Medieval and early modern manuscripts collections
University of Victoria Special Collections houses a significant number of medieval and early modern manuscripts. These include medieval and Renaissance documents from England, France, Spain and Italy, including deeds, charters, illuminated manuscript leaves, letters, letter patents, papal bulls, fragments from religious manuscripts, manuscripts on medicine and magic, a catalogue of English armorial shields, statutes of the Garter, and a manuscript of a Spanish Carmelite prioress. The collection also includes John Lydgate's Fall of Princes and extracts from the Bartholomeus Anglicus encyclopaedia De Proprietatibus Rerum (On the Properties of Things).
The following is a list of early manuscripts held by Special Collections.
Facsimile images for some of the manuscripts are available through UVic Libraries Digital Collections.
For a full list of UVic items described in Fragmentarium, click here.
Charters
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.1
Title: Hubert de Burgh, Charter
Date: 1201
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #2
Location: Brown Collection Box 1
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.2
Title: Petrus Veremudi, Grant
Date: 1226
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #3
Location: Brown Collection Box 1
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.3
Title: Simon Bonde, Grant
Date: 1356
Accession/Call No.: 1991-088, Item #1
Location: Brown Collection Box 2
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.4
Title: Thomas Mowbray, Charter
Date: 1391
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #4
Location: Drawer 5A/11
Documents
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.5
Title: William Cecil, Document
Date: 1593
Accession/Call No.: 1991-088, Item #2
Location: Brown Collection Box 2
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.6
Title: Edward IV, Royal Letters Patent
Date: 1482
Accession/Call No.: 1992-044, Item #3
Location: Drawer MD 22
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.7
Title: Philip II of Spain, Royal Letters Patent
Date: 1558
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #9
Location: Drawer 5A/11
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.8
Title: Elizabeth I, Privy Council Letter
Date: 1599
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #11
Location: Brown Collection Box 1
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.9
Title: Philip II of Spain, Letter
Date: 1578
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #10
Location: Brown Collection Box 1
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.10
Title: Sixtus IV, Papal Bull
Date: 1471
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #5
Location: Brown Collection Box 7
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.11
Title: Alexander VI, Papal Bull
Date: 1494
Accession/Call No.: 1992-044, Item #1
Location: Brown Collection Box 3
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.1
Title: Norfolk, Charter
Date: 1423
Accession/Call No.: 1992-045, Item #5
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.2
Title: James I, Document
Date: 17th century
Accession/Call No.: 1993-022
Location: Shelf 02/C/05
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.3
Title: Notarial Document, Spanish
Date: 1424
Accession/Call No.: 2015-016
Location: Drawer 5A/11
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.4
Title: Receipt with Seal, England
Date: 1361
Accession/Call No.: 2015-017
Location: Shelf 02/E/01
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.5
Title: Doctoral Diploma, University of Rome
Date: 1682
Accession/Call No.: LF3733 D4V35 1682
Location: Call no. LF3733 D4V35 1682
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.6
Title: Document with Seal
Date: 17th Century
Accession/Call No.: 2019-070, Item #3
Location: Shelf 04/04/23b
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.7
Title: Document, Giovanni Contarini to Donato Soranzo
Date: 30 August 1402
Accession/Call No.: 2018-072
Location: Drawer 5A/10
Shelf Mark: Doc.Eng.2
Title: Sandon Manor Document
Date: 22 April 1669
Accession/Call No.: 2019-070, Item #5
Location: Shelf 04/04/23b
Manuscripts
Shelf Mark: Ms.Brown.Eng.1
Title: Statutes of the Order of the Garter
Date: 16th century
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #8
