[Genesee branch library, interior view at day]
subject: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)--History
subject: Libraries--New York (State)--Buffalo
subject: Branch libraries
description: Marked "2110" on back.
creator: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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type: Image
identifier: BECPL173 1-12-genint001

[Fairfield branch library interior view, facing reference desk area]
subject: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)--History
subject: Libraries--New York (State)--Buffalo
subject: Branch libraries
description: Stamped "Hare Photographs, Inc" on back.
creator: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1961-10
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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identifier: BECPL173 1-6-fairint002

[Fairfield branch library interior view, facing main entrance]
subject: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)--History
subject: Libraries--New York (State)--Buffalo
subject: Branch libraries
description: Stamped "Hare Photographs, Inc" on back.
creator: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1961-09
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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type: Image
identifier: BECPL173 1-6-fairint001

[Fairfield branch library, exterior view]
subject: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)--History
subject: Libraries--New York (State)--Buffalo
subject: Branch libraries
description: Stamped "Hare Photographs, Inc" on back.
creator: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1961-09
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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type: Image
identifier: BECPL173 1-6-fairext001

[Cazenovia branch library, interior view]
subject: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)--History
subject: Libraries--New York (State)--Buffalo
subject: Branch libraries
description: Stamped "Hare Photographs, Inc" on back.
creator: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1963-12-04
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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type: Image
identifier: BECPL173 1-2-cazint002

[Cazenovia branch library, interior view of reference desk area]
subject: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)--History
subject: Libraries--New York (State)--Buffalo
subject: Branch libraries
description: Stamped "Hare Photographs, Inc" on back.
creator: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1963-12-04
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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type: Image
identifier: BECPL173 1-2-cazint001

[Cazenovia branch library, exterior view]
subject: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)--History
subject: Libraries--New York (State)--Buffalo
subject: Branch libraries
description: Stamped "Hare Photographs, Inc" on back.
creator: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1963-12-04
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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type: Image
identifier: BECPL173 1-2-cazext001

Children's room of the Buffalo Public Library scrapbook
subject: Buffalo Public Library (N.Y.). Children's Room--History
subject: Children's Libraries--New York (State)--Buffalo--History
subject: Buffalo Public Library (N.Y.). Children's Room
description: A scrapbook of clippings, photographs, letters, cards, program brochures, and other materials relating to the Children's Room of the Buffalo Public Library. Materials are mounted on scrapbook pages and arranged in date order from 1896 to 1952.
creator: Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.)
date: 1896
date: 1958
contributor: Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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language: eng
type: Text
identifier: Z733.B93 C48 1896

Maps of the Holland Co's lands in the late town of Black Rock
subject: Holland Land Company
subject: Maps
subject: Real Property
subject: New York (State)
subject: Buffalo (N.Y.)
subject: Erie County (N.Y.)
creator: Emslie, Peter
publisher: P. Emslie
date: 1864
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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language: eng
type: Image
identifier: RBR WNYO 1864.E47

Manuscript on vellum, written in Italy, in the Dominican use, containing musical notation.
subject: Liturgy and ritual
subject: Psalter
description: Title and date from De Ricci.
description: Selected pages digitized due to condition of item.
creator: Catholic Church
date: 15th century
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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type: Text
identifier: RBR Mss. C33

Original leaves from famous Bibles, nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D. ... Collected and annotated by Otto F. Ege ...
subject: Bibles
creator: Ege, Otto F.
publisher: [P.C. Duschnes?]
date: [1938]
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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type: Text
identifier: RBR Bibles 1938

Manuscript leaves from a 15th century Psalter
subject: Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts--Manuscripts
subject: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
subject: Psalters
description: Title assigned by cataloger.
description: Described by Seymour De Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (1937), v. 2, p. (1208), Buffalo Public Library, no. 2.
description: Rare Book Room copy: Each leaf mounted; illuminated, with miniatures in color and gold leaf; missing pages 27-28.
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
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type: Text
identifier: RBR Mss. M2

