The University of Chicago Library > The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center > Finding Aids > Guide to the Wandel Collection of Manuscript Fragments, 1000-1599
© 2018 University of Chicago Library
| Title: | Wandel Collection of Manuscript Fragments (Ms 686) |
|---|---|
| Dates: | 1000-1599 |
| Manuscript Number: | Codex Ms 686 |
| Size: | 1.5 linear feet |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Fragments of Latin Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Codex Ms 686. |
The collection is open for research.
Original documents, texts, and images represented by digital images linked to this finding aid are subject to U. S. copyright law. It is the user's sole responsibility to secure any necessary copyright permission to reproduce or publish documents, texts, and images from any holders of rights in the original materials.
The University of Chicago Library, in its capacity as owner of the physical property represented by the digital images linked to this finding aid, encourages the use of these materials for educational and scholarly purposes. Any reproduction or publication from these digital images requires that the following credit line be included: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Commercial publication projects require the permission of the University of Chicago Library and may be subject to a use fee. To order publication-quality reproductions, or for permission to copy or use any part of the digital images attached to this finding aid for any commercial purposes, please contact the Special Collections Research Center.
The images presented here may include materials reflecting the attitudes, language, and stereotypes of an earlier time period. These materials are presented as historical resources in support of study and research. Inclusion of such materials does not constitute an endorsement of their content by the University of Chicago.
The University of Chicago Library appreciates hearing from anyone who may have information about any of the images in this collection.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Wandel Collection of Manuscript Fragments (Ms 686), Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
At the time of its acquisition by the University of Chicago Library in 1926, the Wandel Collection consisted of sixty-eight fragments, mostly Latin, bound individually in cardboard by Sigurd and Gudrn Wandel, who collected them and for whom the collection is named. The original sixty-eight fragments were examined and identified in 1959 by Bernard Bischoff. Since that time the collection has continued to grow, supplemented by binding and flyleaf fragments from the Library's Rare Book collections, as well as by further acquisitions and transfer of other fragments previously separately cataloged in the Codex Manuscript Collection.
| Box 3 MS 1 | Lectionarium officii, Saec. XII (Danish or Swedish prov.), 2 leaves. |
| Box 3 MS 2 | Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica Liber Exodi cap. 8-14/15, s XII. 1 leaf |
| Box 3 MS 3 | Cod. Iustin c. app., s. XIII. (Ital.). 2 leaves |
| Box 3 MS 4 | Missale (Ambrose ??) (Ital. s. XII). 1 leaf |
| Box 3 MS 5 | Missale, s. XV. 2 leaves |
| Box 3 MS 6 | Homilarium, Saec. XII (Ital.). 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 7 | Recto: Lectionary with verses from Book of Jeremiah, excerpt from Psalm 34, and Passion according to Matthew. Verso: Vulgate text of Matthew 14:1-15a, with words spoken by Christ denoted by a red cross. 1 parchment leaf. Spain or Italy, 15th century. Latin, southern gothica textualis formata. Dimensions: 330 mm x 260 mm. One large floral initial I, beginning text from Matthew, and another small initial, mostly rubbed off, with red hairline flourishes, both on recto. Both sides have alternating red and blue small capitals setting off verses and red headers. Ruled and lined in dry point, two columns of 26 lines. Each column is 71 mm x 201 mm with a space of 23 mm between two columns. Probably used in binding. A number of 17th-century pen trials visible on recto in bottom margin; the date "1624" visible at top center of page. Some 17th-century? notes along right margin of recto, faded to illegibility. |
| Box 1 MS 8 | Missale, s. XIV/XV. Germany. 5 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 9 | Peter the Lombard, Sententiae. Distinctiones 39-40 (partial). 1 parchment leaf. France, early 13th century. Latin, praegothica. Dimensions: 323 x 251 mm. Rubrication and alternating red/blue initial. Ruled and lined in lead, two columns of 53 lines each; prickings visible in both margins. Written area: 231 x 152 mm. Used in binding; 17th century notes, including "59", "4A", and a note of a few words faded to illegibility visible on one side. |
