Special Collections- Vatican Film Library : Western MSS

Written in Ferrara, Italy.

Leaves from the Llangattock Breviary are among the collections of the following institutions: Harvard, U.C. Berkeley, American Academy in Rome, Michigan State, U. South Carolina, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Dartmouth College, and Museo Schifanoia in Ferrara.

Pictured here: MS 002, fol. c, verso.

Written in Ferrara, Italy; 238 bound leaves; in Latin

Pictured here: MS 003, fol.070v-071r

10 single leaves from a 15th-century Book of Hours written in France. Decoration: On fol. d, verso, one full-page miniature of the Betrayal and Arrest of Christ (above) and Christ in Gethsemane (below); on fol. f, verso, one half-page miniature of the Stoning of St. Stephen; twelve 10-line miniatures.

On the recto is the end of the prayer, "Obsecro te;" on the verso is the beginining of the prayer, "O intemerata."

Written and illuminated in Spain ca. 1460. Rubric: On fol. 1a, recto: "In iii noct[urno] sole[m]nitatis epypha[n]ie d[icitur] iste p[salmu]s. Venite." (Third nocturne at Matins for the Feast of Epiphany.)

Written in Coutances, France ca. 1420; in Latin with a calendar in French.

Text: Prayer to the Virgin of Sorrows, in French.

Rubric: On fol. a, recto, "Sabbato in vigillia pascem ad tenebras dicis p[ate]r n[oste]r et credo" (on the Saturday before Easter at Vespers).

Written in France, ca. 1475; Psalms 6:5-7:9, in Latin. Formerly owned by Otto F. Ege (1888-1951).

Full page miniature depicting St. John the Baptist, by a follower of Willem Vrelant

Written and illuminated in Bologna, ca. 1280-1290, in two columns of 50 lines, with surrounding Glossa ordinaria; ruled in lead with single inner and outer bounding lines for text and gloss. Text keyed to gloss by letters of the alphabet.

Written and illuminated in Valladolid, Spain; dated 13 June, 1587 on folio 35r. Patent of nobility issued by Philip II of Spain to Juan de Gayferos de Eguirau.

Pictured here: MS026, fol. 001, verso

Release of goods and moveable property by King Edward III to George Felbrigg of the Priory of Toften. Written in 21 long lines; no visible rulings; top edge cut as an indenture.

Written in Provins, France.

Grant by Pierre le Jaire, knight, of two arpents of arable land "in the clearings of Combles in the place which is called Echanes au Roi" to a monastic house in Provins.

Attached by a parchment tag is the armorial seal of Pierre le Jaire.

Written in France. Acknowledgement by Sir James Husee that he has received from Henry Percehay twelve shillings six pence (in part payment of one hundred shillings) due because of the marriage of the heir of John le Warre.
Armorial seal attached to parchment tongue.

Manuscript waste used for paste-downs to bind another book; leaves are badly damaged and cut down to about half the height of original size.

The sixth book of the Decretals was written under the direction of Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) and for centuries was one of the chief texts of canon law. This is a detached leaf from a manuscript made at Bologna, the chief center of canon law during the medieval period.

25 single leaves, written and decorated in France, ca. 1270.

5 single leaves, written and illuminated in France, ca. 1260.

Written in France in the 13th century, in double columns, with text of Psalms surrounded by gloss; fragment of binding waste, preserves only about 16 glossing lines of text.

Written and illuminated in Bologna, ca. 1300. Illuminated initials in red or blue, with bar extensions in pen flourishes of opposite color; running titles and chapter numbers in red and blue, with most chapter numbers inside the column.

Written in Italy in ca. 1490, but with added illustrations, probably 19th century.

Written in England; Text includes all the Marcionite prologues for the Epistles of Paul, but is missing the Omnes prologue by Gilbert de la Poire for the Apocalypse.

Pictured here: VFL MS 056, fol. 114v-115r

Antiphon for the 2nd nocturne of Matins, Psalm 79.

Written in France in ca. 1335, in in 10 long lines, alternating with ten 4-line red staves with C clefs and square notation; sewing stations visible in inner margins.

Written in Italy; painted marginal decoration added later, possibly in the eighteenth or nineteenth century. On fol. a, recto: Historiated roundels, one in the bas de page depicting King David ringing bells, and a second in the right lateral margin depicting St. Francis of Assisi.

Pictured here: MS 009, fol. a, recto.

Written and illuminated in southern France in the 16th century. On fol. a, verso, an indulgence decreed by Pope Sixtus IV (r. 1471-1484).

Written in Italy. On folio a, verso: large initial L with acanthus leaf decoration in orange, blue, pink, and gray, on a black rectangular ground with white tracery. Smaller initial E in red with blue and red penwork flourishes.

Pictured here: MS 011, fol. a, verso.

Written in Italy; possibly from the same manuscript as VFL MS 013.

Pictured here: MS 012, fol. a, verso.

Written in Italy; Possibly from the same manuscript as VFL MS 012.

Pictured here: MS 013, fol. a, recto.

Written in Italy.

Pictured here: MS 014, fol. a, recto.

Written in Italy.

Pictured here: MS 016, fol. a, verso.

Written in Bologna, Italy.

Pictured here: MS 017, fol. a, verso.

Written and illuminated in Spain in the 16th century.

Written and decorated in Spain in the 16th century, in 5 long lines, with 4-line red staves and square notation with C and F clefs; ruled in lead with double inner and outer parallel bounding lines.

Written and illuminated in Spain in the 17th century. Rubric: On fol. a, recto, "Ad Magnificat Antpho[narium]. Tristitia vestra vertetur in g[a]udium..." [Antiphon for Paschal time at Vespers].

Written and decorated in Italy around 1340, in 6 long lines, alternating with six 4-line red staves with F clefs and square notation in black.

Written and illuminated in Italy, possibly Orvieto, ca. 1420, with a historiated initial depicting King David pointing to God the Father and saints in heaven.

Written in Spain in the 18th century; in Latin

Pictured here: VFL MS 027, fol. a, verso

Written in Spain, Chant for the Temporale, imperfect, beginning on fol. 11 with the Great O antiphons for Advent.

Pictured here: VFL MS 028, fol. 006, verso

Written in Ethopia; note the presence of a prayer to Metropolitan Matewos (1889-1926) among the texts.

Pictured here: VFL MS 030, fol.017v-018r

Written in Spain; in Latin

Pictured here: VFL MS 031, fol. 027, recto

Chant for the second week after Easter, Friday-Sunday.

Written in Florence, Italy; 179 leaves; in Italian

Pictured here: VFL MS 029, fol. 007v-008r

Written in Germany ca. 1450. Fragments of a manuscript of the Dialogues of Gregory the Great.

Twenty single leaves written in Italy ca. 1300.

Written in Italy ca. 1350. A composite manuscript that also includes texts from Vegetius and Seneca.