Sanders Manuscript Leaves
Notes: “(seller)” indicates source of debatable information vs.
autoptic confirmation; scripts are estimates; date/era and location
without internal evidence are estimated; “(?)” = needs checking.
1) Form: Bifolium 18.5x13.1 cm/leaf 22 lines/page, single column, parchment
Features: late Gothic script; 2-line red capital “E”
Text block:
Content: Offices for St. Bernardinus, 5th lesson (seller)
Date/Era: Cites document dated 1472 so “after 1472”
Location: France (seller)
Provenance: Collection Andre Rooryck (seller); Mackus M5420 ($185) Rooryck (1928-2010)
2) Form: Leaf 34x23 cm/leaf 34 lines/page, single column, paper (vert. chain lines, no watermark)
Features: Humanist hand, alt. red/blue versals with red penwork
Text block: 20 x 14 cm
Content: Pseudo Prosper Acquitanus (ca. 390-463 CE), “De vita contemplativa”
Date/Era: C14 (seller)
Location: Italy (seller)
Provenance: Otto Ege; Mackus M5132 ($300)
Note: multiple other leaves located via Gwara in university libraries—see curator file.
3) Form: Leaf 50.5 x 36 cm 10 staves, 4 ll./stave + 1 l. text, single column, parchment
Features: Gothic script; square notes with ascenders (?)
Text block:
Content: antiphonary, “Orixit angelus ad petrū circumbda tibi” etc.
Date/Era: C14 (seller)
Location: Italy (seller)
Provenance: Pirages ($150).
4) Form: Leaf fragment 12 x 9 cm, est. 31-32 lines/page, single column (?), parchment binding fragment
Features: Gothic script, red capitals w/penwork
Text block: 9 x 7 cm
Content: Scholastic ref. Proverbs & Job (seller)
Date/Era: C13 (seller)
Location:
Provenance: Mackus M5276 ($75)
5) Form: Leaf 14 x 8 cm, 21 lines/page, single column, parchment
Features: Gothic script, burnished gold w/blue and red capitals; single lines of music @foot of both pages (describe!?)
Text block: 9 x 5 cm
Content: Horae (seller, describe!?)
Date/Era: late C13 (seller)
Location:
Provenance: Pirages
6) Form: Leaf 12 x 8 cm, 33 lines/page, 2 columns, parchment (water damage @binding and foot)
Features: Gothic script
Text block: 8 x 6 cm
Content: Psalter, Psalms 56-57 (seller)
Date/Era: C14 (seller)
Location: Italy (seller)
Provenance: Mackus M5401 ($145)
7) Form: Leaf 16 x 12 cm, 15 lines/page, single column, parchment
Features: Gothic hand, liquid gold with 5 x 1 cm rectangular vegetal border blue/red/gold with red line fillers
Text block: 8 x 6.5 cm
Content: Use of Rome, Office of the Dead, Lauds (seller)
Date/Era: ca. 1475 (seller)
Location: Normandy (seller)
Provenance: Mackus M5601, $145
8) Form: Bifolium binding fragment, 20 x 26 cm each leaf, 28 lines/page, 2 columns, parchment trimmed @left
Features: Gothic script, marginal glosses 2 x 2 cm
Text block:
Content: Justinian, Book 1 (seller)
Date/Era: ca. 1300 (seller)
Location: Italy (seller)
Provenance: Mackus M5952 ($300)
9) Form: Leaf 15.5 x 11 cm, 14 lines/page, single column, parchment
Features: Gothic script, 9 x 2 foliate border w/ 2-legged beast and knight riding recto / 2-legged beast verso
Text block: 9 x 7.5 cm
Content: Horae (seller)
Date/Era: ca. 1470 (seller)
Location: Poitiers (seller)
Provenance: Pirages ST9561-35 ($650)
10) Form: Leaf 15.5 x 10.5 cm, ??lines/page, single column, parchment
Features: Gothic script, modern pencil “94” upper right recto
Text block: 9 x 6 cm
Content: Horae leaf, Office of the Dead, Recto Job 10:1-7 Taedet animam
meam vitae meae dimittam adversum me eloquium meum loquar in
amaritudine animae meae (“I loathe my very life; therefore I will give
free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my
soul.”) Verso: Job 10: 8-9 Manus tuae plasmaverunt me et fecerunt
me totum in circuitu et sic repente praecipitas me. Memento
quaeso quod sicut lutum feceris me et in [pulverem reduces me] (“Your
hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember
that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?”)
Date/Era: ca. 1490 (seller)
Location: France (seller)
Provenance: Pirages ST 10790-29 ($175)
11) Form: Leaf 14.5 x 10, 49 lines/page, 2 columns, parchment
Features: Gothic script (extremely small!), heavily cropped at head
Text block: 9.5 x 6 cm
Content: Paris Bible, St. Matthew XV
Date/Era: ca. 1250 (seller)
Location: Paris (seller + generic format for Paris bibles)
Provenance: Pirages 8 302-11d ($185)
12) Form: Leaf 16 x 10.5 cm, 45 lines/page, 2 columns, parchment.
Text block: 11 x 7 cm
Content: Paris Bible, Isaiah (“ISA” at head in blue and red))
Date/Era: ca. 1250 (seller)
Location: Paris (seller + generic format for Paris bibles)
Provenance: Pirages?
13) Form: Leaf 9.5 x 7 cm, 17 lines/page, single column
Features: Gothic script, gold flowered foliate verso border; recto
heavily abbreviated and rubricated instructions for celebrating Mass.
Text block: 6.5 x 4.5 cm
Content: Breviary (seller) ??: Verso text: Concede quaesumus omnipotens
deus ut ad meliorem vitam sancti confessoris tui Felicis exempla nos
provocent quatinus cuius sollemnia colimus etiam actus imitemur
(“Grant, we beseech Thee, O almighty God, that the examples of Thy
Saints may stir us up to a better life, so that we may also
imitate the good deeds of those
whose festivals we celebrate. Through our Lord.”) Possibly
Proper of the Mass, St. Hillary, January 14 Collect (follows Introit,
precedes epistle, typically now 2 Timothy 4: 1-8) COMMEMORATION of St
Felix of Nola (martyred in 260)
Date/Era: ca. 1400 (seller)
Location: Northern France (seller)
Provenance: Pirages 9448-382 ($125)
14) Form: Leaf 12 x 8.5 cm, single column, parchment
Features: 16 saints in Calendar leaf with recto “Janiver” (January)
recto border illumination of feasting man drinking from a mazer; verso
border illumination of Aquarius (male figure pouring water from jugs)
Text block: 5.5 x 4 cm
Content: Calendar leaf for January (??)
Date/Era: ca. 1480 (seller)
Location: France (seller)
Provenance: Pirages 9662-0 ($350)
15) Form: Single-Leaf Indenture, ?? cm, 10 lines/page, single column, parchment
Features: Late Gothic script (??), two wax seals attached
Text block: ?? cm
Content: Land conveyance, Leglen (??), Essex (seller)
Date/Era: 1475 (seller)
Location: England (seller)
Provenance: ??