| Box 3 MS 10 | Comm psalmos, s. XV. 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 11 | Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica Liber IV Regum. f. 1: ch. VI-IX; f. 2: ch. XIII-XVI; f. 3: ch. XXI-XXV; f. 4: ch. XXVII-XXX. 2 parchment bifolia, formerly first and third in a gathering of four (numbered according to their present state). Western Europe, 13th century. Latin, gothica semitextualis libraria. 302 mm x 230 mm (dimensions of one leaf, folded). Rubrication and red capitals. Ruled and lined in lead, two columns of 41 lines. Written area: 211 mm x 55 mm (one column). Formerly used to reinforce binding, some square trimming in margins. Textual scholia in margins in contemporary hand. |
| Box 1 MS 12 | Hieronymus, transl. B. Didymus. s. XII in. 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 13 | Peter the Chanter, Verbum Abbreviatum, s. XII/XIII. 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 14 | Leaf from a missale: II Samuel 13:36-15:3; Matthew 5:20, sermon attributed to Jerome on Matthew 5:20. 1 parchment leaf. Western Europe, 12th century?. Latin, praegothica. 317 mm x 207 mm. Red capitals and rubrication. Unruled and unlined, one column of 29 lines. Written area 272 mm x 192 mm. Used in binding. No annotations, one scribe. |
| Box 1 MS 15 | Ascet. moral, s. XIV. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 16 | Gregorius M. Moralia in Job, s. XII (Danish provenance) probably from a Cistercian Monastery (punctuation). 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 17 | Missale, s. XV (German). 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 18 | Commentary on Genesis. 3 parchment leaves (1 bifolium and 1 single leaf). Western Europe, 14th century. Latin, gothica textualis libraria with occasional looped ascenders. 296 mm x 193 mm. Rubrication, three-line initials, and running title ("GEN") in red. Ruled and lined in black ink, 2 columns. Pricking present in one margin. 53 lines visible, but a portion of the page at the bottom has been removed due to trimming. Columns 72 mm in width. Used in binding; significant damage to pages from removal. |
| Box 1 MS 19 | Missale, s. XV (Ital.) 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 20 | Gratianus, Decretum, s. XII (Ital.) 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 21 | Augustine, Ennarratio in Ps. 94, s. XI(?) 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 22 | Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, s. XII/XIII. 4 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 23 | Haimo of Halberstadt, Commentarii in epistolam ad Galatas, cap. 1-5. France, s. X med. (from Charleshoun in Amsterdam) |
| Box 1 MS 24 | Corpus Iuri Canonici, decretal II causa XXXII quaestio I capitula v-xiv. 1 parchment leaf. Western Europe, 12th century?. Latin, praegothica. 278 mm x 185 mm. Large initials and headers in red. Ruled in dry point, two columns of 39 lines. Columns 217 mm x 39 mm. Used in binding. |
| Box 1 MS 25 | Bibl. (Pacal), s. XI/XII 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 26 | Isidorus Hisp., Etymol., s. XII, 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 27 | Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 1b V prosa 4. Germany s. XI in. 4 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 28 | Acta S. Silvestri, ca. s. X. 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 29 | Statuta monastica, s. XIV, 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 30 | Augustine, Tract in Iohannen Evangelistam 102-06, s. XII ex. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 31 | Benedict, St., Regola 13, 12-27, 1. s. XIII, 4 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 32 | Rituale, saec. XI. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 33 | Wolfhar of Rheins (d. 816), probable author, letter to unspecified princeps (Hrabanus Maurus or Dungal?) s. X. 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 34 | Greg M., Moralia I ob(?), s. XI. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 35 | Praeterium, s. XIII (XIII/XIV?) prob. Grand Nacian. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 36 | Gregor. Nafiano., L. C. apologeticus, s. XII. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 37 | Exeget., s. XII. 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 38 | Philos. Theol., s. XIV. