[Alphabetum aureum and other prayers].

[Alphabetum aureum and other prayers].

Italy,

ca. 1500.

Purchased with funds donated by the Breslauer Foundation.

This compilation of Christian liturgical and devotional texts exemplifies how books acquire layers of interventions from different readers as they move through time and space. The main text, written on parchment, rubricated, and featuring decorated initials, was produced in Italy. The final leaves of the book, likely added later, are written on paper and inscribed in several different hands in both Latin and Polish. The Polish-language supplications were probably written by Stanislaus Golian, a wine dealer based in Krakow whose name is inscribed on the final leaves of the text with the date of 1616.

From the collection of Rare Book School