Browse the Western Manuscript Collection: S

Sacramentary
One leaf, 36 cm x 25 cm.
Ms. Lansburgh 9

Single leaf of a sacramentary written in a Beneventan hand, ca. 1100, in Italy. The leaf contains several initials and was once used as a part of a binding. The text includes lessons from I Peter 5 and Mark 2. Gift of Mark Lansburgh.

Sacramentary
Three leaves, 32.5 cm x 22.5 cm.
Ms. Lansburgh 40

Three leaves of a Carolingian sacramentary, ca. 850-875, containing portions of the services for the infirm, procedures for making and applying holy water and oil, and masses for several saints. Gift of Mark Lansburgh.

Sacramentary
One leaf, 41 cm x 28 cm.
Ms. 002100

Single leaf of an English sacramentary, ca. 1450. The text is in a Gothic hand with capitals in blue and borders of red. Gift of Harold Goddard Rugg.

Sallust, 86-34 BC.
One Leaf, cm x cm.
Ms. 002286

Bellum Catilinae Six fragments of one leaf. Fragments of a fifteenth-century Italian leaf of Sallust removed from a binding. The text is in a transitional gothic to humanist hand with evidence of red initials.

Sanctoral
One leaf, 56 cm x 38 cm.
Ms. 002425

Single leaf of a sanctoral written in northern Italy, ca. 1475-1480. The text, for the feast of Saint Andrew, is in a gothic hand with four four-line staves of music. The notation is square gothic. The leaf contains two large initials, one of which contains a portrait of Saint Andrew. At the top of the recto is a provenance note indicating that the text once belonged to the house of Saint Mary in Bergonia.

Service book
One leaf, 35 cm x 19 cm.
Ms. 002276

Single leaf of a choral book, probably written in Germany in the early fourteenth century. The fragment contains an historiated initial with David kneeling before God.

Service book
One leaf, 39 cm x 32 cm.
Ms. 002376

Single leaf of a service book, perhaps a breviary, of Flemish, fifteenth-century origin. There is one large initial. The text is for Lauds in Feria v.

Survey of the manor of Wetton, Staffordshire
85 leaves, 29 cm x 30 cm.
Ms. Codex 003007

Copy, ca. 1600, of a medieval survey of the manor of Wetton, Staffordshire, England. Written on eleven leaves in a blank book created in 1550 for John Crynes. The volume is bound in roll-tooled calf over boards with two clasps. The back pastedown contains five five-line staves withthe bass portion of a pre-Reformation, ca. 1530, hymn of the Sarum rite, "Salvator mundi domine," for Trinity Sunday. The front pastedown is ruled for music but is blank. Later owners of the manuscript are noted. Purchase on the Benz Fund.