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 39 | Sacramentarium, s. XII. 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 40 | Bible, Old Testament, Apocrypha. L.G.I. I Maccabees 8; 32-9; 44 - Scandinavia, s. XIII/XIV with Runic inscription. 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 41 | Rituale, saec. X (XI). 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 42 | Peter the Lombard,Sententiae, Distinctiones 34-35 and 50-51 (partial). 1 parchment bifolium with half of the second leaf and the tops and bottoms of both leaves missing. France, later half of 12th century. Latin, praegothica libraria. Dimensions (approximate due to damage of fragment): 210 mm x 274 mm (complete leaf 175 mm in width). Headers in red, alternating red and blue capitals set off sections of text. Ruled and lined in lead, two columns of approx. 44 lines. Columns 59 mm in width. Pricking in both margins. Probably used in binding. Annotations and corrections in hands contemporary to text. |
| Box 1 MS 43 | Breviarium, s. XIV. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 44 | Commentary on Canon Law, Italy, circa s. XIII. 1 leaf |
| Box 1 MS 45 | Sermones, s. XIV. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 46 | Exegetica (in part Peter Damian's Dialogue with a Jew.) s. XII. Cistercian punctuation. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 47 | Alex de Villa, Dei Doctrinale, s. XIV. 2 leaves |
| Box 1 MS 48 | Exeges, s. XIV. 2 leaves |
| Box 2 MS 49 | Bibl. (Epp. S. Pauli,) s. XI (Ital.) 2 leaves |
| Box 2 MS 50 | ?? Prosper, Epigrammata, s. XII/XIII. (Ital.) 2 leaves. |
| Box 2 MS 51 | Unidentified commentary on Revelations. 2 parchment bifolia sections, one (labelled "top") from the middle of a page, one with bottom margin visible ("bottom"). Western Europe, 14th century? Latin, Northern Gothica Textualis libraria. Fragment dimensions: "Top" 312 mm x 79 mm; "Bottom" 308 mm x 80 mm. Red underlining on sentences throughout. Ruled and lined in double columns, evidence of pricking at outside margins. Column width ranges from 554 mm to 603 mm. No information on later use, no annotations. |
| Box 2 MS 52 | Iohannes de Ianna, Catholican, s. XIII/XIV. 4 leaves. |
| Box 2 MS 53 | ?? De barbarionis (Comm. in Donat.) s. XIV. (English?) 2 leaves |
| Box 2 MS 54 | Lectionary fragment containing Wisdom 3:5-8, John 15:5-6, and Ecclesiastes 24:11-17]. 1 incomplete parchment leaf. Western Europe, 10th century?. Latin, one side contains Caroline miniscule and another less carefully written hand from the same time period; verso contains two other hands, each writing in a less careful Caroline miniscule. Approx. 76 mm x 137 mm. Faded red headers on both sides. Ruled in two columns; non-trimmed column is 96 mm wide. |
| Box 2 MS 55 | Unidentified satirical poems on simony in rhymed couplets. 1 partial parchment leaf (top margin visible, no bottom margin). Western Europe, 13th century. Latin, praegothica, 102 mm x 138 mm. Red marginal headers, red markings on couplets in some poems, decorative darker black initials in margin begin individual poems. Ruled and lined in brown ink, text written above line. Writing area 53 mm in width. Marginal notations in non-scribal hand contemporary to or not much later than rest of MS. |
| Box 2 MS 56 | Unidentified commentary on Luke. 1 parchment bifolium, with about 2/3 of one leaf and most of the other. England?, 13th century?. Latin, semitextualis libraria. 194 mm x 142 mm. 3-line red initial begin sections; rubrication throughout. Faintly lined in brown ink. Written area approx. 100 mm in width. Likely used as a flyleaf glued to the binding of another book. No annotations. |
| Box 2 MS 57 | Unidentified text from breviary?. 1 parchment leaf with no bottom margin. Western Europe (France?), 13th or 14th century. Latin, textualis libraria. Fragment dimensions: 137 mm (height) x 125 mm (width). Rubrication, two-line initials and headers in red. Pricking visible, ruling and lining not visible. 1 column. Written area 74 mm wide. Note in 14th/15th century hand in script with characteristics of batarde, mentioning the years 1397 and 1398. |
| Box 2 MS 58 | Unidentified sermons. 2 partial parchment bifolia. Western Europe (Italy?), 14th century, Latin. Gothica semitextualis libraria. Dimensions: 111 mm x 139 mm, 91 mm x 137 mm. Rubrication, two-line red initials to begin sections, headers in red. Ruled and lined in brown ink, one column. Complete columns measure 77 mm x 59 mm and have 17 lines. Possibly used in binding. Annotation reading "michi [illegible] 1702", another two annotations in a later hand reading "there" and "then". |