Antiphonal and prayer book. Written in Germany for a chapel under the patronage of St. Cassius, St. Florentius, and St. Mallusius.
subject: Antiphonaries
subject: Prayer Books
description: Manuscript, on paper; initials and captions in red.
description: Identification from Ricci, Seymour de. Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the U.S. and Canada.
description: Bound in elaborately gold-tooled Morocco over wooden boards: very large centerpiece formed of 4 large quasi-circles, touching each other at their center back point; the quasi-circles enclose flowers, leaves and scrolls; at the bottom of each quasi-circle, another set of stamps that include a crown over an elaborately formed letter M (for Maria?); in each of the 4 corners of the cover, complex scrollwork of 4 swirling branches, each terminating in a profile of a flower; all parts of the gold-tooled design with single-stem offshoots pointing away from the design itself and into the otherwise blank areas; scattered gold dots; edges gilt; pastedowns of the so-designated 'Dutch gilt paper' (made in Germany during the 18th century); two fore edge clasps closing from the back to the front cover.
description: 1) f. 1r-v. Asperges me Domine hysopo et mundabor . . . (antiphon at mass in all seasons except Easter), followed by vers., resp, and prayer, Praesta quaesumus omnipotens Deus per huius aspersionem aquae sanitatem mentis, integritatem corporis 2) ff. 2-3, Three benedictions: Benedictio in ambitu ad portam, Domine Iesu Christe qui introitum Portarum Ierusalem salvans sanctificasti dum spendore gemmarum duodecim totidem Apostolorum nomina persignasti ? [including saints Cassius, Florentius, Mallusius and companions]; Benedictio super scriptorium, Benedicere digneris Domine hoc famulorum Scriptorium et omnes habitantes in eo, ut quidquid hic divinarum Scripturarum ab eis Lectum vel scriptum fuit, sense capiant, ore perficiant per Christum Dominum nostrum; Benedictio ad cellam, Omnipotens et misericors Deus qui ubique praesens es, majestatem tuam suppliciter exoramus ut huius promptuario gratia tua adesse dignetur atque cunta ab eo adversa repellat et abudantiam benedicitionis tuae largiter infundat per Christum Dominum nostrum, Amen. 3) ff. 3-4v; f. 5, torn out Dominicis diebus quando servatur nocturn<um?> ad processionem sequens Antiphona, Sanctifica nos Domine signaculo sanctae crucis ut fiat nobis obstaculum contra saeva jacula inimicorum, defende nos Domine per lignum sanctum 5) ff. 7-37v, Antiphons and responses for the liturgical year from Advent through Palm Sunday; note in particular those designated on ff. 28v-30, "Apud portam coloniensem," on f. 30r-v, "In porta stellae," and on ff. 31-32, "In curia dominorum."
description: 6) ff. 38-39v, In Coena Domini absolutis vesperis dans benedictionem cum calice incipit Antiphona sequentem [sic], Hoc Corpus, Hoc corpus quod pro vobis tradetur, hic calix novi testament est in meo sanguine, dicit Dominus, hoc facite quotiescunque sumitis in meam commemorationem. Antiphona finita, portatur venerabile sacramentum ad cryptam cantando Pange Lingua fol. [space left blank] submissa voce et redeundo ex crypta itur ad lavandum altaria cantando per ordinem sequentes Antiphonas cum versu et collecta; functionem autem Presbiter iunior habet; incipitur autem ab Altari summo De Sanctis Patronis nostris Cassio, Florentio Antiphona sequens: Milites Christi hanc Domino dicaverunt concordiam. . . , vers., resp. and prayer, Propitiare quaesumus Domine nobis famulis tuis per Sanctorum Martyrum Cassii, Florentii, Mallusii Sociorumque eorum . . .services for Ash Wednesday, including washing of the altar, citing the high altar as that of 'our patrons' Cassius and Florentius, and with a prayer invoking Cassius, Florentius, Mallusius and their companions. 7) ff. 39v-53v, Prayers to twenty-six saints in what seems an ad hoc order, but which presumably reflects the order of the altars or reliquaries that belonged to this church: Holy Cross; Servatius; John of Nepomuk; Joseph; 'De Domina nostra in crypta'; Nicholas; Lambert of Maastricht; Helen of Constantinople; James the Greater; John the Evangelist; Andrew apostle; Cyriacus and companions; Agatha; "Domina in pasculo"; Urban pope; the Three Kings; Michael archangel; Peter apostle; 11,000 Virgins; Catherine of Alexandria; the Holy Trinity; Mary Magdalene; Stephen protomartyr; Barbara; Clement pope; All Saints. 8) ff. 54-72v, Services for the Triduum at Easter from Good Friday through Easter Sunday. 9) ff. 73-81v, Antiphons to sing at the altar to saints, with feasts from December through February: Barbara (4 December), Nicholas of Bari (5 or 6 Dec.), Stephen protomartyr (26 Dec.), John the Evangelist (27 Dec.), Holy Name o…
