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- Item donated to Knox College by Harriet Robbins Moses (1888-1973) of Salina, KS as part of a bequest through her estate in 1973. Moses graduated from Knox College in 1912.4
- A modern pencil inscription on the recto of the leaf reads "26-233" and another on the verso, in a different hand, reads "SC-44." Leaf 1 of the IWU Lamson collection. This set of nine leaves was gifted to Illinois Wesleyan University by Alfred (Class of 1939) and Helen Lamson. The Lamson donation was orchestrated by IWU's President, Minor Myers, Jr., who negotiated with Harry L. Stern, antiquarian book seller, regarding the purchase of the leaves (circa 1990) which were then donated to the University. A similar set of leaves is held by Loyola Marymount University and known as the Bruce Ferrini Liturgical Manuscript Leaf Collection. Ferrini likely sold these leaves as well.1
- Acquired by Saint Mary's College in March or April of 1944, according to an April 20, 1944 article in the South Bend Tribune. The acquisition number written in the lower, inner margin of fol. 1r reads: "40242 Dante". This acquisition number misidentifies that manuscript as having been a part of a larger donation of items associated with Dante's works, also gifted to the College in 1944. The South Bend Tribune article, however, states that the acquisition of this manuscript occured independently from the Dante donation. Sticker of "Cosmopolitan Science & Art Service Co. Inc., 638 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY" on rear pastedown. Originally catalogued by Saint Mary's College as B765 T 5 1300. Included in Hirsch, Valuable Manuscripts, no. 24, where it was listed for sale for 400 Reichsmark in the early 1930s. Hirsch reproduces one of the diagrams found in Analytica priora in Plate XVI.1
- An information card filed with this item states that it is part of the "Mandel collection" donated by Leon Mandel II (1902-1974), Lt. Colonel in the Army Air Forces during WWII, and president of Mandel Brothers, a Chicago-based department store. Records of the Mandel gift show that gifts were made from 2 January 1951 through 1957, but do not record this letter among the items donated. Now part of the Autograph Collection which is a compilation created by previous archivists of items from different collections and gifts including the Carrigan Collection, the Mandel gift, the Berelman gift, the Halstead Collection, the Wayne gift, and Loyola University Chicago records.1
- De Ricci states that this volume was given by St. Ignatius College to Xavier University in October 1887.1
- In the calendar, added obits of John and William Gurney (1479), of their brother Thomas Gurney (1479), and their father Thomas Gurney (1480), also of Dorothy Sankey (1493). Owned in 1570 by Thomas Sankey and circa 1600 by Robert Hewerdyne, of Broughton, Yorkshire. Thomas Pigott then owned the volume shortly thereafter. Bookseller catalogue note pasted to fol. 1v suggests that this volume was "rescued from obscurity" by Sir Robert Cotton, but this attribution has not been confirmed. Acquired by the Library of Congress in March of 1904 from Prof. William Kurrelmeyer, of Baltimore (Acquisition number 110133, Ms. Ac. 544). The College of Wooster obtained this manuscript by exchange in 1932 and accessioned it into their collection on Jan. 9, 1933. Thanks to Cynthia Turner Camp for her observations on the Feast of the Translation of St. Osmund.1
- Item donated to Knox College by Harriet Robbins Moses (1888-1973) of Salina, KS as part of a bequest through her estate in 1973. Moses graduated from Knox College in 1912. Knox College possesses a transcription of the Middle English prayer that is signed by Erik von Scherling, a bookseller in Leiden, Holland between 1928 and 1956.1
- Item donated to Knox College by Harriet Robbins Moses (1888-1973) of Salina, KS as part of a bequest through her estate in 1973. Moses graduated from Knox College in 1912. The codex from which this leaf was taken was listed for sale by Sotheby's on February 13, 1928 (lot 502). Purchased by the bookseller Thomas Thorp, Guilford, who then sold it to Otto Ege shortly thereafter, probably in 1928 (Gwara 123).1
- Part of the Seymour Document Collection, donated to Knox College by George Seymour (1878-1945) and Flora Seymour (1888-1948).1
- Part of the Seymour Document Collection, donated to Knox College by George Seymour (1878-1945) and Flora Seymour (1888-1948). Knox College records state "from the collection of the Bookfellow Foundation, a group of writers and literary people that flourished in Chicago between the wars."1
- Presented to Bowling Green State University by Fred Alpers of the General Bookbinding Company. Date of donation unknown.1
- Previously belonged to Dr. Huxley (Professor of English at DePauw University). The leaf was found during inventory at the Peeler Art Center in 2013 and catalogued at that time. It is not known when the leaf first entered the collection.1
- The Muskegon Museum of Art purchased this leaf from Otto F. Ege, Cleveland, OH. Accessioned May 1937. A note in pencil in the lower margin of the recto identifies this as a Book of Hours produced in England in 1350 A.D.1
- Water damage visible on the top edge and fore edge of the leaf. In pencil, a modern hand writes in the bottom margin of the verso: "England. 1410 A.D. Missal Leaf". Item donated to Knox College by Harriet Robbins Moses (1888-1973) of Salina, KS as part of a bequest through her estate in 1973. Moses graduated from Knox College in 1912.1