Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection

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Title of collection: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Date range: 800-1700 A.D.
Size: 5 Boxes
Call number: D.460
Location:
Rare Books & Special Collections
Rush Rhees Library
Second Floor, Room 225
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0055
Language(s) of materials: English, Latin, French, German, Farsi, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Armenian

Access and use

Access: The Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be asked to fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.

Restrictions on use and copyright information: In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.

Processing information

This collection was processed by John Chandler in 2013. Finding aid written by John Chandler in 2013.

Preferred citation

(Name of item, if applicable), Collection Title, Date Span, Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department, University of Rochester.

Subject headings

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Scope and content

The Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection includes documents that date from 800-1700 A.D. Signature pieces in the collection include the inventory of the library of the monastery of St. Victor de Marseille from 1374 A.D. and the Italian Documents collection donated by University of Rochester Professor Abraham Karp. The collection includes individual leaves, as well as complete works. The bibliographic information listed below includes the item's call number and name, language, date, origin, contents and provenance, when known. If the item has no common or given title, the first line or phrase of the document serves as the title. When the date is a range, the assigned call number reflects the earliest likely date; in the case of undated items, the number 1000 has been assigned, but does not reflect an actual date of creation.


Box 1:

Call Number: D.460 1441-001
Location: Box 1, folder 0
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 1
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: February 15, 1441
Origin: Italy
Contents: Ecclesiastical document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1000-001
Location: Box 1, folder 1
Item Name: Psalter of St. Jerome
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: unknown
Origin: unknown
Contents: Excerpts from the Psalms, this text often appears in Books of Hours.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1000-002
Location: Box 1, folder 2
Item Name: Liber Sacramentorum Engolismensis
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: unknown
Origin: unknown
Contents: Rites for the reconciliation of penitents. Also known as the Gelesanium Sacramentary, this passage is part of section 602 in the edition by Patrick Saint-Roch.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1000-003
Location: Box 1, folder 3
Item Name: Ricardus Dialogue
Material: Vellum
Language: unknown (likely Latin)
Date: 1675
Origin: unknown
Contents: Fragment of manuscript on vellum used for book binding material. Though the text has largely disappeared, part of it seems to have been a dialogue between Ricardus (Richard) and Johnanes (John). A later hand added an ownership inscription in Greek in the margin. "Joan Neruet" is probably the person who came into possession of this document. He titles himself φιλελλιϖ, which closely translates to "friendly," or "a friend." The word is most likely is some form of the present tense of the verb φιλεϖ, which means "to love" or "to regard with affection". The next line translates roughly as "In the year of the deliverance of men." The line after is a date. The "α" designates the year 1000, the "χ" the year 600, and "σε" the year 75. Putting it all together, we can date the Greek inscription to the year 1675. It remains to be determined whether the Greek was written before, after, or at the same time as the Latin inscription. It may be that the Latin was written before (up to several centuries prior to) the Greek and then Joan, the educated collector, eagerly put his acquired language skills to use to mark the document as his own. Latin and Greek transcription and translation provided by Kate Hughes (UR 2014, Physics & Astronomy, Classics.)
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1000-006
Location: Box 1, folder 4
Item Name: Biblical Florilegium
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Eleventh century
Origin: Austria
Contents: Collection of various passages from the New Testament.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1189-001
Location: Box 1, folder 5
Item Name: Deed of Transfer
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: December 1189
Origin: France
Contents: Deed exchanging part of a mill at Welna for a vineyard.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1197-001
Location: Box 1, folder 6
Item Name: Celestine III
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: March 29, 1197
Origin: Rome, Italy (The Vatican)
Contents: Papal bull confirming the union of the church at Altavilla to the chapter. Printed by Migne, Patrologiae Latina, vol. CCVI, col. 1207.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Digitized document: Recto, Verso
Transcription located here (PDF) 

Call Number: D.460 1200-002
Location: Box 1, folder 7
Item Name: Book of Hours (derunt me inique)
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Thirteenth century
Origin: Italy
Contents: End of Psalm 37 and beginning of Psalm 50. The two were often juxtaposed in a series of penitential prayers in books of hours.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1200-003
Location: Box 1, folder 8
Item Name: Psalter (tate iudicabit)
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Thirteenth century
Origin: France
Contents: Prayers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1200-005
Location: Box 1, folder 9
Item Name: Court Hand Fragments
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Thirteenth to fifteenth centuries
Origin: various sources
Contents: Six fragments taped to a piece of paper identified as “Court hand of various periods.” The first and second pieces are adjacent, identified as “Circa 15th c.,” and are from the same manuscript. The third fragment is “Circa 14th c.,” the fourth and fifth “13th c.?,” and the last “Could be 13th or 14th c.” Fragment 5 appears to have been a catchword.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1200-006
Location: Box 1, folder 10
Item Name: Johannes Filius Roberti de Cruce
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Thirteenth century
Origin: unknown
Contents: Will of John, son of Robert de Cruce.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1217-001
Location: Box 1, folder 11
Item Name: Dulciana
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: August 12, 1217
Origin: Marseille, France
Contents: Deed and transfer of lands from Dulciana to Petrus Alcardus.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1259-001
Location: Box 1, folder 12
Item Name: Helpradus
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: 1259
Origin: Hamburg, Germany
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1300-001
Location: Box 1, folder 13
Item Name: Bible, Habakkuk
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Fourteenth century
Origin: Italy
Contents: Leaf with text of Habakkuk 3:9-19.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1300-002
Location: Box 1, folder 14
Item Name: Treatise on Virtues
Material: Paper
Language: Latin
Date: Fourteenth century
Origin: unknown
Contents: Commentary on the virtues of patience and humility.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1300-003
Location: Box 1, folder 15
Item Name: Missal Leaf (misse ac predictarum)
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Fourteenth or Fifteenth century
Origin: Italy
Contents: Texts of Psalms 58, 59, and the beginning of 60.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1339-001
Location: Box 1, folder 16
Item Name: Thomas de Ardern
Material: Vellum
Language: French
Date: March 16, 1339
Origin: England
Contents: Deed for Wiswell, Lancashire. Written in Norman French, the document was signed in Whalley. Sir Thomas de Ardern gives the contents of the manor of Wiswell, in Lancashire, to Richard, son of William de Radeclif; to his brother, Adam de Radeclif; and to John of Gristwych, vicar of Blackburn.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1400-001
Location: Box 1, folder 18
Item Name: Missal Leaf (in effabilem misericor)
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Fifteenth century
Origin: Italy
Contents: Fragment of prayers before and after communion.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Digital Images: Recto​, Verso
Transcription located here (PDF) 

