Manuscript on parchment of sermons on the Epistles and the Gospels of Sundays and sermons for Lent
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Ascenders at the top line are lengthened, thickened and indented and decorated with delicate penwork., Headings, underlining and paragraph marks in red. 2-line red plain initials, some filled with drawings of a human head; some are flourished initials with penwork in the same colour extending in the margin or in the intercolumnar space. The rubricator tends to place the short marginal notes in a red rectangular, diamond or leaf-shaped frame, or to link several notes on the same page by placing them in the loops of a curving line. Elegant pointing hands., and Binding: original binding: red leather over slightly bevelled wooden boards, sewn on five leather thongs, rebacked in white leather, the corners repaired with brown leather. Marks of two leather straps attached to the rear cover; holes of the iron pins on the front cover. Iron chain of nine elongated links and large round eyelet (length: 82 cm.), fixed to the top of the rear board by means of an iron staple.
Manuscript on paper of Iohannes Herolt OP (d. c. 1468), Sermones de tempore, incomplete: from the first Sunday of Advent through the fourth Sunday after Easter
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied probably by one scribe writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria. When the first letter on a page is a majuscule it is as a rule made larger, with some calligraphic development., Red stroking of majuscules and underlining, red plain generally 3-line initials., Leaves are badly waterstained in the outer lower corner in the second half of the manuscript., and Binding: 15th-16th century. Parchment over light wooden boards; leather spine with three raised bands; marks of two clasps. At the top of the rear board there is an excavation for the staple to which a chain was attached. On the spine parchment label with the handwritten title (19th century?) “JOHANNES HEROLT / Sermones Discipuli / De Tempore / saec. XV. 1436.” At the top of the rear cover close to the spine a printed paper label containing space for a shelfmark covering a large capital “W”; the handwritten shelfmark is “5867”.
Manuscript on paper of John of Freiburg (Iohannes Lector Friburgensis OP, d. 1314), Summa confessorum, German adaptation by Berthold of Freiburg (Bertholdus Friburgensis OP, 14th century).
Description:
In German., Watermarks: var. Piccard, v. 15, VIII.1547?; var. Piccard, v. 110, III.1667?., Script: Copied by Johannes Geratwol in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with some Bastarda characteristics., Headings, heightening of the majuscules and mostly 1-line plain initials in red or green. The initial on f. 1r has green penwork. The first lines of all titles in art. 1 are underlined in red., and Binding: Original pigskin, blind-tooled with lozenges traced in double fillets over bevelled oak boards. Spine with three raised bands, a label with handwritten title (worn) and a small label with the shelfmark "634"; the same number is written on the front cover. Traces of one strap attached to the rear cover and clutching over a pin (lacking) on the front cover.The binding stays and the lining inside the spine are said to come from a 12th-century Antiphonary from Tyrol, with text from the office for Epiphany. One strip of the spine lining would be from an unidentified 14th-century manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Johannes, von Freiburg, d. 1314. and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Christian literature, German, Confession, Catholic Church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Augustine's Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium ccxxiv
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by Gottschalk, a monk from the abbey of Lambach, Austria, whose hand appears in of other manuscripts, including Beinecke MS 481.51., and Decoration: In the upper left corner of the verso is a faint sketch of a cat (or possibly a wolf or lion), probably contemporary with the manuscript; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript bifolium fragment pasted on a wrap-around binding. 1r contains 4 Alleluia verses (Schlager 27u, 28a, 71d, 203a). 2v contains the Eia recolamus from the Liber hymnorum of Notker Babulus
Description:
In Latin., Rubricated., From the Lake Constance region?, and Bound with: Acta apostolorum Græce et Latine (Monachii, 1622). Upper cover marked with monogram PAZL 1671 (Placidus Heber Abt zu Lambach).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benediktinerstift Lambach
Subject (Topic):
Library, Manuscripts, Medieval, Graduals (Chants), and Neumes