Location: Brown Collection Box 1
Shelf Mark: Ms.Brown.Eng.2
Title: Armorial Manuscript
Date: c. 1580
Accession/Call No.: 1989-070, Item #5
Location: Brown Collection Box 2
Shelf Mark: Ms.Brown.It.1
Title: Medicinal and Culinary Miscellany
Date: 14th-17th century
Accession/Call No.: 1992-044, Item #2
Location: Brown Collection Box 3
Shelf Mark: Ms.Brown.Lat.1
Title: English Pre-Reformation Genealogical Roll
Date: 15th-16th century
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #6
Location: Brown Collection
Shelf Mark: Ms.Eng.1
Title: John Lydgate, Fall of Princes
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1977-005
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Ms.Eng.2
Title: Thomas Jermy to William Paston, Letter
Date: 1565
Accession/Call No.: 1985-005
Location: Shelf 02/C/07
Shelf Mark: Ms.Fr.1
Title: Toll Register, Serrières (Ardèche)
Date: 1527-1530
Accession/Call No.: HE197 F73T65 1530
Location: Call no. HE197 F73T65 1530
Shelf Mark: Ms.Fr.2
Title: Livre de Prières Tissé
Date: 1886
Accession/Call No.: BV246 L58 1886
Location: Call no. BV246 L58 1886
Shelf Mark: Ms.Ger.1
Title: Property Register, County of Leiningen
Date: 1497-1498
Accession/Call No.: HD1251 P76 1498
Location: Call no. HD1251 P76 1498
Shelf Mark: Ms.Ger.2
Title: Terrier of the Town of Karben
Date: 1483
Accession/Call No.: HD1251 T37 1483
Location: Call no. HD1251 T37 1483
Shelf Mark: Ms.It.1
Title: Aldus Manutius the Younger, De Antiquis Numerorum Notis
Date: c. 1550-1575
Accession/Call No.: P211 M275 1550
Location: Call no. P211 M275 1550
Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.1
Title: Barthomoleus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum
Date: 13th century
Accession/Call No.: 1984-061
Location: Shelf 02/C/01
Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.2
Title: Codex Lindstedt (Ferial Psalter and Breviary)
Date: c. 1450
Accession/Call No.: BX2033 A2 1455
Location: Call no. BX2033 A2 1455
Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.3
Title: Codex Pollick (Book of Hours)
Date: c. 1480-1490
Accession/Call No.: BX2080 M37 1480
Location: Call no. BX2080 M37 1480
Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.4
Title: Hebrew language and grammar
Date: ca. 1600-1700
Accession/Call No.: PJ4563 H43
Location: Call no. PJ4563 H43
Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.5
Title: Codex Kemp (Notarial records of Pietro Gori Michelangelo)
Date: 1510-1521
Accession/Call No.: CS769 M63N67 1510
Location: Call no. CS769 M63N67 1510
Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.6
Title: Gregory the Great, Dialogi [Dialogues]
Date: 1320-1330
Accession/Call No.: BR65 G54 1320
Location: Call no. BR65 G54 1320
Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.7
Title: Choir Breviary (Franciscan Use)
Date: 1260-1300
Accession/Call No.: BX2049 F7C46 1260
Location: Call no. BX2049 F7C46 1260
Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.8
Title: Book of Hours (Use of Troyes)
Date: 1460-1470
Accession/Call No.: BX2080 T76 1460
Location: Call no. BX2080 T76 1460
Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.9
Title: Memoriale de Prerogativa Imperii Romani
Date: 1457-1490
Accession/Call No.: DD126 A44 1457
Location: Call no. DD126 A44 1457
Shelf Mark: Ms.Span.1
Title: Antonio de Tablada, Regla de la Orden Sagrada de Penitencia
Date: c. 1528-1530
Accession/Call No.: BX3654 A3 1528
Location: Call no. BX3654 A3 1528
Shelf Mark: Ms.Lat.10
Title: Pro Rege Infirmo
Date: 17th century
Accession/Call No.: BX2080 P76 1610
Location: Call no. BX2080 P76 1610
Fragments
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.1
Title: Leaf from a Medieval Bible, Fragment
Date: 13th century
Accession/Call No.: 2003-018, Item #1
Location: Brown Collection Box 4
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.2
Title: Leaf from a Medieval Manuscript, Fragment
Date: 14th century
Accession/Call No.: 1991-107, Item #1
Location: Brown Collection Box 7
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.3
Title: Leaves from Psalter, Fragments
Date: 14th century
Accession/Call No.: 1989-070, Item #1
Location: Brown Collection Box 2
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.4
Title: Leaf from a Medieval Manuscript, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1989-070, Item #2
Location: Drawer 5A/11
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.5
