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Europa, secundum legitimas projectionis stereographic︠a︡e regulas et juxta recentissimas observationes ︠a︡eque ac relationes adhibitis qvoq[ue] veterum monumentorum subsidiis

Hand-drawn, color map of Europe as of 1743 with place names, geopolitical borders and some topographical features. Boundaries and features are noted, with relief shown pictorially.

Date: 1743

Creator: Hase, Johann Matthias, 1684-1742

Item Type: Map

[Manuscript leaf of music]

Vellum/parchment with Latin writing (mostly red ink) and musical notation (in black ink) on both sides. Probably a modern creation.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

Die Neüwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem Landt Indie ligen

Hand-drawn color map of the New World with place names in Latin, title in German. This is the earliest known map of the Americas. Drawings depict Magellan's ship Victoria and a cannibal scene in Brazil.

Date: unknown

Creator: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552

Item Type: Map

Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Unbound sheets]

A complete set of unbound sheets of the last printing of the Pickering Horace. The Horace was originally printed by Pickering in 1820 as the first of his Diamond Classics, and are a landmark in the world of miniature books and printing. This set of sheets are a remarkable survival, giving insight into the printing and binding process. The sheets are quarter-sheet impressions, each sheet holding 8 front-and-back leaves (16 pages) of the text. The sheets have been folded into gathers, and lef… more

Date: 1826

Creator: Horace

Item Type: Book

America noviter delineata

Map of North and South America showing political boundaries and place names. Includes inset of Greenland and illustrations of ships and sea monsters.

Date: 1633

Creator: Merian, Matthaeus

Item Type: Map

[Millionth volume added to Willis Library]

Photograph of a page from the millionth volume to be added to the NTSU Library. The page is worn around the edges and on it are illuminations and a song in Latin with the notes above the words. At the top of the page is an inscription that reads "S. Benedicti M. V." and on the back of the print is a handwritten note that reads "A. M. Willis, Jr. Library Library's 1,000,000th volume".

Date: September 1974

Item Type: Photograph

Location: 33.210113 -97.148993

Manuscript leaf of music.

Vellum / parchment leaf with writing on both sides. The text is in Latin, in black, with occasional red letters. It includes sections of musical notation (5-line staff notation, square dots used for the notes). Recto with 12 full lines of text, 3 partial lines of text and one partial line of music, and one line of music. Verso with two lines of music, one partial line of music (out to side on left), and 12 lines of text.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

Manuscript leaf from a Roman missal of ca.1450.

Manuscript leaf with text in Latin, in red and black, with occasional blue letters. Penciled notation on bottom of recto: "L44 1450 [illeg] Roman Missal."

Date: 1450

Item Type: Text

[Haebler Incunabula Plate 30]

Plate 30 - Paris, Ulrich Gering, 1478, Type 5

Date: 1478

Creator: Gering, Ulrich & Haebler, Konrad

Item Type: Text

[Manuscript Leaf from a Volume on Saints' Lives from the 12th Century, Italy/Lombardy]

A leaf from a volume on the lives of saints from Italy, perhaps Lombardy, ca. 1100. Attenuated Caroline minuscule. Rubric in red majuscules. 16 line initial "P" with curling foliate infill. With the inscription of "D. Thomasio de Belmont" (perhaps Belmont-sur-Lausanne) and the date 1681 in one margin. Begins with an account of the life of Saint Cyprian.

Date: 1100

Item Type: Text

[Manuscript Leaf 15th Century, Italy]

15th-century Italian manuscript leaf. Displays very large-format Psalter containing Psalms 134 et seq. The text opens with, "Ecce nunc venedicte Dominum, omnes servi Domini.."

Date: [1401..1500]

Item Type: Text

[Manuscript Leaf from 13th Century, Germany?]

13th-century German manuscript leaf. Double column, transitional Caroline/gothic hand. Text from a Lectionary(Matthew 13:15 - 13:21, in which Christ explains to his disciples why he speaks in parables). Written by an accomplished scribe, with capitals, ampersands, ligatures, and fishtail-like terminations at the top of ascenders indicate that the script is transitional, from the late Caroline to the early gothic. Recovered from a bound book.

Date: [1201..1300]

Item Type: Text

[Manuscript Leaf from the 12th Century, Italy]

This 12th-century Italian manuscript recovered from a binding, displays a double column, rounded Italian gothic hand, and a series of tiny pinpricks at edges where binding hardware had been attached. Text here contains parts of the homilies from Johannes Chrysostomus' work on the priesthood, "De Dignitate Sacerdotali," and from Saint Gergory's "Homiliae in Evangelia."

Date: 1150~

Item Type: Text

[Manuscript Leaf 14th Century, England]

14th-century leaf from a book of prayer including chants estimated to originate from England, ca. 1360. Text displayed in a single column, gothic script, the Prayer for the Departed ("Oratio. Debitum humani corporis sepelieudi officium fidelium more complentes"). Followed by the chant "Clementissime domine qui pro nostra miseria ab imporium magnibus mortis supplicium pertulisti" with numes on a 4-line staff.

