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Date: 1525~ Contributing Institution: Mount Angel Abbey Library Description: This Book of Hours is illustrated in a style which is a successful blending of Italian and Northern influences. The miniatures are set in architectural frames and typical is the division of the picture-space into two sections by a descriptive scroll. The total number of illustrations, large and small, is 35. View Full Item at Mount Angel Abbey Library -
Date: 1475~ Contributing Institution: Mount Angel Abbey Library Description: Documentation of this manuscript book exemplifies the difficulties encountered by a cataloguer in attempting to accurately describe a bound text. The cataloguer’s collation or description of the organization of the text block was: A6, B-D12, E6, F-H12, I-K8, L8(-1). When the book was disbound it was clear that the actual collation was: A8, B6, C-F8, G2, H4, I8, J-K6, L-M8, N8(-1), O6, P6(-1). However, neither collation is an accurate reflection of how the book was originally constructed. When a map was made of the vellum leaves, i.e. hair or grain sides and flesh sides, it became clear that the previous restoration lost the original order. Some of the leaves were probably broken free when the book was taken to the 19th century binder, and he apparently could not read Latin. He guarded pairs of leaves to make folios and commenced to sew the book back together. It was decided to replace the existing vellum guards, most of which had come loose, with goldbeater’s skin, but to leave the order of the leaves as they were. Consequently, the text block is in the order received and the original location of leaves 53, 60, 61, 89, 94, and 95 is unknown. Leaf 101, which is conjugate with leaf 97, is incorrectly numbered and should be leaf 100. View Full Item at Mount Angel Abbey Library -
Date: 1450~ Contributing Institution: Mount Angel Abbey Library Description: The standard English style of illumination practiced during the fifteenth century is readily distinguishable from its counterparts on the continent. The surging, rhythmic leaf patterns, sharply pointed initials, and explosive vine ornament are as aggressive as the Gothic book hand of the text. The broad tones of pastel, the softly modeled, voluminous foliage, the spherical, lobed forms and golden discs are typical of English work from the 1440’s onward. The potential subtlety of this otherwise forceful style is apparent in the delicate rendering of a cleric’s head emerging from the soft leaf patterns of an initial painted in monochromatic tones of rose (45v). The first leaf done in a contemporary, though different, hand refers to King Henry VI (†1463), Henry VII (reigned 1485-1509), and the English “sweating sickness” that struck in the 1480’s. Furthermore, the calendar includes notations of deaths in the Paston, Berney, and Mumford families — one referring to the death of Margaret Paston whose will, according to an enclosed letter form the British Records Office, was written in 1482. Margaret’s husband John Paston was legal counsel to Henry VII. Hence the manuscript was likely in use by the last two decades of the century. A close association between the Pastons and Bromholm priory, Norfolk, suggests this as an early and possibly original provenance for the manuscript. View Full Item at Mount Angel Abbey Library -
Creator: Rahman, Qiyamah Date: 2014~ Contributing Institution: Meadville Lombard Theological School Description: Photographs; Correspondence View Full Item at Meadville Lombard Theological School -
Creator: New York League of Unitarian Women Date: 1912/1920~ Contributing Institution: Meadville Lombard Theological School Description: Scrapbooks and 1 scrapbook of photographs, correspondence, and printed ephemera with leather cover View Full Item at Meadville Lombard Theological School -
Creator: Arakawa, Diane E. Date: 1982 Contributing Institution: Meadville Lombard Theological School Description: Sermons and speeches View Full Item at Meadville Lombard Theological School -
Creator: Manwell, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Moore), 1897- Date: 1962~ Contributing Institution: Meadville Lombard Theological School Description: Photographs; Personnel records View Full Item at Meadville Lombard Theological School -
Creator: Unitarian Universalist Sankofa Special Collection Date: 1963/2014 Contributing Institution: Meadville Lombard Theological School Description: Congregational histories; Photographs View Full Item at Meadville Lombard Theological School -
Creator: Unitarian Universalist Sankofa Special Collection Date: 1989/2010 Contributing Institution: Meadville Lombard Theological School Description: Congregational histories; Interviews; Photographs; Newsletters View Full Item at Meadville Lombard Theological School -
Creator: Unitarian Universalist Sankofa Special Collection Date: 1962/2003 Contributing Institution: Meadville Lombard Theological School Description: Photographs; Correspondence View Full Item at Meadville Lombard Theological School