France

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ff. 1r-3r [Heading in upper margin in a 17th century hand:] Table des Chapitres de chemin de Paradis de l’Eveque de chalons sur Saone Jehan de Souhan 1456. ff. 4r-169r [Prologue:] Iehan Germain par la grace de dieu Euesque de chalon sur la saone maistre en theologie a paris: A nos tres chiers freres en ihesu crist et cooperateurs a la conduite de nos subgetz les doyen archediacres chanoynes de notre eglise les curez vicaires et autres nos enfans espirituelz de notre dicte eueschie salut.

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This manuscript contains a Book of Hours written about 1450 in Northern France.

Table of contents: Hours of the Virgin, use uncertain; Office of the Cross begins imperfectly in hymn for Matins; Office of the Holy Spirit begins imperfectly in hymn for Matins; Obsecro te, begins imperfectly; Gospel of John (1.1-14) followed by prayer; Penitential Psalms begin imperfectly in first Psalm; Litany of the Saints; Office of the Dead beginning at the second Nocturn.

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This manuscript, written in the first quarter of the sixteenth century in Rouen, contains Pierre Mesenge's Journal de sainct voyage pour visiter le sainct sepulcre, a first-person account of a journey to Jerusalem in 1507. The author describes sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, as well as other cities. The text is primarily in French but includes many prayers in Latin. The manuscript is written on parchment with numerous small illuminated initials and line-fillers.

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ff. 1r-2v [Prologue, followed by a table of contents:] Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum quas compilauit frater iacobus racione ianuensis de ordine fratrum predicatorum. Uniuersum tempus presentis uite in quatuor distinguitur scilicet in tempus deuiationis reuocationis siue renouationis. . . ff. 2v-266v De adventu domini Aduentus domini per quattuor septimanas agitur ad significandum quod quattuor sunt aduentus scilicet in carnem.

Overview This is a fifteenth-century French book of hours, with lacunae throughout. There are three genealogical entries throughout the calendar in French in different hands below the text, suggesting previous ownership by the de Lys family and the Bonefant family.Table of contents: Calendar of Bayeaux, in French, in red and black, rather sparse; Hours of the Virgin, use of LeMans; Penitential Psalms beginning imperfectly with the second Psalm; Litany of the Saints; Gospel of John...

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The scrapbook of Josiah P. Marvel includes Nazi documents, such as certificates and letters, from Marvel's time in occupied France during the summer of 1940, while travelling to and from Paris in service to the American Friends Service Committee. Documents include permissions from Nazi commanders in France, as well as The Hague and Brussels. Also included is a map of the location of prison camps, clothing lists, and a printed booklet on the National Work for Infants.

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Marcelle Parde (1891-1945) was a Bryn Mawr College French professor and leader of a French Resistance unit in WWII. This collection includes miscellaneous correspondence, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and official documents.

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This is a Northern French processional for the use of the Dominican nuns of Poissy from the second half of the fifteenth century. It contains various Latin processional texts with accompanying rubrics and chant notation.

Overview This manuscript contains a mid-fifteenth century French book of hours.Table of contents: Text obliterated from f. 1r. Gospel Pericopes; Obsecro te... [masculine forms; Leroquais, LH 2.346-47] begins and ends imperfectly; Hours of the Virgin, use uncertain; Suffrages to the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter, and Nicholas; Resumption of the Hours of the Virgin; Penitential Psalms, beginning in middle of the first Psalm; Litany of the Saints; Short Hours of...

Overview Sisters of the kings of France, the author Christine de Pizan, and Balzac’s droll fictitious heroines – these are among the residents of the prestigious royal foundation of the Dominican nuns at Poissy. Every manuscript that becomes known from Poissy is worthy of special note not just because of the fame of the abbey but also because of the contribution of its women to late medieval liturgical music. Whereas Processionals survive in increasingly large numbers from Poissy, Sequentiaries, such...