description: Paper (no watermark found); ff. iii + 85 + ii; 115 x 113 mm in an almost square shape; on the leaves with text alone: 17 long lines with a 'catchword' to the next page at the bottom of every page; when music is present, 6 lines of text and music per page with the music on 4-line staves. Written in a script imitative of Roman font, e.g. "ae" diphthong present; straight letter d; tall s at the beginning of and internal to words (but with a round s at the end or words); very few abbreviations. Music in Hufnagelschrift on 4-line staves. Rubrics and initials (the height of one line of text and its accompanying music) in red. Written in Germany, almost certainly in Bonn at Engelthal, for if not at the house of the Augustinian nuns who were there from at least 1324 (existing documentation); in 1460, they joined the Windesheim Reformation; the house was secularized in 1802. This ownership information derives directly from the modern note in pencil on f. 82: "Aus dem Kloster Engelthal im Bonn." The book was copied in or after 1729, since it includes on f. 40v a prayer to St. John Nepomucene (c. 1345 - 20 March 1393), who was canonized on 19 March 1729. The saints who are repeatedly cited in this book are the three members of the Theban Legion: Cassius and Florentius , who were martyred at Bonn on the Rhine; they were declared Principal Patrons of Bonn in 1643; the third and other members of this group are Mallusius and their Companions; the feast of these saints is on 10 October, with translation of their relics on 2 May (it occurred in 1166). Designations of the persons performing the various services are for men, not women: f. 32, "Decanus et duo seniores"; f. 33, "Duo Vicarii Refectoriales"; f. 38, "presbyter iunior"; f. 54, "Diaconi"; f. 63, "duo Chorales" (this last direction could technically have been for women). Another note in pencil, also in German and quite possibly by the same person who identified the book as coming from Engelthal, at the bottom of the same leaf…
description: On f. i recto (facing the front pastedown): bookplate of the Grosvenor Library; the handwritten modern call number, "B. C. 2. 1. 17"; and the oval book number inscribed "No. 34, Elson collection." Belonged to Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920) who was a professor of music theory and history at the New England Conservatory of Music from age 34 onwards; he had begun studying music with his mother, then went on to study in Leipzig; he composed songs, operetta and works for the piano, but mainly he studied and wrote on the history of music; he published in a number of Boston newspapers, and was the editor-in-chief of Modern Music and Musicians (1912; 20 vols.) and of the University Musical Encyclopedia (1912-14; 10 vols.). The collection of medieval fragments of music that had belonged to Louis Charles Elson was acquired in 1924 by the Grovesnor Library in Buffalo NY; this library, together with the Erie County Library and the Buffalo Public Library merged in 1953 to form today's Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. This leaf was n. 34 in the Elson collection. Present call number: RBR MUSIC 1600.C3.
description: * We are grateful to Dr. Christine Glassner of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften who read the inscription at the bottom of the page and who then identified Andreas Velten as well as the book that he authored and the musical texts that he wrote and owned.
creator: Catholic Church
date: [approximately 1700]
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
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language: lat
type: Text
identifier: RBR Music 1700 .C3

