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[Special prayers for feast days]

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Description: Stencil printing of the Catholic liturgy for feast days. Text and ornaments are printed from stencils. The printing is in several colors: black, red, green and blue. Double lines in the border appear hand ruled using gold and other color. Initials are decorated and the text is enclosed in 8 different border patterns.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [1756]
Call number: 329000
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's, Los Angeles, November 1959. Owner's inscription dated 1840 on front fly leaf. Note in pencil states: "according to the notes of a former owner from the Benedictine nunnery in Durham. Bookplate of Mary E. Rath Merrill, Columbus, Ohio. The attribution to a Benedictine nunnery in Durham may be spurious as there appears to be no record of such an institution extant in Durham county in the 18th century. Also the text contains the "IHS" Christogram of the Jesuits on several pages.

Choir book

Manuscripts

Italian choir book containing text and music for the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas.

mssHM 80527

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Book of hours, single leaf

Manuscripts

Text is in Latin; with decorated initials and illuminated border.

mssHM 82458

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-206v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-13: calendar in red and black including, in red, the feasts of Basilius (14 June), Remigius and Bavo (1 October) and Donatianus (14 October); f. 13v, blank; ff. 14-21: Short hours of the Cross; f. 21v, ruled, but blank; ff. 22-28: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 28v, ruled, but blank; ff. 29-35v: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 36-41v: Pericopes of the Gospels; ff. 42-121v: Incipiunt hore beate marie virginis secundum usum Romanum (weekly variations of the psalms at matins set into the text before the lessons; suffrages of All Saints and prayers for peace from lauds to compline; Advent office begins on f. 114); f. 122r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 123-143: Penitential psalms and litany (including Victor, Quentin, Eustachius, Maurice and Denis, all with companions, among the martyrs; among the confessors Bavo, Remigius, Eligius, Aegidius, Audomar, Livin and Amand; among the virgins Bridget, Genevieve and Apollonia); f. 143v, ruled, but blank; ff. 144-188v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 189-206v: Quicumque vult, Obsecro te, O Intemerata, Stabat mater dolorosa and suffrages of Sebastian, James, Anthony of Padua, Michael, Francis, Jerome, Peter and Paul.

mssHM 1174

Drawing Teacher

Visual Materials

One boxed set of paper stencils entitled Drawing Teacher, manufactured by Parker Brothers, Salem, Massachusetts, ca. 1895. The set is comprised of 10 paper stencils which include images of animals, people, and buildings. Also included are two printed sheets of paper, one a set of instructions for the stencils, the other a manufacturer's illustrated advertisement for several board games. The set is housed within a paperboard box that has a color illustrated paper label mounted to the top lid. The image is of a girl holding a stencil in one hand and a completed picture in the other. "John S. Blood" is stamped, in ink, in the upper left-hand corner of the top stencil. The stencils are housed separately from the box. "Lucy Pinkham, East Steuben, ME Dec. 25, 1899." is written in ms., in pencil, twice, on the underside of the box bottom.

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Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-205v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar in French; f. 13r-v, ruled as for a calendar, but blank; ff. 14-22: [f. 14, blank], Short hours of the Cross; f. 22v, ruled, but blank; ff. 23-29v: [f. 23, blank], Short hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 30r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 31-102: [f. 31, blank], Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome; f. 102v, ruled, but blank; ff. 103-121: [f. 103, blank], Penitential psalms and litany; f. 121v, ruled, but blank; ff. 122-166: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; f. 166v, ruled, but blank; ff. 167-190: Obsecro te, O Intemerata and other prayers; ff. 190v-200: Suffrages of the Trinity, Peter and Paul, Sebastian, Anthony abbot, Adrianus, Piatus, Mary Magdalene, Julianus, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Holy Spirit, Roch; ff. 200-204v: Prayers especially for the Eucharist. f. 205r-v, blank.

mssHM 1149

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-238 v [Book of Hours]: ff. 2-13v: Calendar in red and black; ff. 14-102 [f. 14, blank]: Office of the Virgin, use of Rome; ff. 102v-104v, ruled, but blank; ff. 105-166v: [f. 105, blank], Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 148v-166v: liturgical variations for All Souls and for a funeral; f. 167, ruled, but blank; f. 167v: Short Hours of the Cross (remainder misbound and is on ff. 232-236v); ff. 168-198 [f. 168, blank]: Long Hours of the Passion; f. 198v, ruled, but blank; ff. 199-229: [f. 199, blank], Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 229v-231v: ruled, but blank; ff. 232-236v: Short Hours of the Cross, misbound; [ff. 237-238v, ruled but blank].

mssHM 1132

[Special prayers for feast days]

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