Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
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University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives houses a significant number of medieval and early modern manuscripts. These include medieval and Renaissance documents from England, France, Spain and Italy, including deeds, charters, illuminated manuscript leaves, letters, letter patents, papal bulls, fragments from religious manuscripts, manuscripts on medicine and magic, a catalogue of English armorial shields, statutes of the Garter, and a manuscript of a Spanish Carmelite prioress.
An inventory of the collection is available here:
https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php
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Collection Details
- Items 92
- Last Updated 2025-04-01
Works (92)
61. Psalter?, Fragment
- Title:
- Psalter?, Fragment
- Description:
- Leaf is a replacement binding, added to the host volume sometime after 1572. In situ fragment (one trimmed leaf) used to bind Diui Bernardi Clarævallensis ... Opera omnia (Sebastian Nivellius: Paris, 1572). A loose leaf of paper at front of host volume (c17?) suggests early Italian ownership of the volume (and thus perhaps the place of origin for the binding fragment). Paper records accounts and names in Italian. Host Volume: Diui Bernardi Opera omnia : tam quae vere Germania illius esse nemo inficias eat, quam quae spuria et supposititia ... plerisque videri possunt (printed by Sebastian Nivellius in Paris, 1572). Description completed by student Reed Eckert in Adrienne Williams Boyarin's "In the Archives" course at University of Victoria (Canada), Spring 2021.
- Keyword:
- Manuscript waste
- Subject:
- Bible. Psalms, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Language:
- lat
- Date Created:
- 15XX
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/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., and Parchment.
- 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.php and Fragmentarium: 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.
62. Statutes of the Order of the Garter
- Title:
- Statutes of the Order of the Garter
- Description:
- "The Names and [...] of most of the nobilitie from Wm Conquerours tyme till ye yeare 1580. With ther severall Armes etc." Attractive illuminated late sixteenth-century manuscript in ink, with many coloured armorial illustrations within shields. This lengthy and interesting colourful manuscript, in several sections, includes the names of the principal nobles, by reign, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth, with an illustration of their arms; a list of nobles created since the Conquest, arranged according to rank; an account of the Order of the Garter and a list of all the Knights from the foundation of the Order by Edward III; an account of the Order of the Golden Fleece; and illustrations of armorial bearings arranged according to the heraldic devices chosen, so that, for example, all the shields with Lions Rampant are grouped together, as are all the shields with birds or fleurs de lys. [Several index sections.] Some shields [and pages] left blank, and first line of title and some page headings cropped. In fine condition. --from Maggs catalogue
- Subject:
- Charters, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Order of the Garter
- Creator:
- Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553
- Language:
- eng
- Date Created:
- 15XX
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/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.
- Alternative Title:
- Statutes of the Order of the Garter, in Thirteen Chapters
- 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 arms of the order surrounded by the garter and surmounted by the crown. In a modern binding embroidered with the Arms of the Order. Fol. 2v bears coat of arms of the Order of the Garter under Edward VI, blue and red with silver and gold illumination (silver has tarnished somewhat).
- 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.pdf and Special 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.
63. Untitled (Illuminated Initial)
- Title:
- Untitled (Illuminated Initial)
- Description:
- A gold, red, blue and green ornamental manuscript initial of a group hymn book; cut out of original manuscript. It dates from ca. 1500 and is from Verona, Italy.
- Subject:
- Lettering, Manuscripts, Medieval, Hymns, and Initials
- Language:
- lat
- Date Created:
- 1500~
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text and http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage
- Identifier:
- Legacy Art Gallery Accession No. U009.16.300 and Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.29
- Extent:
- 1 fragment ; 15 x 14.5 cm
- Geographic Coverage:
- Italy--Verona
- Coordinates:
- 45.4299, 10.98444
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- Made with gold leaf, tempera, and shell gold on vellum.
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
- Provenance:
- One of two medieval manuscript fragments collected by Sydney Wayne Jackman and originally donated to the Legacy Art Gallery. Transferred to UVic Special Collection from the Legacy Art Gallery, 2021.
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- illuminated manuscripts, manuscripts (documents), and fragments (object portions)
- Archival Item Identifier:
- Accession Number: 2022-006; Item: 1
- Fonds Title:
- Sydney Wayne Jackman collection
- Fonds Identifier:
- SC650
- Is_referenced_by:
- Archival finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/sydney-wayne-jackman-collection
- Date Digitized:
- 2022-10-21
- Technical Note:
- Scanned concurrently on Betterlight TTI (1/20; 283; copy4 tone; camera height 900) by PD. Metadata by KD.