[Manuscript leaves]
subject: Manuscripts, French--Specimens
subject: Manuscripts, Dutch--Specimens
subject: Breviary
subject: Book of hours
description: Contents: France. Breviary leaf on vellum (ca. 1250) -- Rouen, France. Service leaf (ca. 1480) -- Book of hours (ca. 1500).
description: With illuminated initials.
description: Title and date for each leaf from penciled notation on folder.
description: Each leaf mounted in mat board folder; in portfolio.
description: Leaves 1 and 2 in Latin, in double columns; leaf 3 perhaps in Dutch.
creator: Catholic Church
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
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type: Text
identifier: RBR MSS. M36

[Book of hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary]
subject: Manuscripts, Latin--New York (State)--Buffalo
description: Title and date from file card, laid in.
description: 1) Parchment; 1. ff. 38-44v, The Gospel pericopes (beginning with the standard text from John 1:1-14), missing the opening leaf, followed by the usual prayers (Protector in te sperantium; Ecclesiam tuam quesumus domine benignus illustra), and then the usual extracts from Luke (1:26-38), Matthew (2:1-12) and Mark (16: 14-20). Misbound in the present position; the pericopes usually occur after the calendar and before the prayers, Obsecro te and O Intemerata (or before the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin).
description: 2) ff. 42-43v, f. 37r-v, ff. 1-5; f. 5v blank//et leticie, fons consolationis et indulgencie Per illam sanctam ineffabiliter leticiam qua exultavit spiritus tuus in illa hora quando tibi per gabrielem archangelum annunciatus et conceptus filius dei fuit . . . [f. 43v] et michi famulo tuo impetres a dilecto filio tuo complementum omni misericordia et consolation, omni consilio, omni auxilio et [f. 37r-v:] adiutorio, omni benedictione et sanctificatione, omni salvatione, pace, prosperitate, omni gaudio et alacritate. Eciam habundanciam . . . tenere me faciat et a septem peccatis crimina- [ff. 1-5] -libus me liberet et deffendat usque in finem vite mee. Et in novissimis diebus meis ostende michi faciem tuam . . . . et exaudi me dulcissima virgo maria mater dei et misericordia. Amen. Oratio beate marie virginis, O Intemerata et in eternum benedicta . . . [f. 2v] et esto michi miserrimo peccatori propicia in omnibus auxiliatrix . . .
description: 3) ff. 6-29, 47-52v -- //psalmis iubilemus ei. Ave maria gratia plena dominus tecum. Quoniam deus magnus dominus et rex magnus super omnes deos . . . Hours of the Virgin (at matins), opening defectively, probably use of Rouen; the office of prime occupies ff 47-52v, and the antiphon and capitulum at prime are: Ant., Maria virgo assumpta est ad ethereum thalamum; Cap., Per te dei genitrix est nobis vita perdita; the service at nones is no longer in the book, as only parts of matins, lauds and prime remain, with all miniatures cut out. Following the remaining part of lauds are, on ff. 25-27v, suffrages of the Holy Spirit, John the Baptist, Nicholas, Martin of Tours, Anthony of Padua, Maurus, and Lupus (here spelled "Luppus," in whose suffrage the text breaks); on ff. 28-29 (f. 29v, blank) is the end of a suffrage of Catherine of Alexandria, here remaining are 27 verses in French in 6-line stanzas ([aa]baab ccdccd eefeef gghggh etc.) plus an irregular final stanza.
description: 4) ff. 30-35vShort hours of the Cross, opening miniature cut out, but containing the rest of the text, through compline -- 5) f. 35v, f. 36r-v, ff. 43-46v, Short hours of the Holy Spirit, opening miniature cut out after f. 35r-v (rubric is on f. 35v, Les heures du saint esperit). -- 6) f. 46v, Rubric in French at the bottom of the page to signal the beginning of the Office of the Dead, which would have followed the Short hours of the Holy Spirit, but which is no longer in this book: Les vespres des mors.Parchment; ff. 52, much misbound and with all illumination removed, as well as easily half of the text leaves, including all of the calendar, the second half of the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms, and the Office of the Dead. 175 x 125 mm. Written in a formal gothic book hand in 2 sizes (the smaller is for versicles and responses), on 15 pale red lines to the page. No catchwords or signatures remain.
description: Illuminated initials and floriated borders.
description: Latin text.
description: Written in France, probably in Rouen, given the liturgical use of the Hours of the Virgin (at Prime; Nones no longer remains in the manuscript), during the middle of the 15th century. Probably during the 18th to 19th century, the book belonged to the family residing in Milton Hall, near Peterborough, given the book label on the front pastedown (but this attribution is made with some caution, since the shell of the binding might have belonged to another book).
description: Now surviving only on f. 1, a 4-line white-decorated blue initial with both colors on acanthus leaves in the initial, set on a square gold ground with a bar border on the left extending the length of the text space formed of a gold strip and a colored strip (divided, in part blue and in part pink), and with a C-shaped border of flowers (blue 4- and 5-leaf flowers, strawberries and round red berries) and acanthus leaves in blue and gold around the text on three sides. 2-line initials in white-decorated color (alternating blue or pink) with both colors in the acanthus leaves within the initial, set on a squared gold ground, with a spray of mainly gold trilobe leaves with one colored flower at the top and one at the bottom of the spray, and extending into the margin. 1-line gold initials on blue and pink white-decorated grounds; line fillers in the same colors. Initials of the verses in French for St. Catherine, f. 28r-v, touched in yellow. Rubrics in red. Offset of blue paint from decoration on what was the facing page with a full border, now visible on ff. 5v (before the Hours of the Virgin), 15v (before lauds), 30 (before the Short Hours of the Cross), 35v (before the Short Hours of the Holy Spirit), 42 (before the Obsecro te), 47v (before the now-missing Office of the Dead), 52v (before the now-missing terce of the Hours of the Virgin). On f. 22, lower margin, note, s. XVII (?), "En faint mon fils s<?> ne voullez po<?> maine." Foliated, September 2023.Bound, possibly in former days, in limp vellum over boards, to the extent that there is with today's completely unbound book an outer shell of a limp vellum binding, but it is uncertain if this was ever attached to the present book, in that, sitting on the book's "front" and ''back" areas, there is a dark vellum "leaf" that might have been part of this book's binding. The stitching of the book's gatherings is solid, holding the book in its present jumbled state, and placing the book's one leaf with its highest present…
creator: Catholic Church
date: [15th century]
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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language: lat
type: Text
identifier: RBR Mss. B66 1450

