fallaciae maiores, replaced by the Fallaciae minores.) Extensive marginal and interlinear glosses.
Agnano, 1442 by a Franciscan from Siena. IV + 114 ff. Provenance: Acquired 1949. Accession Number: 186,019.
Iv-IIr Sermo de sancta Clara; IIr Sermo pro indulgentia; IIv Notes in Italian on contents; IIIr-IVr Table of chapters; fol. 1r-111r Giovanni dalle Celle, Fioretti della somma maestrugo (Kaeppeli no. 436); fol. 111v-112r De beneficiis missae; fol. 112v-113r Sermo in dominica 16 post pentecostem; fol. 113v-114r Sermo in die pentecostis; fol. 114v Sermo in die resurrectionis.
Supplement, p. 194: MS 16.
Italy, s. xv/xvi. 97 ff. Provenance: Acquired in 1886 from Caspar René Gregory. Accession Number: 28,988.
fol. 1-3 blank except for later notes; fol. 4r-93v Psalmi et cantica (in Greek); fol. 86r-93v Andreas Alciatus, Paradoxa (excerpta); fol. 94r-97r Idem, Dispunctiones (excerpta).
Supplement, p. 193: MS 13.
Italy, s. xiii2-xiv1. 2 ff. Provenance: Presented by Helena Wreruszowski (1942).
fol. 1ra-2vb Innocentius IV, Apparatus in decretales (fragment: X 1.6.23
in med.-1.6.24 in med.; 1.6.28 in med.-1.6.29 in med.).
In this bifolium, fol. 1 = Innocentii quarti pont. maximi super libros
quinque decretalium (Frankfurt, 1570; Frankfurt, 1968), fol. 53va-54rb;
fol. 2 = Ibid., fol. 60ra-61ra.
Also housed at Evergreen House are the Kelly Manuscripts. Kelly 1-4 are oversize items, parts of a six volume set of liturgical manuscripts. Supposedly, the set belonged to the Emperor Maximilian, then to Baron Giska; and it was bought from William Blake, Mexico City, ca. 1912 by Howard A. Kelly, who presented these 4 volumes to Johns Hopkins in 1939. Of the other two volumes, one went to the Bodleian in memory of Sir William Osler and one was given to Rollins College. The Rollins MS has since been acquired by Johns Hopkins. All are Mexico, s. xvii, including MS 1, which is dated 1643; see p. 37, "Frater Josephus Hortiz Scripsit Anno 1643." MS 3 has a partial note on provenance, ///maio Santo Fray Miguel De Aguirre." See Census, vol. 1, p. 900: SS 1-4; Supplement, p. 194: Johns Hopkins MSS 20-23. Kelly MS 5 (Census, vol. 1, p. 900), was not part of this set. Although described as "untraced" in Supplement, p. 200, it too is housed at Evergreen. It is a dossier on a claim of noble status dating to the reign of Philip V of Spain, s. xviii.
Italy, s. xv (Franciscan). I + 632 pp. Provenance: T. Harrison Garrett (. 1888).
Inside Front Cover: Liturgical text with musical notes on staves; Iva-c Table; pp. 1-631 Antiphonary (Adventus--Feria cinerum; S. Andreas-Visitatio); 632 Evangelium Matthaei (excerpt: Mt. 13:31-33 with music); Inside Back Cover: Liturgical text with musical notes on staves.
Census, vol. 1, p. 862: MS 1; Supplement, p. 194. Many historiated or
illuminated initials throughout. This is volume one of a set of volumes
covering the liturgical year.
Germany (?), s. xvi. I + 40 + I ff. Provenance: Alice Warder (1905). Old shelf mark: 43.
fol. 1r-40v Antiphonary (Dominica in ramis palmarum-Ascensio; Purificatio B. V. M.; Requiem).
Census, vol. 1, p. 862: MS 2; Supplement, p. 194. Instructions for choral use by nuns, e.g., fol. 22r; texts of a few prayers included. Texts for the Purification appear apart from the main liturgical sequence of the manuscript. Additional text for burial, fol. 32v-33v, is incomplete.
Spain, s. xvi (Franciscan). 108 + I ff. Provenance: Madre Sor Isabel de San Pedro y Leon (1715).
fol. 1r-107r Graduale; fol. 107r Verse (in Spanish); fol. 107va-108vb Tables.
