Manuscript fragment on parchment of a fragment of an antiphon from a liturgical book, possibly an antiphonary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late pregothic script., Decoration: heightened neumes; initials in red., and This fragment is contained in Zi 145.5 (Utrisque juris canonum...), in which the fragment is used as a front endpaper.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing the Vigil of Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis), with a slightly smaller script for the chants than for the lessons., and Decoration: two 10-line lesson initials "I" in red, one decorated with a face, set apart from the text; 1-, 2-, and 4-line initials are in red; other 1-line initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; foliation in red; punctuated with the punctus and the comma; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Masses for the main feasts of the Temporale from Christmas to Epiphany. 2) Full text (Ordinary and Sanctorale) of the mass for Candlemas. The rubrics prove that the manuscript is for the use of a bishop (Postea pontifex sollemniter cantet; Deinde pontifex dicat; Postea pontifex dicat hanc orationem, etc.).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in very large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda). The following texts are in a smaller size of the same script: Introit, Gradual, Tract, Offertory and Communion., The space for music staves in Gloria (1 line), Preface, Lord's Prayer and Peace has remained blank. Rubrics in red. The high-quality decoration is unfinished and totally missing in ff. 61-71., and Binding: ca. 1700. Limp parchment, with marks of two pairs of ties. The endleaves, added by the dealer Laurence Witten, are two leaves placed transversally and taken from two different antiphonaries.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Passio S. Margaritae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initial "O" is in red, decorated with two small red dots protruding into the interior of the letter; 1-line initials are in a mixture of brown uncial and rustic capital forms; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; marginal hymn has 1-line capitals, rubrics, and paragraphs marks in brown highlighted with red as well as interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a psalter containing portions of Psalm 121
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an unidentified script., Decoration: rubrics, initials, and chapter marks in red; heightened neumes present., and This fragment is contained in Zi +5140 (Roberto Caracciolo, Specchio della fede), in which the fragment is used as the back pastedown.
Manuscript on sheeskin parchment of Guillelmus Durandus's (c. 1230-1296), Rationale divinorum officiorum, with marginal notes; also contains alphabetical indexes of St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermones in Cantica Canticorum and the notulae to that text
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by two hands: (A) copied art. 1 in small, highly abbreviated Gothica Semitextualis Currens with some southern features; (B) copied artt. 2-3 in a small Gothica Textualis Libraria., Decoration: Headings in red; alternately red and blue paragraph marks; alternately red and blue 3-line flourished initials, half-inserted, with penwork in the contrasting colors; half-inserted painted initials of various sizes and colors; historiated 8-line initial (damaged) at the head of Book I in the same colours and gold, representing the author; and a circular diagram of the lunar month on f. 131r., and Binding: Sixteenth century, blind-tooled quarter binding of brown leather and bevelled wooden boards, sewn on three double thongs, and decorated with rolls; two clasps attached to the front board, associated with decorated brass catches on the rear board.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an unidentified script., Decoration: rubrics in red; capitals in red., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi 6309 (Dante, Convivio), in which they are used as front and back endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
