St. Bonaventure University Manuscripts. Post-1600
St. Bonaventure University ms. 6
Catholic Church
Antiphonary (Franciscan)
After 1728 but before 1859 (Bologna, Italy)
[3] 243 [4] p. (67.5 x 48.5 cm.)
Provenance: J. Guerrini.
Notes: Contains a main text (p. 1-197) with later additions by different hands (p. 198-24[4]), the last of which is signed "Fr. Alexander de Bona chori modi fecit." Calendar of feast days inside front cover. (This entry corrects the previous descriptions in DeRicci and DeRicci Suppl.)
St. Bonaventure University ms. 16
Enchiridion du Pape Leon
[4] 550 [17] p. (14 x 10 x 4.5 cm.); Paper, Parchment cover, binding crudely sewn.
Provenance: Gift of Anna Spiesman Starr in memory of Catherine Sauer Ronolder (1957).
St. Bonaventure University ms. 21 [Arabic]
Koran
1876/1254
306 leaves (16.5 x 11 cm.); Paper, black ink with red & gold decorations, border frames, catchwords
Scribe’s name at end: “Mr. Malahin Al-Richdi Laspadtoula, known as Mihdi Zada, disciple of Al-Hajj Hafez Khalil Afandi Byounes Zada”
St. Bonaventure University ms. 22 [Arabic]
Prayers for feast days of the liturgical year (Maronite rite)
1832
86 leaves [missing initial 4 leaves] (11.5 x 8 cm.); Paper
Inscription at end: “It was by my hand, I the miserable sinner George Abraham, on February 15, 1832”
Evidence of later owners
Bibliography: Oriens Christianus 51 (1967) 102-103
St. Bonaventure University ms. 23 [Arabic]
[A Book of Predictions for Finding Everything in the Name of the Merciful God]
1885
143 leaves [missing initial 11 leaves] (12.5 x 10 cm.); Paper
Later instructions for use of the book at end
Provenance: Youssef Murad of Zibdi
Bibliography: Oriens Christianus 51 (1967) 103
St. Bonaventure University ms. 24 [Arabic]
Christian Catechism
No date
89 leaves (18 x 11.5 cm.)
Includes index
Bibliography: Oriens Christianus 51 (1967) 104
St. Bonaventure University ms. 25 [Arabic]
[Christian book of Sixteen Homilies, on Various Topics]
No date
110 leaves (20 x 14 cm.)
Bibliography: Oriens Christianus 51 (1967) 104-105
St. Bonaventure University ms. 26 [Syriac & Karshuni]
Catholic Church.
Breviary (Maronite rite)
1772
61 leaves (11.5 x 8.5 cm.)
Bibliography: Oriens Christianus 51 (1967) 101-105
St. Bonaventure University ms. 27 [Syriac & Karshuni]
1678 (15.5 x 10 cm.)
St. Bonaventure University ms. 28 [Coptic]
[Miscellany]
Contents: Hazura Masqal [Wall of the cross] [2r-47v]
Edition: Textes Ethiopiens Magico-religieux / ed. D. Lifehitz.
Paris, 1940, p.92-211.
Hegga tehetenna [Hymn to God] [48r-79v]
17th or 18th century
80 leaves (8 x 7.5 cm.)
Bibliography: Oriens Christianus 55 (1971) 164-165
St. Bonaventure University ms. 29 [Arabic]
Quadregesimale
40 leaves (32.5 x 23 cm.); Paper
St. Bonaventure University ms. 30 [Spanish]
Libro de Don Jose Ygnaris Gutierrez de Arintero y Don Pedro Marcos Gutierrez de Arintero
9/6/1754
Notes: A royal decree and nobility witness concerning two brothers. Don Jose Ygnaris lived in Madrid and Don Pedro Marcos was the administrator of the royal mines in Talpujagua, Mexico.
St. Bonaventure University ms. 31 [Spanish]
Libro de Doña Maria Francisca de Moya Martinez Cornatgo Borbon
1794
Notes: A royal decree and nobility witness. Doña Maria, a native of Zaragoza, _______ of Don Lucas Galvez, Brigadier of the Royal Army and Governor of the Province of Yucatan
St. Bonaventure University ms. 32 [Spanish]
St. Bonaventure University ms. 33 [Spanish]
St. Bonaventure University ms. 34 [Spanish]
St. Bonaventure University ms. 35 [Spanish]
St. Bonaventure University ms. 35B [Spanish]
St. Bonaventure University ms. 36
St. Bonaventure University ms. 37 [German]
St. Bonaventure University ms. 38 [German]
St. Bonaventure University ms. 39 [German]
St. Bonaventure University ms. 40 [German]
St. Bonaventure University ms. 41 [Dutch]
Godthardt, Adrianus Dominicus, b. 1811.
R[ooms] K[atholiek] Missieboek van A. D. Godthardt, minderbroeder, 1841,
M[issionarius] A[postolicus] van N[etherlandish] Indie ...