Census, vol. 1, p. 862: MS 3; Supplement, p. 194. Order of texts: Proper of the saints; common of the saints; dedication of a church; Saint Michael; ordinary of the mass; Lenten feriae; Advent feriae; Christmas and Epiphany; Sequence "Lauda Sion"; Gloria. Texts for feast of Saint James the Greater added to existing staves for other services at fol. 16v-17r, 40r, 58v-59r. Illuminated M at fol. 1va.
Low Countries (Utrecht?), s. xv. II + 135 +2b + II ff. Provenance: W. Bragge (displayed at Leeds in 1868); Hayes, from Bragge sale; T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888).
fol. 1r-11v Calendar; fol. 12v Illumination; fol. 13r Hours of the Blessed Virgin (in Dutch); fol. 36r Versicle (in Dutch); fol. 37v Illumination; fol. 38r-43v Penitential Psalms (in Dutch); fol. 43v-48v Litany (in Dutch); fol. 51r-70r Hours of the Holy Cross (in Dutch); 71v Illumination; fol. 72r-86v Hours of Wisdom (in Dutch); fol. 87v Illumination; fol. 88r-104v Hours of the Holy Spirit (in Dutch); fol. 105r-111v Prayers (in Dutch); fol. 112v Illumination; fol. 113r-136v Office of the Dead (Matins; in Dutch).
Census, vol. 1, p. 862: MS 4; Supplement, p. 194.
France (Chartres?), s. xv. I + 143 + I ff. Provenance T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888).
fol. 1v-4r Calendar (in French); fol. 5r-9v Initia evangeliorum; fol. 9v-16r Prayers to the Virgin Mary; fol. 17r-77r Hours of the Blessed Virgin with Hours of the Holy Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit; fol. 79r-90r Penitential Psalms with antiphon; fol. 90r-94v Litany; fol. 94v-136r Office of the Dead (Chartres Use); fol. 136v-144v Prayers with antiphons.
Census, vol. 1, p. 863: MS 5; Supplement, p. 194. There are numerous illuminations, decorated borders and illuminated initials.
France (Meaux?), s. xv. I + 56 + II ff. Provenance: Robert Hoe; Alice Warder (1913).
fol. 1r-14v Hours of the Holy Spirit (Mutilated: Terce-Compline); fol. 15r-31r Memoriae sanctorum; fol. 31r-38v Prayers (in Latin and French; includes a verse beginning, "Dame mere uierge pucelle...."); fol. 38v-50v Ps. Joseph of Arimathea, Prayer (Walther IC no. 17016); fol. 51r-56r Prayer "Obsecro te" (mutilated); fol. 56r-v Memoria nativitatis dominae nostrae.
Census, vol. 1, p. 863: MS 6; Supplement, p. 194.
France, s. xv. I + 166 + I ff. Provenance: T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888).
fol. 1r-12v Calendar (in French); fol. 13r-14v Beginning of John's gospel with antiphon and prayer; fol. 14v-19v Prayer to the Virgin Mary; fol. 20r-21v Hymn with prayer to John the Baptist; fol. 21v-29v Prayers to the saints; fol. 30r-93r Hours of the Blessed Virgin with Hours of the Holy Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit; fol. 93r-94v Passion according to John with prayer; fol. 95r-108r Penitential Psalms with antiphon; fol. 108r-114v Litany; fol. 114v-168r Office of the Dead; fol. 168v-169r Memoria S. Catherinae.
Census, vol. 1, p. 863: MS 7; Supplement, p. 194. Numerous illuminations.
France (Rouen use), s. xv. I + 106 + I ff. Provenance: ARE (Iv); T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888).
fol. 1r-12v Calendar (in French); fol. 14v-17r Gospel pericopes (mutilated); fol. 17r-19v, 13r-v, 20r-21v Prayers to the Virgin Mary; fol. 22r-55v Hours of the Blessed Virgin (mutilated); fol. 56r-57r Hours of the Holy Cross (mutilated); fol. 57v-59v Hours of the Holy Spirit; fol. 60r-70r Penitential Psalms with antiphon; fol. 70r-74r Litany; fol. 74v-99v Office of the Dead (Matins and Lauds); fol. 100r-105r Les xv joies de Nostre Dame; fol. 105r-106v Les vii requestes (mutilated).
Census, vol. 1, p. 863: MS 8; Supplement, p. 194. Manuscript has 9 mniatures; others excised.
