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1.
Antiphonary (fragment).

Published / Created:
[between 1090 and 1110].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 482.28
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Antiphonaries
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Antiphonary (fragment).

2.
Arithmetica

Creator:
Boethius, -524
Published / Created:
11th century
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 984
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boethius, -524.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Mathematics
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arithmetica

3.
Bible, Ezechiel (fragment).

Published / Created:
[between 1050 and 1099]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 481.22
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, Ezechiel (fragment).

4.
Bible, Mark, or Lectionary or Missal (fragment).

Published / Created:
[between 990 and 1010].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 482.20
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, Mark, or Lectionary or Missal (fragment).

5.
Gospels of Matthew and Mark

Published / Created:
[ca. 1050]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 402
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gospels of Matthew and Mark

6.
Gradual (fragment).

Published / Created:
[between 1090 and 1099].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 482.46
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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).
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gradual (fragment).

7.
Historia tripartita

Creator:
Epiphanius, Scholasticus
Published / Created:
[between 1050 and 1060]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1093
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Epiphanius Scholasticus, Historia tripartita, an ecclesiastical history
Description:
Schøyen MS 85 and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Epiphanius, Scholasticus.
Subject (Topic):
Church history and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia tripartita

8.
Homiliary (fragment).

Creator:
Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?, author
Published / Created:
[between 990 and 1010].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 481.38
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Homiliary (fragment).

9.
Hymnal (fragment).

Published / Created:
[between 1040 and 1060]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 481.36
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Hymns, Latin
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hymnal (fragment).

10.
Institutio Grammatica (fragment).

Creator:
Priscian, active approximately 500-530
Published / Created:
[between 1050 and 1099]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 481.44
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Priscian, active approximately 500-530.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Institutio Grammatica (fragment).

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