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Alternative Title:
Venice letter and Letter, Venice to Damascus, 1402
Subject:
Earthquakes , Natural disasters , Buildings , Politics and government , and Crime
Creator:
Contarini, Giovanni
Contributor:
Soranzo, Donato
Date Created:
August 30, 1402
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.7
Extent:
1 page ; 22.5 x 30 cm
Geographic Coverage:
Syria--Damascus and Italy--Venice
Coordinates:
45.43713, 12.33265 and 33.5102, 36.29128
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Letter written in pen and brown (possibly iron gall) ink on linen chain-and-laid, medium weight, cream-coloured paper with watermark.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance:
The letter was donated to UVic by Brian Pollick in November 2018.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
personal correspondence , manuscripts (documents) , letters (correspondence) , transcripts , and correspondence
Archival Item Identifier:
Accession Number: 2018-072
Fonds Title:
Early Documents collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC577
Is Referenced By:
Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/doc-lat-7.php Archival Finding Aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/early-documents-collection-2
Date Digitized:
2021-11
Technical Note:
Scanned on Betterlight/TTI at 600 DPI Tiff (1/20; 246; tone copy4; camera height 650) by PD. Migration metadata by KD.
Subject:
Land tenure , Manuscripts, Medieval , and Charters
Contributor:
Norton, Nicholas , Glyse, Thomas , Edward, Robert , de Dunstone, John , Man, Edward , Dunstone, Richard , and Chaunseys. Thomas
Date Created:
June 24, 1423
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.1
Extent:
1 manuscript on vellum; 95 x 300 mm
Geographic Coverage:
England--Norfolk
Coordinates:
52.66667, 1
Additional Physical Characteristics:
With small penwork initial; 4 seal tags, with 2 seals of red wax remaining; contemporary and later annotations on dorse.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
seals (marks) and manuscripts (documents)
Archival Item Identifier:
1992-045, Item 5
Fonds Title:
Medieval Studies Collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC070
Is Referenced By:
Archival finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/medieval-studies-collection Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
Date Digitized:
2012-02-23
Technical Note:
Metadata by KD.
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval , Catholic Church , Prayers and devotions , and Books of hours
Date Created:
approximately 1425 to approximately 1450
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.11
Extent:
1 leaf; vellum; 195 x 140 mm
Geographic Coverage:
France
Coordinates:
46, 2
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Apparatus in red; small pen-flourished initials in blue and red and gold and black; four larger decorated initials in gold, pink and blue; contemporary corrections to text; two prayers erased in lower half of verso of leaf.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
fragments (object portions) and manuscripts (documents)
Archival Item Identifier:
1992-045, Item 4
Fonds Title:
Medieval Studies Collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC070
Is Referenced By:
Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php. Archival finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/medieval-studies-collection
Date Digitized:
2012-02-23
Technical Note:
Metadata by KD.
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval and Missals
Date Created:
approximately 1425 to approximately 1450
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.12
Extent:
1 leaf; vellum; 210 x 360 mm
Geographic Coverage:
England
Coordinates:
52.16045, -0.70312
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Yellow wash initials in text; musical neumes on four staves; hierarchy of scripts in main text and rubrics; one large decorated penwork initial in blue and red.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
fragments (object portions) and manuscripts (documents)
Archival Item Identifier:
1992-045, Item 6
Fonds Title:
Medieval Studies Collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC070
Is Referenced By:
Archival finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/medieval-studies-collection Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
Date Digitized:
2012-02-23
Technical Note:
Metadata by KD.
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval and Missals
Date Created:
approximately 1425
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.10
Extent:
1 leaf; vellum; 155 x 115 mm
Geographic Coverage:
Italy and France--Avignon
Coordinates:
42.83333, 12.83333 and 43.94834, 4.80892
Additional Physical Characteristics:
With flourished and un-flourished initials in red, blue and purple; yellow wash highlighting in text; pricking for column ruling.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
fragments (object portions) and manuscripts (documents)
Archival Item Identifier:
1992-045, Item 3
Fonds Title:
Medieval Studies Collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC070
Is Referenced By:
Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php. Archival finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/medieval-studies-collection
Date Digitized:
2012-02-23
Technical Note:
Metadata by KD.
