https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=47&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Please+cite+Bridwell+Library+Special+Collections%2C+SMU%2C+as+the+source+of+this+file.+A+high-resolution+version+of+this+file+may+be+obtained+by+contacting+Special+Collections+%28bridsc%40smu.edu%29.&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CCreator&page=1&sort_dir=d&output=atom2024-03-29T09:26:05-04:00Omekahttps://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2441Hymns celebrating the third centennial of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:36-05:00
Himno que la junta Guadalupana de puebla consagra a Maria Santísima de Guadalupe, al cumplirse los trescientos años de su aparición en México. ca. 1831. (Broadside, 21cm x 16cm)
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2440These two poems eulogize one of nineteenth century Mexico's most influential military and political leaders, General Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón, more commonly known as Santa Anna.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:36-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2439Anonymous pamphlet responding to a pamphlet about the institution of the patronage.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:36-05:00
El patronato analizado contra el patronato embrollado por los novadores, para sacar a la autoridad civil, due ñ a absoluta de lo espiritual. México: Impr. de Mariano Arevalo, 1833. (Pamphlet, 38 p., [2], 20cm x 14cm)
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2433A religious exercise involves three people coming together to pray three times daily, symbolizing the unity of the Holy Trinity. Each day in the morning, noon, and evening, all three people, individually or together, are required to pray the Gloria Patri seven times, followed by an Ave Maria.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:36-05:00
Patronage Unión de tres personas piadosas en honra de la santísima trinidad / Decreto de la ciudad y del orbe de la audiencia del santísimo en el día 15 de mayo de 1784. México: Impr. en la oficina de Valdés, 1832 / la oficina de Abadiano, 1839. (Broadside, 31cm x 21cm)
Visita y oraciones a María Santísima y colección de cantos religiosos populares. San Juan de los Lagos: Impr. de Carlos Gallardo, [n.d.]. (Book, [2], 64 p., 16cm x 11cm)
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2426This periodical contains an essay about the Eucharistic wine, a sermon describing how the performance of the Eucharist can aid in one's quest for salvation, an essay over the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, and a study about the prayers and ceremonies of the Holy Mass.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:36-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1941This magnificently illuminated Missal was censored in the sixteenth century by order of Henry VIII (1491–1547). Unable to resolve his religious, political, and personal conflicts with Pope Clement VII and Pope Paul III, the king broke with the Roman Church and decreed in 1538 that all mention of the papacy should be removed from England's service books.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:29-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1885Illuminated manuscript with psalms to be recited over the course of a week. There are large gilt initials and an illuminated portrait of King David. This Psalter highlights the quality of manuscript illumination which is conservative. Evidently created for a nun in a local convent, the manuscript bears a colophon indicating that it was completed in Nuremberg on February 3, 1496.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:28-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1884Single leaf from a German blockbook showing an illustration from the Book of Revelation. Woodblock print with hand coloring. Blockbook's lively apocalyptic imagery, derived from earlier manuscripts, provided Dürer’s generation of artists with useful iconographic models.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:28-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1845This late-Rococo style vellum wall hanging was likely produced to commemorate the arrival at the convent of Santa Clara in Palma de Mallorca of the noblewoman and nun Raymunda Torella y Despuig (d. 1826). A rare survival of art work made specifically within a female monastic context, the manuscript celebrates Sister Raymunda's devotion to the order of Poor Clares at Palma and documents the names and roles of more than forty women also serving at the convent.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1844The Lectionary provides the scriptural readings for the liturgy on specific days during the church year. These leaves from an otherwise lost Greek lectionary include the readings for Easter Week, taken primarily from the Gospel of Matthew, and the Twelve Stations of the Cross. The Byzantine script is a fine rounded example from the twelfth century, with small, square-shaped breathing marks, intonation markings in magenta, and fine gilded initials and rubrics.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 12. [Liturgical Lectionary of the Greek Gospels]. [Byzantium, 12th century]. Illuminated manuscript fragment on vellum. From the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1843Example of "Paris Vulgate" tradition, single-volume with books in canonical sequence. As was typical of the Paris Vulgate tradition, the only spaces allotted for illustrations were the interiors of the initials, which received either a portrayal of the author of the biblical book or a concise depiction of the book's central narrative.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1841This volume, written in old Dutch on paper, comprises short passages of the Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) followed by allegorical explications from the writings of St. Paul, St. Gregory the Great, St. Bonaventure, and Gilbert of Hoyland. The manuscript begins with a red and blue initial with a decorative border on the first page, and is written in a gothic batarde script with brown ink and highlighted with red initials throughout.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 20. [Bible. Song of Songs]. Dat ander stuc van den exposicien op Canticum Canticorum. [Low Countries (Netherlands?), late 15th century]. Illuminated manuscript on paper. From the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1840Illuminated manuscript with psalms to be recited over the course of a week. There are large gilt initials and an illuminated portrait of King David.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1839This Torah, written in unpointed Hebrew on a scroll of sixty-eight parchment skins measuring ninety-six feet in length, was number twelve (yod-bet) of the thirteen scrolls originally held by the synagogue established in 1653 in Kaifeng, China. ]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
BRMS 59. [Chinese Torah Scroll, in Hebrew]. [Kaifeng, China, mid-17th century]. Manuscript on vellum comprising 68 skins, each skin 59 cm in height with 49 lines of text per column. From the Thomas J. Harrison Bible Collection
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1838Written in the ancient Armenian (grapar) language in the traditional 'notrgir' script, the manuscript also includes colorful bird-shaped capitals (t'rchnagir) that spell out the opening words of each Gospel.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1837This manuscript in ancient liturgical Ge'ez provides the text of the Psalms and other selections from the Old Testament. Illustrations in black ink on endleaves: lion?, human faces and figures. Decorative borders in red and black.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1836Hebrew scrolls of the Megillah of Esther are notoriously difficult to date and localize, given the longstanding traditions behind their production. Written on the skin of a kosher animal, the text comprises the ten chapters of the Book of Esther, including the story of Purim. Following tradition, in this copy the scribe has set off the names of the ten defeated sons of Haman in enlarged letters.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1835Each of the 388 leaves feature Arabic calligraphy and unique decorative patters made with lapis lazuli, burnished gold leaf, and other bright pigments. Similarly, each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran is separated by a gilded decorative panel.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1834Richly illuminated with gold, lapis lazuli, arsenic orange, and verdigris green on highly polished paper, this Quran was produced during Persia's Safavid Dynasty. Bound in brown goat with embossed flap, covers with central panel with gilt medallions over red and black leather, rebacked. Highly polished Islamic paper; modern endpapers with three-crescent watermark, sized and polished.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1833This small-format Quran is written in fine Arabic script with an interlinear Persian translation in red ink and manuscript annotations in the margins. First leaves illuminated with elaborate carpet borders of crimson, blue, gold, etc. Gilded borders and marginal decorations.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1832This small-format Quran, decorated with an extremely colorful floral border, features cloud-shaped areas of interlinear gilding. The effect seems to present the sacred text as if it were floating among clouds in the sky.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1831This illuminated manuscript is a missal which contains all of the prayers, hymns, and biblical passages read by the priest during the celebration of the Latin Mass throughout the year. The "Use of Sarum" refers to the Anglo-Saxon and Norman liturgy codified in the eleventh century by St. Osmund, Bishop of Sarum (Salisbury). There is musical notation in black ink on red four-line staves and illumination throughout.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:27-05:00