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[Manuscript Leaf from 15th Century, Germany]

Description: A manuscript leaf from 15th Century, Germany. The manuscript leaf is laid out with two (2) columns and scribed in late Gothic script. There are musical neums on 4-line staff (by the 16th-century the 5-line staff became more standardized) Breviary. The manuscript leaf was created on vellum parchment and used both red, blue, and black gall ink for the script. The leaf is labelled as page twenty-one (21).
Date: [1401..1500]
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[Small Prayer Book Leaf from the 15th Century, Netherlands]

Description: Leaf form a small prayer book from the 15th century in Old Dutch with text displayed in single column, late gothic script. The leaf in this item contains prayers to Christ who as "gheboren vander maget Marien" and also the prayer beginning "So wie dit gebet spreket heuet benedictus die xii."
Date: [1401..1500]
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[Book of Hours Leaf: Prayers for the Dead from the 15th Century, France?]

Description: (France? 15th-century). Text displayed in single column, gothic script, initials alternating blue and burnished gold, the formers with black filigree and the latter with red. From a Book of Hours, in Latin. Lauds / Office of the Dead. Includes prayers beginning with "Generacio mea ablata est et conuoluta est a me quasi tabernaculum pastorum."
Date: [1401..1500]
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[Leaf from Miniature Prayer Book, 15th Century, Netherlands]

Description: Leaf from a miniature prayer book in Old Dutch (The Netherlands, 15th-century). Text appears in a single column, late gothic script. The present leaf contains prayers for the "Heilige Jonc frauwen" Saint Gertrude and Saint Margaret. Note the scribe misspelled the girl's name as "Gertgtruyt" to which he/she/they made an unobtrusive correction. This item is unique in its collection, of the 37 leaves from this acquisition made in 2018, this is the only one on paper.
Date: [1401..1500]
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[Leaf from 15th Century Breviary, France]

Description: Manuscript leaf from 15th century France. Calligraphy text appears in a single column, gothic script, with single-line initials, embellished with burnished gold. Breviary [Matins] beginning: ["Sicut adipe et pinguedine repleatur anima mea:] et labiis exultationis laudabit os meum."
Date: [1401..1500]
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[Saint List Breviary from the 15th Century, France]

Description: Manuscript leaf from a breviary (France, 15th-century). Text displayed in 2 columns, gothic script of a sermon on 2 Luke and "Incipit Letania" containing ca. 60 names of Saints; identification of unusual or uncommon names can assist in localizing the MS to a specific region.
Date: [1401..1500]
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[Leaf from a 15th Century Breviary, French or Italian]

Description: A miniature Breviary from the 15th C. including sermons and readings, on 2 Luke: "sermo euangelicus qui praecedit narrat qualiter dominus centurionis puerem obentu magnae eius fiidei sanauerit, et quomodo ipsius centurionis, immoin eo gentium, extulerit fidem."Also "Eternus arque invsibilis rerum conditor, humanum genus quod per longa seculi cranseuntis sparia mortis perpetua."
Date: [1401..1500]
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[Manuscript Leaf from the 15th Century, France]

Description: A small and simple French Breviary with sermons, readings, and responses on Corinthians from the 15th-century. Text is displayed in 2 columns, gothic script. Embellishments are done in red and blue ink throughout the margins and text-breaking letters. The number 84 is noted on the top left of the recto.
Date: [1401..1500]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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