France (Rouen use), s. xv. II + 82 + II ff. Provenance: T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888).
fol. 1r-5v Gospel pericopes with prayers; fol. 5v-11v Prayers to the Virgin Mary (mutilated); fol. 12r-45v Hours of the Virgin Mary (mutilated); fol. 46r-47v Hours of the Holy Cross (mutilated); fol. 47v-49v Hours of the Holy Spirit (mutilated); fol. 49v-60v Penitential Psalms with antiphon; fol. 60v-66r Litany; fol. 66v-75r Office of the Dead (mutilated); fol. 75r-77v Les vii requestes; fol. 77v-82r Les xv joies de Nostre Dame.
Census, vol. 1, p. 863: MS 9; Supplement, p. 194. Illuminated initials.
N. France (Bourges use), s. xv2. II + 170 ff. Provenance: Susanne Delyon (ca. 1600) (fol. 1r); T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888).
Iv Illumination of a monstrance; IIr Hymn "O salutaris" with prayer; fol. 1r-12v Calendar; fol. 13r Prayer (mutilated); fol. 13v-14v Prayers (to accompany Gospel pericopes; fol. 15r-16v Gospel pericopes (mutilated); fol. 17r-20v Prayer "Obsecro te" (mutilated); fol. 21r-83v Hours of the Blessed Virgin (mutilated); fol. 84r-86r Hours of the Holy Cross (mutilated); fol. 87r-89r Hours of the Holy Spirit; fol. 91r-103v Penitential Psalms (mutilated); fol. 103v-108v Litany; fol. 108v-158r Office of the Dead (mutilated); fol. 159r-167r Prayers (mutilated); fol. 168r-170r Prayers to Saint Sebastian (mutilated); fol. 170v notes in
French.
Census, vol. 1, p. 863: MS 10; Supplement, p. 194. Illuminations excised. Iv-IIr is an insert, s. xvi1.
Italy, s. xv2. III + 220 + II ff. Provenance: Arms of Pope Pius VI (1775-1799) on binding; Marchese Taccone, Naples; "sold to Germany" 1885; T. Harrison Garrett (d. 1888).
IIIv Decorated frame with these words, INCOMINCIA I LIBRO DI GIOSAFO DELLA GVERRA CHE FV TRA GVDEI E ROMANI TRADOTTO DI GRECO IN LATINO DA RVFINO E DI LATINO IN VOLGARE IN FIRENZE; fol. 1r-220r Josephus, De
bello Judaico (in Italian).
Census, vol. 1, p. 863: MS 11; Supplement, p. 194; Kristeller, Iter Italicum, vol. 5, p. 212. Fol. 1r decorated initial & border with blank space for coat of arms. Albinia de la Mare suggests that this manuscript was from the shop of Vespasiano Bisticci.
Italy, s. xv. 154 ff. Provenance: unidentified prelate (arms stamped on fol. 1r); Alice Warder (1906).
fol. 1r-46v Meditazioni sopra la Passione; fol. 46v-55v Exercitio (in Italian); fol. 55v-64r Orationes pro xv diebus; fol. 64r-91v Prayers for nuns (in Latin & Italian); fol. 91v-97r Considerazioni e petizioni; fol. 97v-127v Prayers for nuns; fol. 128r-137r Psalmus ad honorem Mariae virginis per omnem tribulationem; fol. 137r-141v "Innocentius papa", Prayer (in Italian); fol. 141v-147r Prayers; fol. 147v-150v Symbolum "Quicumque vult".
Census, vol. 1, p. 864: MS 12; Supplement, p. 194.
France, s. xv1. I + 396 ff. Provenance: Edward Quaile (1901); Alice Warder (1903).
fol. 1va-b "Asperges" (mutilated); fol. 2r-395vb Missal (mutilated); fol. 296r Prayer (mutilated).
Census, vol. 1, p. 864: MS 14; Supplement, p. 194. Many illuminated letters, some with borders.
Flanders, s. xv. II + 22 + I ff. Provenance: Unidentified arms with motto, "Excelsior" ; Alice Warder (1905).
fol. 1r-22v Office of the Dead (Matins).
Census, vol. 1, p. 864: MS 14; Supplement, p. 194.
Low Countries, s. xv. II + 175 + II ff.
Iv note in German concerning contents, dated 1828; fol. 1r-175v Ubertinus de Casali OFM, Arbor vitae (in German).
Several crude illuminated or historiated initials; +Iv-+IIv Office book (fragment: Germany, s. xiii-xiv).
Not listed in Census or Supplement.
