#ST. JAMES IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS PLUS#

The gesticulating saint addresses a divided group of five men and four women, allĭressed in secular garb. Jerusalem to those in Egypt, the miniature illustrates a scene seldom found in manuscriptĪrt: a female saint preaching to a group of men and women. Rather than referencing the Maccabees text, an epistle of the Jews in 4: ' open your hearts in his law and commandments,Īnd send you peace'), the first response from the first nocturne of the first Sunday Large initial 'A' measuring 9.8 x 9cm, illustrating the verse 'Adaperiatĭominus cor vestrum' (2 Macc. Smaller initials in alternating red and blue ink with penįlourishes. Seven four line staves in red (28mm) with Italy, probably in the vicinity of Bologna.

ID Number: CornellMedMS_010_001.jpg (a) CornellMedMS_010_002.jpg (b).ĭescription: Written in Latin in a Textualis Formata (Rotunda) script on parchment. That this manuscript fragment was never returned to the binding of Bibliae Moraliztus. Loew convinced me) the work of Alcuin's School of Tours '. It is a fragment of a Bible of the ninth century,

Maximim to whom thisĬopy belonged, have lined the binding. Than the book itself is the old MS with which the monks of St. Of Poitiers – 7546 G75) and to be restored to that volume after photographing themįor the Pope's Biblical Commission' and another reads, ' Even more interesting Burr's notes read: 'Manuscript fragments of aboutĨ00 AD taken from an old book ( CUL's copy of the Bibliae Moraliztus of Berchorius Provenance: Purchased by George Lincoln Burr. Probably brought to the abbey of St Maximin by Ada, sister of Charlemagne. Fragment contains commentary on Luke 7.36, possibly from a book of Sermons. The script is Carolingian and of the Alcuin School This remnant reveals the kinds of texts deemed essential in such books of privateĭevotion but omitted, for whatever reason, from the original commission.ĭescription: Written in Latin on parchment. Manuscripts were transmitted from generation to generation and abundantly annotated. Stanzas this followed by an inscription, 'AU NOM DIEU / AMEN CES HEURES'. Pierre Olivier, Le Mirouerĭu Chrestien), followed by 'Les Sept Oraisons de St.

#ST. JAMES IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS PLUS#

Plus de martyre' (a variant was printed in 1556 in Fr. Helas quel fers, helas quelz cloux / Ils furent forges longs et groux / Pour te faire Ta pauvre creature / Contemplant ta saincte figure / Se tenant a grands cloux de fer. Suffrages but with the following added: a complete prayer in 90 rhyming couplets ofįrench, beginning 'O Iesu roy de tout le monde / En qui toute bonte abonde / Je suis six folios from the end of the book, the first being the conclusion of the Probably Jean Frenier, curé de Saint-Martin de Maulay, near Loudun), the versoīlank 3.

That can be read in ultraviolet light (naming 'Jehan Frenier,' with various place-names: Religious verse in French humanist minuscule script, below which is an erased inscription The capital letters DE LH (the rest blank) 2. Matthew, an inscription in a later hand, and on the verso With eight original vellum leaves from the manuscript, The Sulpician Grand Seminary of St Irénée, and then became curate of Loire, a villageīetween Lyon and Vienne (until 1791). Owners: Jean Hersmulle Duport, doctor of theology (Sorbonne), who taught physics at Also, a remnant of a 15th-century book of hours annotated and augmented in the followingĬenturies, with an inscription on the front pastedown dated 1768 naming one of its

St. james in medieval manuscripts