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Medicinal and Culinary Miscellany

Alternative Title: Fifteenth-century leaf from a medicinal and culinary miscellany (fol. 38)
Subject: Formulas, recipes, etc.--Manuscripts and Manuscripts
Date created: 1300s to 1600s
Rights Statement: No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type: Text
Identifier: Shelf Mark: Ms.Brown.It.1
Extent: 33 leaves; 30 x 22 cm.
Additional Physical Characteristics: Folio with old 17th-century foliation 31-62, modern foliation in pencil, on paper with the exception of one leaf of reused medieval parchment (36). Paper quality and size inconsistent, some watermarks visible. Bound in plain modern boards. A few leaves stained and fraying...
Physical Repository: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance: Purchased by Bruce and Dorothy Brown from Maggs Bros. Ltd, London, July 1992.
Provider: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre: miscellanies and manuscripts (documents)
Archival Item Identifier: Accession Number: 1992-044-2
Fonds Title: Bruce and Dorothy Brown Collection
Fonds Identifier: SC017
Is Referenced By: Archival finding aid: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/findaids/brown_collection_manuscripts.pdfSpecial Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
Date Digitized: 2012-02-23
Transcript: Catalogue and preliminary identification of watermarks by Natasha O'Reilly, with the assistance of Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Boyarin, December 2016, available here:...
Technical Note: Metadata by KD.

Indenture with a seal

Subject: Deeds and Manuscripts, Medieval
Date created: 1400? to 1599?
Rights Statement: No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type: Text
Extent: 1 leaf ; 31 x 56 cm
Additional Physical Characteristics: Seal is 7.5 cm diameter.
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), signatures (names), indentures, seals (artifacts), legal documents, and documents (object genre)
Archival Item Identifier: Accession Number: 2018-057; Item: 3.1
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 by LG and PD. Metadata by KD.

Marriage scroll

Subject: Marriage and Manuscripts, Medieval
Date created: 1400? to 1599?
Rights Statement: No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type: Text
Extent: 1 scroll ; 88 x 28 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: signatures (names), legal documents, marriage records, scrolls (information artifacts), documents (object genre), and manuscripts (documents)
Archival Item Identifier: Accession Number: 2018-057; Item: 2.1
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 by LG and PD. Metadata by KD.

Leaf from a Breviary, Fragment

Subject: Hymns, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), Hymns, Latin, Music, and Breviaries
Date created: 1500s
Rights Statement: No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type: Text
Identifier: Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.22
Extent: 1 leaf ; 43.5 x 29.5 cm
Additional Physical Characteristics: Eight lines or music on recto, ten lines of music on verso. Staff lines and first letters are in red., Script type: Southern Textualis., One manuscript leaf on parchment., Square notation on five-line staves., and Red initials and rubrics, red staves.
Physical Repository: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance: Gift of Molly Ungar, 2017.
Provider: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre: breviaries, fragments (object portions), and manuscripts (documents)
Archival Item Identifier: Accession Number: 2017-033, Item: 1.1
Fonds Title: Molly Pulver Ungar collection
Fonds Identifier: SC538
Is Referenced By: Special Collections fonds: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/molly-ungar-collectionFragmentarium: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-poplSpecial Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/fragm-lat-22.php
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.

Manuscript Fragment

Subject: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Date created: 1500s
Rights Statement: No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type: Text
Identifier: Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.23
Extent: 1 leaf ; 41.5 x 29 cm
Physical Repository: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance: Gift of Molly Ungar, 2017.
Provider: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre: fragments (object portions) and manuscripts (documents)
Archival Item Identifier: Accession Number: 2017-033, Item: 1.2
Fonds Title: Molly Pulver Ungar collection
Fonds Identifier: SC538
Is Referenced By: Special Collections fonds: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/molly-ungar-collectionSpecial Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/fragm-lat-23.php
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.

Psalter?, Fragment

Subject: Bible. Psalms, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Date created: 1500s
Rights Statement: No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type: Text
Identifier: Call Number: BX890 B5A1 1572 and Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.26
Extent: 1 leaf ; 650 x 440 mm
Geographic Coverage: Italy
Coordinates: 42.83333, 12.83333
Additional Physical Characteristics: Margins have been trimmed to text block, with some loss of text (letters and half lines) at edges., Dimensions of front cover: 40.5 x 26.5 cm., Red capitals and red eight-point stars mark syntactical units. Stars are stamped not drawn., Southern textualis script type.,...
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), psalters (books), and fragments (object portions)
Is Referenced By: Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/fragm-lat-26.phpFragmentarium: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-ty1n
Date Digitized: 2022-05-11
Technical Note: Scanned on Betterlight TTI at 600 DPI tiff (1/15; 263; bent5; camera 1100) by PD. Metadata by KD.

Statutes of the Order of the Garter

Alternative Title: Statutes of the Order of the Garter, in Thirteen Chapters
Subject: Charters, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Order of the Garter
Creator: Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553
Date created: 1500s
Rights Statement: No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type: Text
Identifier: Shelf Mark: Ms.Brown.Eng.1
Extent: 32 pages; vellum; plus frontspiece; 23 x 17 x 205 cm (pages 220 x 158 mm) 272 leave s, quarto [180x133mm], bound in later r ed morocco gilt.
Geographic Coverage: England
Coordinates: 52.16045,-0.70312
Additional Physical Characteristics: 26 lines to a page, ruled in red, written in dark brown ink in a calligraphic secretary hand with some flourishes, forty-seven illuminated initials (one 4-line, three 3-line, the rest 2-line) in gold, red and blue with white tracery, illuminated frontispiece with the...
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: illuminated manuscripts
Archival Item Identifier: 1989-069-8
Fonds Title: Bruce and Dorothy Brown collection
Fonds Identifier: SC017
Is Referenced By: Archival finding aid: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/findaids/brown_collection_manuscripts.pdfSpecial Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
Date Digitized: 2019-10-23/2019-10-24
Transcript: Transcription and description by Sydney Terepocki and Luke Oldfield, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), April 2015, is available here : https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/ms-brown-eng-1.pdf
Technical Note: Scanned on Betterlight/TTI at 600 dpi TIFF (1/20;303 (some at 283);copy 4 stops; camera height 500) Item scanned in acrylic cradle and mylar used to hold pages down during scans. Work completed 23-24 Oct 2019 - PD. Metadata by KD.

Aldus Manutius the Younger, De Antiquis Numerorum Notis

Alternative Title: Interpraetatio numerorum quibus in ratione pecuniaria veteres utebantur; Concerning ancient writing of numbers; Meaning of numbers which the ancients used in monetary reckoning; De antiquis numerorum notis. Interpraetatio numerorum quibus in ratione pecuniaria veteres...
Subject: Money, Coins, Italian, Numerals, Writing of, Coins, Roman, and Sestertius (Coin)
Creator: Manzuio, Aldo
Date created: approximately 1550 to approximately 1575
Rights Statement: No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type: Text
Identifier: Shelf Mark: Ms.It.1 and Call number: P211 M275 1550
Extent: 6 folios; paper; 211 x 60 mm (21.1 cm)
Geographic Coverage: Italy
Coordinates: 42.83333, 12.83333
Additional Physical Characteristics: Modern foliation in pencil, top outer recto, 1-6, complete (collation, i6), ruled with full-length vertical bounding lines produced by folding the leaves lengthwise into quarters, text written in brown ink in an elegant, slanted humanistic cursive script in one or two...
Physical Repository: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance: Purchased from Les Enluminures (reference number 794), October 2014.
Provider: University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre: manuscripts (documents)
Fonds Title: Medieval Studies Collection
Fonds Identifier: SC070
Is Referenced By: From Les Eluminures website: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/MsIt1.pdfSpecial Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
Date Digitized: 2017-01-17
Technical Note: Scanned by CDeWolfe using the Betterlight TTI @ 600dpi. Cropped, no colour correction or size editing. Metadata by KD.

Leaf from a Breviary, Fragment

Subject: Gregorian chants, Music, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Breviaries
Date created: approximately 1550 to approximately 1600
Rights Statement: No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type: Text
Identifier: Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.18
Extent: 1 leaf ; 440 x 280 mm
Geographic Coverage: Spain
Coordinates: 40, -4
Additional Physical Characteristics: On paper. and With musical notation; apparatus and staves in red; musical neumes on four staves; two decorated penwork initials in red and in black 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: manuscripts (documents), scores (documents for music), and fragments (object portions)
Archival Item Identifier: Accession Number: 1992-045; Item: 10
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
Transcript: Transcription and musical interpretation by Alina Blank with musical assistance by Katie Blank, completed as part of course work for an undergraduate Manuscripts Studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (English), available here:...
Technical Note: Metadata by KD.

Shahnameh, Fragment

Alternative Title: Šāhnāme, شاهنامه, Fragment of Shahnameh (Dastan-ɘ Bæhram ba Kɘshavarz َ داستانَبهرامَباَکشاورز ), and Abu al-Qasim Ahmad, Fragment
Subject: Calligraphy, Persian, Persian poetry, Shāhnāmah (Firdawsī), Epic poetry, Epic literature, Persian, and Persian literature
Creator: Firdawsī
Date created: 1551 to 1650
Rights Statement: No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Resource Type: Text
Identifier: Shelf Mark: MS Victoria 1998-034
Extent: 1 leaf ; 345 x 222 mm
Geographic Coverage: Iran
Coordinates: 32, 53
Additional Physical Characteristics: Indigenous Iranian paper in Nasta’liq script.
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), poetry, epic poetry, and fragments (object portions)
Fonds Title: Arabic Manuscripts Collection
Fonds Identifier: SC119
Is Referenced By: Fragmentarium: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-ypczSpecial Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/ms-victoria-1998-034.php
Date Digitized: 2022-10-12
Technical Note: Metadata by KD.

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