Call Number: D.460 1400-002
Location: Box 1, folder 19
Item Name: Missale ad Usum Ecclesie Westmonasteriensis
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Fifteenth century
Origin: England
Contents: Leaf from Westminster use missal; this text is part of the mass for the dead. See the edition by Wickham, columns 1315-16.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1400-003
Location: Box 1, folder 20
Item Name: Paschasius Radbertus
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Fifteenth century
Origin: unknown (Northern Europe)
Contents: Portion of Paschasius Radbertus, De Assumptione Sanctae Mariae Virginis.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1400-005
Location: Box 1, folder 21
Item Name: Missal Leaf (trent ut astra flebiles)
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Fifteenth century
Origin: Italy
Contents: Prayers, including the end of the hymn "Quem terra, pontus, aethera." The hymn is number 59 in The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse, ed. Raby (pp. 79-80).
Immediate Source of Acquisition: from Edward Johnson’s collection

Call Number: D.460 1416-001
Location: Box 1, folder 22
Item Name: Court List
Material: Paper
Language: French
Date: November 24, 1416
Origin: Le Breuil-Bernard, France
Contents: List of cases pending in the court. The cover is a larger, unidentified vellum document, rotated 90 degrees and cropped.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1420-001
Location: Box 1, folder 23
Item Name: Book of Hours (Eripe me de ini)
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: 1420
Origin: France
Contents: Texts of Psalms 58, 59, and the beginning of 60.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1479-001
Location: Box 1, folder 24
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 2
Material: Vellum
Language: Italian
Date: December 19, 1479
Origin: Italy
Contents: Political document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1480-001
Location: Box 1, folder 25
Item Name: Gradual Page
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: 1480
Origin: Italian
Contents: Excerpts from Psalms.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Robert F. Metzdorf; the manuscript was disbound and individual leaves sold by Otto F. Ege

Call Number: D.460 1482-001
Location: Box 1, folder 26
Item Name: Nicola
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: January 17, 1482
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document transferring money from Nicola to his son.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1517-001
Location: Box 1, folder 27
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 4
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: September 16, 1517
Origin: Italy
Contents: Ecclesiastical document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1525-001
Location: Box 1, folder 28
Item Name: Abbess Document
Material: Vellum
Language: French
Date: 1525
Origin: France
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1530-001
Location: Box 1, folder 29
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 6
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: February 15, 1530
Origin: Italy
Contents: Political document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1531-001
Location: Box 1, folder 30
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 7
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: September 26, 1531
Origin: Italy
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1542-001
Location: Box 1, folder 31
Item Name: Carne, Sir Edward
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: April 10, 1542
Origin: England
Contents: Notice of loan from Carne to Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1548-002
Location: Box 1, folder 32
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 8
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: October 23, 1548
Origin: Italy
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1549-001
Location: Box 1, folder 33
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 9
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: November 14, 1549
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Box 2:

Call Number: D.460 1551-001
Location: Box 2, folder 1
Item Name: Theological Document
Material: Paper
Language: German
Date: April 3, 1551
Origin: Germany
Contents: Anti-Catholic theological diatribe signed by five Protestant pastors.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown; the manuscript was initially disbound and individual leaves sold by the Foliophiles.

Call Number: D.460 1557-001
Location: Box 2, folder 2
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 10
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: January 14, 1557
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1560-001
Location: Box 2, folder 3
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 11
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: April 25, 1560
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1561-001
Location: Box 2, folder 4
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 13
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: January 11, 1561
Origin: Italy
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1561-002
Location: Box 2, folder 5
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 12
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: June 16, 1561
Origin: Italy
Contents: Political document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1563-001
Location: Box 2, folder 6
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 14
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: September 25, 1563
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1564-002
Location: Box 2, folder 7
Item Name: Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: 1564-88
Origin: England
Contents: Signature. Dudley (1532/33-1588) was a favorite of Elizabeth I. He was made earl of Lancaster in 1564.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: R. B. Adam Library, April, 1941