Original leaf from an illuminated manuscript on vellum [manuscript] [ca. 1480]
subject: Manuscripts, Medieval--Specimens
subject: Breviaries--Italy--Specimens
description: Title from front cover and from presentation letter.
description: One vellum leaf (24 x 16.5 cm.) in a presentation case, accompanied by an undated presentation letter from Fred Alpers of the General Bookbinding Company.
description: Leaf taken from an Italian breviary, ca. 1480.
description: Initials and headings decorated in red and blue. No illuminations.
date: [ca. 1480]
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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language: lat
type: Text
identifier: RBR Mss. O75 1480

[Medieval manuscript leaves]
subject: Antiphonaries
subject: Music--Manuscripts
subject: Graduals (Chants)
subject: Manuscripts, Latin--Specimens
subject: Manuscripts, Medieval--Specimens
subject: Manuscripts, Latin--New York (State)--Buffalo
description: Title assigned by cataloger.
description: Parchment; f. 1; 9 lines of text and music; the text written in a formal gothic book hand in a space delineated with dry point (?) ruling at the top and at the bottom of the height of the minims; the music in square notation on 4-line red staves, with a custos at the end of each set of staves. On the verso, a historiated gray initial on a blue ground of the height of 2 lines of text with their staves of music, depicting Mary wrapped in her blue cloak, lying as if dead on her bed, with the apostles surrounding her, while in a cloudburst at the top of the initial, Christ, holding Mary as a small child, looks down upon her in her bed. On this verso, a color and gold bar, with gold balls, runs the length of the text; at the top it breaks in half and swirls off in both directions; at the height of the initial, it includes a grotesque with helmet, sword and shield; below the initial, it includes a grotesque with a human head on a bird?s body; in the lower margin, it includes a grotesque whose human upper part turns backward with ax overhead ready to fight his body?s tail which terminates in a dog?s head. A small squarish piece of parchment is now cut away, at what would have been the lowermost bit of decoration, with what were gold balls at its terminating points (the gold now completely worn away). Other decorated initials, the height of one line of text and ca. 3 lines of musical staves, in either red with blue penwork flourishing, or in blue with red flourishing; smaller initials in 1-line height following the same patterns of colors. In red: the rubrics and the superscript folio numbers for the parts of the mass cited (with red roman numerals from 205 through 231). Foliated in red roman numerals in the center upper margin of the verso: clxxxiiii (= 184); adjacent to his original folio number is a modern number in pencil, ?198.?
description: Written in France during the 15th century; the use of the word ?officium? to designate the introit suggests that the book from which this leaf was taken had been copied for a church of Carthusian, Dominican or Carmelite rite. Belonged to Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920) who was a professor of music theory and history at the New England Conservatory of Music from age 34 onwards; he had begun studying music with his mother, then went on to study in Leipzig; he composed songs, operetta and works for the piano, but mainly he studied and wrote on the history of music; he published in a number of Boston newspapers, and was the editor-in-chief of Modern Music and Musicians (1912; 20 vols.) and of the University Musical Encyclopedia (1912-14; 10 vols.), among the ca. 50 items that he published over the course of his life. The collection of medieval fragments of music that had belonged to Louis Charles Elson was acquired in 1924 by the Grosvenor Library in Buffalo NY; this library, together with the Erie County Library and the Buffalo Public Library merged in 1953 to form today?s Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. This leaf was n. 9 in the Elson collection. Present call number: RBR PRINT 235. Two leaves from the BECPL (one, a leaf taken from the psalter belonging to the Buffalo Public Library in 1936; and the second, the present leaf from a gradual from the Grosvenor Library MS 9, now RBR PRINT 235) were lent to Colgate University for an exhibition planned and run by Prof. Judith Oliver; the leaves were returned to the BECPL on 5 June 1987.
description: Both leaves in black ink with illuminated capitals ; 1st leaf is a page with musical notation and lyrics ; 2nd leaf is apparently from a breviary. Both leaves were part of an exhibition at the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, in 1987.
description: Gradual with chants from the end of the feast of St. Lawrence (10 August), the rubrics for the feast of St. Hippolytus and companions (13 August), and the vigil and then the beginning of the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin (14 and then 15 August).
description: References: De Ricci. Census, p. 1210, no. 9
publisher: [publisher not identified]
date: [14th to 15th century]
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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type: Text
identifier: RBR Print 235

