Medieval manuscript fragments, [ca. 800-ca. 1800].

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Medieval manuscript fragments, [ca. 800-ca. 1800].

Various items, including documents (such as Nuremberg rules for execution from 16th century, papal texts, legal statements) and fragments from books (such as parchment strips recovered from bindings, historiated initials, illuminations, and leaves drawn from various texts including the Vulgate Bible, commentaries on the Bible, breviaries, Psalters, books of hours, homilies, liturgical books with musical notation, books of law, works of Church Fathers such as Augustine and Jerome, works of classical authors such as Cicero and Livy, and works of various other authoritative authors such as Avicenna).

ca. 3 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8125088

Cornell University Library

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