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Medieval MS at UNM

The UNM Libraries Special Collection, located in the Center for Southwest Research, has a few medieval manuscripts, including:

A collection of medieval manuscript leaves, 1150-1470. ( call number: Archival material 1150)

[Sheet 1] Glossed Psalter with Glossa ordinaria of Anslem of Laon, Italy, ca. 1150

[Sheet 2] French Romanesque Giant Bible, Northeastern France or Flanders, ca. 1150

[Sheet 3] Romanesque German Collectar, Germany, ca. 1180

[Sheet 4] Petrus Riga, Aurora (The Dawn), Latin verse, France, ca. 1220

[Sheet 5 - 7] Three Consecutive Folios from a Glossed Bible, Paris, ca. 1230

[Sheet 8] Pocket Bible, paris, ca. 1260

[Sheet 9] Decorative Breviary, Flanders, ca. 1350

[Sheet 10-11] Immaculate Kalendar Folios from a Book of Hours (Cogney family), Eastern France, ca. 1470.

Medieval Map

Mappamondo di Fra Mauro : edizioni in facsimile Center for Southwest Research G3200 1450 .M3 2016a c.1

Fra' Mauro's world map : a history Center for Southwest Research Books GA221 .F3534 2016 c.1

Mapamundi : der Katalanische Weltatlas vom Jahre 1375: herausgegeben und kommentiert von Georges Grosjean Center for Southwest Research G1001 .C734 1977 c.1

Facsimilies

The Spanish Apocalypse by John Williams; Barbara A. Shailor
Call Number: Fine Arts Special Collections ND3361 R52 B436 1991
Publication Date: 1991-11-01
Superbly reproduced here in pages that photographically duplicate the vivid, colorful leaves of the original work, the medieval manuscript known as the Morgan Beatus is the illustrated Commentary on the Apocalypse of St. John, coupled with St. Jerome's Commentary on Daniel, which is customarily appended to it. The work was first compiled in the 8th century by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liebana, and has been preserved at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York since 1919. All 131 of the exquisite illustrations and illuminations are presented along with their Latin text, and the volume provides substantial commentary on the manuscript. The volume may be slightly imperfect.
The Medici codex of 1518 : a choirbook of motets dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino
Call Number: Fine Arts Books M2 M489
Publication Date: 1968
El còdex musical de Las Huelgas : (música a veus dels segles XIII-XIV) / introducció, facsímil i transcripció per Higini Anglès.
Call Number: Fine Arts Books M2 B28
Publication Date: 1931
The Nowell codex : British Museum Cotton Vitellius A. XV, second ms
Call Number: CSWR PR1500 N67 1963 c.1
Publication Date: 1963
The Nowell codex contains five works: a fragment of an English life of St. Christopher, the Wonders of the East, Alexander's Letter to Aristotle, Beowulf, and Judith.

Medieval Books at UNM (at CSWR)

The Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) and Special collection have a few medieval imprints. These include:

Des. Erasmi Roterod. Colloquia nunc emendatiora. by Desiderius Erasmus
Call Number: PA8506 1643 c.1
Publication Date: 1643.
Severini Boetii De philosophica consolatione : necno[n] De disciplina scholastica admiranda opuscula by Boethius , ed. Lucas. Panaetius
Call Number: B659 D47 1523
Publication Date: 1523