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Book of hours : Use of Noyon

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0095-Item 0031
Abstract

Book of hours, probably for the Use of Noyon.

Dates: approximately 1500s

Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0095-Item 0014
Abstract

This unattributed fifteenth-century manuscript copy of Johannes de Rupescissa's alchemical medical textDe consideratione quintae essentiae rerum omniumcomprises 52 leaves on parchment, likely the work of more than one scribe.

Dates: 1400-1499

Orationes Que Cantari Solent in Laudibus

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0181
Abstract

This manuscript is a calligraphic devotional book containing Latin prayers and hymns corresponding to the Roman Catholic liturgical year. It was created by an unknown person in 1827, perhaps a Cistercian nun at the Doornzele Abbey near Ghent, Belgium.

Dates: 1827

Frank W. Tober manuscript and early printed leaf collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0474
Abstract

Delaware chemist Dr. Frank W. Tober's collection of leaves from manuscripts and from early printed books. It includes pages from books printed in England, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland and that date from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. The manuscript pages in the collection include specimens in Latin, German, Arabic, and Indian.

Dates: approximately 1100-1899