Manuscript and incunabula collection
1500.019

Summary Information

Repository
University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title
Manuscript and incunabula collection
ID
1500.019
Date
Undated
Extent
2.5 Linear feet 2 boxes
Location
Collection 1500.019 is located on the 4th floor with the oversize plus manuscripts.
Language
Multiple languages

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives 2009 March 13

McFarlin Library
University of Tulsa
2933 E. 6th St
Tulsa, OK, 74104-3123
918-631-2496
Marc-carlson@utulsa.edu

Provenance

It is not known where these pieces were acquired, or what the provenance of the materials, other than as stated in the notes following. Many of the objects were gifts to McFarlin Library.

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Related Materials

Related Archival Materials note

There are also the following materials in the collection:

Romans and Hebrews [manuscript], [followed by] Sermones, [1150-1199] BS2662.5 R66 1100z Undrsz.

Original leaves from famous Bibles: nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D. : sixty leaves from famous and rare Bibles and Testaments, dating from the twelfth to the twentieth century, have been selected to illustrate important in content and format / collected and assembled by Otto F. Ege. New York : P. C. Duschnes, 1943? BS4 .O7 1943 +Oversize

The "Nuremberg Chronicle" - Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514. Title Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu[m] figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mu[n]di. Nuremberg : Anton Koberger, 12 July 1493. D17 .S3415 1493 +Oversize

The "Book of Hours" - A la louenge de Dieu et de la tressainte a glorieuse Vierge Marie et a l'edification de tous bons Catholiques : ont este commences ces presentes heures a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir avec ung commun antiennes suffrages et oraisons de plusieurs sainets a sainctes selon l'edit usaige et plusieurs austres comme on verra en la table. Paris : par Gillet Hardouyn ... et Germain Hardouyn, [1504?] BX2080 .A2 1504

Gutenberg Bible facsimile:

[Die zweiundvierzigzeiligen Bibel Johann Gutenbergs]. München : Idion Verlag, 1978. BS75 1977 +Oversize (2 vols.)

John E. Barry collection (Coll. no. 2007.006) containing legal manuscripts from 1365-1778.

Separated Materials note

This is an artificial collection, intended to bring together the loose manuscript leaves and incunabula pages that are not otherwise part of other collections, and give them a single location.

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Collection Inventory

 1500.019.1 Medieval and post-Medieval (to 1500) manuscript pages   7.0 Items
Box

 1500.019.1.1 Antiphonary 1 Mid-late 14th century?   1.0 Item Manuscript on parchment 32.4 cm x 43 cm

Scope and Contents note

English? Franciscan? Antiphon for Vespers from a Rhythmical Office, the "Office of the Trinity" by Archbishop Pecham [Peckham] (1240-1292) of Canterbury.

Antiphonary 1 Recto, Mid-late 14th century? (1500.019.1.1r)

Recto http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_1742.jpg
Verso http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_1741.jpg 		1

 1500.019.1.2 Antiphonary 2 15th century?   1.0 Item Manuscript on parchment 39 cm x 58 cm

Scope and Contents note

Recto: "Commune Apostolorum"... orbis terre verba eorum Exivit. Gloria." Ad Tertiam: Responsory: "Constitues eos principes super omnem terram." Verso: "Memores erunt nominis tui domine."...

Antiphonary 2 Verso, 15th century? (1500.019.1.3v)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_1750.jpg]

Antiphonary 2 Recto, 15th century? (1500.019.1.2r)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_1749.jpg] 		1

 1500.019.1.3 Antiphonary 3 15th century?   1.0 Item Manuscript on parchment 40 cm x 58 cm

Scope and Contents note

Antiphon for Lauds from Gregory the Great's Book of Responses and Antiphons.

Antiphonary 3 Verso, 15th century? (1500.019.1.3v)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_1747.jpg]

Antiphonary 3 Recto, 15th century? (1500.019.1.3r)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_1748.jpg] 		1

 1500.019.1.4 Psalms 33: Circa 1500-1650   1.0 Item Manuscript on parchment 44 cm x 63 cm

Scope and Contents note

"VI 65/58 Pages on sheepskin from Catholic Order of Service."

Psalms 33: Verso, c.1500-1650 (1500.019.1.3v)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_1746.jpg]

Psalms 33: Recto, c.1500-1650 (1500.019.1.3r)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_1745.jpg] 		1

 1500.019.1.5 Psalms 33:12-23 Circa 1500-1650   1.0 Item Manuscript on parchment 44 cm x 63 cm

Scope and Contents note

"VI 65/58 Pages on sheepskin from Catholic Order of Service."

