Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing among other items: various Feria from Quadragesima; Saturday of the first week of Quadragesima; and Second Sunday of Quadragesima
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: on fol. 1v, there are portions of a 3-line square capital "T" in orange; initials of the antiphons beginning feriae IV and VI are 1-line rustic capitals in orange; initials of responses and of the antiphon beginning feria V are thick brown uncials filled with red; other 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; rubrics are written in orange rustic capitals; liturgical directions are written in brown minuscule highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes for chants with full text are in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a fragment of De Arithmetica by Boethius
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Carolina. The glosses in a different, small handwriting. Headings in Capitalis. The words following an initial in a mixture of Capitalis and Uncialis. Headings and plain initials (in Capitalis) in red. The table on f. 2v is traced in double red ink lines, the space between the double lines coloured yellow., Boethius, De arithmetica, 1.10.87-1.11.52, with interlinear glosses. One bifolio, the two leaves not in succession. Loss of text caused by holes and the rubbing on ff. 1r and 2v., and Binding: the bifolium was used for the binding of a book, ff. 1r and 2v being the outer side of the covers; because of the wide inner margins, relatively little text was lost in the process.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Bible, Ezechiel, containing parts of chapters 18, 19, and 20.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials in brown rustic capitals; portion of a running head in red in the upper margin of the verso; punctuated with punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus and punctus interrogativus; a contemporary hand has made some corrections and added a paraph at the beginning of chapter 20.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of the biblical book of Mark, or a lectionary, or a missal
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus., and The speakers in the text are noted by letters above the first word of quoted text: "T" for Jesus, "C" for the narrator, and "I" for other speakers; these letters indicate the different ways to read the words of the speakers in the passage during Holy Week, in this case, Feria III.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, and Missals
Manuscript fragment on parchment, of a leaf from the Dialogi of Septimus Severus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Caroline minuscule. One chapter heading in uncial capitals., Decoration: rubricated heading initial. Small initials in brown ink., and Three lines of interlinear commentary in a gothic cursive hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares. Used as cover on a copy of Nicolas Remy, Daemonolatreiae libri tres (Frankfurt: In officina Palthenii, 1596).
Description:
In Latin., Layout: Single column of 26 lines., and Decoration: Rubrication.
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Gospel of Matthew, preceded by Prologue to Gospels from Jerome; letter of Jerome to Damasus; spurious addition to letter attributed to Jerome; Prologue to Matthew. 2) Gospel of Mark, preceded by Prologue. Final leaf missing; the conclusion of Mark is added on a piece of parchment (Germany, ca. 1150) stitched in between ff. 110 and 112 (formerly glued to f. 112).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in German minuscule by a single scribe., At the beginning of each Gospel, full-page initials, f. 9r (Matthew) and f. 71r (Mark) incorporating symbols of the Evangelists; f. 9r with gold foliate scrolls with silver tendrils, one with a pink dragon-head terminal, against blue, light green and orange; f. 71r gold and silver, with spiraling foliage in shaded blue, orange and green, supported by a pink and gold dragon; both followed by display capitals in alternate lines of gold and silver, shaded in blue. Large initials in gold and silver as above, 2-line, f. 1r, and 6- or 5-line, ff. 3r, 5r, 5v, and 68v, for prefaces, epistles and prologues. 3-line initials, as above, for chapter divisions. 1-line initials throughout, inner margin, orange, filled with gold and/or silver. Rubrics in orange. Some oxidization of silver., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Red velvet case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Vulgate, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
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 Paul the Deacon's homilies, I.49 and I.50.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3-line square capital "Q" in orange, remainder of the first line written in brown rustic capitals; 1-line initials are in brown uncials; rubric written in orange rustic capitals; first line of the sermon is in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?. and Catholic Church
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 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.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, from a martyrology. Verso contains a three line explicit in small capitals referring to "Sancti Lantperti, episcopi et martyris."
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 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 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
