A history of the teaching collection of early manuscripts at the University of South Carolina
By: Scott J. Gwara, University of South Carolina ; Carl M. Garris, South Carolina Honors College
Series: Collectors and collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in North America -- 2018
Publisher: De Brailes Publishing, a division of De Brailes Medieval Art LLC
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Cayce, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780986029448
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Catalogs; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Study and teaching; Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Medieval Manuscripts; History; University of South Carolina. Libraries. Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Other titles: Early manuscripts at the University of South Carolina; Teaching collection of early manuscripts; Early manuscripts at the University of South Carolina
Description: Exposition on the value and importance of manuscripts.
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts at the University of South Carolina, 1801-2005 ; Early manuscript acquisitions made in 1965-66. The Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden (Early MS 61) ; Portfolios with manuscript fragments : "History of the written word" (Early MSS 51-56, 149) ; Early manuscript acquisitions made in 1972-73. The Fairbrother Hours (Early MS 62) ; Manuscripts from the estate of Alfred Chapin Rogers (Early MSS 63, 65-69) ; An early manuscript acquisition made between 1985 and 1990. A Spanish or New World Gradual (Early MS 80) ; An early manuscript acquisition made in 1997. "Interpretation of Hebrew names" from a folio Bible (Early MS 64) ; Early manuscript acquisitions made in 2005. Manuscripts in the Clyde C. Walton Collection of Fine Printing (Early MSS 57-59); title: Chapter 2. Establishing a teaching collection of pre-1600 manuscripts ; Significant manuscripts acquired as teaching adjuncts. The Breslauer Cistercian Sermon Miscellany (Early MS 85) ; The Breslauer Bible (Early MS 115) ; The Boyvin Hours (Early MS 123) ; Chronique Anonyme Universelle (Early MS 148) ; Two liturgical manuscripts. Missal from Bolzano (Early MS 118) ; Winter volume of a German matutinale (Early MS 120) ; Hugo Ripelin, Compendium theologicae veritatis (Early MS 150) ; Antoninus Florentinus, Confessionale (Early MS 152); title: Chapter 3. Manuscript fragments as bibliographical comparanda ; The Bible ; Psalters ; Books of hours ; Liturgical manuscripts (missal, lectionary, gradual, antiphonal, hymnal, breviary) ; Non-liturgical and non-biblical text fragments ; Documents; title: Chapter 4. Collection utilities : teaching, exhibition, and student engagement ; Teaching ; Exhibition and outreach ; Student engagement; title: Endnotes; title: Appendices. Appendix 1. Basic readings on early manuscripts ; Appendix 2. List of manuscripts by date ; Appendix 3. List of manuscripts by region of origin ; Appendix 4. List of manuscripts by genre ; Appendix 5. Manuscripts associated with religious orders ; Appendix 6. Music manuscripts ; Appendix 7. Works by known scribes or artists ; Appendix 8. Works by known authors.