Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of Documents and accounts (ca. 1400-1530) pertaining to the church of St. Gregory in Sebenico (Dalmatia). Folios 63v-64r contain a copy of a will, in Latin, of Gregory of Sebenico. Other items, including an inventory of the church of St. Gregory (dated 8 Sept. 1403) are in Italian
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified mountain., Script: Arranged in a tabular format and written in many different cursive hands. Some entries have been crossed out., Numerous folios are stained and partly illegible; final leaves mutilated; loss of text throughout., and Binding: Date? Sewn with coarse thread on seven double, wound thongs. Tacketed to a brown goatskin wrapper with seven sets of four tawed, pinkish-brown thongs, wound around each other on the outside of the spine. Sewing holes about 10 mm. apart outline the edges of the spine, sides, fore-edge and envelope flaps. Mold has eaten into cover and book, and the wrapper has shrunk so that it is now much smaller than the bookblock. Home-made notarial binding? Covers are lined with fragments of a noted antiphonal (12th century); part of one sheet containing responds and antiphons for Epiphany and its octave is legible. Ca. 17 lines of text. Diastematic notation on a dry point staff with one red line. C and f are used as clefs, but from the condition of the sheet it is not possible to tell which clef should be associated with the red line.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Šibenik (Croatia)
Subject (Topic):
Accounts, Antiphonaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Martinus Oppaviensis OP (Martinus Polonus, Martin of Troppau, d. 1279), Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum, with continuations up to pope Clemens VI (1342-1352). 2) Accounts and other documents from the years 1385-1403, dealing with farms in Germany
Description:
In Middle High German and Latin., Script: Art. 1 is probably copied by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria becoming more rapid towards the end. Art. 2 is written at various moments by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Currens in compressed and irregular lines, sometimes difficult to decipher., In art. 1 the headings have not been executed (instructions for the rubricator in the lower margins in the first quire). Neither have the 2-line initials been executed, for which there are guide letters; the first initial only (a 3-line plain initial in black), f. 1r, has been made. Art. 2 is undecorated., Many pages water-stained and damaged, especially the lower margins. F. 1 and art. 2 badly spoilt by the use of a reagent., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Quarter red leather (pigskin) and oak boards with rounded edges; the leather fixed on the boards with iron nails; sewn on three split leather thongs. Remnants of one strap attached to the rear board, with a brass pin in the front board. Part of the iron attachment for a chain preserved at the top of the rear board. Yellowish leather pastedowns, now detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Germany., Connecticut, New Haven., and Holy Roman Empire
Subject (Name):
Martinus, Polonus, -1279.
Subject (Topic):
Accounts, Farms, Manuscripts, Medieval, Papacy, and History