Call Number: D.460 1565-002
Location: Box 2, folder 8
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 17
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: August 3, 1565
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1566-001
Location: Box 2, folder 9
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 18
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: December 9, 1566
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1571-001
Location: Box 2, folder 10
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 20
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: May 11, 1571
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1572-001
Location: Box 2, folder 11
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 21
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: January 19, 1572
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1573-001
Location: Box 2, folder 12
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 22
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: June 9, 1573
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1573-002
Location: Box 2, folder 13
Item Name: Duprat, Anthoine
Material: Vellum
Language: French
Date: December 19, 1573
Origin: Paris, France
Contents: Document by Duprat, provost guard of Paris, concerning Charlotte d’Esquetot, widow of Charles I de Cosse-Brissac, marshal of France.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1575-001
Location: Box 2, folder 14
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 24
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: November 21, 1575
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1576-001
Location: Box 2, folder 15
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 25
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: May 5, 1576
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1577-001
Location: Box 2, folder 16
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 29
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: July 6, 1577
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1578-001
Location: Box 2, folder 17
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 19
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: February 15, 1578
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1580-001
Location: Box 2, folder 18
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 26
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: February 3, 1580
Origin: Italy
Contents: Political document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1582-001
Location: Box 2, folder 19
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 27
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: January 5, 1582
Origin: Italy
Contents: Ecclesiastical document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1583-001
Location: Box 2, folder 20
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 23
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: March 15, 1583
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1583-002
Location: Box 2, folder 21
Item Name: Bonnet, Job
Material: Vellum
Language: French
Date: November 15, 1583
Origin: Châlons, France
Contents: Marriage contract.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1586-001
Location: Box 2, folder 22
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 28
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: March 4, 1586
Origin: Italy
Contents: Political document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1588-001
Location: Box 2, folder 23
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 30
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: March 3, 1588
Origin: Italy
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1588-002
Location: Box 2, folder 24
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 31
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: May 18, 1588
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1590-001
Location: Box 2, folder 25
Item Name: Smythe, John
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: 1590
Origin: London, England
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1591-001
Location: Box 2, folder 26
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 32
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: February 20, 1591
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1591-002
Location: Box 2, folder 27
Item Name: Goffe, Thomas
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: 1591-1629
Origin: England
Contents: Signature. Goffe was a divine, poet, and playwright who lived 1591-1629; this signature is likely from the early seventeenth century.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: R. B. Adam Library April, 1941

Call Number: D.460 1592-001
Location: Box 2, folder 28
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 34
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: February 10, 1592
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1592-002
Location: Box 2, folder 29
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 33
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: February 13, 1592
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1594-001
Location: Box 2, folder 30
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 36
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: March 17, 1594
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1594-002
Location: Box 2, folder 31
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 35
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: December 7, 1594
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1598-001
Location: Box 2, folder 32
Item Name: Gilles de Louvre
Material: Vellum
Language: French
Date: 1598
Origin: Italy
Contents: Political document signed by Gilles de Louvre, marshal of France and tutor of Louis XIII.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1599-002
Location: Box 2, folder 33
Item Name: Buells levy
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: August 12, 1599
Origin: England
Contents: Copy of levy of soldiers in Buells under Elizabeth I.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1599-003
Location: Box 2, folder 34
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 38
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: October 4, 1599
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1600-001
Location: Box 2, folder 35
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 41
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: March 30, 1600
Origin: Italy
Contents: Political document. Folio 4r-v seems to be a second text, with a new header and notary signatures.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1600-002
Location: Box 2, folder 36
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 42
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: September 2, 1600
Origin: Italy
Contents: Political document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1600-003
Location: Box 2, folder 37
Item Name: Lilie, Thomas
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: Seventeenth century
Origin: England
Contents: Signature. An eighteenth-century hand has identified Lilie as “author of severall plays.” No further identity has been confirmed.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: R. B. Adam Library, April, 1941

Call Number: D.460 1602-001
Location: Box 2, folder 38
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 40
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: January 28, 1602
Origin: Italy
Contents: Political document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1602-002
Location: Box 2, folder 39
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 44
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: November 9, 1602
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1603-002
Location: Box 2, folder 40
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 47
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: April 10, 1603
Origin: Italy
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1603-003
Location: Box 2, folder 41
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 46
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: May 14, 1603
Origin: Italy
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1603-004
Location: Box 2, folder 42
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 45
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: August 26, 1603
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1604-001
Location: Box 2, folder 43
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 48
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: February 27, 1604
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1611-001
Location: Box 2, folder 44
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 49
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: August 22, 1611
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1615-001
Location: Box 2, folder 45
Item Name: Cornille de Valequenaere
Material: Vellum
Language: French
Date: March 8, 1615
Origin: Lille, France
Contents: Copy of legal statement transferring property.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1617-001
Location: Box 2, folder 46
Item Name: Italian documents, item 43
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: February 9, 1617
Origin: Italy
Contents: Political document. The date on the cover is 1602, which seems to be when the agreement was proposed. The date at the end, just before the notary signature, is 1617, presumably when the document was written, witnessed, and registered. The assigned date, February 9, 1617, is inscribed inside the back cover.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1619-001
Location: Box 2, folder 47
Item Name: Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: January 9, 1619
Origin: England
Contents: Ledger.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: R. B. Adam Library, April, 1941

