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• 1 media/MS_9-2-16_front_014_1_1.jpg media/MS_9-2-16_verso_041.jpg 2022-10-20T14:03:24-07:00 MS 9/2:16 68 plain 1252061 2022-12-10T12:21:37-08:00

  
  Title: Glossary
  Number of texts: 1
  Number of parts: 1
  Language: Latin
  Country: France? Netherlands? Austria?
  Century: 13th
  Script: Gothic
  Searchable date range: 1250 - 1299
  Description: 

  • 1 leaf, fragment
  • Parchment - 295 x 260 mm - 3 columns, each with ca. 26 lines
  Other Decoration: 
  • Two 3-line red initials with pen flourishes
  • Two 2-line blue initials
  Notes: 
  • Survived as the cover of a book.
  •  Includes quotations from Vergil.
  Recto   3-column text.
  Verso   Word in Greek.
  Condition: 
  • Significant water damage
  • Bleeding and smearing of ink due to water damage
  Link to Digital Scriptorium record
   
  
  
• 1 media/MS_9A-1_recto_030.jpg 2022-10-20T14:06:39-07:00 MS 9A:1 29 plain 1252061 2022-12-10T12:43:04-08:00
  Title: Homeliae in Evangelia
  Author: Gregory I 
  Number of texts: 1
  Number of parts: 1
  Language: Latin
  Script: Caroline minuscule
  Country: Italy?
  Century: 12th
  Searchable Date Range: 1100 - 1115
  Description: 
  • 1 leaf
  • Fragment, recto-verso
  • Parchment - 137 x 205 mm - 2 columns, probably ruled in drypoint
  Notes: 
  • Contains parts of Homily 39, on Luke (on the recto: PL 76:1297A, 1297C and on the verso: PL 76:1297D, 1298A). 
   
  Incipit: //quam lapidem super lapidem ponitur. Sed in destructa civitate super lapidem //
  Explicit: unde valeat proximis nocere. Sed quia contra per//
  
  Link to Digital Scriptorium entry.
  
  
• 1 2022-10-20T15:13:50-07:00 MS 9/2:4 Imaging 19 plain 2022-12-10T12:39:52-08:00
  Multi-Spectral Imaging
  
  
  The fragment at the Spencer Research Library (MS 9/2:4) has a recto and verso with embellished vines around the text. The other pages from this manuscript are spread across different collections in North America. One leaf is in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. In 2020, students at Rochester uncovered lost text on two 15th century leaves, one of them is a page from the same Book of Hours as MS 9/2:4. The text was recovered by taking a series of photographs under different wavelengths of light, both visible and invisible (ultraviolet and infrared). This technique is known as multispectral imaging (MSI) and it can reveal details that are invisible to the naked eye. When ultraviolet light is applied to an artifact, it is called ultraviolet-fluorescence, because specific chemical compounds fluoresce or glow under UV light. Ultraviolet-fluorescence revealed a dark French cursive that was scraped away from the parchment leaf. There are 30 known pages from this Book of Hours. The other pages could also be palimpsests. [1]
   
  Highlight Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
  
  
  At this time, the imaging lab at Spencer is not equipped to capture multispectral data. Instead, we used a form of computational photography called Highlight Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). RTI images are created from multiple photographs of a subject shot from a stationary camera position. In each photograph, light is projected from measured points and reflected back with a black sphere. There are two types of RTI, dome RTI and highlight RTI. The highlight method is a low cost alternative to dome RTI, which relies on a calibrated dome with integrated light points. Domes are often large, their size must be relative to the size of the object, and fragile objects are difficult to place under the dome. The necessary tools to capture highlight RTIs include a digital camera and tripod; a flash gun, flash transmitter, and a tether for the shutter release; a black reflective sphere (we used a black Christmas ornament) and string for measuring the distance between the flashgun and the object. After creating a data set, the images are rendered in RTIBuilder the resulting file is either a .ptm or .hsh file. RTIViewer allows the viewer to take the resulting file and illuminate it with the existing light points.
  
  MS 9/2:4 was selected to determine if  RTI could detect lost text and determine whether this manuscript is a palimpsest. In the end, the results were inconclusive. I was unable to identify additional text but the information could still be obscured. If this manuscript is a palimpsest, it may require more robust imaging such as multispectral to uncover lost text.
  
   

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  [1] “RIT students discover hidden 15th-century text on medieval manuscripts”
  https://www.rit.edu/science/spotlights/rit-students-discover-hidden-15th-century-text-medieval-manuscripts
• 1 media/MS_9A-4_front_002.jpg 2022-10-20T14:04:36-07:00 MS 9A:4 18 plain 1252061 2022-12-10T12:44:50-08:00  
  Title: Hexaemeron
  Author: Ambrose
  Number of texts: 1
  Number of Parts: 1
  Language: Latin
  Script: Pregothic
  Country: Spain?
  Century: 12th
  Assigned Date: s. XII
  Searchable Date Range: 1100 -1199
  Dated by Scribe: No
  Description:
  •  Fragment, recto-verso
  • Parchment - 160x229 mm - 2 columns probably ruled in drypoint
  Other Decoration: 
  • Red highlights on initials
  Notes: 
  • Contains parts of Bk. 5, chapter 10 (PL 14:219A-220B with gaps due to fragmentary state of the leaf)
  Link to Digital Scriptorium entry.
  
• 1 2022-10-20T15:55:02-07:00 MS C189 Back Flyleaf 17 plain 2022-12-10T13:14:38-08:00 Back Flyleaf
  
  Text:
  •  r1 v2-Hosea 6:5-6, Habakkuk 3:2-3, Exodus 12:1-8; 
  • v1 r2- Exodus 12:9-11, Psalm 139:2-14, John 18:1-5
  Country: Italy
  Language: Latin
  Assigned Date: s. XI2
  Date: c. 1150
  Script: late Caroline minuscule
  Figurative Decoration: 
  • Large initial decorated with the symbol of John the Evangelist: a nimed (haloed) eagle holding a book
  Other Decoration: 
  • Section headings in red
  Number of Texts: 1
  Description: 
  • Parchment - 300 x 210 mm - 2 columns of at least (31?) 32 lines, ruled in hardpoint (drypoint)
  • Liturgical text
  • Breviary
  Condition:
  • The upper margin of the second back flyleaf is trimmed, with one line of text lost. 
   
  The  parchment folio used for the back flyleaves likely comes from a breviary, dated around the first half of the twelfth century. It contains readings related to Maundy Thursday and Good Friday of the Christian Holy Week. The recto side of the first back flyleaf and the verso side of the second back flyleaf contains: Hosea 6:5-6; Habakkuk 3:2-3; reading for Maundy Thursday; Exodus 12:1-8. The verso side of the first back flyleaf and the recto side of the second back flyleaf contains: Exodus 12:9-11; Psalm 139:2-14; John 18:1-5. 
  
   r1 v2
  Hosea 6:5-6 
  ("[incipit] [do]lui [?] in p[ro]phetis occidi eos in verbis oris mei …
   [explicit] scientiam D[e]i plus quam holocausta.")
  
  Hosea 6:5-6, Douay-Rheims Bible (DRB) translation:

   [5] For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.
  [6] For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts. 

   
   Habakkuk 3:2-3
  ("[incipit] Domine audivi auditum tuum [et] timui... 
  [explicit] op[er]uit c[a]elos maiestas eius [et] laude eius plena")
  
   Habakkuk 3:2-3, Douay-Rheims Bible (DRB) translation:

   [2] O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy. [3] God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

  
  Exodus 12:1-8
  "[rubric] [Et] libri exodi. [incipit] In dieb[us] illis dixit d[omi]n[u]s ad Moysen et Aaron; iste vobis principium mensium [...] [explicit] panes cu[m] lactucis agrestib[us]."
   
  Exodus 12:1-8, Douay-Rheims Bible (DRB) translation:

  [1] And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: [2] This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first in the months of the year. [3] Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses. [4] But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb. [5] And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year: according to which rite also you shall take a kid (a goat or sometimes lamb was used for the sacrifice).
  [6] And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month: and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening. [7] And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. [8] And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce. 

  
  v1 r2
  Exodus 12:9-11
  ("[incipit] quid nec coctum aqua sed assum tantum igni caput ... 
  [explicit] comedetis festinantes est enim phase id est transitus d[omi]ni"
   
  Exodus 12:9-11, Douay-Rheims Bible (DRB) translation:

  [9] You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire: you shall eat the head with the feet and entrails thereof. [10] Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.
  [11] And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste: for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.

  
  Psalm 139:2-14
  ("[incipit] eripe me d[omi]ne ab homine malo ... adversum me ne derelinquas; [cir]cuitus eo[rum] labor labio[rum] ipso[rum] coop[er]i[et] ... [explicit] habitabunt recti cum vultu tuo")
  
  Psalm 139:2-14, Douay-Rheims Bible (DRB) translation:

  [2] Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man. [3] Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles. [4] They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips. [5] Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps. [6] The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.
  [7] I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication. [8] O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle. [9] Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph. [10] The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them. [11] Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.
  [12] A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction. [13] I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor. [14] But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.

  
  John 18:1-5
  ("[rubric] Passio d[omi]ni n[ost]ri Ih[es]u Chr[ist]I s[ancti] Ioh[anne]m. [incipit] In ill[o] t[empo]r[e] egressus est d[omi]n[u]s Ih[esu]s cum discipulis suis trans torrentem ... [explicit] stabat aut[em] et Iudas qui tradebat")
  
  John 18:1-5, Douay-Rheims Bible (DRB) translation:

  1] When Jesus had said these things, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he entered with his disciples. [2] And Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place; because Jesus had often resorted thither together with his disciples. [3] Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. [4] Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said to them: Whom seek ye? [5] They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith to them: I am he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them.

• 1 2022-10-20T15:51:14-07:00 MS C189 Outer Cover 12 plain 2022-12-10T13:01:27-08:00 Outer Cover
  Text: Sententiae (Sentences)
  Author: Isidore of Seville 
  Script: late Caroline minuscule 
  Description:
  •  Two columns of 38 lines, ruled in drypoint.
  • The repurposed parchment bifolium used for the cover likely comes from a homiliary, dated to the second half of the eleventh century.
  Condition: Fragile
  • The cover is warped due to extensive water damage.
  • The cover and the flyleaves are cockled.
  • The cover and flyleaves have minor bookworm damage.
  • Trimmed upper margin
  • There seems to be no loss of text due to trimming
  • Most of the text is still readable on the cover and the turn-ins. 
  
  Isidore of Seville
  ( c. 560 - 636)
  Born: Cartagena, or Seville, Spain
  Died: Seville, Spain
  
  Sententiae 
  Instead of scraping away the text to reveal a blank surface, the scriptorium preserved the text as a protective wrapping. The parchment leaf that forms the outer cover (the recto side of the first of the two folios)  likely comes from a homiliary, dated around the second half of the eleventh century. A homiliary, is a set of short texts and sermons on a moral theme. The cover contains text from  Isidore of Seville's  Sententiae, Book 10.11 "De angelis" (On the Angels.) Isidore of Seville’s Sententiae was popular and there are many copies from the Middle Ages. MS C54 is another manuscript at the Spencer Research Library that contains the Sententiae.