Title: Leaf from a Medieval Book of Hours, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 2003-018, Item #5
Location: Brown Collection Box 4
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.6
Title: Leaf from a Medieval Book of Hours, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 2003-018, Item #4
Location: Brown Collection Box 4
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.7
Title: Leaf from a Medieval Psalter, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 2003-018, Item #2
Location: Brown Collection Box 4
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.8
Title: Leaf from a Medieval Book of Hours, Fragment
Date: 16th century
Accession/Call No.: 2003-018, Item #3
Location: Brown Collection Box 4
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.9
Title: Leaf from a Medieval Book of Hours, Fragment
Date: 16th century
Accession/Call No.: 2003-018, Item #3
Location: Brown Collection Box 4
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.10
Title: Leaf from a Medieval Gradual, Fragment
Date: 16th century
Accession/Call No.: 2003-018, Item #6
Location: Brown Collection Box 4
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.11
Title: Book of Hours, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1993-050, Item #1
Location: Brown Collection Box 3
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Brown.Lat.12
Title: Italian Illuminated, Fragment
Date: c. 1350
Accession/Call No.: 1999-043, Item #1
Location: Brown Collection Box 7
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.1
Title: Commentary on the Psalms, Fragment
Date: 13th century
Accession/Call No.: 2006-023
Location: Shelf 02/B/20
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.2
Title: Corpus Iuris Civilis, Fragment
Date: 13th century
Accession/Call No.: 2006-023
Location: Shelf 02/B/20
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.3
Title: Azo of Bologna's Summa Codices, Fragment
Date: 13th century
Accession/Call No.: 2006-023
Location: Shelf 02/B/20
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.4
Title: Liber dietarium universalium et particularium, Fragment
Date: 13th century
Accession/Call No.: 2006-023
Location: Shelf 02/B/20
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.5
Title: Aristotle, De caelo, Fragment
Date: 13th century
Accession/Call No.: 2006-023
Location: Shelf 02/B/20
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.6
Title: Leaf from a Bible, Fragment
Date: 13th century
Accession/Call No.: 1992-045, Item #1
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.7
Title: Folium from a Medieval Bible, Fragment
Date: 13th century
Accession/Call No.: 1994-013, Item #4
Location: Shelf 02/J/16c
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.8
Title: Quodlibetal Fragment
Date: 14th century
Accession/Call No.: 2007-052
Location: Shelf 02/J/24
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.9
Title: Leaf from a Calendar, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1992-045, Item #2
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.10
Title: Leaf from a Missal, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1992-045, Item #3
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.11
Title: Leaf from a Book of Hours, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1992-045, Item #4
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.12
Title: Leaf from a Missal, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1992-045, Item #6
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.13
Title: Litany from a Book of Hours, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1992-045, Item #7
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.14
Title: Leaf from a Missal, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1992-045, Item #8
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.15
Title: Folium from a Medieval Psalter, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1994-013, Item #1
Location: Shelf 02/J/16c
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.16
Title: Folium from a Book of Hours, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1994-013, Item #2
Location: Shelf 02/J/16c
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.17
Title: Folium from a Book of Hours, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 1994-013, Item #3
Location: Shelf 02/J/16c
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.18
Title: Leaf from a Breviary, Fragment
Date: 16th century
Accession/Call No.: 1992-045, Item #10
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.19
Title: Leaf from a Psalter, Fragment
Date: 16th century
Accession/Call No.: 1992-045, Item #9
Location: Drawer 5A/08
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.20
Title: Leaf from a Bible, Fragment
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 2010-014, Item #2
Location: Shelf 02/J/24b
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.21
Title: Sacrifice of Abraham, Fragment
Date: c. 1200
Accession/Call No.: 2010-014, Item #1
Location: Shelf 02/J/24b
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.22
Title: Leaf from a Breviary, Fragment
Date: 16th century
Accession/Call No.: 2017-033, Item #1
Location: Shelf OS/01/01.1/21
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.23
Title: Manuscript Fragment
Date: 16th century
Accession/Call No.: 2017-033, Item #2
Location: Shelf OS/01/01.1/21
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.24
Title: Text from Psalms
Date: ca. 1175-1200
Accession/Call No.: ND3358 P7T59
Location: Call no. ND3358 P7T59
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.25
Title: Breviary, Fragment
Date: 1251-1400
Accession/Call No.: BV5080 T25 1508
Location: Call no. BV5080 T25 1508
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.26
Title: Psalter?, Fragment
Date: 1501-1600
Accession/Call No.: BX890 B5A1 1572
Location: Call no. BX890 B5A1 1572
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.27
Title: Noted Missal, Fragment
Date: 1251-1300
Accession/Call No.: KJA1527 A3R46 1561
Location: Call no. KJA1527 A3R46 1561
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.28
Title: Franciscan Breviary, Fragment
Date: 1301-1350
Accession/Call No.: PQ1647 M87 07 1576
Location: Call no. PQ1647 M87 07 1576
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.29
Title: Illuminated Initial, Fragment
Date: ca. 1500
Accession/Call No.: 2022-006, Item #1
Location: Shelf 023/CL65/B
Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.30
Title: Parchment, Fragment
Date: ?
Accession/Call No.: 2022-006, Item #2
Location: Shelf 023/CL65/B
Seals
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.1.Seal
Title: Hubert de Burgh, Charter
Date: 1201
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #2
Location: Brown Collection Box 1
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.5.Seal
Title: William Cecil, Document
Date: 1593
Accession/Call No.: 1991-088, Item #2
Location: Brown Collection Box 2
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.7.Seal
Title: Philip II of Spain, Royal Letters Patent
Date: 1558
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #9
Location: Drawer 5A/11
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.10.Seal
Title: Sixtus IV, Papal Bull
Date: 1471
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #5
Location: Brown Collection Box 7
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.2.Seal
Title: James I, Document
Date: 17th century
Accession/Call No.: 1993-022
Location: Shelf 02/C/05
Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.4.Seal
Title: Receipt with Seal, England
Date: 1361
Accession/Call No.: 2015-017
Location: Shelf 02/E/01
Shelf Mark: Seal.Brown.1
Title: Wax Seal of Edward VI
Date: 1547-1553
Accession/Call No.: 1989-069, Item #7
Location: Brown Collection Box 5
Islamic
Shelf Mark: Ms-Victoria-1981-003
Title: Muhammad al-Gazari, Fragment
Date: ?
Accession/Call No.: 1981-003
Location: Shelf 02/J/24
Shelf Mark: Ms-Victoria-1992-037-1
Title: Qur'an with part of Surat al-Qamar, Fragment
Date: 10th century?
Accession/Call No.: 1992-037, Item #1
Location: Brown Collection Box 6
Shelf Mark: Ms-Victoria-1995-014
Title: An'am-i Sharif, Manuscript
Date: 1786-1787?
Accession/Call No.: 1995-014
Location: Drawer 5A/09
Shelf Mark: Ms-Victoria-1998-034
Title: Abu al-Qasim Ahmad, Fragment
Date: 18th century?
Accession/Call No.: 1998-034
Location: Shelf 02/J/24
Shelf Mark: Ms-Victoria-2000-003
Title: Qur'an, Surat al-Fatiha, Manuscript
Date: 19th century?
Accession/Call No.: 2000-003
Location: Shelf 02/B/16
Shelf Mark: Ms-Victoria-2005-010
Title: Qur'an, showing Surat Yusuf, Fragment
Date: ?
Accession/Call No.: 2005-010
Location: Shelf 02/J/24
Shelf Mark: Ms-Victoria-2005-032
Title: Qur'an, Maghrib or Andalusia, Fragment
Date: ?
Accession/Call No.: 2005-032
Location: Shelf 02/J/24
Incunabula
Shelf Mark: Inc.Ger.1
Title: Cologne Chronicle
Date: 1499
Accession/Call No.: 1989-070, Item #3
Location: Brown Collection Box 6
Shelf Mark: Inc.Lat.1
Title: Speculum aureum anime peccatricis dicitur
Date: c. 1485
Accession/Call No.: BR75 J3
Location: Call no. BR75 J3
Shelf Mark: Inc.Lat.2
Title: Incunabulum, 15th century
Date: 15th century
Accession/Call No.: 2001-002
Location: Shelf 02/C/10
Shelf Mark: Inc.Lat.3
Title: Pantheologia of Reynerus de Pisis
Date: 1477
Accession/Call No.: 2010-014, Item #3
Location: Shelf 02/J/24b
Shelf Mark: Inc.Lat.4
Title: Nuremberg Chronicle
Date: 1499
Accession/Call No.: 2010-014, Item #4
Location: Shelf 02/J/24b
Shelf Mark: Inc.Lat.5
Title: Commentaria in Psalmos
Date: 1475-1476
Accession/Call No.: BS1429 P48 1475
Location: Call no. BS1429 P48 1475
Shelf Mark: Inc.Lat.6
Title: Nicolas de Lyra Incunabulum
Date: 1494
Accession/Call No.: BS485 N5233R4 1494
Location: Call no. BS485 N5233R4 1494
Indentures
Shelf Mark: Ind.Eng.1
Title: Indenture, 1585
Date: 1585
Accession/Call No.: 1994-014
Location: Drawer 5A/11
Shelf Mark: Ind.Eng.2
Title: Indenture, 1664
Date: 18 August 1664
Accession/Call No.: 2011-045
Location: Shelf 07/D/34
Shelf Mark: Ind.Eng.3
Title: Indenture, 1676
Date: 20 April 1676
Accession/Call No.: 2011-073
Location: Shelf 02/B/55
Shelf Mark: Ind.Eng.4
Title: Indenture, 1676
Date: 20 April 1676
Accession/Call No.: 2011-073
Location: Shelf 02/B/55
Shelf Mark: Doc.Eng.1
Title: Indenture, 1676
Date: 21 December 1676
Accession/Call No.: 2018-065
Location: Drawer 5A/11
Shelf Mark: Ind.Eng.5
Title: Indenture, 1668
Date: 20 November 1668
Accession/Call No.: 2011-073
Location: Shelf 02/B/55
Shelf Mark: Ind.Eng.6
Title: Indenture, 1701
Date: 14 October 1701
Accession/Call No.: 2011-073
Location: Shelf 02/B/55
Shelf Mark: Ind.Eng.7
Title: Indenture, 1701
Date: 15 October 1701
Accession/Call No.: 2011-073
Location: Shelf 02/B/55
Shelf Mark: Ind.Eng.8
Title: Indenture, 1749
Date: June 1749
Accession/Call No.: 2011-073
Location: Shelf 02/B/55
Shelf Mark: Ind.Eng.9
Title: Indenture, 1770-1796
Date: 1770-1796
Accession/Call No.: 1996-058
Location: Drawer 5A/02
Shelf Mark: Ind.Eng.10
Title: Indenture, 1792
Date: 16 March 1792
Accession/Call No.: 2011-073
Location: Shelf 02/B/55
Shelf Mark: Doc.Eng.3
Title: Indenture
Date: 20 August 1629
Accession/Call No.: 2019-070
Location: Shelf 04/04/23b
Shelf Mark: Doc.Eng.4
Title: Deed, 1571 (Original)
Date: 16 July 1571
Accession/Call No.: 2019-070
Location: Shelf 04/04/23b
Shelf Mark: Doc.Eng.5
Title: Deed, 1571 (Copy)
Date: 16 July 1571
Accession/Call No.: 2019-070
Location: Shelf 04/04/23b