Call Number: D.460 1619-002
Location: Box 2, folder 48
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 51
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: March 30, 1619
Origin: Italy
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1619-003
Location: Box 2, folder 49
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 50
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: August 23, 1619
Origin: Italy
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1619-004
Location: Box 2, folder 50
Item Name: Eaton, John
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: c. 1619
Origin: Wickham Market, England
Contents: Religious meditations, possibly sermon notes.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1620-002
Location: Box 2, folder 51
Item Name: Scott, Thomas
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: 1620-24
Origin: England
Contents: Fragment of political pamphlet.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1620-003
Location: Box 2, folder 52
Item Name: Twysden, Sir Roger
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: After 1620
Origin: England
Contents: Signature. Twysden (1597-1672) was knighted in 1620. This signature, which may have been an ownership inscription, must date from after his knighthood was granted.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1621-001
Location: Box 2, folder 53
Item Name: Gregory XV
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: June 12, 1621
Origin: Rome, Italy (The Vatican)
Contents: Papal brief - Gregory XV to Elizabeth Fard.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1623-001
Location: Box 2, folder 54
Item Name: Medici, Benedict Grapelli
Material: Vellum
Language: Italian
Date: April 18, 1623
Origin: Italy
Contents: Will of Medici.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1624-001
Location: Box 2, folder 55
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 55
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: August 5, 1624
Origin: Italy
Contents: Marriage agreement.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Box 3:

Call Number: D.460 1626-001
Location: Box 3, folder 1
Item Name: A Calender of Salomons Wife
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: August, 1626
Origin: unknown
Contents: A collection of religious poems and sayings organized under the headers of Hebrew letters. Its full title is A Calender of Salomons Wife or Prognostication of a Virtuous Woman; Also Jerimyes Prognostication of Jerusalem’s overthrow by a secret Construction of the Hebrew Letters, for Propriety and Strange Resemblance, moste curious and elegant. The date appears at the end of the text. A short Hebrew text also appears after the last page of English text.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

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Call Number: D.460 1629-001
Location: Box 3, folder 2
Item Name: Urban VIII
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: May 20, 1629
Origin: Rome, Italy (The Vatican)
Contents: Papal brief - plenary indulgence.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1629-002
Location: Box 3, folder 3
Item Name: Hippoliti de Hippolitis
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: July 7, 1629
Origin: Italy
Contents: Last will and testament of Hippoliti de Hippolitis.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1632-002
Location: Box 3, folder 4
Item Name: Adolphus, Gustavus
Material: Paper
Language: Swedish
Date: September 23, 1632
Origin: Dinkelsbuhl, Germany
Contents: Letter to Jacob L. Loffler.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1637-001
Location: Box 3, folder 5
Item Name: Becher, Sir William
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: May 17, 1637
Origin: Norwich, England
Contents: Receipt of payment.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1640-001
Location: Box 3, folder 6
Item Name: Warwick, Sir Philip
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: August 27, 1640
Origin: England
Contents: John Powell asks Warwick to write a few lines for a friend. Warwick responds on the bottom of Powell’s letter.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1643-001
Location: Box 3, folder 7
Item Name: de Buade, Louis, comte de Frontenac
Material: Paper
Language: French
Date: April 24, 1643
Origin: Written outside Bose, the Netherlands
Contents: Letter to his uncle regarding conditions in the military camp during a siege.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Charles A. Brown, September 1, 191

Call Number: D.460 1646-001
Location: Box 3, folder 8
Item Name: Account Sheet
Material: Paper
Language: Italian
Date: February 8, 1646
Origin: Italy
Contents: Account sheet. Dates range from 1499 to 1646; the date assigned here is the last one recorded.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1646-002
Location: Box 3, folder 9
Item Name: Kennedy, James
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: February 8, 1646
Origin: unknown (England or Scotland)
Contents: Letter to John Robertson, captain of Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, Scotland.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1649-001
Location: Box 3, folder 10
Item Name: Percy, Sir Algernon, tenth earl of Northumberland
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: After 1649
Origin: England
Contents: Letter of support for the royal family. Percy’s sister and younger brother were members of the household of Henrietta Maria, Charles I’s queen, and she may be the “madam” Percy addresses herein. The queen and Charles II lived in exile in France following Charles I’s beheading (1649). This letter may be a reassurance that Percy will support them in England during their exile. He was a supporter of constitutional monarchy throughout his time in Parliament.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: R. B. Adam Library, April, 1941

Call Number: D.460 1651-002
Location: Box 3, folder 11
Item Name: Innocent X
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: May 2, 1651
Origin: Rome, Italy (The Vatican)
Contents: Ordination permission for Thomas Maria Bosco.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1656-001
Location: Box 3, folder 12
Item Name: Sermon notes
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: March 15, 1656
Origin: unknown (England/United States)
Contents: Notes for six sermons by unidentified author.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1657-001
Location: Box 3, folder 13
Item Name: Pierpont, Henry, marquis of Dorchester
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: June 26, 1657
Origin: England
Contents: Investiture of Henry Howe as vicar of Loudham.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1659-001
Location: Box 3, folder 14
Item Name: Louis XIV
Material: Paper
Language: French
Date: April 23, 1659
Origin: France
Contents: Letter to Henri II of Orleans, duke of Longueville.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1667-001
Location: Box 3, folder 15
Item Name: Middleton, Thomas
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: February 13, 1667
Origin: England
Contents: Note of payment due.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1670-001
Location: Box 3, folder 16
Item Name: Italian Documents item 52
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: September 25, 1670
Origin: Italy
Contents: Ecclesiastical document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1672-001
Location: Box 3, folder 17
Item Name: Littleton, Adam
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: March 31, 1672
Origin: Chelsea, England
Contents: Letter of introduction.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1675-001
Location: Box 3, folder 18
Item Name: Rogers, John, Jr.
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: June 17, 1675
Origin: Plymouth, MA
Contents: Letter to Thomas Cole, his cousin.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1677-001
Location: Box 3, folder 19
Item Name: Berkenhead, John
Material: Paper
Language: Latin
Date: March 25, 1677
Origin: England
Contents: Inscription from a book given to Francis Bramston.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1681-001
Location: Box 3, folder 20
Item Name: Cheek, Thomas
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: June 24, 1681
Origin: London, England
Contents: Bill for holding “The Catholic Lords in the Tower” collected in the Titus Oates Plot (or Popish Plot) by Charles II in 1678. Document is folded in quarters, and has largely broken along folds. See also item D.460 1678-001.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Digitized document: Recto, Verso
Transcription located here (PDF) 

