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  • 1. Text from Psalms

    Alternative Title:
    Bible. Psalms, CXVIII, 64-72. and Text from Psalm 118, verses 64-72.
    Subject:
    Manuscripts, Medieval, Bible. Psalms, History, Bible. Psalms, CXX-CXXXIV, Bible, Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
    Creator:
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    lat
    Date Created:
    1175? to 1200?
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.24 and Call Number: ND3358 P7T59
    Extent:
    1 leaf (text on both sides) ; vellum ; 260 x 170 mm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Italy and Northern Italy
    Coordinates:
    45.20543, 8.96233 and 42.83333, 12.83333
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provenance:
    Purchased from Phillip J Pirages
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    illuminated manuscripts, psalters (books), fragments (object portions), and manuscripts (documents)
    Is Referenced By:
    Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php
    Date Digitized:
    2018-09-28
    Transcript:
    Main text transcribed below in Latin with English translation following. Glosses and interlineation not translated.118:63 [final words only] ...custodientium mandata tua. [... keep your commandments].118:64 -- Misericordia tua Domine plena est terra: iustificationes tuas...
    Technical Note:
    300 dpi jpeg. Metadata by KD.

  • 2. Memoriale de prerogativa imperii romani

    Alternative Title:
    Reminder of the Prerogative of the Roman Empire
    Subject:
    Early works, Kings and rulers, State, The, England. Parliament, Europe--Holy Roman Empire, Politics and government, Bishops, History, and Manuscripts
    Creator:
    Alexander, von Roes, active 13th century
    Contributor:
    Regino, of Prüm, approximately 840-915
    Location:
    Language:
    lat and enm
    Date Created:
    1457 to 1490
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Call Number: DD126 A44 1457 and Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.9
    Extent:
    95 folios, preceded by a single and followed by 2 paper flyleaves : illuminations, portrait, coats of arms ; 23 x 17 cm.
    Geographic Coverage:
    France, Rome (Empire), Germany--Cologne, Germany--Bavaria, and Germany
    Coordinates:
    50.93333, 6.95, 51.5, 10.5, 41.8925, 12.48499, 46, 2, and 49, 11.5
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Bound in deerskin over wood boards, back sewn on four bands (not its original binding, although binding is a period binding, here reused), front and back covers worn, cracking along the upper joint. Damaged in the upper and inner margin, opening folio and edges of many...
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provenance:
    Purchased from Les Enlumieres
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    early works, illuminated manuscripts, and manuscripts (documents)
    Is Referenced By:
    Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php
    Date Digitized:
    2019-11-19
    Transcript:
    Transcription of fol. 15r (start of the 25 October 1460 Act of Accord) by Shaylene Keddy, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies course with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), December 2018, is available here:...
    Technical Note:
    600 dpi TIFF. Item scanned on TTI/Betterlight (1/20; 283; bent5 tone profile; camera height 500). Metadata by KD.

  • 3. Terrier of the Town of Karben

    Alternative Title:
    Terrier [Land-Holdings] of the Town of Karben (Hesse, Germany)
    Subject:
    Terriers (Law), Land tenure, Villages, Landowners, History, Manuscripts, Cities and towns, and Land titles
    Language:
    ger
    Date Created:
    1483
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Call Number: HD1251 T37 1483 and Shelf Mark: Ms.Ger.2
    Extent:
    6ff ; parchment ; 358 x 133 mm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Germany--Karben, Germany--Karben--Kloppenheim, Germany, and Germany--Hesse
    Coordinates:
    50.55, 9, 51.5, 10.5, 50.23521, 8.75789, and 50.23329, 8.75138
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    "apparently complete, with the exception of the original seal which lacks (collation i6), written in brown ink in batarde cursive for the text and in Gothic textura in red ink for the date, on 40-45 long lines (justification 110 x 270-290 mm.), with initials stroked...
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    manuscripts (documents) and legal documents
    Is Referenced By:
    Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.phpFrom Les Enluminures website: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/MsGer2.pdf
    Date Digitized:
    2020-02-11
    Transcript:
    Transcription completed by Cameron Young, with reference to a prior draft transcription by Johannes Schmidt and Seamus Reid, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies course with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), December 2016, available here:...
    Technical Note:
    Scanned on Betterlight TTI at 600 dpi 11 Feb 2020 (1/20; 303; bent 5, camera height 800) scanned under glass. Metadata by KD.

