Earliest (mid-1400's) manuscript in the ULS, Latin, on vellum, with original "boards," (oak?).  Contains a single portrait illumination, unknown subject. c. 550 years old.

De Claustro Animae et de Nove Benefitiis Religionis.  De Ordinatione Claustri Materialis.  De Cititate Magna Ierusalim.

By Hugues de Fouilloy (Hugo De Folieto. d. 1172 or 3.)  Contributors: Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1792-1872.  Bertram Dobell, 1842-1914.

1 volume. (102 leaves) Vellum, colored illustration.  27 cm.  LC Subject Heading(s): Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800.  Title taken from folio 17 v ("Explicit liber primus  [in]i Hugonis de claustro anime et de noue beneficiis religionis"). Original beginning and end of manuscript missing.  Written in a Gothic hand with some humanistic features.

Each page has 23-35 lines and measures approximately 25.5 x 18 cm. The text is contained to an area of approximately 17.5 x 11.5 cm. (with much variation).  Written in black ink; Fabricated throughout; historiated initial (in red, gold, and pink) on folioIr; floriated initials (in red and blue) on folio 18v and folio 27r; drawings on folio. 18v (in red) and folio 47r (in red, gold, silver, pink, oragne, and brown).

Ruled in lead (few line rulings visible); lead rulings for justification (sometimes with double lines), with lines extending to edges of page; eight prickings (for justification rulings) on each leaf.  This work was formerly attributed to Hugh of Saint-Victor (Migne, PL, v. 176, columns 1017-1182).

Summary: Text of De Claustro Animae I.4-IV.26.

"MS., XV Century, on vellum, written in several hands.  Folio.  Imperfect (102 leaves remain). Origin not identified.  On leaf 47 is a very curious painting of a man in a hat, with a __lo, underneath which is hte inscription, HGXXLX--not yet identified.  Some large initials painted in red and blue, smaller initials in red. Rubricated throughout.  In contemporary binding--wooden "boards," covered with an ass skin, partly recovered with vellum and again partly backed with leather, remains of metal clasps.  From the Philips Library, No. 2891. Original other book marks preserved. On the back of the binding, still easily visible, is the inscription __gonis C...S? 80' repeated in the second compartment.  On the lower pasrt is a printed slip _h'2891' (Philips number). Inside of the cover two leaves of a 10th century manuscript were formerly pasted. Re-impression of the ink is clearly visible, and can easily be transliterated with help of a mirror."

Indexed in Ricci. Census, vol. 2, p. [2119], no. 1. Provenance: Sold to Bertram Dobell in 1903 _ 601) by the estate of Sir Thomas Philipps, who obtained it ca. 1825 (no. 2891 in his library); earlier history is unknown.

The Lady of Shalott

By Baron Alfred Lord Tennyson. 1809-1892.
Contributors: Alberto Sangorski, 1862-1932.
John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917.
Henry Posner, d. 1976.
[London, J. & E. Bumpus & Co., 1909]
[15] pp. Illustrated (Illuminations). 29 cm.
LC Subject Heading(s): Illumination of Books and Manuscripts-Specimens.
Miniature Painting--Specimens. Fine Bindings. English Poetry.
Binding: Full red morocco leather binding. Doublures of brown levant, gilt, and inlays of jade green squares, gilt edges. [Likely by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.] Colophon: "This manuscript...was designed, written out, and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski.... London anno domini one thousand nine hundred and nine. "The miniatures in the frontispiece were taken from the painting by J.W. Waterhouse, R.A. in the City Art Gallery, Leeds. The miniature at end of the poem was taken from the painting by J.W. Waterhouse, R.A. in the Tate Gallery, London." Each page is hand-illuminated on vellum, with green silk. On the inside of the front board: Presented by Henry Posner to the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, December 1953."

Hillman Special Collections (Non-circulating)

Call Number: MS f 1901

[Book of hours: for liturgical use in Paris]

Contributors: Jacques, de Besancon, 15th cent. [ca. 1489-1490].
Physical Description: 209 leaves, illuminations. 15 cm.
LC Subject Heading(s): Illumination of books and manuscripts, French.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance--France.
Book of hours.
Notes: An illuminated manuscript on vellum.
Origin: Paris, School of Jacques de Basancon.
Title supplied by cataloger.