Gregory's Homilies on Ezekiel Manuscript
Homilies on Ezekiel
12th century manuscript copy of Gregory the Great's Homilies on Ezekiel
12th century, 18th century
Concordia Seminary Library
Manuscript
Latin
Homily
12th century
German Hausbuch Mansucript
Manuscript Calendar
Astrology and Medical related calendar from 1400
1400
Concordia Seminary Library
Manuscript
German
1400
JLM GBC 1.12 - Unheard-of curiosities : concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians; the horoscope of the patriarkes; and the reading of the stars / written in French, by James Gaffarel ; and Englished by Edmund Chilmead, mr. of arts, and chaplaine of Christ-Church Oxon.
James Gaffarel (author)
Edmund Chilmead (translator)
London : Printed by G.D. [i.e., Gartrude Dawson] for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard., 1650.
1650
JLM GBC 1.11 - Metaphysicae Photinianae
Metaphysicae Photinianae Partis Generalis Examen, Seu: Principiorum, Ad Generalem Metaphysicae Partem pertinentium, quae in Photinianorum Scriptis occurrunt, Consideratio
Andreas Kesler (author)
1648
Latin
Book
Grolier 11
The Book of Esther.
Hebrew manuscript scroll on vellum; 17th or 18th century
This is a quite recent example of an ancient form of book. Hebrew manuscripts of The Book of Esther are still traditionally made into scrolls, which are read by unrolling the text from the spindle held in the left hand, the finished portion being progressively rolled up in the right. Earlier scrolls had the text written across the strip. The division of the text into horizontal page sections, as here shown, was an important step in the evolution of the leaf form of book that we know today.
17th or 18th century
20th century
Hebrew
Manuscript Scroll
Magic Carpet on Wheels Exhibit and Item Description from 1952
Grolier Club
Saint Louis Public Library
1952
English
Catalog and Exhibition description
Grolier 50
The works of Aristotle, Seneca, and others, translated into French by Friar Jehan Toulin.
This manuscript was made for Charles VI of France (reigned 1380-1422), and the illumination displayed shows the work being presented to him. Translations of the classics into the vernacular languages are of great interest to scholars, and this example is of prime importance.
The binding, too, is of great interest. It is of calfskin over wooden boards, blind-stamped with the plaques of Viviano de Varese, an Italian binder who worked in Genoa from 1520-1530. Around the border of one of the plaques is the legend: Opus Viviani de Varixio Carta in Carubeo Fili Ian -- that is "Made by Viviano of Varese, stationer in Thread-lane at Genoa." Examples of the work of this binder are of extreme rarity.
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, French, c.1415
15th century
20th century
French
Manuscript
Grolier 47
Book of Hours for Irish use
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, English, early 15th century
15th century
20th century
Latin
Manuscript
Grolier 15
Martinus Polonus, Historia Romanorum Pontificum ad annum 1277, (The History of the Popes of Rome to the year 1277)
Medieval Manuscript in Latin, on vellum, late 13th- early 14th century
13th century
20th century
latin
Manuscript