| Box 1 MS 59 | Gregory the Great, Homily on Ezekiel X. 1 incomplete parchment leaf. Western Europe, 11th century? Latin, early miniscule, 116 mm x 200 mm. Red initial, red marginal notation (in scribal hand), red headings. Ruled and lined in dry point, 1 column, 150 mm wide. |
| Box 2 MS 60 | 60a. Eberhard of Béthune and anonymous, Excerpt of Graecismus, Cap. X, lines 30-42, 51-63, 179-192, 206-215, with planned marginal glosses. 1 parchment bifolium section, approximately top 2/3 of written area of page. Probably at one time an outer bifolium in a quire containing an odd number of leaves. Western Europe, 13th century?, Latin, main text in textualis libraria, marginal glosses in cursiva libraria, probably by same scribe. Fragment dimensions: 101 mm x 306 mm. Rubrication throughout, laid out with text in center of leaf (approx. 73 mm wide) and commentary surrounding (inner margin top lines 68 mm long, lower lines 36 mm). Evidence of trimming at outer edges. Corrections in-line with text in non-scribal hand, "de fem[in]is" on verso folia in second non-scribal hand. Brief prayer at upper right of folium beginning "vita propago". 60b. Eberhard of Béthune and anonymous, Excerpt of Graecismus, Cap. XIII, lines 138-147, 157-165, 173-178, 186-192, interspersed with planned glosses. 1 section of parchment leaf, roughly top one-half of leaf. Western Europe, 13th century?, Latin, semitextualis libraria (gloss text much smaller in size than main text). Fragment dimensions: 193 mm x 128 mm. Ruled and lined in brown ink, two columns, each 76 mm wide with 9 mm gap between. Some intertextual non-scribal corrections, and a brief note at the upper right in 14th? century hand. |
| Box 2 MS 61 | Rhymed world Chronicle, Dutch, s. XIII?; Moral poem, Dutch, s. XIV; Prayerbook, Dutch s. XV. 3 leaves. |
| Box 2 MS 62 | Psaltarium with German translation, ca. s. XIV. 1 leaf. |
| Box 2 MS 63 | Financial documents possibly pertaining to Ostend, Flanders. 2 complete parchment leaves. Low Countries, 15th century? Middle Dutch. 312 mm x 199 mm, 319 mm x 210 mm. No decoration, unruled and unlined, 1 column, lines and written area per page vary. Some annotations in non-scribal hands. |
| Box 2 MS 64 | a. Sermons in German, ca. s. XV in. b. Liber Numerorum in Low German, saec. XV.c. Contemplat, Low German, s. XV. 3 leaves |
| Box 2 MS 65 | Unidentified text, perhaps legal? 1 parchment leaf, mostly complete, with some mutilation at corners. Germany?, 15th century? Low German, gothica cursiva libraria. Dimensions: 292 mm x 250 mm. Faded rubrication and red underlining on verso, unruled and unlined, one column. Written area: 195 mm x 132 mm recto, 192 mm x 134 mm verso. Probably used in binding. One annotation on recto in later hand reading "Co 19". |
| Box 2 MS 66 | Asoetic. Dutch, s. XIV. 2 leaves. |
| Box 2 MS 67 | Unidentified prayers. 1 parchment bifolium. Low Countries, 15th century. Dutch, gothica textualis libraria. 146 mm x 198 mm. Rubrication, headings and one two-line capital in red on recto. Ruled and lined in brown ink, single columns of 18 lines. Written area: 90 mm x 69 mm. Catchword visible on left side of verso of bifolium, suggesting this bifolium formed the outer sheet in a quire. Later hand also on verso has annotated "20" perpendicular to text. |
| Box 2 MS 68 | Jai: v. Meerlant (some sort of bestiary), s. XIV. |
| Box 2 MS 69 | Epistola Conventus Carthusienisis Sancti Salvatoris Erffordi, s. XV. 2 leaves |
| Box 2 MS 70 | Hieronymous, Commentaria in Amos. s. XV? 1 leaf. |
| Box 2 MS 71 | Bible. 2 Reg. 19:37-22:13, Vulgate. 1 parchment leaf, missing text from top and side. Western Europe (Italy?), 15th century? Latin, humanist script. 302 mm x 266 mm. Three 3 or 4 line red initials. Ruled and lined in lead, two columns, column width of 105 mm. Now 37 lines per column, originally 55 or 56 lines per column. Annotation reading "om[n]ia xxv" next to 19:37 in late hand; another annotation reading "Tanta nequitia aures meas de tue senectute pervenit" in even later hand next to 21:18. Formerly UC MS 38; described as such in Goodspeed, A descriptive catalogue of manuscripts in the libraries of the University of Chicago. |
| Box 2 MS 72 | Priscianus, De Grammatica, XIV, 28-34, s. XII-XIII. 1 leaf. |
| Box 2 MS 73 | Bible. Psalterius, s. XI. 1 bifolium. |
| Box 2 MS 74 | Comm. Bible. Vetus testamentum (libri Regum), s. XI. 1 bifolium. |
| Box 2 MS 75 | Bible. Vetus testamentum. (Reg., Prov, etc.), s. XII. 5 bifolia. |
