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Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) Crossing the Rubicon c.1470 (detail)

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Date: 1470~
Creator: Fouquet, Jean
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sultan and his Court, illustration from Shahnama (Book of Kings), written by Abu'l-Qasim Manur Firdawsi

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The sultan surrouned by his court are depicted on this manuscript leaf. Thirteen figures face the sultan who is seated on a large red throne.
Date: 1330~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ms 327 (2) folio 214v, Stonemasons

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Stonemasons exhibit their techniques to each other.
Date: unknown
Creator: Boysset, Bertrand, ca. 1345-1415 & Villeneuve, Arnaud de
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ms 327 folio 28r, Surveying and Demarcation of Land

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Surveyors are depicted demarcating land.
Date: unknown
Creator: Boysset, Bertrand, ca. 1345-1415 & Villeneuve, Arnaud de
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ms 327 folio 201v, A Surveyor with His Workers

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A surveyor and his workers are depicted in this illuminated manuscript folio.
Date: unknown
Creator: Boysset, Bertrand, ca. 1345-1415 & Villeneuve, Arnaud de
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ms 327 folio 226v, Demarcation of Land

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Two men are depicted marking off a piece of land.
Date: unknown
Creator: Boysset, Bertrand, ca. 1345-1415 & Villeneuve, Arnaud de
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library
["Understanding Fragmentology: Collecting and Studying Medieval Manuscript Fragments" lecture recording] captions transcript

["Understanding Fragmentology: Collecting and Studying Medieval Manuscript Fragments" lecture recording]

Recording of a lecture given at the University of North Texas Libraries by Farley P. Katz titled "Understanding Fragmentology: Collecting and Studying Medieval Manuscript Fragments." Technical difficulties caused the sound to cut out from 3:51 to 4:49 in the recording.
Date: March 28, 2022
Creator: Katz, Farley P.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Illuminated book on wedges]

Photograph of an illuminated book from a tour of the Bridwell Library at SMU in Dallas during the 2015 Church and Synagogue Library Association conference. The item is a part of the archival materials kept by the library and it was set out for display by archivist Timothy Binkley. The manuscript is supported by wedges to protect the binding while it is held open. The materials were put on display for the attendees who were taking a tour of the location.
Date: July 28, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lecture on Manuscripts of the Monks transcript

Lecture on Manuscripts of the Monks

Lecture by LeMoine Lewis at Abilene Christian University concerning early church history. He begins with a scripture reading and a hymn. The lecture is specifically about the golden text of the monks.
Date: unknown
Creator: Lewis, LeMoine G.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Manuscript Leaf from 15th Century, Germany] (open access)

[Manuscript Leaf from 15th Century, Germany]

A manuscript leaf from 15th Century, Germany. The manuscript leaf is laid out with two (2) columns and scribed in late Gothic script. There are musical neums on 4-line staff (by the 16th-century the 5-line staff became more standardized) Breviary. The manuscript leaf was created on vellum parchment and used both red, blue, and black gall ink for the script. The leaf is labelled as page twenty-one (21).
Date: [1401..1500]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf 15th Century, Italy] (open access)

[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]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf from the 15th Century, France] (open access)

[Manuscript Leaf from the 15th Century, France]

A small and simple French Breviary with sermons, readings, and responses on Corinthians from the 15th-century. Text is displayed in 2 columns, gothic script. Embellishments are done in red and blue ink throughout the margins and text-breaking letters. The number 84 is noted on the top left of the recto.
Date: [1401..1500]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[17th Century Spanish Carta Excutoria] (open access)

[17th Century Spanish Carta Excutoria]

Opening page of a 17th century Spanish Baroque Carta executoria, providing geological evidence of aristocratic lineage with no trace of peasant, Jewish or Moorish blood. More than simply asserting one's high standing, such documents exempted the holder from civil suits and taxation. Carta executoria were often ostentatiously illuminated (as here), to suggest the wealth and taste of the grantee. Displays large intricate initial "D" (i.e. Don Carlos, King of Spain from 1665 - 1700) in the form of an ornate fountain incorporating fish, snakes, birds, and foliage.
Date: 1696
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf from 13th Century, Germany?] (open access)

[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]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf 14th Century, England] (open access)

[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~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf from the 14th Century, Italy] (open access)

[Manuscript Leaf from the 14th Century, Italy]

An Italian manuscript leaf from the 14th century, estimated ca. 1350. The spread is laid out as 2 leaves sewn together, indicating recovery from a book that was bound. Notable is the presence of vellum strengthener along the gutter margin with a possible 11th-century inscription of Psalms 103 et seq.
Date: 1350~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Small Prayer Book Leaf from the 15th Century, Netherlands] (open access)

[Small Prayer Book Leaf from the 15th Century, Netherlands]

Leaf form a small prayer book from the 15th century in Old Dutch with text displayed in single column, late gothic script. The leaf in this item contains prayers to Christ who as "gheboren vander maget Marien" and also the prayer beginning "So wie dit gebet spreket heuet benedictus die xii."
Date: [1401..1500]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf 14th Century, Italy] (open access)

[Manuscript Leaf 14th Century, Italy]

A leaf from bookbinding recovered and repaired from Italy, ca. 1300. Displays 2 columns, with marginal glosses. Includes text from Justinian's Digesta. Repaired with vellum at an unknown date.
Date: 1300
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf from the 12th Century, Italy] (open access)

[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~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Book of Hours Leaf: Prayers for the Dead from the 15th Century, France?] (open access)

[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]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Leaf from Latin Bible of Ecclesiastes 2-8, 13th Century, France] (open access)

[Leaf from Latin Bible of Ecclesiastes 2-8, 13th Century, France]

A leaf from a Latin Bible (France, ca. 1200-1240), including text from Ecclesiastes 2-8. Text displayed in 2 columns, gothic script written "above top line", and chapter numbers in margins, indicating a date before ca. 1240. Notable in this item are the outer margin prickings used for the creation of horizontal justification lines and the hole in the vellum, around which text has been written.
Date: [1200..1240]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf 12th Century, France] (open access)

[Manuscript Leaf 12th Century, France]

A previously bound leaf approximately 12th-century.Text from a Lectionary (?) with text from the Life of Saint Gregory of Spoleto. The words Gregory and martyr appear in red ink. Late romanesque book hand. Seven line initial "T" in yellow on a blue background outlined in red, with a small winged dragon. Recovered from a bookbinding.
Date: 1150~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Manuscript Leaf from a Volume on Saints' Lives from the 12th Century, Italy/Lombardy] (open access)

[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
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Leaf from 15th Century Breviary, France] (open access)

[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]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library