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Identifier: exwsms164_bk
Manuscript Identifier: MS 164
Title: Iconography of fifty hand colored full-figure drawings of male and female members of religious orders in their habits
Alternative Title: Costumes of Religious Orders
Alternative Title: MS 164
Incipit: La Pape
Origin Date: between 1700 and 1799
Origin Location: Belgium?
Description: This iconography of the Roman Catholic Church presents the traditional garbs of eight ecclesiastic posts and thirty-three monastic orders (ten with both female and male members). They include Benedictines, Capuchins, Jesuits, Victorines, and a few distinctly Belgian--a monk from Tongerlo Abby near Antwerp, another from Ansewyck near Mechelen. An earlier owner, Cornelia Alstede of Amsterdam, indexed the whole codex (in French) on the recto and verso of the first leaf. She also composed prayers in Dutch on five of the blank versos, facing the male and female Augustinians, the male and female Carmelites, and a Mallade nun.
Provenance: Based on evidence in the text, the iconography includes a monk from Tongerlo Abby near Antwerp, another from Ansewyck near Mechelen, which suggests Belgium as the place of composition. An earlier owner, Cornelia Alstede of Amsterdam, signed her name and address (in Dutch) on the verso of the front free flyleaf and indexed the whole (in French) on the recto and verso of the first leaf. A later owner identified a handful of the images in blue ink on the black versos. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc.
Explicit: Pere Eremite
Secundo Folio: Cardinal
Extent: 50 leaves
Subject: Monasticism and religious orders
Subject: Clergy--Clothing
Subject: Church vestments--Catholic Church
Subject: Manuscripts, French--Belgium
Subject: Manuscripts, French--Michigan--Kalamazoo
Subject: religious habits
Language: fre
Language: dut/nld
Dimensions: 117 x 92 mm
Material: paper
Binding: Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, worn and repaired with spine gilt on all edges.
Decoration Description: Fifty hand-colored full-figure drawings of male and female members of religious orders in their habits. Drawings on rectos only. Each image is captioned with the name of the order in a banderole in French.
Description of Hands: Writte in French cursive on versos and large capitals under each drawing on rectos.
Is Part Of: Medieval Document Collection
Is Part Of: Manuscript 164, Western Michigan University Special Collections
Publisher: Western Michigan University
Date-Issued: 2019
Type: Text
Format: image/jp2
Rights Statement: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Rights Status: No Copyright - United States
Access Rights: Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.

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Identifier: exwsms164_bk
Manuscript Identifier: MS 164
Title: Iconography of fifty hand colored full-figure drawings of male and female members of religious orders in their habits
Alternative Title: Costumes of Religious Orders
Alternative Title: MS 164
Incipit: La Pape
Origin Date: between 1700 and 1799
Origin Location: Belgium?
Description: This iconography of the Roman Catholic Church presents the traditional garbs of eight ecclesiastic posts and thirty-three monastic orders (ten with both female and male members). They include Benedictines, Capuchins, Jesuits, Victorines, and a few distinctly Belgian--a monk from Tongerlo Abby near Antwerp, another from Ansewyck near Mechelen. An earlier owner, Cornelia Alstede of Amsterdam, indexed the whole codex (in French) on the recto and verso of the first leaf. She also composed prayers in Dutch on five of the blank versos, facing the male and female Augustinians, the male and female Carmelites, and a Mallade nun.
Provenance: Based on evidence in the text, the iconography includes a monk from Tongerlo Abby near Antwerp, another from Ansewyck near Mechelen, which suggests Belgium as the place of composition. An earlier owner, Cornelia Alstede of Amsterdam, signed her name and address (in Dutch) on the verso of the front free flyleaf and indexed the whole (in French) on the recto and verso of the first leaf. A later owner identified a handful of the images in blue ink on the black versos. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc.
Explicit: Pere Eremite
Secundo Folio: Cardinal
Extent: 50 leaves
Subject: Monasticism and religious orders
Subject: Clergy--Clothing
Subject: Church vestments--Catholic Church
Subject: Manuscripts, French--Belgium
Subject: Manuscripts, French--Michigan--Kalamazoo
Subject: religious habits
Language: fre
Language: dut/nld
Dimensions: 117 x 92 mm
Material: paper
Binding: Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, worn and repaired with spine gilt on all edges.
Decoration Description: Fifty hand-colored full-figure drawings of male and female members of religious orders in their habits. Drawings on rectos only. Each image is captioned with the name of the order in a banderole in French.
Description of Hands: Writte in French cursive on versos and large capitals under each drawing on rectos.
Is Part Of: Medieval Document Collection
Is Part Of: Manuscript 164, Western Michigan University Special Collections
Publisher: Western Michigan University
Date-Issued: 2019
Type: Text
Format: image/jp2
Rights Statement: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Rights Status: No Copyright - United States
Access Rights: Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.

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