These are materials held in RBSC that serve as examples of the process of making (and selling) medieval manuscripts, with a particular focus on France. Students have an opportunity to learn the proper handling of early materials. To request a class visit, please email the Curator.
These illuminated leaves, encased in mylar for safe handling, provide a glimpse into manuscript production for a variety of works from 1150 to the early 1400s.
Vellum Manuscript, ca. 1200.
This vellum manuscript, which was originally part of a binding, allows students to feel actual 13th century vellum, and to examine it close up without worry of damage to materials.
Rare Oversize PA8200.A1 .V444 1200A
The Ellesmere Facsimile of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
(1995 facsimile of ca. 1400 manuscript)
Rare Books Oversize PR1866 .W76 1995a
NIU's copy if this illuminated facsimile is bound in an early fifteenth-century-type binding of oak boards and quarter leather.
Catholic Church. Psalter (Paris Psalter) The Paris psalter : Ms. Bibliothèque nationale fonds Latin 8824 / pref. by various contributors ; collected by Bertram Colgrave.
Early English manuscripts in facsimile. v. 8.
Copenhagen : Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1958.
Rare Books CollectionPR1757 .P71958
Notes: "The Paris Psalter contains in the left hand column of each page a Latin text of the Psalter. For the first fifty psalms the right hand column gives a West-Saxon prose paraphrase, and for the rest of the Psalter it is filled by an Anglo-Saxon metrical version."--p. 15.
Rand, Edward Kennard, 1871- .
A survey of the manuscripts of Tours. The Mediaeval academy of America. Publication no.3. Studies in the script of Tours, 1.
Cambridge, Mass., Mediaeval Academy of America, 1929.
Rare Books CollectionZ115 .FR3
Bible. Manuscripts, Latin. O.T. Psalms.
The Stuttgart Psalter, Biblia folio 23, Wuerttembergische landesbibliothek, Stuttgart.
Illuminated manuscripts of the middle ages.
[Princeton] Pub. for the Dept. of art and archaeology of Princeton university, 1930-
Rare Books Collection ND3357.S7 A3
Bible. N.T. Gospels.
Latin. Durham Gospels.The Durham Gospels together with fragments of a Gospel Book in uncial. Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.II.17 edited by Christopher D. Verey, T. Julian Brown, Elizabeth Coatsworth ; with an appendix by Roger Powell. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. v. 20.
Copenhagen : Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1980.
Rare Books Collection BS2552.D8 V4
Facsimile of Latin Gospels in insular semi-uncials and minuscules probably written ca. 690 at Lindisfarne; with fragments of uncial Gospels probably written ca. 716 at Wearmouth. Some details of ornament in color. With commentaries in English on text, palaeography, decoration, binding, and restoration.
The Épinal, Erfurt, Werden, and Corpus glossaries. Edited by Bernhard Bischoff ... [et al.]. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. v. 22.
Copenhagen : Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1988.
Rare Books Collection PE274.A5 E641988A
Contents: Épinal Bibliothèque municipale 72 (2) -- Erfurt Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek Amplonianus 2° 42 -- Düsseldorf Universitätsbibliothek Fragm. K 19: Z 9/1 -- Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm. 187 III (e.4) --Cambridge Corpus Christi College 144.
Miniatures from a French Horae; British Museum Add. ms. 16997, fifteenth century. Reproduced in honour of John Alexander Herbert. London, Printed for the subscribers [by Waterlow and sons limited] 1927.
Rare Books ND3363 .B64
The minatures have been attributed to Jean Le Maingre de Boucicaut by Paul Durrieu, who also advances some reasons for identifying this master with Jacques Coene. cf. p. [14]-[15] Correspondence relating to the book ([3] p.) inserted.
Clovio, Giulio, 1498-1578.
The Farnese hours : the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York introduction and commentaries by Webster Smith.
New York : G. Braziller, [1976]
Book Arts Collection ND2895.N485 P5
Notes: Facsim. of the pages from ms. M 69, Pierpont Morgan Library, with illuminations by Giulio Clovio, ca. 1537-1546. In part with the text of the Hours in Latin.
Cloisters (Museum).
Les belles heures du Duc de Berry, introduction by James J. Rorimer ; notes by Margaret B. Freeman.
London : Thames and Hudson, [1959?]
Rare Books Collection ND3363.B5 N48 1959a
The Book of Kells : reproductions from the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin with a study of the manuscript by Françoise Henry. 1st American ed.
New York : Knopf, 1974.
Book Arts Collection Oversize ND 3359.B7 S8 1974
Notes: Issued in a slipcase. "126 colour plates, 75 monochrome illustrations. "
The Lorsch Gospels.New York : George Braziller, Publisher, 1967.
Book Arts Collection Oversize BS 2552 L6 B713