Psalms 33:12-23 Recto, c.1500-1650 (1500.019.1.5r)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_1744.jpg] 		1

 1500.019.1.6 [Page from a Student's Bible] Circa 13th century   3.0 Items 1 leaf, one photocopy of a letter, and 1 note in a folder. 14.5 x 20.3 cm. Manuscript on parchment.

Scope and Contents note

On Recto: Numbers, chs. 32-33; on Verso: Numbers, chs. 34-36. Small bit of Arabic on the top of one page.

 1500.019.1.7 Original leaf from Koran dated 1207 A. D. 1207   3.0 Items Original leaf, a note sheet, and facsimile of title page. Manuscript on paper. Some gold leaf. 18 x 29.5 cm.

Scope and Contents note

The writer spent 22 years of his life working on this book. Almost every color is used in addition to solid gold leaf. He finished his work at 4.00 pm in the afternoon, March 22, 1207. The red lettering is in Persian, and the black words are Arabic. This book was found in Tehran, Iran in 1952 by Stanley S. Slotkin, and before disassembly was appraised for $25,000.

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 1500-019-2 Incunabulum pages 

General note

Incunabula (s. Inunabulum) are books, sheets or images printed in Europe before 1501.

 1500-019-2-1 Unidentified page fragment 15th century   1.0 Item 1 leaf, with separate note strip. Paper. Cut down and patched. There are hand-written marginalia. 20 x 15 cm.

Scope and Contents note

Unidentified fragment, probably from a book.

 1500-019-2-2 Fragment of page from Eusebius. About 1473   1.0 Item 1 leaf, with separate note strip. 18.2 x 18.2 cm.

Scope and Contents note

An excised fragment of Eusebius Caesariensis. De evangelica praeparatione. Tr: Georgius Trapezuntius. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, not after 1473].

 1500-019-2-3 Page from Caxton printing of Chaucer's Monks Tale. Circa 1476   1.0 Item 1 milar encased leaf, in a folder 19 x 28 cm

Scope and Contents note

William Caxton printing. Leaf 306 from Caxton's first edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Monk's Tale" from the Canterbury Tales. 2 pages (29 lines each) in Caxton's type no. 2. Cut down and framed. Westminster, 1476(?)

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 1500-019-3 Other manuscript and printed pages, post-1500 
Box

 1500-019-3-1 [Legal Document] Undated.   1.0 Item Manuscript on parchment 48 cm x 18 cm

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 1500-019-1-7 [Legal document] Undated.   1.0 Item Manuscript on parchment 44 cm x 13 cm

Scope and Contents note

Possibly an indenture.

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 1500.019.3.3 Stanton Lodge Farm lease agreement 1617 March 1   1.0 Item Manuscript on vellum 56 cm x 40 cm (seals make height 50 cm)

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

From Walker Milam gift (0000.012).

Scope and Contents note

With attachments.

Stanton Lodge Farm lease agreement Seal 1, 1617 March 1 (1500.019.3.3c)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_0840.jpg]

Stanton Lodge Farm lease agreement Recto, 1617 March 1 (1500.019.3.3r)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_0837.jpg]

Stanton Lodge Farm lease agreement Verso, 1617 March 1 (1500.019.3.3v)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_0841.jpg]

Stanton Lodge Farm lease agreement Seal 2, 1617 March 1 (1500.3.3d)

[http://www.lib.utulsa.edu/speccoll/collections/manuscriptincunabula/images/IMG_0839.jpg] 		1

 1500-019-1-9 Mortgage agreement c.1777   1.0 Item Manuscript on vellum 71 cm x 54.5 cm

Scope and Contents note

(Walker/Milam acquisitions)

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Incunabulum pages
2-1 [Monks Tale Page] c.1484   Recto
Verso
2-2 [?] c.1479   Recto
Verso
2-3 [Unidentified page fragment] (15th century)   Recto
Verso
2-4 Page from Eusebius. "Evangelica Praeparatione." Cologne: Ulric Zell, c.1474   Recto
Verso
2-5 [Unidentified page fragment] c.1500   Recto
Verso
       
Other manuscript and printed pages
3-1 [Breviary page fragment] Paris c.1505   Recto
Verso
3-2 [Breviary page fragment] Paris c.1505   Recto
Verso
3-3 [Breviary page fragment] Paris c.1505   Recto
Verso
3-4 [Breviary page fragment] Paris c.1505   Recto
Verso
3-5 Justinian Codex.    
 

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