Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Ars Laureshamensis, Expositio in Donatum maiorem, an anonymous commentary on Donatus's Ars maior; the portion here is on part II of Donatus's grammar
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; double quotation marks are within the text.
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 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 fragment on parchment of Alan of Farfa, Homily I.87 (Vigil of Palm Sunday) and Homily I.88 (Maundy Thursday).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; corrections added in dark ink by a contemporary hand; annotations identifying biblical passages and Augustine's tractates added in pencil by a modern hand., and Decoration: 4-line initial "P" in brown and red on f. 2r; 1-line intials in brown uncials; rubric in red uncials; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and the punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Venerable Bede, Homily II.10.110-15; 124-30; 138-44; and 153-58. Note that the folio has been cut vertically into two pieces with a corresponding column (A and B) to each piece
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; corrections added in darker ink by a contemporary hand., Decoration: 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals or uncials; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus., and Former call numbers: Beinecke MS 482.7 (column B of the folio).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 635-735. and Catholic Church
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.
Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf (cut in halves in the middle of the height) of Passion of St. Terentianus, bishop of Todi (1 Sept.).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Beneventan script., Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in red and yellow. 5-line initials in same colours., Stained with paste. The outer edge is heavily trimmed and 8 rectangular cuttings have caused important text losses in the outer column., and Used in a binding. On the top of the verso, in the middle and at the bottom of the leaf the offset of texts written on a flyleaf (?) of the binding from which the fragments were taken [to be read with a mirror]. In the inner margin of the same verso is an undeciphered 19th-century inscription.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a passionary containing two lives of St. Cassian
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Beneventan script., and Decoration: the Prudentius life is written in poetic stanzas; six-line decorated initial is outlined in brown; 1-line initials are brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus.