Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing among other items: St. Ambrose (4 April); Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (14 April); St. George (23 April); St. Boniface (5 June); Sts. Primus and Felician (9 June).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: the 3- and 4-line initials at the beginning of Masses are in two styles: several initials are composed of hollow intertwining vines in red outline on a blue and green background; other initials are plain red square capitals; 1-line initials are in thick brown square capitals; 1-line initials of Psalm incipits are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; liturgical directions are in brown rustic capitals as are the first few words of each mass; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes are in the St. Gall style; liturgical notes have been written in the morgin of fol. 3v in a fifteenth-century cursive gothic hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a hymnal including among others: Bede, Carmen 6; Ambrose, hymn 12; anonymous hymns
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an elegant Caroline minuscule in the same style and presumably in the same scriptorium as Beinecke MS 481.39 as well as several other fragments still at Lambach., and Decoration: 2-line initials written in orange uncials; rubrics written in orange rustic capitals; the first 1 to 4 words of each hymn are written in brown rustic capitals; there is space for neumes in the outer margin but they have not been added; punctuated with punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church, Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., and Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sequentiary containing multiple hymns, many by Notker Balbulus
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials are a mixture of orange uncials and square capitals; rubrics are written in orange rustic capitals; the first 2 to 4 words of each sequence are written in a mixture of brown uncials and square capitals; punctuated with the punctus; neumes in the St. Gall style are in the outer margins.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Notker, Balbulus, approximately 840-912 and Catholic Church
Manuscript bifolium fragment pasted on a wrap-around binding. 1r contains 4 Alleluia verses (Schlager 27u, 28a, 71d, 203a). 2v contains the Eia recolamus from the Liber hymnorum of Notker Babulus
Description:
In Latin., Rubricated., From the Lake Constance region?, and Bound with: Acta apostolorum Græce et Latine (Monachii, 1622). Upper cover marked with monogram PAZL 1671 (Placidus Heber Abt zu Lambach).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benediktinerstift Lambach
Subject (Topic):
Library, Manuscripts, Medieval, Graduals (Chants), and Neumes
