Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing services for a variety of dates including: Fourth Sunday of Advent; Feria IV before Christmas; Feria V before Christmas; John the Evangelist (27 December); Holy Innocents (28 December); Sunday after Christmas; Epiphany; St. Sebastian (20 January); St. Agnes (21 January); Exaltation of the Cross (14 September); St. Matthew (21 September); St. Maurice (22 September); St. Michael (29 September); St. Dionysius (9 October).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; written in two sizes, smaller for chants, larger size for lessons; script similar to the style of Otloh of St. Emmeram., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of offices and lessons are in red square capitals; 1-line initials at beginning of chants are in brown square capitals with occasional use of uncial M and round E or an enlarged minuscule "m"; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; rubric letters for chants frequently written in left margin; liturgical directions written in brown rustic capitals touched with red; punctuated with punctus for the end of chants, and punctus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus for the lessons; chants have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Othlo, Monk of St. Emmeram, approximately 1010-approximately 1070. and Catholic Church
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing Ascension, from vespers to the first nocturn of matins with lessons from Leo Magnus' Tractatus septem et nonaginta
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: written in two sizes, a smaller module for the chants and a larger one for the lessons; 2-line initials are in red square capitals; 1-line initials in brown square capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with punctus in chants and the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus within the lessons; accents in same ink as the text; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing the Office of the Dead with lessons from Augustine, Sermon 173
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger one for the lessons; by the same scribe who copied the psalter preserved in Beinecke MS 481.46., and Decoration: 3-line initial on f. 1v in orange that has been filled with crude, brown cross-hatching, perhaps later; 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in orange square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in orange minuscules with rustic capitals; punctuated with punctus in chants and punctus and punctus elevatus within lessons; chants have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; marginal notation in a contemporary hand on 3r.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Catholic Church
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Noted Breviary (Nocturnale) containing a portion of a chant for an undisclosed office; St. Nicholas (6 December), from vespers to the first nocturn of matins; St. Nicholas, the first nocturn of matins; Office of St. Ulric, from vespers to the first nocturn of matins; Office of St. Afra (9 August), from the first to the second nocturn of matins with lessons from the Vita S. Afrae; Office of St. Gall (16 October), third nocturn of matins
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: written in two sizes, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger script for the lessons; drawing of a face with the words " Vita S. Uodalrici episcopi et confessoris" in brown ink; 2-line initial "V" at the beginning of the office on f. 2r is a red square capital; 1- and 2-line initials of lessons are in red uncials or square capitals; 1-line chant initials are brown uncials; rubrics written in red capitals; punctuated with the punctus for end of chants and punctus elevatus for lessons; antiphons and responses have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript on parchment of books I-IX of Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, also containing two Masses: (1) feast of Charlemagne (Jan 28) and (2) feast of St Catherine (Nov 25); various prayers; scriptural excerpts; and a list of donations to the abbey of Mersburg
Description:
In Latin., Script: The main section is copied by various similar hands, in Carolingian script: hand (A) copied ff. 3v and 5r-65v; hand (B) ff. 66r-254v and 256r-259v; hand (C) f. 255r-v. The 15th century replacements for missing parts are copied in Gothica Hybrida Libraria, and the additional texts are copied by various 13th-14th century hands, writing in Gothica Textualis Libraria in various sizes, except art. 2, which is in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior., Decoration: Limited and uneven, ceasing after f. 122r. A few simple initials. A small pen drawing of a young man sitting on a bench, with undecipherable accompanying text, and a dry-point sketch of a standing male figure., and Binding: 20th century brown morocco de luxe over cardboard, by Marguerite Duprez-Lahey (1880-1958); both covers blind-tooled with frames and disk motif, also apparent on the blind-tooled turn-ins; and the spine has four raised bands and gold-tooled inscriptions.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, from a martyrology. Verso contains a three line explicit in small capitals referring to "Sancti Lantperti, episcopi et martyris."
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Priscian's Institutio Grammatica including portions of Books VII and VIII
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Carolina minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials "S" in brown; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; one "L" has a hollow shaft that is filled with brown cross strokes; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus.