Congestion of the brain in cholera : its etiology, diagnosis, and treatment
subject: Cholera--Epidemiology.
subject: Cholera--New York (State)--Buffalo.
creator: Newman, James M., -1860
publisher: Thomas & Lathrops, printers
date: 1854
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
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language: eng
type: Text
identifier: RBR WNYO 1854.N4

Sanitary reports of the City of Buffalo for the year 1854
subject: Cholera--Epidemiology.
subject: Cholera--New York (State)--Buffalo.
description: Report concerning the 1854 cholera epidemic in the city of Buffalo.
creator: Buffalo (N.Y.) Board of Health
publisher: Clapp, Matthews & Co.
date: 1855
contributor: Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
rights: Digital image copyright 2024 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
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language: eng
type: Text
identifier: RBR WNYO 1855.B87

Spring of Life : Abortion Battleground in Buffalo
subject: Operation Rescue (Organization)
subject: Pro-choice movement--New York (State)--Buffalo
subject: Pro-life movement--New York (State)--Buffalo
subject: Terry, Randall A.
subject: Griffin, James D. (James Donald), 1929-
subject: Slepian, Barnett, 1946-1998
description: Following Easter Sunday in 1992, the pro-life group Operation Rescue staged its “Spring of Life” demonstrations in front of several Western New York abortion clinics. Anti-abortion activists had been invited by Buffalo mayor Jimmy Griffin to stage their demonstrations in Western New York. New York State abortion law had gone into effect in 1970, allowing abortions during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry and national director Rev. Keith Tucci made appearances. The campaign was modeled after a 46 day protest a year earlier in Wichita, Kansas. During those “Summer of Mercy” sit-ins and blockades, 2,600 people were arrested. Three abortion clinics were closed for a week. The Buffalo demonstrations lasted two weeks, resulting in more than 620 arrests. Many pro-choice activists showed up, locking arms in front of the clinics, preventing them from closing. During the two weeks of demonstrations, one rear driveway to the Buffalo GYN Womenservices clinic on Main Street was blocked for a few hours. The “Spring of Life” demonstrations attracted national media attention, and served as the lead news story on the nation’s major networks. The Rev. Robert Schenck, an anti-abortion activist, was arrested for disorderly conduct after carrying a 19 week old human fetus and holding it up to abortion-rights demonstrators. His brother Paul, also a minister, was arrested for trespassing after boarding the bus where his brother was being held by the police. Dr. Barnett Slepian, who provided abortions at a women’s clinic Buffalo, was one of five doctors targeted by anti-abortion demonstrators. His house was picketed and he became increasingly concerned about the safety of his family and his own vulnerability. Six years after the Spring of Life demonstrations he was assassinated in his suburban Buffalo home while preparing soup in his kitchen. James Kopp, the man convicted of his murder, had been nicknamed “Atomic Dog” by radical elements in the anti-ab…
description: Description from creator.
creator: Newberg, Rich (Reporter)
publisher: WIVB (Television Station : Buffalo, N.Y.)
publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (publisher of digital)
date: 1992-04-26
date: 1992-05-02
contributor: Murphy, Kurt (Graphic Arts Director)
contributor: Rice, Marie (Reporter)
contributor: Walker, Jacquie (Reporter)
contributor: Pfeiffer, Rick (Reporter)
contributor: Koop, Bob (Reporter)
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language: eng
type: Moving Image