64. Notarial records of Pietro Gori Michelangelo (Codex Kemp)
- Title:
- Notarial records of Pietro Gori Michelangelo (Codex Kemp)
- Description:
- Manuscript locally named Codex Kemp. "This manuscript contains a rich collection of the land-holdings, sales, and dowry records of the Sienese citizen Pietro Gori Michelangelo and his family. Composed by five different notaries, the documents provide extensive details on the history of the family's holdings and how these holdings fared through sales and transfers during the early sixteenth century. Family history, legal history, women's history, and notarial practices all merit further study through these entirely unpublished documents." -- Description from Les Enluminures website.
- 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
- Date Created:
- 1510/1521
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/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 split bands, leather strap and bands tacked to boards, partial and cut front flyleaf mostly separated from quire with hinge visible, very minor worming to spine edge of boards, modern pencil annotation on inside rear cover. Provenance information written in Roman capitals in black ink on head of rear board with a rudimentary decorated underlining bar." -- Description from Les Enluminures website.
- 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.
65. Toll Register, Serrières (Ardèche)
- Title:
- Toll Register, Serrières (Ardèche)
- Description:
- Register of toll (péage) charges collected at Serrières on the Rhône River. Bound in its contemporary utilitarian wallet-style wrapper, this interesting register contains a record of the merchants and the merchandise they hauled when passing the toll point at Serrières (Ardèche, Southeastern France) on the Rhône River. The toll point was administered by a private owner, who received the profits from the toll, the sums for the years 1527-1530 being recorded here. Evidently unpublished and unique, the manuscript contains data of interest for economic history of the period in a well localized context. -- Textmanuscripts description
- Subject:
- Inland water transportation--Transit charges, Tolls, Economics, Inland water transportation--Transit charges--Accounting, and Economic history
- Language:
- fre
- Date Created:
- 1527/1530
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- Call Number: HE197 F73T65 1530 and Shelf Mark: Ms.Fr.1
- Extent:
- 95 following, preceded by a blank flyleaf, complete, in very regular quires (i-xii8, xiii4), on paper ; 21 cm
- Alternative Title:
- [Toll Register, Serrières (Ardèche)], Register of toll (péage) charges collected at Serrières on the Rhône River for the years 1527-1530.
- Geographic Coverage:
- France--Ardèche, France--Ardèche--Serrières, and Europe--Rhône River
- Coordinates:
- 44.66667, 4.33333
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- "Written in a cursive script in brown ink on long lines, various numbers of lines per page. Bound in a contemporary full limp vellum, wallet binding, a cord on the over-flap wrapped around the register, smooth spine with stitching left apparent, inscription in brown ink on the upper cover "Recepte du peage de Serieres. 1527"".-- Textmanuscripts.
- 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 registers (lists)
- Is_referenced_by:
- Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/ms-fr-1.php
- Date Digitized:
- 2022-01-17
- Transcript:
- Partial transcription of fols. 1r-4r4 by Danielle Aftias, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), December 2016, available here: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/ms-fr-1_fol1-4.pdf
- Technical Note:
- Scanned on Betterlight/TTI (1/20; 246; bent5 tone; camera height 800) 600 DPI Tiff by PD. Metadata by KD.
66. Regla de la orden sagrada de penitencia de la regular observancia de sant francisco
- Title:
- Regla de la orden sagrada de penitencia de la regular observancia de sant francisco
- Description:
- This elegant, well-preserved manuscript, surviving in its original wallet binding, contains a Rule for the Third Order Regular of Franciscans in Spain, issued as a revision of earlier Rules after the Order's privileges were confirmed by papal bull. This is an unedited, and apparently unstudied, text of considerable historical interest, not only for the Rule itself but for the extensive preface that contextualizes its formulation. Although presumably copies of this Rule were made for the houses of the Third Order Regular in sixteenth-century Spain, no other copies are documented to date. ... This Rule in Spanish for the Order of Penance, the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, was issued by Fray Antonio de Tablada, Visitor General and chief minister of the Third Order Regular in Castile, Leo?�n, and Andalusia, at the Order's General Chapter meeting of 1528. -- Seller's description.