Call Number: D.460 1682-001
Location: Box 3, folder 21
Item Name: Charles II
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: February 10, 1682
Origin: Westminster, England
Contents: Warrant requesting curtains.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1685-002
Location: Box 3, folder 22
Item Name: Ken, Thomas
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: 1685-91
Origin: England
Contents: Signature. Ken (1637-1711) was an English cleric, known as one of the fathers of modern English hymnology. This fragment reads “Tho: Ken Bp.” Ken was the bishop of Bath and Wells from 1685 to 1691.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: R. B. Adam Library, April, 1941

Call Number: D.460 1686-001
Location: Box 3, folder 23
Item Name: Martine, Thomas
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: June 24, 1686
Origin: Boston, MA
Contents: Apprenticeship of John Tante to Thomas Martine. Though the core of this text is a printed document with spaces left for the details of the apprenticeship, there are significant handwritten additions describing the extent of the apprenticeship in the printed area itself, in the margins, and at the bottom.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1695-001
Location: Box 3, folder 24
Item Name: Goussart, Guerin
Material: Vellum
Language: French
Date: June 12, 1695
Origin: France
Contents: Transfer of land belonging to George Octave Goussart to Martin Goussart, his cousin, with Guerin Goussart acting for Martin, his brother, before the courts.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1696-001
Location: Box 3, folder 25
Item Name: Dorset, Charles Sackville, sixth earl
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: December 12, 1696
Origin: England
Contents: Request for cloth and payment to be given to Henry Killegrew. While it is unclear if Dorset wrote the letter, he did sign it, as did Killgrew (in a very unsteady hand). The letter itself has torn in half along a fold line. Two brief biographies are pasted to the top of the letter.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Digitized document: Page 1, Page 2

Call Number: D.460 1698-003
Location: Box 3, folder 26
Item Name: Oxenstiern, Bengt Benedict Gabrielson
Material: Paper
Language: German
Date: October 12, 1698
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden
Contents: Oxenstiern expresses his pleasure at hearing that the Count de Greiscar will reside at the court in Stockholm.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Charles A. Brown

Box 4:

Call Number: D.460 1100-001
Location: Box 4, folder 1
Item Name: Treatise on the Holy Spirit
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Early twelfth century
Origin: unknown Contents: Commentary on the appearance of the Holy Spirit as a dove.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1200-001
Location: Box 4, folder 2
Item Name: Bible, Leviticus
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Late thirteenth century
Origin: Italy
Contents: Leaf with text of Leviticus 14:15-16:11.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1434-001
Location: Box 4, folder 3
Item Name: Simon de Cremona
Material: Paper
Language: Latin
Date: 1434
Origin: Buxheim, Germany
Contents: Simon de Cremona, "Sermones."
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown; the manuscript was disbound and individual leaves sold by the Foliophiles

Call Number: D.460 1441-002
Location: Box 4, folder 4
Item Name: Michel, John
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: December 9, 1441
Origin: Calais, France
Contents: At the request of John Field, the mayor of Calais and constables of the Staple certify payments by Sir John Michel to the Staple.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1498-001
Location: Box 4, folder 5
Item Name: Leonardo da Vinci
Material: Paper
Language: Italian
Date: October 2, 1498
Origin: Italy
Contents: Contemporary notarial copy of a document exchanging land adjacent to Leonardo’s property. Supporting materials include a book by Beltrami and a typewritten description.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Anthony J. Guzzetta, July 6, 1972

Call Number: D.460 1505-001
Location: Box 4, folder 6
Item Name: Courtenay, Edward, earl of Devonshire
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin and English
Date: May 15, 1505
Origin: England
Contents: A note for 200 Sterling, borrowed from five men. The document has Latin on the obverse, English on the reverse.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: R. B. Adam Library, April, 1941

