Manuscript on parchment of the Bible, with prologues to almost every book; also includes interpretations of Hebrew names
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by several similar-looking hands writing in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Decoration: each Prologue (except Jeremiah, f. 240rb) opens with a painted initial, decorated with interlace and hybrid animals, fishes, etc. Numerous large and small decorative initials in red and blue pen-work. Execution of decoration ascribed to the "Vie de Saint Denis Atelier." See catalog description for further detail., and Binding: Eighteenth century : rose-coloured parchment over wooden boards; both covers gold-tooled; brass bosses and clasps; arms of Johann Christoph Borzek on front cover; cartouche containing a peasant pruning a tree, with the motto "Cum tempore fructus," on rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a biblical commentary on the Prologue to the Pentateuch through Exodus 30 and on the Song of Songs through Matthew 5.
Description:
In Latin and Middle High German., Script: written in a very small, heavily abbreviated gothic bookhand (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are written in brown; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript on parchment, incomplete, of a Latin sermon about God's mercy and His aversion to pride, demonstrated from teh example of the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1-11).
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 25 lines., Script: Caroline minuscule., Decoration: rubrication., and Water damage with loss of text on verso.
Manuscript on parchment (low quality), composed of several manuscripts bound together, of mostly unidentified sermons. Produced at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo
Description:
In Latin., Script: Small early Gothica Textualis or Semitextualis Libraria or Currens script by various hands, some very informal and difficult to decipher, often highly abbreviated., Short running titles are written above the right-hand columns of the recto pages in the following articles: 1, 3, 4, 9, 16, 18-23, which seem to be the original part of the codex; article 14 has running titles of a different type., The first folios are stained., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over cardboard, blind-tooled with triple fillets as in MS 517; spine with five raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Jerome's Commentaria in Ezechielem
Description:
In Latin, Script: written in late Carolina minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; two words in Greek majuscules with a line drawn above them; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; double quotation marks in the outer margin of the recto.
In Latin., Script: copied by a single hand in Praegothica still close to Carolina. There are short running headlines in Gothica Cursiva up to f. 124r and again from f. 140v to the end., Large Romanesque initials in red., and Binding: 15th century. Blind stamped leather over wooden boards, repaired and recovered. Flyleaves are from a 12th-century Italian homilary (?).
Manuscript on paper of 1) Ambrosiaster, Commentarius in Epistolam S. Pauli ad Romanos, recensio. 2) Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt (here attributed to his pupil Remigius of Auxerre), Commentaries on Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Hebrews, Philemon, and Titus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a group of scribes, all writing a more or less careful Italian Late Carolingian script. There are numerous and extensive alterations and corrections on erasure. Headings in a mixture of Capitals and Uncials., Headings in red. Initials of various styles: (1) plain Romanesque initials, sometimes with developed decoration, in red; (2) more or less large painted initials in various bright colours on coloured background and filled with white vinestem; the body of the letter often filled with various interlace and frets; the vinestem may be issuing from an animal's mouth. Special forms of these painted initials: ff. 88v (wheel-shape), 90r (a snake winding round the shafts of the letter), 126r (outline drawing of vinestem initial), 136v (zoomorphic: bird-shape), 186v (inhabited by two birds), 204v (zoomorphic: dragon-shape), 209r (idem, with head at both ends), 215v (zoomorphic: fish), 216r (zoomorphic: dragon with head at both ends), 222v (inhabited by two birds), 268v (partly zoomorphic: bird), 274v (historiated: head of St. Paul). Initials are lacking f. 197v, 201v., and Binding: Original doeskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards. On each cover traces of five circular bosses; traces of two straps fixed to the rear cover and clutching over pins in the front cover. On the front cover an inscription largely worn off: "Remigius super epistolas sancti Pauli" (13th century?).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ambrosiaster.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt's Commentarium in Epistolam ad Hebraeos
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals with occasional use of an enlarged minuscule "e"; punctuated with punctus and punctus interrogativus; a contemporary hand has made corrections and altered punctuation in a somewhat lighter ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf of Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. The fragment contains Ps. 77:68-78:13, PL 93.909-914. The lemmata are announced by means of paragraph marks in the shape of gallows. There are many corrections; additions are written in the upper margins or vertically in the intercolumnar space, in the same way as in MS 517
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a careful small late Carolingian script., The upper corners and the lower part of the leaf have been trimmed with loss of text., and The fragment was used as cover for a binding of a 16th-century book, f. 1v being the outer side. On what was the spine a handwritten title is vaguely legible "SCHOLIA SAL*** TAN*"; on the front cover the letters "M C E //" and the date "15//" are stamped.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified commentary on Luke
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in small, highly abbreviated gothic script (littera textualis currens)., and Decoration: 1-line initials in black; punctuated with the punctus; accents added by a later hand.