- Subject:
- Franciscans, Penance (Canon law), Monasticism and religious orders--Rules, Third Order Regular of St. Francis, and Penance
- Creator:
- Tablada, Antonio de, Frey
- Language:
- lat and spa
- Date Created:
- 1528~/1530~
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- Shelf Mark: Ms.Span.1 and Call Number: BX3654 A3 1528
- Extent:
- 33 folios; parchment; 256-260 x 185-191 mm
- Alternative Title:
- Rule of the holy order of penance of the regular observance of ... Saint Francis
- Geographic Coverage:
- Spain
- Coordinates:
- 40, -4
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- "Modern foliation in pencil, top outer recto, 1-33 (collation i10 [-5 -7; cancelled with no apparent loss of text; neat stubs remain] ii8 iii8 [-2 -3; two leaves lacking with loss of text] iv12 [-1;cancelled with no apparent loss of text; neat stub remains]), horizontal (quire i) or slightly diagonal (quires ii-iii) catchwords with decorative frames, lower inner verso, ruled in lead with full-length vertical bounding lines, copied on every other ruled line, prickings visible in upper, lower, and outer margins (justification 177-198 x 132-144 mm.), written in black ink in a very fine formal Iberian Gothic Rotunda bookhand in twenty-eight to thirty-one long lines, red rubrics with black paraphs, red paraphs, red and black line-fillers, two- to five-line red initials with pen decoration in black and purple, with following word nearly always written in larger, bolder Rotunda script, some of the ink has faded on f. 9, though text remains legible, slight gaps in parchment stitched together in the lower outer corners of ff. 7 and 16, blurred library stamp visible in lower margin of f. 1..... Original wallet binding of limp parchment, with upper cover continuing in a flap that wraps around the fore-edge, binding straps now lacking, with pattern of holes in the lower cover indicating where these straps may once have been attached, sewn on three white leather thongs laced through slits in the spine and upper and lower covers, inscription in dark ink in cursive on upper cover, “Regla de l[a?] Sagrada orden de penitencia de la N[uestra] S[eraphica] P[adre] S[ant] Francisco,” with inscription, “LOC(?) / S,” written over it and a year, “1530,” noted above it in much smaller script, probable pressmark, “[L? or D?] 18,” written on the spine in dark brown ink, a folded fragment from a twelfth-century(?) liturgical manuscript containing musical notation has been used as reinforcement in the fore-edge flap of the upper cover, parchment of binding now stained and slightly curled with a tear over the spine." -- Bookseller's description.
- 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)
- 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.
- Date Digitized:
- 2013-10-10
- Transcript:
- Transcription by Rachelle Ann Tan with reference to the partial transcription of Cana Donovan (for fols. 11r28-16v), as part of coursework for a manuscript studies course with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), April 2016, is available here: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/ms-span-1.PDF
- Technical Note:
- Scanned using TTI Betterlight @ 600dpi. PdeWolfe. Metadata by KD.
67. Wax Seal of Edward VI
- Title:
- Wax Seal of Edward VI
- Description:
- Obverse side shows an enthroned figure flanked by two standards held by heraldic lion and unicorn surrounded by Latin text: "[break]DEI GR[ ]TIA MAGNAE BRITANNIA [blank portion] FRANCIAE ET HIBER.REX FIDEI DEFENSO [back at break]". Reverse side shows a knight on a charger flourishing a drawn sword with a greyhound running alongside horse. Coat of arms (undecipherable through wear) in upper left quarter. Text: "[break]FIDEI DEFENSOR MAGNVS BRITANNIAE [illegible portion] HIBERNIAE REX FIDEI [back at break]".
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Seals (Numismatics)
- Creator:
- Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553
- Language:
- lat
- Date Created:
- 1547/1553
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage
- Identifier:
- Shelf Mark: Seal.Brown.1
- Extent:
- Dark green wax seal; diameter 147 x 10-17 mm thickness; over two vellum tags (250 x 36 mm).
- Additional Physical Characteristics:
- 65 x 15 mm portion missing from upper edge with loss of text on both sides; square hole (2 1/2 mm) in right margin [to test for melting point?].
- Physical Repository:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection:
- Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
- Provenance:
- Antique Shop in Hartingford Bury, U.K. Donated by Bruce and Dorothy Brown.
- Provider:
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre:
- seals (marks)
- Archival Item Identifier:
- 1989-069-7
- 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.pdf and Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/inventory.php.
- Date Digitized:
- 2012-02-23
- Transcript:
- Latin text: "[break]DEI GR[ ]TIA MAGNAE BRITANNIA [blank portion] FRANCIAE ET HIBER.REX FIDEI DEFENSO [back at break]"; Text: "[break]FIDEI DEFENSOR MAGNVS BRITANNIAE [illegible portion] HIBERNIAE REX FIDEI [back at break]".
- Technical Note:
- Metadata by KD.