  • 4. Nuremberg Chronicle

    Alternative Title:
    Incunabulum, 1493
    Subject:
    Liber chronicarum (Schedel, Hartmann) and History
    Creator:
    Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514
    Contributor:
    Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513
    Location:
    Language:
    lat
    Date Created:
    1493?
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Still Image
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: Inc.Lat.4
    Extent:
    1 leaf ; 45.5 x 32.5 cm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Germany--Nuremberg
    Coordinates:
    49.45421, 11.07752
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Illustrations.
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    encyclopedias, fragments (object portions), incunabula (books), and manuscripts (documents)
    Archival Item Identifier:
    Accession Number: 2010-014, Item: 1.4
    Fonds Title:
    Sandra Mattia collection
    Fonds Identifier:
    SC436
    Is Referenced By:
    Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inc-lat-4.phpSpecial Collections fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/sandra-mattia-collection
    Date Digitized:
    2022-08-15
    Technical Note:
    Scanned on Betterlight/TTI - 1/15; 283; bent5; camera 800 - 600DPI tiff archival scans by PD. Metadata by KD.

  • 5. Property Register, County of Leiningen

    Alternative Title:
    Taxation Records, County of Leiningen., Court Records from Lautersheim (Rheinland-Pfalz)., and Regulations from Grunstadt (Rheinland-Pfalz) for Payment of Agrarian Dues.
    Subject:
    History, Land tenure, Landowners, Villages, Manuscripts, Cities and towns, and Land titles
    Creator:
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Language:
    ger
    Date Created:
    1497 to 1498
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Shelf Mark: Ms.Ger.1 and Call Number: HD1251 P76 1498
    Extent:
    65 leaves (collation: i8 + ii4 + iii8 [6 + 2 interleaved singletons, following 13 and 16] + iv16 + v13 [12 + 1, after folio 48] + vi2 + vii14; paper; an unfoliated paper slip interleaved between fols 5-6); modern foliation in pencil, top, outer corner, recto, 1-65 ; 22 x 16.5 cm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Germany--Worms, Germany--Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, and Germany--Leiningen (Principality)
    Coordinates:
    51.5, 10.5, 50.1333, 7.56667, 49.63278, 8.35916, and 49.66667, 7.5
    Chronological Coverage:
    14XX
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Item is very brittle, binding is uneven (loose in places, tight in others); no covers. "Written in one main hand, in black ink, in a German administrative cursiva, with sixteenth-century additions by several hands, and addenda in an eighteenth-century hand on ff. 42v...
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    manuscripts (documents), early works, records (documents), and tax records
    Is Referenced By:
    From Les Enluminures website: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/MsGer1.pdfSpecial Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php
    Date Digitized:
    2020-01-22/2020-01-23
    Technical Note:
    Scanned on Betterlight TTI 600 DPI TIFF (1/20; 263; bent5 tone; camera height 500). Metadata by KD.

  • 6. Notarial records of Pietro Gori Michelangelo (Codex Kemp)

    Subject:
    Family archives, Renaissance, History, Women, Law, Manuscripts, Social conditions, Families, Family history, Family records, Land titles, Notaries, Landowners, and Dowry
    Creator:
    Michelangelo, Pietro Gori
    Contributor:
    Location:
    Date Created:
    1510 to 1521
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Call Number: CS769 M63N67 1510 and Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.5
    Extent:
    i + 31 folios (collation i² + ii¹⁰ + iii¹⁰⁺¹ + iv⁸) ; parchment, 225 x 170 mm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Italy and Italy--Siena
    Coordinates:
    43.31822, 11.33064 and 42.83333, 12.83333
    Chronological Coverage:
    15XX
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Housed in a modern handmade box covered in dark burgundy cloth. "Bound in wood boards, faded and slightly worn red leather strap with intact lettered ("E.M.") brass clasp with pin and eylet, channels of support visible, faded and slightly worn red leather...
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provenance:
    Purchased from Les Enluminures
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    manuscripts (documents), records (documents), and notarial documents
    Is Referenced By:
    Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php
    Date Digitized:
    2020-01-21
    Technical Note:
    Scanned on Betterlight TTI 600 dpi tiff (1/20; 263; bent5 tone; camera height 500). Metadata by KD.

  • 7. Ad physiologum

    Alternative Title:
    Tou hagiou patros hēmōn Epiphaniou, Episkopou konstanteias Kyprou, Eis ton physiologon; tou autou eis ta Baia logus = Sancti Patris nostri Epiphanii, episcopi Constantiae Cypri, Ad Physiologvm. Eiusdem in die festo palmarum sermo. D. Consali Ponce de Leon Hispalensis,...
    Subject:
    History, Sermons, Physiologus, Bestiaries, Sermons, Greek--Manuscripts, Sermons, Greek, Bible, Palm Sunday, and Early works
    Creator:
    Epiphanius, Saint, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, approximately 310-403
    Contributor:
    Ponce de León, Gonzalo, 1530-approximately 1590
    Publisher:
    Antverpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, architypographi Regis, 1588.
    Location:
    Language:
    gre and lat
    Date Created:
    approximately 1588
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Call Number: BR65 E653H3 1588
    Extent:
    16 unnumbered pages, 124 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    Includes index. Illustrations.
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Early Printed Books Collection
    Provenance:
    Gift of Beryl Rowland estate.
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    books
    Is Referenced By:
    Indexed in: Plantin press 1126
    Date Digitized:
    2001-01-22
    Technical Note:
    600 dpi tiff. Metadata by KD.

