Contents: Ethiopian Christian work. Bound in wooden boards with string repair to one board. Contained in a two part leather slip case.
Place of origin: Ethiopia
Language: Ge'ez

Contents: Calendar, the Pericopes (Gospel Readings), the "Obsecro te" and "O intemerata te" the Hours of the Virgin, the Hours of the Cross, the Hours of the Holy Spirit, the Penitential Psalms and Litanies, and the Suffrages.
Place of Origin: Paris
Language: French, Latin

Contents: Calendar (folio 1), Readings from the 4 Gospels (folio 13), Obsecro Te (folio 19), Hours of the Cross (folio 23), Hours of the Holy Spirit (folio 27), Hours of the Virgin (folio 30), Seven Penitential Psalms (folio 77), Litanies (folio 89), Office of the Dead (folio 93), and additional prayers including "O intemerata" (folio 133v), "Salve Regina" (folio 136), and "Inviolata integra et casta" (folio 136v)
Place of origin: Bruges or Ghent, Belgium
Language: Latin, French

Contents: Calendar with major feasts (in red) including important south Netherlandish saints Amand and Vedast (5 February), Remy of Rheims and Bavo of Ghent (1 October), Donatian of Bruges (14 October); [f. 13, blank]; ff. 1418, Hours of the Cross; [ff. 18v19, blank]; ff. 2024, Hours of the Holy Spirit; [ff. 24v25] ff. 2640v, Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with Gospel extracts (f. 34); [f. 41, blank]; ff. 42131v, Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome, with Matins (f. 42), Lauds (f. 66), Prime (f. 81), Terce (f. 87), Sext (f. 93), None (f. 97), Vespers (f. 102), and Compline (f. 112), with additional devotions including the prayer Salve regina (f. 117v) and variants for the liturgical year (f. 119); ff. 132136v, Suffrages, including Anthony (f. 132), Martin (f. 133), John the Baptist (f. 134), Andrew (f. 134v), Katherine (f. 135), and Margaret (f. 136); [ff. 137138, blank]; ff. 139160v, Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany; [f. 161, blank].
Place of Origin: Bruges
Language: Latin

Contents: Customized late medieval liturgical book. Includes psalms, liturgical calendar, daily Offices, and selected texts for the year.
Place of origin: Southwestern Germany or Switzerland
Language: Latin

Contents: This charter grants Thomas Rubeus de Monte Albodio the title of Citizen of Rome.
Place of origin: Rome
Language: Latin

Contents: Transfer of properties from Robert Maleson of Oxnall to Peter Oxnoll of Joleby.
Place of origin: Oxnall, England
Language: Latin

Contents: The grant of a piece of land from John Odam to William Aubry.
Place of origin: Norfolk, England
Language: Latin

Contents: Carta Ejecutoria, Decree of Nobility. This document provides evidence of the court proceedings and witness testimonies that proved the noble status to Rodrigo de Henao, Don Felipe de Alvaro, his family and heirs. The document also exempts the family from taxes.
Place of origin: Valladolid, Spain. Pajares de Adaja, Spain.
Language: Spanish

Contents: Charter issued by King James I of England. Passage of safe conduct.
Place of origin: England
Language: Latin

Contents: “Catasto” (land registry) from the Female Benedictine Monastery of San Lorenzo in Venice, Italy, with five prefixed folios containing an almost contemporary index in Italian.
Place of origin: Venice, Italy [Monastery of San Lorenzo]
Language: Italian, Latin

Contents: Entries from 1556, 1597, 1605, 1612, 1626, 1628, 1635, 1638, 1640, 1641, 1642, 1658, 1708. (Note in research materials says "Register of a Venetian Confraternity dedicated to the virgin, 16th–18th century.")
Place of origin: Sedrina, Italy
Language: Italian

Contents: Prayer book, perhaps for a tertiary or beguine or Perhaps a type of Book of Hours. "Several of the saints are specifically German: Lienhard, Otilia. Katarina is from Sienna, Pope Pius II's hometown. Joergen is probably Saint George. Some of these prayers, and particularly that to Saint Sebastian, refer to an epidemic of the plague that is currently causing anxiety.... Originally I thought that it was a prayer book for lay use during mass and communion and for at-home spiritual exercises, but a closer look shows that the vernacular prayers are meant to be recited by the priest, in between portions of the Latin mass." From the research materials and Professor Judith Aiken, 2003. The last folio was written in the 19th century and provides a table of contents for the manuscript.
Place of origin: Prague, Czech Republic. Vienna, Austria.

Contents: Summa Confessionum
Place of origin: Florence?, Italy
Language: Latin

Contents of codex: Theological treatise, in Latin, touching on “gula” (f. 17 r.) and other vices (ff. 2 r.-69 r.); S. Augustinus, Oratio (ff. 69 v.-72 r.: Domine Deus omnipotens, qui es trinus et unus…); similar prayers and treatises (ff. 72 r.-100 r.); Orationes seu contemplativae meditations XV gaudiorum gloriosae Virginis Mariae (ff. 100 r.-124 v., incom-plete at end); S. Augustinus (?), Meditationes X (ff. 125 r.-178 v., imperfect at beginning and end).
Contents of single leaf at front: front fly leaf page (fol. 1) verso main text identified as Psalm 30. Marginal text appears to be psalter commentary. Phrase identified as Augustine of Hippo, commentary on the Psalms (PL electronic search on "iam non secundum adam").
Place of Origin: Italy
Language: Latin

Contents: Postillae, or commentaries on the Gospels of the Church year.
Place of origin: unknown
Language: Latin

Contents: Idiosyncratic manuscript chronology compiled by Rev. John Cotton (1686-1757), vicar of Meole Brace and St. Alkmund’s, Shrewsbury. Beginning in 1638 and running to 1750, the broad variety of events recorded by Cotton range from historic happenings of national importance to the births and deaths of family members, however his primary interest seems to have been in recording local events occurring in and around the locality of Shrewsbury and the births and deaths of those associated with the town.
Form: scroll
Place of origin: Shrewsbury, England
Language: English

Contents: Ethiopian healing scroll in a closed leather case
Place of Origin: Ethiopia
Language: Ge'ez

Contents: Manuscript in Ge'ez alphabet on 6 quires of parchment, text includes sentences in red and black ink, and hand colored illustrations of Christian images. Bount in modern printed cloth over parchment boards.
Place of origin: Ethiopia
Language: Ge'ez

Contents: [Ethiopian Christian work]
Place of origin: Ethiopia
Language: Ge'ez

Contents: [Ethiopian Christian work]. Bound in wooden boards.
Place of Origin: Ethiopia
Language: Ge'ez

Contents: Thought to be an Ethiopian Christian work.
Place of Origin: Ethiopia
Language: Ge'ez