| Box 2 MS 76 | Canon law (?), s. XIV. 1 leaf. |
| Box 2 MS 77 | Unidentified (4 pieces) from binding of BR65 f. A9A59 Rare: Augustine, ..., Coloniae, Melchioris Nouesiani, 1549. 1 piece is s. XIII, 3 are S. XIV, probably Italy. |
| Box 2 MS 78 | 1 leaf from a binding, parchment. Latin. Late humanistic cursive. |
| Box 2 MS 79 | Fragments taken from a binding from four separate books, parchment. Latin. (1) Large bifolium, possibly printed from (canon law?) (2) Two separate leaves, s. XIII. (3) Torn folio, later used as cover, in large calligraphic cursive, s. XV(?) (4) Small scrap in late formal Gothic, s. XV. |
| Box 2 MS 80 | Two leaves, parchment. Latin. Canon law extracts with marginal commentary. s. XIII. Many of the extracts appear in the compilation of Gregory IX of 1234; some belong to an earlier compilation, perhaps that of Bernard of Pavia of 1191-1192. |
| Box 2 MS 81 | One bifolium parchment. Liturgy in Latin. Perhaps from Germany of the later 14th or 15th century. From a binding. (Formerly UC MS 687.5) |
| Box 2 MS 82 | Fragment of one parchment leaf. Laton (canon law?) Fourteenth century. Used to cover Melancthon, P. Paranoia sive Proverbia Salamonsis v. 2, 1525. Cover removed 1/27/1927. There is a 16th-century paper manuscript inside the binding written in German. (Formerly UC MS 687.6) |
| Box 2 MS 83 | Fragment of one leaf, parchment. Latin document, perhaps a grant. Name and device of Girardus Hotmer (Botmer?) at the bottom. 15th or 16th century. (Formerly UC MS 687.9) |
| Box 2 MS 84 | Sixteen fragments and two scraps, mutilated, on paper. In Latin, apparently from the same manuscript. Late 14th century or 15th century; origin uncertain. Devotional or theological text. |
| Box 2 MS 85 | One parchment leaf used to cover a binding. Latin, perhaps liturgy or psalms. 15th century. Germany? |
| Box 2 MS 86 | Eleven bifolia and four folia, all containing legal texts in Latin. Paper. 16th century (?) probably Italy. |
| Box 2 MS 87 | Two folios, parchment. Latin. Bohemian chronicle (?). 14th century. |
| Box 2 MS 88 | Fragment of Psalm 84:2–13, from a book of hours. 1 parchment leaf. Western Europe, 15th century? Latin, Northern Gothica textualis libraria. Dimensions: 166 mm x 115 mm. Gold and blue initials with black and red hairline flourishes begin each verse; larger polychrome two-line initial begins text on recto. Ruled and lined in red ink, one column of 15 lines. Ruled space dimensions (written space does not precisely correspond): 96 mm x 62 mm Previously used in binding. No annotations or signs of use. |
| Box 2 MS 89 | One folio, parchment. Latin. Book of Hours, one 3-line initial and minor border decorations. 15th century? |
| Box 2 MS 90 | One folio, parchment. Latin. Old Testatment (Genesis.). 15th century. |
| Box 2 MS 91 | Prayers, probably from a private devotional book. 1 parchment leaf written on one side. Western Europe, 15th century? Latin, Southern Gothica textualis libraria. Dimensions: 81 mm x 76 mm. Blue and gold initials with red and blue hairline flourishing throughout text, red header and underlining, two-line polychrome initial begins text. Ruled and lined in brown ink, one column of 12 lines (11 with text). Ruled area: 45 mm x 32 mm. Bookseller's or librarian's pencilled note, "75", in upper right corner of recto, and "100" in lower left corner of verso. |
| Box 3 MS 92 | Three very large folios, parchment. Latin. Glossary. Written in four columns, 12th/13th century. |
| Box 3 MS 93 | One parchment folio, apparently the opening leaf of Justinian's Institutiones (with surrounding commentary.) Bolognese or the type. 14th century. |
| Box 2 MS 94 | Fragment of one parchment leaf. Unidentified (letters and number like a calendar, table of contents?) text in Latin. 15th century? |
| Box 2 MS 95 | Two mutilated parchment leaves, written in Latin cursive. Theol? 14th century. |
| Box 2 MS 96 | Two mutilated parchment folios with the text much rubbed out or obliterated by paste from use in a binding. Latin. Canon Law (ut vid.) Italy. 14th century. |
| Box 3 MS 97 | Two boards, two modern fly leaves, and two 15th century? fly leaves with a variety of notes and names in Latin. England. 15th century. |
| Box 2 MS 98 | Part of one parchment leaf used as a book cover (Flores poetarum?) with a document in Italian of possibly 1547, written at Venice by the notary whose subscription and sign appears at the foot. |
| Box 2 MS 99 | Two parchment folios, each badly rubbed on one side. Artilces on crops in Latin (from an encyclopedia?) Italy, 14th century. |