Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified commentary on Galatians
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule with archaic features such as half-uncial "g", "rt" ligature, and occasionally half-uncial "a"., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown uncials with an enlarged minuscule "e"; punctuated with the punctus for major pauses and the punctus elevatus for minor pauses.
Manuscript on parchment (varying quality) of 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts and ends incomplete. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidentified sermon for the feast of a Confessor in the Common of the Saints. 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by more than five hands in Carolingian script and Praegothica., Art. 1 is decorated with red plain initials, more or less small decorated initials in various colours and large initials. Art. 3 has a title in mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. The part of art. 4 copied by hand B has some highlighting in yellow, red or green and plain initials; the part copied by hand C has a few plain initials; the 12th-century part copied by hand D has red headings with instructions in small script written in the outer margins, plain or flourished Romanesque initials and an explicit in decorated mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. Art. 5 is undecorated apart from its title and the opening initial. There are effaced drawings in the lower margins of some leaves in art. 1., and Binding: Twentieth century. Reddish brown morocco over cardboard, by Riviere and Son. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription "S. GREGORII DIALOGI. SAEC. X".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, of a portion of the text of Bede's Homily on the Ascension
Description:
In Latin., Text corresponds to Patrologia Latina (PL) 94: 180/81., Layout: double columns of 28 lines., Script: copied by a single hand in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: capitals touched with red ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of St. Augustine, In Iohannis Evangelium (Tractus cxxiv), wherein the numbers given to the tractates are one less than those given in the edition (which is perhaps the result of scribal error or perhaps reflective of alternative content within this manuscript).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; annotations added by modern hands., and Decoration: 4-line initial "I," in orange with foliate ornamentation, beginning Tractus 36; 2-line initial "A" in a similar style; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubrics in orange rustic capitals; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, punctus interrogativus, and the punctus flexus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Bede's In Matthaei evangelium expositio
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule with a mixture of pre-Caroline and Caroline forms of "a"., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals with occasional use of uncial "m" and "e"; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus.