Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

The Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection contains images of 21 unbound manuscript items and 10 bound manuscript items from the Silver Special Collections Library of the University of Vermont. These manuscripts were written in various locations across Europe and the Middle East, from early in the 12th century to the 17th century C.E. Many of the texts are religious in nature. There are examples from Vulgate Bibles, the Koran, liturgical books, books of private devotion, handbooks for confessors, and a book of church law. Other texts include works by Cicero, Terence, Eberhard Hicfelt, and Ascanio Savorgnano; and contain topical works on medicinal herbs, the island of Cyprus, and the laws of Carpeneto, Italy. The collection also includes a contract and a will, both from Italy. These beautiful books are often heavily illustrated or decorated, and provide examples of a wide range of scripts, both Gothic and later varieties. Most of the manuscripts are written on parchment, but several are made of paper, including the oldest item, a Koran leaf with a supplied date of 1106. The scope of the collection will facilitate studies of book history, codicology, paleography, and Medieval and Renaissance history.

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Miniature of Summa de Casibus Conscientiae
Summa de Casibus Conscientiae
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    • Date Created: 1400-1450
    • Description: This copy of a confessor's handbook is incomplete.
    • Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
    Miniature of Book of Hours?
    Book of Hours?
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      • Creator: Catholic Church
      • Date Created: 1325-1375
      • Description: Text is probably part the daily office for lay individuals according to the Sarum Use. This leaf begins in a reading from Genesis 3 in the middle of verse 1.
      • Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
      Miniature of Marci Tullii Ciceronis De amicicia liber...
      Marci Tullii Ciceronis De amicicia liber...
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        • Date Created: 1375-1425
        • Description: Texts contained in this codex are Cicero's De amicitia, Paradoxa, De senectute, and the text known as "Sallust's invectives."
        • Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
        Miniature of hec sunt statuta et ordinationex communis et hominum ac universitatis loci carpeneti...[in red]
        hec sunt statuta et ordinationex communis et hominum ac universitatis loci carpeneti...[in red]
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          • Date Created: 1458
          • Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
          Miniature of Koran
          Koran
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            • Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
            Miniature of Vulgate Bible
            Vulgate Bible
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              • Date Created: [between 1200 and 1250]
              • Description: Text is Jeremiah 3:22-7:13
              • Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
              Miniature of Vulgate Bible
              Vulgate Bible
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                • Date Created: 1230
                • Description: Text is I Chronicles (I Paralipomenon] 12:21-17:3, and II Chronicles (II Paralipomenon) 1:10-6:14.
                • Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
                Miniature of Vulgate Bible
                Vulgate Bible
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                  • Date Created: 1250
                  • Description: Text is Jeremiah 29:8-31:19.
                  • Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
                  Miniature of Vulgate Bible
                  Vulgate Bible
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                    • Date Created: 1200-1299
                    • Description: Text is Lamentations 4:17-end; Baruch 1:1-2:24.
                    • Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
                    Miniature of Hecyra
                    Hecyra
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                      • Date Created: 1450-1499
                      • Description: Text is from the end of Act 4 through the beginning of Act 5 of The Mother-in-Law.
                      • Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts