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Title: JM-289: Dancing to the spring song
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting men representing nations dancing around "war" organ grinder. The League of Nations watches from a window.

Title: Bifolium from a Book of Hours
Date: Late 15th century or early 16th century
Summary: Manuscript vellum bifolium (two leaves) from a book of hours. The text includes parts of the Gospel readings and some prayers. Folio 2r begins with Psalm 116:1: "Laudate Dominum omnes gentes; laudate eum omnes populi." France, late 15th or early 16th century. Batarde hand. Text in one column of 17 lines. One and two-line illuminated initials, in gold, red, violet and white. 12.7 x 9 cm. Catalogued by PRB&M (short description included with the item).

Title: Catholic Church Liturgy (fragment)
Date: ca. 1350
Summary: A partial leaf from a liturgical manuscript on vellum, probably a church service book. The text on the recto is in a single column of 12 lines with ten 4-line staves, rule din red with neumes in black, and on the verso in a single column of 33 lines (no staves) ruled in red. The recto has text and chant of prayers for celebration of the Feast of [Saint] Mary Magdalene (22 July): the rubric reading "Sancte marie ma/gdalene ad primas vesperas super salmos diei. antyphon," (lines 1-2) and the text beginning: "Maria pio coniuncta ihesu osculando pedes..." (line 3). The verso contains a list of prayers (maunly collects?) for celebrating feasts of a number of saints and occasions, including the feasts of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The text is written in a Gothic textura book hand of good quality in two grades of formality: the text on the recto and that of larger size on the verso is written in the slightly less formal textualis semi-quadrata. There is frequent use of abbreviations including both contractions and suspensions. The music for the chant is written in neumes. The recto has a single larde initial "M" in red (the height of one stave plus one line) marking the opening of the chant for "Maria pio communita oscilando..." and on the verso are six large 2-line initials in alternating red and blue. This leaf was used as binding waste in making up a volume half its size, to which end it was heavily cut down to a size just smaller that the text block and rotated horizontally. A crease running horizontally accross the middle of the leaf shows the mark of the spine of the volume. (description provided by seller)

Title: Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, with the Abridgement of the Sentences.
Date: 1400-1450, first half of the fifteenth century

Title: Statuts de L'Ordre de Saint-Michel. Manuscrit qui a été la propriété de Louis XI, Fondateur de L'Ordre.
Date: c. 1500-1530
Summary: This is a fine copy of the document that defined the practices and rules of the royal Order of St. Michel (the French counterpart to the Burgundian order of the Golden Fleece). Written on vellum, in an elegant script and adorned with illuminated initials, this example was probably copied at the Renaissance court of King Francis I. Bound in nineteenth-century elaborately gilt-tooled black leather over pasteboards incorporating earlier purple velvet binding as center panels on the front and back covers, gilt-tooled spine with five raised bands, purple silk doublures, in very good condition apart from small splits to spine and scuffs to velvet. Dimensions 265 x 185 mm.

Title: Bible. Latin. O. T. Isaiah. [leaf]
Date: 1250

Title: Bible. Latin. N. T. Mark. [leaves]
Date: 1250

Title: Bible. Latin. O. T. Ezekiel [bifolium]
Date: 1220

Title: Bible. Latin. O. T. I Samuel. [leaf]
Date: 1275

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