68. Aldus Manutius the Younger, De Antiquis Numerorum Notis
- Title:
- Aldus Manutius the Younger, De Antiquis Numerorum Notis
- Description:
- This elegant and fascinating humanistic booklet contains unique manuscript copies of two short arithmetic treatises by Aldus Manutius the Younger, classical scholar, printer, and owner of the eminent Aldine Press. These texts were quite possibly copied before either was first printed, and the second treatise displays some significant differences from the print version. Both are worth closer study as early works of classical scholarship, for their connection to the Manutius family, and as possible witnesses to Manutius's compositions before they went to press. -- Les Enluminures website. De antiquis numerorum notis : included in the 'Epitome orthographi??' of Aldus Manutius the Younger, first printed in 1575 by the Aldine press in Venice. Interpraetatio numerorum quibus in ratione pecuniaria veteres utebantur : first printed under the title 'De sestertiis, ad Johannem Cratonem a Crafftheim' in the 'De quaesitis per epistolam' of Aldus Manutius the Younger, first printed by the Aldine Press in 1576 in Venice.
- Subject:
- Money, Coins, Italian, Numerals, Writing of, Coins, Roman, and Sestertius (Coin)
- Creator:
- Manzuio, Aldo
- Language:
- ita and lat
- Date Created:
- 1550~/1575~
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- Shelf Mark: Ms.It.1 and Call number: P211 M275 1550
- Extent:
- 6 folios; paper; 211 x 60 mm (21.1 cm)
- 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 utebantur
- 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 columns of twenty-five lines (ff. 1-3v written in one column; ff. 4-6v written in two columns), diagrammatic tables or charts on ff. 1 (letter M), and 4-6v (on monetary quantities). Bound in contemporary, slightly waterstained.
- 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.pdf and Special 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.
69. Leaf from a Breviary, Fragment
- Title:
- Leaf from a Breviary, Fragment
- Description:
- Breviary, Spain, c.1550-1600, with musical notation. A leaf from a noted Breviary featuring three responsorial chants from the Matins of Christmas: Orietur in diebus Domini abundantia, Veritas de terra orta, and O magnum mysterium. All three are traditional Gregorian chants in the vocal range of a typical male adult.
- Subject:
- Gregorian chants, Music, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Breviaries
- Language:
- lat
- Date Created:
- 1550~/1600~
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/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. and 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: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/fragm-lat-18_poster.pdf
- Technical Note:
- Metadata by KD.
70. Shahnameh, Fragment
- Title:
- Shahnameh, Fragment
- Description:
- A leaf from a copy of Shahnama ("Book of Kings"). Shahnameh or Shahnama is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی ), also known as Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (فردوسی) between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran; it recounts the history of pre-Islamic Persia or Iranshahr (Greater Iran). Nighty-eight couplets of Shahname from before the beginning of “Dastan-ɘ Bæhram ba Kɘshavarz” (The story of Bahram and the Farmer) until half-way into the story, written in a 16th or early 17th century fragment of on indigenous Iranian paper in Nasta’liq script. -- Description by by Sohrab Mosahebi as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin, June 2022. Description by Jan Just Witkam, Professor of Paleography and Codicology of the Islamic World, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands (2010): Persian, indigenous Persian paper, one single leaf, 34.5 × 22.2 cm, expert nastaʿlīq script from Iran, text on either side of the leaf, written in four columns, and these columns set within a composite frame (blue, dark red, black, gold, green, gold within black outline, red), 25 lines to the column, held in passe-partout on which is written as an estimate dating: 18th century, which may very well be accurate. A leaf from a copy of the Shāhnāma by Abu al-Qāsim Aḥmad b. Mansụ̄r Firdawsī (c. 935-1020), coming from the Bahrām Gūr cycle. On the recto side is a chapter heading written in gold within a panel with floral design (brownred ink): Dāstān-i Bahrām bā Keshāwarz, ‘the story of Bahrām with the farmer’. The text of the fragment corresponds to the Moscow edition by E.E. Bertel’s, vol. 7 (Moscow 1968), pp. 377-383, distiches 1273-1369. Earlier registration: On the recto side is an ex-libris label from University of Victoria Library. Also on that page is a sticker with typewritten text in three lines: ‘(sc) PK6456 A2’. SC stands for ‘Special Collections’. Taken from The Islamic Manuscripts in the McPherson Library, University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. by Jan Just Witkam, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 1 (2010), pp 101-142.
- Subject:
- Calligraphy, Persian, Persian poetry, Shāhnāmah (Firdawsī), Epic poetry, Epic literature, Persian, and Persian literature
- Creator:
- Firdawsī
- Language:
- per
- Date Created:
- 1551/1650
- Rights Statement:
- No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
- License:
- Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
- Resource Type:
- http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
- Identifier:
- Shelf Mark: MS Victoria 1998-034
- Extent:
- 1 leaf ; 345 x 222 mm
- Alternative Title:
- Šāhnāme, شاهنامه, Fragment of Shahnameh (Dastan-ɘ Bæhram ba Kɘshavarz َ داستانَبهرامَباَکشاورز ), and Abu al-Qasim Ahmad, Fragment
- 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-ypcz and Special 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.