Alternative Title:
John Lydgate, Fall of Princes and "Fall of Princes", Manuscript
Subject:
Mythology , Fate and fatalism , Poetry, Medieval , and Manuscripts, Medieval
Creator:
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Date Created:
approximately 1431 to approximately 1438
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: Ms.Eng.1
Extent:
122 folios ; 260 x 350 mm
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Paper and parchment., Two columns per page (90 x 300mm, 60-70 text lines per column)., and Previously bound in seventeenth-century leather binding; disbound by University of Victoria for restoration purposes and now housed in archival folders that do not correspond to...
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance:
Sold at Sotheby's 14 July 1947 (lot 181), and purchased by University of Victoria from the family of the 1947 buyer in 1977.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
manuscripts (documents)
Archival Item Identifier:
1977-005
Fonds Title:
Medieval Studies Collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC070
Is Referenced By:
Archival finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/medieval-studies-collection University of Victoria Lydgate MS Fall of Princes Website: http://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/lydgate/lydgatems/contents.htm Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/ms-eng-1.php
Date Digitized:
2012-03-16
Technical Note:
Metadata by KD.
Subject:
Land tenure , Manuscripts, Medieval , and Rent
Date Created:
May 31, 1443
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
1 scroll ; 64 x 26 cm
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance:
Gift of John Peterson, September 2018.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
manuscripts (documents) , legal documents , leases , documents (object genre) , signatures (names) , and scrolls (information artifacts)
Archival Item Identifier:
Accession Number: 2018-057; Item: 1.1
Fonds Title:
John Peterson collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC572
Is Referenced By:
Special Collections Finding Aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/john-peterson-collection
Date Digitized:
2025-11
Technical Note:
Scanned on Betterlight/TTI at 600DPI Tif settings (1/15; 251; bent5; camera height 900). Scanned under glass. Took additional photo with Samsung camera phone (72 dpi JPG) to show writing inside fold at base. Digitization by LG and PD. Metadata by KD.
Subject:
Prayers and devotions , Manuscripts, Medieval , Liturgies , and Catholic Church
Date Created:
approximately 1450 to 1493
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelfmark: Ms.Lat.2. and Call number: BX2033 A2 1455
Extent:
1 volume; i + 337 folios, 23 cm
Geographic Coverage:
Italy--Trieste
Coordinates:
45.64953,13.77678
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Manuscript on paper; in red and black ink. In cloth covered wooden box. For further physical description see: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/MsLat2.pdf
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance:
Chiefly gift of Brian Pollick, spouse of Heather Lindstedt, Victoria, B.C., 2012.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
manuscripts (documents)
Is Referenced By:
Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php
Date Digitized:
2019-08-12/2019-08-27
Technical Note:
Scanned on Betterlight/TTI (camera height 500 // 1/15s // 283 // bent5 tone) PD. Metadata by KD.
Subject:
Psalters and Manuscripts, Medieval
Date Created:
approximately 1450 to approximately 1460
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.15
Extent:
1 folium ; 125 x 90 mm (77 x 62 mm)
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Vellum. and Latin text in Gothic script (littera minuscula gothica textualis semi-quadrata formata) ruled in ink for a single column of writing. Decoration consists of the following: gilded litterae notabiliores pen-flourished in blue alternating with similarly...
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 fragments (object portions)
Archival Item Identifier:
Accession Number: 1994-013, Item: 1
Fonds Title:
Medieval Studies Collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC070
Is Referenced By:
Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php. Archival finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/medieval-studies-collection
Date Digitized:
2022-08-03
Technical Note:
Scanned on Betterlight TTI 600 DPI TIFF -- initially at camera height 1100 but felt scans lacked detail. lowered camera to 800. (1/20; 253; copy4) by PD. Metadata by KD.
Alternative Title:
Illuminated Leaf from a Medieval Book of Hours
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval , Catholic Church , Prayers and devotions , and Books of hours
Date Created:
approximately 1450 to approximately 1500
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.6
Extent:
1 leaf; vellum; 144 x 103 mm
Geographic Coverage:
Italy--Italy, Central
Coordinates:
42.83829, 12.24145
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Latin Gothic script with large initial 'D'. Mounted.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance:
Donated by Bruce and Dorothy Brown.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
fragments (object portions) , manuscripts (documents) , and illuminated manuscripts
Archival Item Identifier:
2003-018-4
Fonds Title:
Bruce and Dorothy Brown Collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC017
Is Referenced By:
Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php. Archival finding aid: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/findaids/brown_collection_manuscripts.pdf
Date Digitized:
2012-02-23
Technical Note:
Metadata by KD.