Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Homiliae xl in evangelia
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: At the beginning of Homily 4 (fol. 2r) there is a 3-line initial "C" sketched, but not completed, in brown ink with foliate decoration; it may be a later addition; 1-line initials are brown uncials; the rubrics for Homily 4 and its lesson are written in red minuscule mixed with uncial forms, with red line-filler; there are no initials or rubrics for the beginning of each lesson; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; accents were added by a later hand; on fol. 2v there are three interlinear Latin glosses in a fifteenth-century hand; other fifteenth-century hands have added marginal notations and figures of heads on fols. 7v-8r.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Homiliae xl in evangelia
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment of Gregory the Great's Homilies on the Gospels and Iohannes Diaconus's Life of Gregory
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by several scribes in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. A change of hands is visible between f. 120 recto and verso., Red stroking of majuscules. Red headings and explicit formulas. Alternately red and blue flourished initials or litterae duplices of various sizes, with penwork in the opposed colours or in both colours, sometimes very elaborate, extending into the margins or containing birds or fish., and Binding: English blue morocco binding over cardboard, by W.H. Smith and Son, Ltd., dated 1948. In the center of both covers a blind-tooled strapwork motif. Spine with raised bands; in the compartments the same strapwork motif, and the gold-tooled inscriptions "GREGORII / HOMILIAE" and "MS. / FROM ROYAU/MONT ABBEY / XIII CENT." Two clasps.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript fragment on parchment (upper half of a leaf) of Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob, XVIII.41-42.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in a splendid large uncial with very few abbreviations. On f. 1v the two final letters of the last word on the top line ("habere") have been supplied in Anglo-Saxon minuscule; on line 6 the two final letters of the last word ("praemisimus") are supplied in smaller uncial script., The parchment is thin with greasy transparent patches and a hole (before writing) close to its lower edge., and Later the fragment was used as a flyleaf; an early owner wrote alongside the right-hand edge of f. 1v the ownership inscription "Liber iste est fratris Reyneri de Capella. Orate pro eo".
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregorius Magnus (Gregory the Great, pope 590-604), Moralia in Iob
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in bold Praegothica marked by strong bifurcation at the top of the ascenders, frequent use of lengthened i, unusual ct-ligature and the Southern form of tironian et., The text opens with a 6-line decorated initial P, half inset, with long tail in the margin in red and blue., and The inner margin is trimmed, damaging part of the initial on the recto. Both pages are stained and the recto (hair side) is worn.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals filled or dotted with red; the lower loop of the letter "g" is usually dotted with red; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great (Pope Gregory I), Moralia in Iob, chaps. 22.7.17-7.68; 22.8.48-9.28; and 31.43.14-51.27.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, with marginal notation (on f. 1v) in a contemporary hand, probably the text scribe., Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials in brown uncials; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus., and Former call numbers: Beinecke MS 482.17 (f. 2).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 10line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus flexus; double quotation marks in the margin; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on paper of Gregory I, Pope, Moralia in Iob. Books 1-4 translated into Italian by Zanobi de Strata
Description:
In Italian., Several watermarks, most indeterminate, but one resembling Piccard, vol. 10, II 307 (Pavia, 1397-99)., Copied in Italian humanist cursive., and Binding: Plain vellum over boards. Endleaves from a 14th-century breviary.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
