Manuscript leaves from a Sarum missal, containing text from Masses for the third and eighth Sundays after Pentecost and for the dedication of a church
Description:
In Latin., Layout: double columns of 39 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., and Decoration: numerous initials in burnished gold or blue; extensive penwork.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary, use of Sarum, containing a variety of feriae from the third week of Advent
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line initials are in blue with red penwork or in black with black penwork; 1-line initials are in black; rubrics are written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; musical notation is in black on 4-line staves in red.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the first section of an Old Testament chronicle and genealogy of Christ in Middle English prose
Description:
In Middle English., Originally formed a single roll with Takamiya MS 53., Annotation at top of roll in late 18th century hand attributing ownership in 1485 to Richard Kidderminster, Abbot of Winchecombe., Layout: double column., Script: English gothic bookhand., Decoration: names in colored cartouches of green or brown squares., and Binding: modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the second section of an Old Testament chronicle and genealogy of Christ in Middle English
Description:
In Middle English., Originally formed a single roll with Takamiya MS 36., Layout: double columns., Script: English gothic bookhand., Decoration: names in colored cartouches of green or brown squares; circular diagram of the temple of Jerusalem., and Binding: modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, containing the Penitential Psalms, the Litany of the Saints, the Psalms of the Passion, and other Latin prayers and devotions. The text is preceded by two pages of rubrics in Middle French; there are Middle English rubrics concerning indulgences on ff. 55-57. Several pages contain short pieces of music in the margins, probably in a contemporary hand and The manuscript also contains two miniatures not original to the text. The first (f. 4) is a full-page miniature of St. Christopher in color against a stylized landscape and a gold ground with a title sewn to the top margin, possibly predating its current binding by 50 years. The second (ff. 62b-63) is a double-page miniature of the Adoration of the Magi; the figures are outlined in ink and finished with washes in green, red and blue. Possibly intended as a pattern for embroidery or for wall-painting
Description:
In Latin, with a small number of rubrics in Middle French (ff.1-2) and Middle English (ff. 55-57)., Front and back pastedowns from a contemporary? printed German play about Adam and Eve., Layout: first section in single columns of 17 lines; second section in single columns of 12 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 110 initials in blue with red penwork. Full-page miniature illustration of St. Christopher; double-page illustration of the Adoration of the Magi., and Binding: 16th-century English blind-stamped calf, with panels of heads in medallions, rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript document, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the petition of Joan, widow of William Rykyll to Baron Bergavenny for the restoration of her rights in land held of Robert Lindsey, in Kent, from which she has been disseized by Edward Lindsey and Rose, his wife and the daughter of William Rykyll
Description:
In Middle English., Docketed in a contemporary hand., Layout: single column of 14 lines., and Script: Anglicana.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England., England, and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bergavenny, George Neville, Baron.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Feudal law, Land tenure, and Women
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a set of planetary tables, followed by a two-page note of instructions for their use, which begins: "For the declaracion of this p[re]cedente tabule." The included feast days suggest an origin in southern England, perhaps London
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: tables in red and brown ink., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: gold initials., and Binding: modern half-calf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Calendar, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of portions of the text of Higden's Polychronicon. mostly related to the history of England from BRutus to Richard II. Preceded by a table of contents
Description:
In Latin., Numerous marginal annotations in several contemporary and later hands. Marginal note on p. 136 refers to the death of Oliver Cromwell ("tyranno")., Bound with: Martinus Polonus, Margarita decreti seu tabula martiniana decreti (Strasburg, 1493); William Lyndwood, Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane, (Paris, 1504)., Watermark: Briquet 11159?, Layout: single columns of approximately 35 lines., Script: English cursive bookhand., Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 60 large initials in red with penwork in brown ink., and Binding: late seventeenth-century full calf; blind-ruled, with crown stamp in the corners. The binder has been identified as a London binder who also worked for Samuel Pepys. Metal chain attached from the upper cover, fourteen links, a ring on either end, and a middle swivel.
Manuscript on parchment of Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla super psalterium; Postilla super libros prophetorum
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by two scribes: A copied ff. 1r-95r (with the exception of f. 40) in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria; and B copied ff. 97r-272r in the same type of script, but closer to Anglicana., Decoration: Illuminated initials in red, purple, blue, and gold leaf. Elaborate marginal vine-and-floral ornamentation at beginnings of chapters in red, blue, green, brown, and gold leaf. Occasional multi-colored pictures and diagrams. Traces of indexing tabs on the first leaf of every book. See catalog description for further detail., and Binding: 19th century parchment over pasteboards. Each cover has a central embossed design of an interlocking lozenge and rectangle in red and black with floral ornamentation in gold and blue. Red leather labels on spine with embossed gold letters.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
