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Rouse MS 9. BIBLE, fragment (1 Esdras 8.35- 3 Esdras 8.93).

Description:
Written in Italy in the second half of the thirteenth century, to judge from the ink, abbreviations, script, and decoration. The 12 leaves of Rouse MS 9 came from the same Bible as two leaves cataloged by Maggs in June 1984 (Bulletin 12, nos. 28 and 29). Acquired from Dawson’s Book Shop, Los Angeles, by Richard and Mary Rouse, April 1987. Given to UCLA in 2005.
Date:
1270-1285
Collection:
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Rouse MS 9. BIBLE, fragment (1 Esdras 8.35- 3 Esdras 8.93).

BELT MS 37 [Book of hours : Use of Rouen].

Description:
Manuscript book of hours for the use of Rouen, written and illuminated in Rouen, France sometime during the 15th century. Includes the typical common elements of a book of hours: church year calendar in French; readings from the Gospels; Hours of the Virgin, a set of eight devotional texts in Latin, one to be recited at each of the eight canonical hours of the day; penitential psalms, litany of saints, prayers for the dead, and prayers to the Virgin. Script: Latin text in gothic hand in black, with instructions in red ink, 15 lines per page; months of the calendar illuminated in gold, with saints' days written in red or blue ink. Illustrations: includes 11 large miniatures within arched frames, of scenes from the life of Christ (Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, Pietà), as well as portraits of the four Evangelists, King David with his harp, and St. Michael overcoming the devil; donor portrait on verso of leaf 53; all miniatures vividly colored and illuminated in red, blue, green, rose, black, and white; enclosed by richly painted and illuminated borders of arabesques, leafy branches, flowers and strawberry vines; illuminated floral borders along text margins; large and small illuminated rose and blue capitals. Binding: bound in blind-stamped calf over boards by Cambridge stationer and bookbinder Nicholas Spierinck, with date of 1520 supplied by Ferrari; upper and lower boards decorated with small blind-tooled square stamps containing figures of beasts and birds, and the device of binder with his initials "N" and "S," arranged in intersecting horizontal and vertical rows; vellum endpapers; all edges gilt. In modern beige cloth and brown leather clamshell box having gold-stamped spine title "Book of Hours." Provenance: From the library of Viscount Lee of Fareham, White Lodge, Richmond Park. A gift to Dr. Elmer Belt from Evelyn Cushman, 1954. Dr. Belt's illustrated bookplate on recto of front endleaf, with caption "From the House of Belt."In Latin and French.
Date:
ca. 1520
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
BELT MS 37 [Book of hours : Use of Rouen].

Coll. 170. MS. 348. BIBLE, with prologues and additions.

Description:
Written in Spain in the middle of the thirteenth century. In the possession of a Dominican convent or friar before the end of the century; front pastedown top, half cropped, “. . . -ia ordinis predicatorum.” In England before the fourteenth century; English hands on ff. 1r-v, 387r-v, front pastedown. On f. 386 lower margin, erased note of accounts in fourteenth-century anglicana, “... sol[idos] . . . sol[idos] . . . Ego frater . . . sororem . . . sorores. ...” On f. 1v top, an erased note. Paper label “11” on the spine. Belonged to Isaac Foot; his bookplate, f. 1v. Came to UCLA with the Foot Collection in 1960.
Date:
XIII med
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Coll. 170. MS. 348. BIBLE, with prologues and additions.

Rouse MS 16. CIRCULAR CALENDAR, fragments.

Description:
Parchment (thick and stiff), in two pieces 217 x 170-175 mm (If the modern reconstruction is accurate, the calendar had a diameter of 606 mm.). Written on one side (the obverse is blank) by one scribe in a small rounded textualis with a few cursive tendencies in light-to-medium brown ink. Some saints’ names in red, names of months in red, dominical letter “A” in red and other dominical letters slashed with red. The two circles separating the saints’ names from the numbered grid is outlined in red; the third circle alternates in black, red, and uncolored square-shaped segments (from the intersection of lines on which saints’ names are written), two outer circles at the edges of the sheets in red. Red dots along grid axials.
Date:
s. XV
Collection:
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Rouse MS 16. CIRCULAR CALENDAR, fragments.

ROUSE MS 1. CARTULARY OF WINDSHEIM, O.E.S.A.

Description:
Written in the fifteenth century at Windsheim near Nuremberg, Germany; although the title on the cover says 1414-1462, copying of the book began only in 1421 (cf. Prologue) and continued until at least 1476 (f. 8). Passed at an unknown date to the library of Nuremberg. Acquired from Bennett Gilbert, Inc., Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, December 1983 by Richard and Mary Rouse. Given to UCLA in 2005.
Date:
1421-1462
Collection:
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
ROUSE MS 1. CARTULARY OF WINDSHEIM, O.E.S.A.

Rouse MS. 26. DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA, De celestia hierarchia.

Description:
Written in Italy probably in the early sixteenth century, to judge from script and watermark. This codex dates from the time when scholars were arguing the authenticity of the Areopagite attribution. Ex libris effaced, f. l bottom margin. English typed label, s.XIXex, on front pastedown, on which is the number 75. Acquired from Krown & Spellman, 20 August 1988, by Richard and Mary Rouse. Given to UCLA in 2005.
Date:
XVIin
Collection:
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Rouse MS. 26. DIONYSIUS AREOPAGITA, De celestia hierarchia.