Manuscript fragment on parchment of a group of sermons, including: Hildebert of Le Mans, Sermones de tempore; Unidentified sermon on John the Evangelist; and Unidentified sermon on the Circumcision (1 January).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an informal gothic script (approaching a littera textualis currens)., and Decoration: spaces have been left at the beginning of homilies for 2-line initials, but they have not been added; 1-line initials are in brown; punctuated with the punctus; a contemporary hand has made some corrections to the text in a darker ink.
Manuscript on parchment of Signa loquendi, a manual of sign language
Description:
In Latin., Script: main text copied by a single hand in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria., Paragraph marks and stroking of majuscules in red. Red plain 1-line versals and one 3-line initial of the same type., and Binding: S. XIX binding: red morocco over cardboard, the covers decorated with blind-tooled, partly silver fillets. Turn-ins gold-tooled. Printed paper pastedowns with brown and blue geometric pattern in the style of textile. Spine blind-tooled with gold-tooled title “DE SIGNIS MONACHORVM”.
Manuscript on parchment (leaves are very uneven due to irregular trimming) originally composed of roughly executed full-page illustrations and diagrams that constitute the Speculum theologie
Description:
In Latin., Script: Inscriptions written in gothic bookhand, additions in either textura or running scripts (ff. 2r. 7v)., The illustrations on ff. 1r-7v are drawn in red ink, heightened with green, orange, and yellow. The diagram on f. 8r is drawn in brown and red, touched with blue, red, yellow and gold., Folio 8r darkened and rubbed with some loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in mottled brown goatskin, gold-tooled, with a red label. Marbled paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of old statutes related to the Carthusian order
Description:
In Latin., Script: written by two scribes in gothic script, one writing littera hybrida script (fols. 1-2) and the other writing littera textualis (fols. 3-4)., and Decoration: there are spaces for 2-line initials and rubrics, but they have not been added; 1-line capitals within text are in black; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus flexus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carthusians.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment of Ps.-Joachim da Fiore, Vaticinia Pontificum. With additional prophetic texts including a Sibylline tract entitled De imperatore; and a Version of the "Tripoli" prophecy, added by a late 15th- or early 16th-century hand, here recorded as a vision in a Cistercian monastery in 1346
Description:
In Latin., Script: Arts. 2-4 written in neat gothic bookhand. Art. 1 in a less formal bookhand and art. 5 in a notarial hand with various flourishes., 15 small miniatures, 12-line, within narrow ochre frames inserted into text column, one for each prophecy in art. 3, ff. 15r-22r. The miniatures depict a cycle of Popes and city scapes with emblematic attributes against pink, blue and ochre grounds with small white filigree designs along the edges. Numerous flourished initials, 2-line, alternate in red and blue with purple or red penwork designs. Headings in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue., and Binding: Fifteenth century (?). Tacketed through a limp vellum (palimpsest?) wrapper to thick leather pads with a basket weave around the sewing threads. Contemporary title in ink, on front: "De imperatore." Backs of quires cut in for sewing.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Joachim, of Fiore, approximately 1132-1202.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Papacy, History, Prophecies, and Visions
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Macer Floridus, Viribus herbarum. Composed of one incomplete bifolium containing lines 1369-1387, 1395-1413, 1420-1438,1445-1464 of the 1832 edition edited by L. Choulant
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Layout: Single columns of 19 lines, of an original 26., Script: Gothica Textualis Libraria using Cursiva d., Decoration: Undecorated, except for a 1-line red versal and a 2-line plain red initial M on the last but one line of f. 2r (“Marrubium”)., Binding: used as binding for Galeatius Capella, De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo (Antwerp, J. Grapheus?, 1533)., Secundo folio: Et sic sit sumpta., Bookseller description available., and Bound with Galeatius Capella, De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo (Antwerp, J. Grapheus?, 1533). For other title, search by call number.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Macer, Floridus.
Subject (Topic):
Herbs, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Wolfram von Eschenbach, Willehalm, 249.9-253.22 and 262.23-267.8; the text is not continuous, one bifolium missing between leaves
Description:
In German., Script: Written in gothic bookhand., Plain initials in red; first letters of verses touched with red., and Removed from a binding: text suffers from holes, stains, and creases.
