Franciscan Studies

PURLOINED PARCHMENTS AND BURGLARIZED BOOK ROOMS In 1969 there was a major theft of manuscripts, incunabula and other rare books from Holy Name College in Washington, D.C. Nothing has been recovered from that theft. In 1975 the rare book collection of Holy Name College was relocated to the Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure University. Most of the items which were stolen are listed here to reaffirm the legitimate claim of the owner in the hope that they may yet be identified and restored to the collection . Most items had a small (3 cm.) round stamp somewhere on them which read "Biblioth Collegii SS. Nominis Jesu O.F.M. Washington , D.C." MANUSCRIPTS Antonius de Bitonto. Sermones dominicales. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 42). Size: 178 ff. (21 ? 15 cm.). Desc: Vellum, bound in modern half-vellum. Antonius de Bitonto. Tractatus de passione Domini [etc.]. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 22). Size: 270 ff. (15x11 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in modern rough pigskin. Astesanus de Asti. Flores distinctionum. Italy. 14th century. (Holy Name Ms. 48). Size: 69 ff. (22 ? 15 cm.). Desc: Vellum, bound in original wooden boards and scored leather. Bartholomew of Pisa. Liber conformitatum [etc.]. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 8). Size: 124 ff. (12x8.5 cm.). Desc: Vellum, bound in modern half-vellum. 374PAUL J. SPAETH Bernard of Clairvaux. Meditationes de homine cognoscendo [etc.]. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 47). Size: 114 ff. (20 ? 14 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in original wooden boards and red leather. Bernardine of Siena. Sermones [etc.]. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 45). Size: 299 ff. (22 ? 15 cm.). Desc: Vellum and paper, bound in original wooden boards and leather. Bernardine of Siena. Sermones de restitutione [etc.]. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 16). Size: 2870. (14x11 cm.). Desc: Paper, written by different hands, bound in modern brown half-morocco. Bernardine of Siena. Tractatus de restitutionibus sub compendio redactus. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 5). Size: 34 ff. (15x11 cm.). Desc: Vellum, lettering in red and black, bound in German paper boards. Bonaventure. Breviloquium. Italy. Ca. 1400. (Holy Name Ms. 11). Size: 157 ff. (11x8 cm.). Desc: Vellum, lettering in red, blue and black, bound in original wooden boards and leather. Bonaventure. De compendioso modo proficiendi missa [etc.]. Germany. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 21). Size: 197 ff. (14x10 cm.). Desc: Paper, written by several hands, bound in original wooden boards and white leather. Bonaventure. De modo se praeparandi ad celebrandam missam [etc.]. Germany. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 40). Size: 29 ff. (21 ? 14 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in modern paper boards. Bonaventure. Meditationes vitae Christi. France. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 38). Size: 154 ff. (21 ? 15 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in original wooden boards and rough pigskin. Purloined Parchments37g Bonaventure. Stimulus amoris [etc.]. Italy. 1470. (Holy Name Ms. 13). Size: 121 ff. (14x10 cm.). Desc: Vellum, lettering in red and black. Breviarium Minorum. France. Ca. 1430. (Holy Name Ms. 3). Size: 507 ff. (12 ? 9 cm.). Desc: Vellum, one small miniature, bound in French green morocco. Breviarium Minorum. Italy. 15th century. (Holy Name Ms. 12). Size: 267A1 (13x10 cm.). Desc: Vellum, lettering in red and black, bound in dark yellow paper. Breviarium Minorum. Italy. Ca. 1450. (Holy Name Ms. 23). Size: 547 ff. (17x12 cm.). Desc: Vellum, bound in original Venetian wooden boards and stamped leather. Les Constitutions Générales des Frères du je Ordre Saint François de l'Étroite Observance de la Congrégation de France. France. June, 1699. (Holy Name Ms. 7). Size: 106 ff. (11x7 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in original black morocco. [Constitutions in Portuguese of the Conceptionist Nuns of Braga]. 1726. (Holy Name Ms. 36). Size: 80 ff. (17x11 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in original calf. Expositiones evangeliorum dominicalium. Italy. Ca. 1400. (Holy Name Ms. 41). Size: 71 ff. (20 ? 14 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in modern half-vellum. Francesco Moneti. [Poem in Italian on a Jesuit missionary at Cortona]. 17th century. (Holy Name Ms. 46). Size: 56 ff. (21 ? 15 cm.). Desc: Paper, bound in old Italian paper boards. Henry Suso. Horologium sapientiae [etc]. Charter House of Asti. May 13, 1435 or 1436. (Holy Name Ms. 17...