[4] 370 [2] p. (19.5 x 16 cm.)
1842-1852
St. Bonaventure University ms. 42 [Dutch]
Godthardt, Adrianus Dominicus, b. 1811
[Notebook (Miscellaneous)] Bound collection of 15 manuscript pamphlets
Binding: 21 x 17 cm. / Pamphlets range from 13.5 x 10 cm. to 20.5 x 16.5 cm.
St. Bonaventure University ms. 43 [Dutch]
Godthardt, Adrianus Dominicus, b. 1811
[Notebook (Miscellaneous)]
[381] p. (20 x 12 cm.)
St. Bonaventure University ms. 44 [Dutch]
Godthardt, Adrianus Dominicus, b. 1811
[Notebook (Miscellaneous)] Bound collection of 3 manuscript pamphlets
Binding: 20 x 13 cm. / Pamphlets range from 17 x 11 cm. to 19 x 12.5 cm.
St. Bonaventure University ms. 45 [Dutch]
Godthardt, Adrianus Dominicus, b. 1811
Beredeneerde apotheek van A.D. Godthardt door den well-geleerden heer
W. Scheepens 1842
[Materia medica stervaardige ten gebruike van den eerwaar den Pater
Godthardt]
[4] 128 [18] p. (16 x 10 cm.)
St. Bonaventure University ms. 46 [Dutch]
[Notebook (Scholastic theology)]
Provenance: "Ad usum Fr. A. D. Godthardt M. 1845"
[317] p., [21] blank
St. Bonaventure University ms. 47 [Dutch]
[Sermons and meditations] Bound collection of 44 sermon pamphlets
In various hands, sermons preached in the Netherlands
Binding: 27 x 20 cm. / Pamphlets range from 21 x 14 cm. to 27.5 to 20 cm.
1759-1823
St. Bonaventure University ms. 59
Chambers, Robert W.
Silver Heels [Original Manuscript]
1a, 8, 1561 leaves [written on one side] (32 x 20.5 cm., bound in 3 volumes)
St. Bonaventure University ms. 60
Dixon, Thomas
The Root of Evil
[2] 938 leaves [written on one side] (bound in 2 volumes)
Note: “draft Feb. 26, 1910. Typewritten copy April 19, 1910”
Published January 1911
St. Bonaventure University ms. 61
Compendium philosophiae Aristotelis, in quinquaginta capita digestae.
Provenance: Thomas Lukátsky, O.S.Fr. 1843
St. Bonaventure University ms. 62
Notitis morales per Sanctum Vonaventuram et suptilissimum Doctorem Joanem Duns
Scotum...
St. Bonaventure University ms. 63
Codex logicae, ethicae generalis, et ethicae specialis
1824
St. Bonaventure University ms. 65 [Mikmaq hieroglyphic]
Lord’s Prayer
[2 p., 4 leaves, 1 p.] (21 x 16 cm.) [Paper mark: “J Brown 1819”]
Note: “The Lord's Prayer written in Cape Briton by an Indian squaw named Angelica,
August 3, 1824 of the nation of Mickmack”
1824
St. Bonaventure University ms. 66
Skolla, Otto
Pronouncing dictionary, English and German
1839
[2] 106 [4] p. (24.5 x 18.5 cm.)
St. Bonaventure University ms. 67
Austin, Jane Goodwin, 1831-1894
The life and times of Myles Standish
1891 (Boston, Mass.)
[1] 95 l. [92-95 blank] (19.5 x 13 cm.)
Notes: "Lecture by Jane G. Austin, given 1st at Andover, Mass., March 23d. 1891"
St. Bonaventure University ms. 68
[Weldon, A. E.], 1890-1963
The Marquis, a comedy in three acts / by Brinsley MacNamara [pseud.] & Ernest Cecil
St. Bonaventure University ms. 69
Le Queux, William, 1864-1927
The real life of Rasputin
St. Bonaventure University ms. 70
Musser, Benjamin Francis, 1889-1951
A Catholic Menology. Calendar with biographical festology of the saints & servants of God and with the immovable commemorations and feasts of our Holy Mother the Church in all her rites, eastern and western. Compared with & compiled from every available authoritative source / by an Affiliate of the Order of Friars Minor (Benjamin Francis Musser).
1949
30 v. (28 x 24 cm.)
Cloth bound loose-leaf notebooks, with card stock leaves (24 x 19 cm.)
Notes: Handwritten short devotional biographies of saints, along with ornate illuminated capitals, portraits and maginalia, also with pasted in pictures.
St. Bonaventure University ms. 74
Gould, S. Baring
A Spoke in the Wheel [short story]
17 leaves [written on one side] (23 x 17.5 cm.)
St. Bonaventure University ms. 75
Scollard, Clinton
A Boy’s Book of Rhyme
77 leaves (written or pasted on one side)
Note: Mockup of book of poems including handwritten & poems pasted in from publications.
Fenelon
Choir Books
Pastedowns and Manuscript Covers
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