Call Number: D.460 1514-001
Location: Box 4, folder 7
Item Name: Henry VIII-era document
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: September 19, 1514
Origin: England
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1527-001
Location: Box 4, folder 8
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 5
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: December, 1527
Origin: Italy
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1564-001
Location: Box 4, folder 9
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 15
Material: Paper
Language: Latin
Date: May 27, 1564
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1565-001
Location: Box 4, folder 10
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 16
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: 1565
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document. This is a fragment of a longer document, and the date has been assigned by a later hand.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1578-002
Location: Box 4, folder 11
Item Name: William FitzWilliam
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin and English
Date: February 20, 1578
Origin: England
Contents: Obligation regarding indentures of bargain and sale.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1579-001
Location: Box 4, folder 12
Item Name: Bacon, Nicholas (1)
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: June, 1579
Origin: Redgrave, England
Contents: Letter to Nathaniel Bacon.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1579-002
Location: Box 4, folder 12
Item Name: Bacon, Nicholas (2)
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: July 8, 1579
Origin: Redgrave, England
Contents: Letter to Nathaniel Bacon.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1579-003
Location: Box 4, folder 12
Item Name: Bacon, Nicholas (3)
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: July 28, 1579
Origin: Redgrave, England
Contents: Letter to Nathaniel Bacon.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1579-004
Location: Box 4, folder 12
Item Name: Bacon, Nicholas (4)
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: 1579
Origin: Redgrave, England
Contents: Letter to Nathaniel Bacon
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1585-001
Location: Box 4, folder 13
Item Name: Percy, Henry
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: April 8, 1585
Origin: London, England
Contents: Percy asks for legal counsel and laments his improper detainment.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Digitized document: Recto, Verso
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Call Number: D.460 1595-001
Location: Box 4, folder 14
Item Name: Anne des Ursins
Material: Paper
Language: French
Date: 1595
Origin: France
Contents: Letter to the Marquis d’Alarson.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1598-002
Location: Box 4, folder 15
Item Name: Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: March, 1598
Origin: England
Contents: Document addressed to Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer to Elizabeth I, dealing with the shipment of wheat and other supplies to Ireland.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Charles A. Brown, October 13, 1915

Call Number: D.460 1599-001
Location: Box 4, folder 16
Item Name: Italian Documents, item 39
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: January 21, 1599
Origin: Italy
Contents: Commercial document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Abraham Karp, November, 1982

Call Number: D.460 1616-001
Location: Box 4, folder 17
Item Name: Marie de Medici
Material: Vellum
Language: French
Date: November 27, 1616
Origin: France
Contents: Marie, queen of France, bestows chattels and estates on Anthoine de Louvencourt.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Charles A. Brown Autograph Collection

Call Number: D.460 1620-001
Location: Box 4, folder 18
Item Name: Armenian music
Material: Paper
Language: Armenian
Date: c. 1620
Origin: Armenia
Contents: Easter hymn.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Robert F. Metzdorf; the manuscript was disbound and individual leaves sold by Otto F. Ege

Call Number: D.460 1622-001
Location: Box 4, folder 19
Item Name: Hare, Sir Ralph
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: December 19, 1622
Origin: Stow Bardolph, England
Contents: Letter to Sir Henry Spelman.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Winifred Myers, August 28, 1968

Call Number: D.460 1622-002
Location: Box 4, folder 20
Item Name: Treaty of Bruxelles
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: 1622
Origin: England
Contents: Titled “Passages or Transactions during the Treaty of Bruxelles, 1622.”
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1623-002
Location: Box 4, folder 21
Item Name: Spanish Match and War
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: 1622–23
Origin: England
Contents: Four documents regarding the Spanish Match of Charles I. They seem to be copies of earlier documents, primarily a collection of letters and speeches. The originals date from 1622-23, and these appear to be contemporary copies.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1632-001
Location: Box 4, folder 22
Item Name: Gaye, Robert
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: September 20, 1632
Origin: Matlaske, England
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1634-001
Location: Box 4, folder 23
Item Name: Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de
Material: Paper
Language: French
Date: July 21, 1634
Origin: France
Contents: Cardinal Richelieu informs the notaries of the Châtelet that he has empowered Jehan Bouilliau to be his attorney in his county of La Chapelle-Bellouin. Bouilliau will act as his proxy in all questions of feudal homage owed by or to Richelieu in his position as count of La Chapelle.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1673-001
Location: Box 4, folder 24
Item Name: Howard, Henry
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: June 16, 1673
Origin: England
Contents: Copy of Charles II's decision in dispute regarding the College of Arms and the Earl Marshal of England.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1676-001
Location: Box 4, folder 25
Item Name: Temple, Sir William
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: November 24, 1676
Origin: Nijmegen, Netherlands
Contents: Letter to Sir Richard Bulstrode regarding passports.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1678-001
Location: Box 4, folder 26
Item Name: Oates, Titus
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: September 27, 1678
Origin: England
Contents: List of dates and documents Oates claimed would prove the Titus Oates Plot (or Popish Plot). See also item D.460 1681-001.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1682-003
Location: Box 4, folder 27
Item Name: Southwell, Sir Robert
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: 1682-88
Origin: England
Contents: Loosely bound collection of four documents. Southwell was asked to write a biography of the duke of Ormond, which he worked on from 1682-88. These documents appear to be notes regarding that biography, though the third records Ormond’s death in 1688, suggesting a later date for that document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from Sotheby Phillipps sale through Winifred A. Myers, June 10, 1971

Call Number: D.460 1685-001
Location: Box 4, folder 28
Item Name: Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, earl of
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: May 18, 1685
Origin: England
Contents: Note to the Exchequer to pay Charles, earl of Middleton.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Charles A. Brown, May 28, 1915

Call Number: D.460 1687-001
Location: Box 4, folder 29
Item Name: Maneriu de Geddinges
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: March 28, 1687
Origin: England
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1698-004
Location: Box 4, folder 30
Item Name: Newton, Sir Isaac
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: 1698
Origin: London, England
Contents: Newton, acting in his role as Warden of the Mint, calls upon several witnesses to testify what they know about Elizabeth Brion, who is accused of hiding coining tools.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Charles A. Brown Autograph Collection

Call Number: D.460 1699-001
Location: Box 4, folder 31
Item Name: Fuller, Thomas
Material: Paper
Language: English
Date: November 9, 1699
Origin: England
Contents: Fuller asks his father to review the draft of a document regarding licensing physicians.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: R. B. Adam Library, April, 1941

Box 5:

Call Number: D.460 1000-008
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Music score
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Donated by Michael Sze, 2015.

