Manuscript on parchment of a processional for a Dominican nuns' convent. Processions for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Easter, Dedication of a Church, and Holy Week are included
Description:
In Latin., Script: the text is written in a somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata., Decoration: red rubrics (rare); 2-line red plain initials for prayers; black cadels of 1-line height; initial on f. 1r decorated with a grotesque human face., and Binding: original binding; brown pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Germany, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Processionals (Liturgical books), Holy Week music, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, in red, black, and colors., French origin; written for use of a convent of nuns., On vellum, bound in French red morocco leather., Script: gothic liturgical script., and Decoration: Rubricated.
Manuscript on parchment of a ferial psalter containing a calendar, a psalter with hymns and antiphons, canticles, a litany, and the Office of the Dead
Alternative Title:
Psalterium Davidicum ad usam Anglicanum, cum antiphonis et hymnis ecclesiae, calalendario, et Officio Defunctorum
Description:
In Latin., Six leaves containing Psalms 24-25, 51-52, 110-112 are missing., Includes musical notation for the antiphons; neumes on red four-line staff., Script: copied in northern gothica textualis formata (textus rotundus) with English features., Decoration: rubrics in red (rare); red or blue paragraph marks. Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; brown or grey cadels, often decorated with a grotesque human face; numerous 2-line dentelle initials; large foliate initials on ff. 7v, 52r, 63v, 74v; these are accompanied by three-margins left floral borders., and Binding: early binding; undecorated brown leather over wooden boards.
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in a Gothic liturgical hand, of a Psalter, prefaced by a liturgical calendar and followed by the Office of the Dead
Description:
In Latin., Tipped in at front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing copy of a letter from Joseph Mallord William Turner to John Ruskin, Midsummer Day [June 24] 1848, in the hand of John Ruskin., Tipped in to front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing a description of the illuminations in the hand of John Ruskin., Presentation inscription on front flyleaf: Laurence Hilliard with John Ruskin's love, Brantwood, 25th January 1881., and Binding: modern full blue velvet.
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for use by a Dominican nuns' convent. Includes processionals for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Easter among others
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata., Decoration: red rubrics (often missing); 2-line red plain initials for the prayers; black cadels of the same height, stroked in red., and Binding: original binding; reddish brown leather over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Processionals (Liturgical books), Holy Week music, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Ms., in red and black., On last leaf: Istud Graduale est monachorum congregationis Sancte Iustine ordinis Sancti Benedicti de obseruantia deputatum monasterio Sancti Petri de Sauiliano., Gradual for the use of the monks of the Congregation of St. Justina, of the Order of St. Benedict, at the monastery of St. Peter of Saviliano., Contains 12 illuminated historiated initial miniatures, 3 additional miniatures, and 833 large and small ornamental initials and marginal decorations., and From the Belle Skinner Collection.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy and Savigliano.
Subject (Name):
San Pietro (Monastery : Savigliano, Italy), Benedictines, and Skinner, Belle
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Chants), Gregorian chants, and Provenance
Manuscript on parchment of a gradual containing the Mass of the Dead, Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, and other feasts
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various hands writing northern gothica textualis libraria., Decoration: rubrics in red; red stroking of majuscules; red or blue 1-line versals; alternately red and blue 1- or 2-line flourished initials with primitive penwork in the contrasting color; litterae duplices in various places., Binding: 19th-century binding of reddish brown leather over cardboard; both covers blind-tooled., and Notation in cheironomic neumes.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Graduals (Chants), and Manuscripts, Medieval