  • 8. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publicke and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miles compasse

    Alternative Title:
    The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publicke and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and...
    Subject:
    History, Early works, Social conditions, Cities and towns, Antiquities, Historic buildings, Architecture, Travel, Manners and customs, and Buildings
    Creator:
    Dyson, Humphrey, -1633, Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, and Stow, John, 1525?-1605
    Contributor:
    Dyson, Humphrey, -1633, Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, and Bourne, Nicholas, -1660
    Publisher:
    London : Printed by Elizabeth Purslowe, and are to be sold by Nicholas Bourne, at his shop at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1633.
    Location:
    Language:
    eng
    Date Created:
    1633
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Call Number: DA680 S87 1633
    Extent:
    8 unnumbered pages, 939 [that is 943], 29 unnumbered pages : coats of arms; 35 cm (folio)
    Edition:
    [Fourth]
    Geographic Coverage:
    England--London
    Coordinates:
    51.50853, -0.12574
    Chronological Coverage:
    16xx/17xx
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    The words "survey" and "London" in the title are xylographic; Leaf A1v bears the arms of London; Paging irregular; no. 527-534 repeated, no. 653-654 and 771-772 omitted; Text and register appear continuous despite pagination; Variant of title page...
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Early Printed Books Collection
    Provenance:
    Gift of Janelle Jenstad (2014).
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    books
    Is Referenced By:
    Indexed in: ESTC, S117597; STC (2nd ed.), 23345
    Date Digitized:
    2013-05-03/2013-05-14
    Technical Note:
    600 dpi TIFF. Scanned on Plustek by SC and KM. Metadata by JTP and KD.

  • 9. Doctoral diploma granted to Franciscus Dionysius Van der Hagheby by the University of Rome, 1682

    Alternative Title:
    Doctoral Diploma, University of Rome and Franciscus Dionysius Van der Haghe : Doctoral diploma granted by the University of Rome 1682.
    Subject:
    Diplomas, Education, Università di Roma, Universities and colleges, History, and Manuscripts
    Creator:
    Van der Haghe, Franciscus Dionysius
    Contributor:
    Università di Roma
    Language:
    lat
    Date Created:
    April 11, 1682
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Identifier:
    Call Number: LF3733 D4V35 1682 and Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.5
    Extent:
    1 sheet ; parchment ; 44 x 61 cm
    Geographic Coverage:
    Italy and Italy--Rome
    Coordinates:
    41.89193, 12.51133 and 42.83333, 12.83333
    Chronological Coverage:
    16XX
    Additional Physical Characteristics:
    "One sheet, written in an elegant italic script in thirty long lines, framed on three sides with a gold rule, headings and names in gold capitals, one six-line gold initial, stamp in the lower margin with the initials “S. B.” and motto “Elevat Et Illustrat,” folded,...
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
    Provenance:
    Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd.
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    diplomas and manuscripts (documents)
    Is Referenced By:
    Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.phpFrom Les Enluminures website: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/DocLat5_full.pdf
    Date Digitized:
    2020-02-13
    Technical Note:
    Scanned on Betterlight/TTI by PD (1/20; 263; copy4 stops; camera height 700). 600 dpi TIFF. Item stored folded, unfolded and scanned under glass. Metadata by KD.

  • 10. Georgius Secundus, Dei Gratia Magnae Britanniae, Franciae et Hiberniae Rex

    Alternative Title:
    George II legal instrument manuscript, circa 1730.
    Subject:
    Land titles, Land tenure--Law and legislation, History, Land tenure, Legal instruments, and Early works
    Creator:
    George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
    Contributor:
    Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, Andrew, Sarah, and History of Tom Jones (Fielding, Henry)
    Language:
    lat
    Date Created:
    approximately 1730
    Rights Statement:
    No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
    Resource Type:
    Text
    Extent:
    1 leaf (manuscript on vellum(?)) : engraving ; 66 x 90 cm.
    Geographic Coverage:
    Great Britain and England--Lyme Regis
    Coordinates:
    54, -2 and 50.72654, -2.93477
    Physical Repository:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Collection:
    Early Printed Books Collection
    Provenance:
    Prof. Emeritus John Tucker.
    Provider:
    University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
    Genre:
    legal documents, legal instruments, and manuscripts (documents)
    Date Digitized:
    2016-06-09
    Technical Note:
    600 dpi JPEG. Metadata by JTP and KD.