Leaves bound into Menghus Blanchellus, Super logicam Pauli Veneti expositio et quaestiones (Treviso, 1476) Garrett Library INCUN. 1476 .B55. Accession Number: 9,957.
Germany (?), s. xv. 11 ff. Provenance: Conventus Constantiensis Ordinis
Eremitarum S. Augustini; Friburgensis /// 1653; Charles S. Peirce; "CST
1916."
fol. 1ra-5ra De peccatis alienis (Bloomfield no. 3455); fol. 5ra-7vb
Iohannes Herolt OP, De septem peccatis mortalibus (Bloomfield no. 3374;
Kaeppeli no. 2386); fol. 8ra-11rb Hrabanus Maurus, De coena Cypriani
(Stegmüller, RB 7077,6).
Supplement, p. 193: MS 11.
Two Liturgical Fragments in the Garrett Collection: A: Antiphonary (bifolium: Symbolum nicaeanum; s. xv/xvi); B: Antiphonarium (leaf: Sequence "Pange lingua"; s. xv/xvi).
On both recto and verso of B, "From the Library of Stanley Slotkin Founder of Abbey Rents - Circa 1150."
The History of Medicine Collection, Welch Medical Library, also has a French mauscript from ca. 1600, provenance, "Gormand d. m. Colleg. reg. medic. nanceii a commentariis. i.". It contains, among other works, notes on Hippocrates, Peripatheon by Jean Duret, son of Louis Duret, who succeeded his father in the chair of medicine at the College de France in 1586 and resigned that post in 1600 (fol. 1r). Also notable are, "De materia Chirurgica per Petrum 1556 15 mart." (fol. 167r) and "Antidotarium medicum per Petrum" (fol. 192r).
S. France (?), s. xiv. I + 188 + II ff. Provenance: T. S. R. (stamped monogram on fol. 188v); Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 16693); Wildrid M. Voynich (1927); Leroy Crummer (1927); Mrs. Crummer presented it to the School of Medicine in 1934.
fol. 1r-188vb Isaac Judaeus, Viaticum peregrinorum, tr. Constantinus Africanus, with glosses by Gerardus de Berry.
Census, vol. 2, p. 2288: MS 10; H. E. Sigerist, "Rare Books in the Welch Medical Library, 3. The Crummer Manuscript," Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 4 (1936): 335-39. The manuscript has extensive glosses in several hands, including a note on the signs of the zodiac and a verse in French on fol. 1r at the bottom.
France, s. xiii. III + 332 + II ff. Provenance: Ludovicus de Salchs; Coll. Agen. Societatis Iesu; Dr. William Howard, Baltimore; Baltimore Athenaeum (after 1824); Library Company of Baltimore (1849); loaned to the Walters (1977).
IIIv Various notes; fol. 1r-91r Aristoteles, Physica; fol. 91v-139r idem, De coelo et mundo; fol. 139v-165r idem, De generatione et corruptione; fol. 165v-215v idem, Meteora; fol. 216r-247v idem, De anima; fol. 248r-259v idem, De sensu et sensato; fol. 259v-263v idem, De memoria et reminiscentia; fol. 264r-274v idem, De somno et vigilia; fol. 275r-281r idem, De motu animalium; fol. 281r-284r idem, De longitudine et brevitate vitae; fol. 284r-286v idem, De iuventute et senectute; fol. 287r-294v idem, De respiratione; fol. 295v-297v De morte et vita; fol. 297v-305v idem, De proprietatibus elementorum; fol. 306r-313r idem, De causis cum apparatu; fol. 313r-316r idem, De bona fortuna (actually chapters two from different works); fol. 316r-331v idem, De vegetabilibus; fol. 332r Annotated diagram concerning the soul; fol. 332v Ordo librorum.
Kristeller, Iter, vol. 5, p. 212.
MS 2
France, s. xiii. 202 ff. Provenance: Library Company of Baltimore; loaned to the Walters (1953).
fol. 2v Notes; fol. 3r-125v Evangelium Matthaei cum glossa ordinaria; fol. 126r-202v Evangelium Marci cum glossa ordinaria.
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2 19
3 20
4 6
5 7
6 15
7 16
8 3
9 18
10 At History of Medicine Collection
11 At Evergreen House, bound with rare book
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13 34
14 11
15 4
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17 17A
18 1
19 13
20 At Evergreen House -- Kelly 1
21 At Evergreen House -- Kelly 2
22 At Evergreen House -- Kelly 3
23 At Evergreen House -- Kelly 4
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