Call Number: D.460 800-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Missal Fragments
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Ninth century
Origin: unknown (likely France)
Contents: Six strips of parchment from a single manuscript, preserved because of their later use as reinforcing bands in a bookbinding.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1000-004
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Initial D
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: unknown
Origin: unknown
Contents: Large letter cut from a music manuscript.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Edward Johnson

Call Number: D.460 1000-005
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Hymnal (potente et inopem)
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: unknown
Origin: unknown
Contents: Excerpts from hymns. The text is primarily “Cogitaverunt impii et locuti,” a chant in the Graduale Romanum, with excerpts from Psalms 71 and 72.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Digitized document: Page 1, Page 2

Call Number: D.460 1000-007
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Georg Fuisting
Material: Vellum
Language: German and Latin
Date: unknown
Origin: Germany
Contents: Religious document. The document has a difficult cursive script that has faded with age. It is primarily in German, but uses a number of Latin words and phrases.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1200-004
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Bible, Joshua
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: First half of thirteenth century
Origin: France or Italy
Contents: Leaf with text of Joshua 19-21.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1300-004
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Latin Bifolio (nulla cer dubitatio)
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Early fourteenth century
Origin: Italy
Contents: Unknown.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1353-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Cicero, De Oratore
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: 1353
Origin: unknown
Contents: Excerpt from Book I of Cicero’s De Oratore.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

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Transcription located here (PDF)

Call Number: D.460 1472-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Rene I of Anjou
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: August 20, 1472
Origin: Aix-la-Provence, France
Contents: Grant of house and garden at Marseilles to Guillermus de Peliciis.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1478-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Persian Biography
Material: Paper
Language: Farsi
Date: 1478
Origin: unknown
Contents: Excerpt from a Persian manuscript containing biographies of noted Sufis and distinguished men. The author is given as Abd-al-Rahman, son of Achmad-al-Jami.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown; the manuscript was disbound and individual leaves sold by the Foliophiles

Call Number: D.460 1500-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Music (fulgebunt iusti)
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Sixteenth century
Origin: unknown
Contents: Antiphonal leaf.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1500-002
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Qur’an leaf
Material: Paper
Language: Arabic
Date: Sixteenth century
Origin: unknown (possibly Egypt)
Contents: Excerpt from the Qur’an, chapter 20.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown; the manuscript was disbound and individual leaves sold by the Foliophiles

Call Number: D.460 1548-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Henri II of France
Material: Vellum
Language: French
Date: September 16, 1548
Origin: Heyrieux (Isere), France
Contents: Henri II refunds a tax to Estienne Gaillard.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Charles A. Brown Autograph Collection

Call Number: D.460 1603-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Michel, Robert
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: February 10, 1603
Origin: England
Contents: Document recording sale of land by Robert Michel to Thomas Johnson.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1607-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Unidentified document
Material: Vellum
Language: unknown
Date: September 25, 1607
Origin: unknown
Contents: All of the handwriting is difficult to make out. Thirty-two lines of text with two signatures at end of document. Date taken from note on fold.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1646-003
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Perlone Zipoli
Material: Paper
Language: Italian
Date: 1646-65
Origin: Italy
Contents: Four stanzas of Zipoli’s poem, Malmantile Racquistato. “Perlone Zipoli” is an anagram pseudonym for Lorenzo Lippi (1606-65), an Italian artist and poet. Lippi began the work in 1646 and finished it in 1665, but it was not published until 1688. The Foliophiles suggest this manuscript copy may be Lippi’s autograph text, and I have dated it accordingly.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown; the manuscript was disbound and individual leaves sold by the Foliophiles

Call Number: D.460 1651-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Ashmead, Edward
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: February 12, 1651
Origin: England
Contents: Ashmead’s will. Witnessed by Thomas Ashmead, John Ashmead, and Thomas Browne. No signatures or signatory marks apparent.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1668-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Shorley, John
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: April 15, 1668
Origin: England
Contents: Receipt for sale of land.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1698-001
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Caton, Amy
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: June 6, 1698
Origin: England
Contents: Agreement between Caton and William Richards regarding lease of land.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1698-002
Location: Box 5
Item Name: Rawlins, William
Material: Vellum
Language: English
Date: September 21, 1698
Origin: England
Contents: Agreement between Rawlins and Edward Ellis.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Framed Documents:

Call Number: D.460 1200-007
Location: Framed document
Item Name: Bible, Genesis
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Early thirteenth century
Origin: France
Contents: Leaf with text of Genesis 14:8-16:11.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown.