Date: 1360~

Item Type: Text

[French Book of Hours Liturgical Calendar, April, Late 15th Century]

A leaf for the month of April from a Liturgical calendar from a Book of Hours. Text displayed in single column, bâtarde hand. Three-line "KL" in brushed gold on a maroon ground, five one-line Domical letters in similar style, saints' days in red or blue (one major feast day in gold), each side with a panel border in the rinceau style, with swirling hairline stems bearing numerous burnished gold ivy leaves and berries and red and blue blossoms, the panel on the recto with a roundel showing the l… more

Date: [1450..1500]

Item Type: Text

[Book of Hours Leaf: Prayers for the Dead from the 15th Century, France?]

(France? 15th-century). Text displayed in single column, gothic script, initials alternating blue and burnished gold, the formers with black filigree and the latter with red. From a Book of Hours, in Latin. Lauds / Office of the Dead. Includes prayers beginning with "Generacio mea ablata est et conuoluta est a me quasi tabernaculum pastorum."

Date: [1401..1500]

Item Type: Text

[Leaf from an Unadorned Book of Hours 15th Century, Netherlands?]

Leaf from an unadorned miniature Book of Hours, in Latin, with specific prayers for Lauds which take place in the early morning hours. Text is displayed in a single column of late gothic script. Prayers invoke the Virgin Mary.

Date: [1401..1500]

Item Type: Text

[Leaf from 15th Century Breviary, France]

Manuscript leaf from 15th century France. Calligraphy text appears in a single column, gothic script, with single-line initials, embellished with burnished gold. Breviary [Matins] beginning: ["Sicut adipe et pinguedine repleatur anima mea:] et labiis exultationis laudabit os meum."

Date: [1401..1500]

Item Type: Text

[Saint List Breviary from the 15th Century, France]

Manuscript leaf from a breviary (France, 15th-century). Text displayed in 2 columns, gothic script of a sermon on 2 Luke and "Incipit Letania" containing ca. 60 names of Saints; identification of unusual or uncommon names can assist in localizing the MS to a specific region.

Date: [1401..1500]

Item Type: Text

[Manuscript Leaf from Latin Bible [James I], 13th Century, England or France]

A leaf from a Latin Bible (England or France, ca. 1225-1275). Text displayed in 2 columns, gothic script (texuais formata). A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggest the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Practice," Celtica, 5 [1960] 13-16). Note also that the chapter numbers were added later (standardization was begun in Paris ca. 1230). The text is James 1 et seq. (… more

Date: [1225..1275]

Item Type: Text

[Liturgical Calendar Leaf from Early 15th Century, France]

Manuscript leaf displaying a liturgical calendar (May) from early 15th century France. Text indicating so-called "Red Letter" days. Notable to this item is a handwritten genealogical inscription in French, by "Geryot" dated 1637. Source believed to be a Book of Hours.

Date: [1401..1450]

Item Type: Text

[Leaf from a Book of Sermons, 15th Century, Germany]

A leaf from a book of sermons, (Germany, 15th century) on paper, with watermark just barely visible (type uncertain: possibly "Etoile" type of Briquet 6067-6071, dated variously from 1422 to 1477 (see: C.M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 1907, reprinted 1967, vol. 3), or handwritten.

Date: [1422..1477]

Item Type: Text

[Latin Bible Leaf [Peter 1 & 2] from the Mid 13th Century, England or France]

Manuscript leaf from England or France, ca. 1230-1260. Sourced from a Latin Bible with text 1 Peter 3-5 and 2 Peter 1 et seq. displayed in 2 columns, gothic script (texuais formata). A notable feature of this particular leaf is that the writing begins "below top line" which suggest the MS was written after 1230 (see: N.R. Ker, "From 'Above Top Line; to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Practice," Celtica, 5 [1960] 13-16). Note also that the chapter numbers were added later (standardization … more

Date: [1230..1260]

Item Type: Text

[Manuscript Leaf from the 13th Century, France]

A manuscript leaf from France? ca. 1220-1240 sourced from a Latin Bible with text including Zecheriah I. Text displayed in 2 columns, gothic script (texuais formata). Notably, no chapter numberings have been added to this particular Bible leaf.

Date: [1220..1240]

Item Type: Text

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Europa, secundum legitimas projectionis stereographic︠a︡e regulas et juxta recentissimas observationes ︠a︡eque ac relationes adhibitis qvoq[ue] veterum monumentorum subsidiis

[Manuscript leaf of music]

Die Neüwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem Landt Indie ligen

Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Unbound sheets]

America noviter delineata

[Millionth volume added to Willis Library]

Manuscript leaf of music.

Manuscript leaf from a Roman missal of ca.1450.

[Haebler Incunabula Plate 30]

[Manuscript Leaf from a Volume on Saints' Lives from the 12th Century, Italy/Lombardy]

[Manuscript Leaf 15th Century, Italy]

[Manuscript Leaf from 13th Century, Germany?]

[Manuscript Leaf from the 12th Century, Italy]

[Manuscript Leaf 14th Century, England]

[French Book of Hours Liturgical Calendar, April, Late 15th Century]

[Book of Hours Leaf: Prayers for the Dead from the 15th Century, France?]

[Leaf from an Unadorned Book of Hours 15th Century, Netherlands?]

[Leaf from 15th Century Breviary, France]

[Saint List Breviary from the 15th Century, France]

[Manuscript Leaf from Latin Bible [James I], 13th Century, England or France]

[Liturgical Calendar Leaf from Early 15th Century, France]

[Leaf from a Book of Sermons, 15th Century, Germany]

[Latin Bible Leaf [Peter 1 & 2] from the Mid 13th Century, England or France]

[Manuscript Leaf from the 13th Century, France]