Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours (litanies) including a litany that includes the following saints: Gereon and companions, Cosmas, Damian, Fabian, Sebastian, Gervase, Protase, Crispin, Crispinian, Chrysogonus, Leodegarus, Lambert, Ch...
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an illuminated Book of Hours. It contains the opening of the Commendation of Souls, a series of psalms often found after the Office of the Dead in English or English-marketed books of hours
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium, Bruges, Connecticut, New Haven., and Bruges (Belgium)
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Baudouin d'Avesnes (d. 1289; Lord of Beaumont and son of Margaret of Flanders), Chroniques de Hainaut. Continues to ca. 1131
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Hainaut (Belgium)
Subject (Name):
Baudouin d'Avesnes.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Capitula for several feasts; prayers for the offices of the Temporale and the Sanctorale; prayers for the Commemorations of the Virgin; various other prayers, benedictions, liturgical instructions, and additional collects
Description:
Script: Apart from additions, copied by a single hand in a large, high, and very angular Northern Gothica Textualis Formata in two sizes; and the earlier additions are in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata, while the later ones are in Humanistica Curs...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustinian Canons., Catholic Church. Diocese of Liège (Belgium), and Catholic Church
Manuscript on parchment (thick, but good quality) of a Collection of Texts on St. Barbara. With a miscellany of texts including patristic works, moralistic poems, and prophecies
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Barbara, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prophecies