Call Number: D.460 1300-005
Location: Framed document
Item Name: “Obsecro te”
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Fourteenth century
Origin: unknown
Contents: Part of “Obsecro te,” a very popular prayer in books of hours, from which this leaf is likely taken.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1350-001
Location: Framed document
Item Name: Bible, John
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Mid-fourteenth century
Origin: unknown
Contents: Leaf with text of John 18:19-22. This leaf is likely from a book of hours.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1400-006
Location: Framed document
Item Name: Donatus
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: Fifteenth century
Origin: France
Contents: Grammatical treatise.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Bibliographic Curiosities:

Call Number: D.460 1306-001
Location: Bibliographic Curiosities
Item Name: Jacobus
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: February 11, 1306
Origin: unknown
Contents: Bill of sale and transfer of title to real estate and property from Jacobus to Broctius.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gibbs and Ms. Laurel Gibbs, 1998

Call Number: D.460 1374-001
Location: Bibliographic Curiosities
Item Name: Inventory of the library at St. Victor de Marseille
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin
Date: April 20, 1374
Origin: Marseille, France
Contents: Inventory of the library at the monastery of St. Victor de Marseille.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: unknown

Call Number: D.460 1400-004
Location: Bibliographic Curiosities
Item Name: Johanns von Neumarkt, Der Stachel der Liebe
Material: Vellum
Language: German
Date: Early fifteenth century
Origin: Nuremburg, Germany for the Dominican convent at Maria Medingen, near Donauwörth, Bavaria
Contents: German translation of the Stimulis Amoris (the German title translates to The Thorn of Love). Includes a unique woodcut pasted in front cover, dated to 1420-30. Klapper prepared an edition of the text that includes this manuscript’s variant readings.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Hiram W. Sibley, October, 1930

Call Number: D.460 1481-001
Location: Bibliographic Curiosities
Item Name: Ordo Extremae Unctionis
Material: Vellum
Language: Latin and German
Date: 1481
Origin: Dominican Convent of St. Catherine, Nuremburg, Germany
Contents: The service for the order of extreme unction.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Jean Vance Clarke in memory of Sherman Clarke, June 1929

Call Number: D.460 1572-002
Location: Bibliographic Curiosities
Item Name: Sandoval, Juan
Material: Vellum
Language: Spanish
Date: 1572
Origin: Spain
Contents: Legal document granting the family rights from the king.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Presented by the estate of Bertha Buswell, March 9, 1956

Location: Bibliographic Curiosities
Item Name: Codex with seal of Rattisbone
Material: Vellum
Language: Polish
Date: March 11, 1682
Origin: Rattisbone, Poland
Contents: Legal document.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the Sherman Clarke Memorial Gift, June, 1929

Call Number: D.460 1693-001
Location: Bibliographic Curiosities
Item Name: Certificate of Good Conduct
Material: Paper
Language: German
Date: June 19, 1693
Origin: Rosslau, Germany
Contents: The Rosslau court clerk, Johann Werner Vogelsag, writes to the Woodturners’ Guild at Wittenberg, giving a certificate of good conduct to Johann George Schwartze, who is going to Wittenberg. Document also bears the seal of the town of Rosslau.
Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the Sherman Clarke Memorial Gift, June 1923

Appendix of Adjacent Materials: The materials listed in this appendix include items that overlap with the scope of this project. Some exceed the date of this project; others are potentially from the period, but their date is not confirmed. All have been described and assigned a call number prior to this project, and as such, need no secondary listing here. I have included a brief note describing each item.

CX 15: Owen, Athelstan. (1693) A collection of poems written and signed by British poet Athelstan Owen (1676-1731) in a bound journal.

CX 98: Nuremberg Lineage Books. (Five volumes, 1628-34) This is a collection of genealogical information, accompanied by drawings of coats-of-arms, printed material, and engravings of notable citizens of and places in Nuremberg, Germany.

CX 99-103: Venetian Lineage Books. (Five volumes, 1692-1780) Manuscript compilations of information about the noble families of Venice, Italy, including drawings of coats-of-arms. Different compilers created each volume.

CX 189: St. John Chrysostom. (c. 1450) Latin translation of sermons of St. John Chrysostom (347-407 AD), archbishop of Constantinople.

CY 28: Transcripts of Anglo-Saxon Charters. (c. 1650) Transcripts of twenty-nine Latin and Old English charters, primarily grants of land and privileges to the church at Worcester.

CY 40-41: Venetian Books of Arms. (Two volumes, 1692-1780) Manuscript compilations of information about the coats-of-arms of various noble families of Venice, Italy. Different compilers created each volume.

D.29: Anne (St. John) Lee Wilmot, Countess of Rochester Papers. (1685-86) A collection of sixteen letters written by the countess to various family members mainly regarding the disputed will of Anne (Lee) Wharton.

 


Individual Manuscripts Collection items:

Albani, Joseph. These two items, both dated 1794, were part of the Italian Documents collection donated by Alexander Karp.

Luther, Martin. This description and explanation of the significance of Luther’s seal is, according to Robert F. Metzdorf, a late eighteenth-century quotation from a letter, and not a contemporary copy.

Mordaunt, Charles, Third Earl of Peterborough. Although Mordaunt lived from 1658-1735, this item is not included because it is just his signature, devoid of any greater context, and quite likely from the eighteenth century. The source of the item is the R. B. Adam Library, and the sole entry in the Adam catalog for Mordaunt describes that piece as “A.L.S. September 25, 1707. 1 p. 4to” (s.v. “Peterborough (Charles Mordaunt, Third Earl of),” vol. 3, p. 195).

Queen Anne. This item is a copy of eleven letters from Anne (1665-1714) to Sir Charles Hedges, one of her secretaries of state, primarily regarding stays of execution. Since Anne ruled 1702-14, these royal letters postdate this handlist. Beatrice Curtis Brown offers an edition of four of the letters (taken from an earlier publication) and notes “they must have been written before December 1706, when Hedges left office” (p. 117n1). One letter mentions the capture of Valencia, Spain; Charles Mordaunt, earl of Peterborough, took Valencia on January 24, 1706, suggesting the original letters were written in 1705-06, and these copies were likely made late in 1706 or in 1707.