Manuscript on parchment of books I-IX of Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, also containing two Masses: (1) feast of Charlemagne (Jan 28) and (2) feast of St Catherine (Nov 25); various prayers; scriptural excerpts; and a list of donations to the abbey of Mersburg
Description:
In Latin., Script: The main section is copied by various similar hands, in Carolingian script: hand (A) copied ff. 3v and 5r-65v; hand (B) ff. 66r-254v and 256r-259v; hand (C) f. 255r-v. The 15th century replacements for missing parts are copied in Gothica Hybrida Libraria, and the additional texts are copied by various 13th-14th century hands, writing in Gothica Textualis Libraria in various sizes, except art. 2, which is in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior., Decoration: Limited and uneven, ceasing after f. 122r. A few simple initials. A small pen drawing of a young man sitting on a bench, with undecipherable accompanying text, and a dry-point sketch of a standing male figure., and Binding: 20th century brown morocco de luxe over cardboard, by Marguerite Duprez-Lahey (1880-1958); both covers blind-tooled with frames and disk motif, also apparent on the blind-tooled turn-ins; and the spine has four raised bands and gold-tooled inscriptions.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the first section of an Old Testament chronicle and genealogy of Christ in Middle English prose
Description:
In Middle English., Originally formed a single roll with Takamiya MS 53., Annotation at top of roll in late 18th century hand attributing ownership in 1485 to Richard Kidderminster, Abbot of Winchecombe., Layout: double column., Script: English gothic bookhand., Decoration: names in colored cartouches of green or brown squares., and Binding: modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the second section of an Old Testament chronicle and genealogy of Christ in Middle English
Description:
In Middle English., Originally formed a single roll with Takamiya MS 36., Layout: double columns., Script: English gothic bookhand., Decoration: names in colored cartouches of green or brown squares; circular diagram of the temple of Jerusalem., and Binding: modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Pauline Epistles (Epistola ad Romanos 2.27 through Epistola ad Hebreos 11.34), with commentary of Gilbert de la Porree. With Argumenta, later additions, all attributed to Hugo de Sancto Caro or Peter Lombard
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand in two sizes of script, above top line., Three illuminated initials at beginning of first three Epistles of excellent quality, ff. 34v, 69v, 86v, 8- to 5-line, with descenders extending into margins, red, blue, green and beige against gold ground. Bodies of initials filled with stylized scrolling foliage, bright blue, red, green, orange, silver and yellow with white highlights against gold ground. Descenders serve as a trellis for similar scrolls, some ending in biting animal's heads or fantastic birds. Scrolling foliage, f. 86v, inhabited by beasts of a canine variety, white with red shading. The decoration of manuscript is unfinished; f. 99r pen and ink underdrawing for an initial as above, with only touches of red added; blank spaces left for initals for remaining Epistles. Small initials, 3-line, gold with red penwork, for beginning of commentary for each Epistle. Headings in red or alternating red and blue majuscules. Plain initials touched with red. Running titles, later addition, in red., and Binding: Twentieth century, United States (?). Half bound in dark red goatskin with gold-tooled lettering on the spine ("St. Paul/ Epistulae cum commento/ MS. 12th Cent."), marbled paper sides, and yellow edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gilbert, de La Porrée, approximately 1075-1154., Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, approximately 1200-1263., and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla super psalterium; Postilla super libros prophetorum
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by two scribes: A copied ff. 1r-95r (with the exception of f. 40) in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria; and B copied ff. 97r-272r in the same type of script, but closer to Anglicana., Decoration: Illuminated initials in red, purple, blue, and gold leaf. Elaborate marginal vine-and-floral ornamentation at beginnings of chapters in red, blue, green, brown, and gold leaf. Occasional multi-colored pictures and diagrams. Traces of indexing tabs on the first leaf of every book. See catalog description for further detail., and Binding: 19th century parchment over pasteboards. Each cover has a central embossed design of an interlocking lozenge and rectangle in red and black with floral ornamentation in gold and blue. Red leather labels on spine with embossed gold letters.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Nicolaus de Lyra, Postillae on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and I-IV Kings
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand., 19 pen-and-ink drawings with washes in red, green, blue and pale yellow, some inserted into the text column, others up to half-page size dealing with the Tabernacle in the Desert and the Temple of Solomon: the drawings serve to clarify the written text by depicting differences in interpretations between Jewish and Catholic exegesis; contrasting drawings are usually juxtaposed and labelled with the respective source for each., Many fine flourished initials, red and blue divided, 9- to 3-line, with penwork designs in red, blue and/or purple; somewhat smaller less ambitious initials alternate red and blue with designs in the opposite color. The minor decoration appears inconsistently, with running headlines, rubrics, paragraph marks and underlining of Biblical texts, in various colors or totally absent., and Binding: Modern restoration? Limp vellum case with earlier title (mostly illegible) running lengthwise on spine and later title added at top of spine: "Fr. Nicolai de Lyra ord. min. Commentaria in Libro historico Sacrae Scripturae".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment composed in two parts. Part I (13th century): Nicolaus Tornacensis [?], Commentaria super Exodum 14.4-15.5; Commentaria in Lucam 1.19-1.33. With Philippus Cancellarius, Sermones de tempore; and unidentified texts on canon law. Part II (15th century): Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla in Iosuam; Postilla in Iudices
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-113): Written by multiple scribes in spiky gothic bookhand, both above and below top line; ff. 59v-60r in a later, less formal gothic script. Part II (ff. 114-165): Written in batarde script, below top line., Part I: Poorly executed initials, 3- to 2-line, in blue or red with designs in opposite color; plain red or blue initials for arts. 1 and 5. Headings and underlining for Biblical passages in red. Part II: Plain initials, 4- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, underlining for Biblical passages, initial strokes and punctuation, in red., Rust stains on ff. 109-113 indicate that Part I was once bound separately., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, France (?). Quarter bound in brown calf, blind-tooled, over oak boards. Bound by the same binder as Marston MSS 119, 214 and 236.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript on parchment of Isidore of Seville, Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various hands, all writing Praegothica., Red headings, chapter numbers and running headlines. Red, blue, brown or green half inset 2-line (sometimes 1-line) plain initials. Yellow heightening of the opening majuscules in the chapter lists. 4-line decorated initial in green, blue and red on f. 1r., and Binding: early binding, the back repaired with a piece of leather fixed with nails: dark brown leather over wooden boards. On both covers numerous marks of clasps, bosses and corner pieces. On the rear cover remnants of a paper title label. On the back a parchment label with the handwritten s. XVII title "S. Isidor. Hisp. / In Sacr. Script."
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Families & family life.
Publisher:
Kellogg & Bulkeley, Hartford, Conn
Subject (Topic):
Families, Piety, Bible, Reading, Children, Family members, Bibles, and Cats
Manuscript on paper (usually thin and white; watermarks vary) of texts on the faith of the Orthodox Church, specifically as it compares to Protestant doctrine. Includes prayers, sermons, commentaries, creeds, poems and glossaries
Description:
In Greek. and Script: Composed of 22 parts, written by different hands, mostly in Greek minuscule. The individual parts were perhaps collected and organized by Constantine Raphael Byzantinus, 18th century, whose notes are scattered throughout.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dositheos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 1641-1707. and Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Creeds, Devotional literature, Greek poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Greek
