Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Unbound sheets] (open access)

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 left thus. The separately printed frontispiece engraving is included as an individual sheet. The whole is housed in a book-form leather case.
Date: 1826
Creator: Horace
Object Type: Book
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 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
[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 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
[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 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
[Leaf from a 15th Century Breviary, French or Italian] (open access)

[Leaf from a 15th Century Breviary, French or Italian]

A miniature Breviary from the 15th C. including sermons and readings, on 2 Luke: "sermo euangelicus qui praecedit narrat qualiter dominus centurionis puerem obentu magnae eius fiidei sanauerit, et quomodo ipsius centurionis, immoin eo gentium, extulerit fidem."Also "Eternus arque invsibilis rerum conditor, humanum genus quod per longa seculi cranseuntis sparia mortis perpetua."
Date: [1401..1500]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Etching and engraving of the burial shrine of Odeschalco]

Etching and engraving of the Italian noble family Odeschalcos burial shrine printed circa 1800. The print is attributed to designer Leopoldo Buzi and printmaker Giovannia Acquaroni. The print show a line etching of the shrine with Latin text on its front at the top of a stone platform with stairs flanked by two statues of Roman muses. The image is paired with descriptive Italian text below the printed image.
Date: 1800
Creator: Buzi, Leopoldo & Acquaroni, Giovannia
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library