PITTS THEOLOGY LIBRARY
ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS DEPT.

Collection of illuminated manuscript leaves, 11??-1599.

RECORD GROUP NUMBER 020-2


EXTENT: .6 cubic ft. (1 half-size letter archives box and 1 oversize archives box)

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CITATION: Collection of illuminated manuscript leaves, RG 020-2, Archives and Manuscripts Dept.,  Pitts Theology Library, Emory University.


Scope and Content Note

This collection of individual leaves taken from illuminated manuscripts represents works created from the 12th through 15th centuries.  The bulk of the collection consists of leaves from various Books of Hours (books with prayers for private devotions) written in Latin or Dutch.  Also included are single leaves from Bibles, a Dutch religious calendar, a French epistolary, and a book of homilies by St. Augustine.


CONTAINER LISTING
Box  Folder  Description                                      Date
2     1      St. Augustine, In Evangelium Iohannis tractatus,
                homilies XXV-XXVI                             [11–]
1     8      Matthew 2 and Luke 1                             [12–]
1     1      I Kings                                          [ca.1220]
1     9	     Matthew 5-7				      				[ca.1240]

2     2      Dutch Book of Hours                              [ca.1475]
1     2      Dutch Book of Hours, "Agnus Dei"                 [ca.1475]
1     3      Dutch Book of Hours, prayer on the Wounds of
                Christ                                        [ca.1475]
1     4      Latin Book of Hours, Litany of Saints            [ca.1499]
1     5      Dutch calendar                                   [ca.1500]
1     6      Latin Book of Hours                              [ca.1510]
1     7      French epistolary                                [ca.1550]
2     3      Illuminated leaf                                 n.d.

Last Modified: 2006 November 16