Manuscript on parchment (thin) containing 1) List of Epistle and Gospel readings (incipit and explicit) for the liturgical year. 2) Survey of the subdivisions of the Bible. 3) Bible text. 4) Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum. Two folios are missing between ff. 184 and 185, two folios between ff. 282 and 283, one folio between ff. 295 and 296, all with loss of text
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in very small Northern Gothica Textualis., Red headings and red heigthening of the majuscules. Alternately red and blue pain initials (1 line) in art. 4. Alternately red and blue flourished initials (2 lines) with long marginal extensions. Beautiful larger flourished initials in the same colours with very developed penwork, in which both colours are sometimes combined, at the beginning of the various books and sections. On f. 1r large littera duplex and on f. 8r (beginning of Genesis) large initial I with very fine penwork, both the full height of the text area and in the same colours. Running titles in red and blue., Many leaves and the lower outer corners of all leaves damaged by moist., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over thin wooden boards, decorated with rolls. Rebacked. Remnants of two clasps fixed to the rear cover. On the spine two labels, the upper one with the gold-tooled title in Gothic, nineteenth century: "Biblia sacra cum interpretationibus Hebraicorum nomine [sic] in fine"; the lower one with gold-tooled inscription in Roman type "MS.P." On the first fly-leaf (f. Iv) a list of Biblical Kings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of what appears to be the second of a two-volume Bible
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in an elegant French minuscule, chapter divisions added in margins by a later hand., Twenty-seven fine aniconic initials, 20- to 7-lines. The initials are drawn in black pen, filled with yellow, brown or blue, most with interlace knots at midpoints and terminals, some with dragon heads, infilled with intertwining palmette foliage against irregular red, blue, green, and yellow panelled grounds. Prologues open with 10- to 4-line initials, red and blue with terminals in a leafy "arabesque" design. Chapters with 3-line initials in red. 1-line initials, running headings, and rubrics throughout. Marginalia sometimes outlined in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red velvet case. Leather placemarks on fore edge.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Latin Bible, annotated (art. 3), with various related and unrelated notes (artt. 1-2).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Probably copied by several similar hands, writing a small Late Carolingian script; and the headings and the poem on f. 2v (art. 3), both in red ink, are written in display script., Decoration: red headings and heightening of majuscules; red and blue paragraph marks, initials, and litterae duplices; large historiated "I" with three roundels depicting scenes from creation on f. 3v; pen-and-ink drawing in the lwoer margin of f. 59v., and Binding: 20th century white parchment over cardboard; spine with four raised bands, gold fillets, and a gold-tooled title "BIBLIA"/ "CA. 1200" in the second and third compartments.
Manuscript, on parchment, of the books of the Bible from Proverbs through the Apocalypse
Description:
In Latin., With an Oxford pledge note for the Selton Loan Chest dated 1469 and the mark of the stationer John More. There is also a note by M. Paris, possibly Master Thomas Paris of Oriel College., Layout: double columns of 49 lines., Script: small gothic script., Decoration: red and blue penwork initials., and Binding: modern goatskin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Oriel College. and University of Oxford.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Vulgate, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Universities and colleges
Manuscript fragments, on parchment, of an English Bible. The bound volume consists of 75 leaves containing the complete texts of the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles and Hebrews. The disbound fragment consists of 62 leaves of Old Testament texts, including most of Jeremiah and Proverbs, most of Zachariah, and 1 and 2 Machabees
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: rubricated. The volume contains 39 illuminated marginal initials, many with long marginal extensions incorporating animals or monsters. The disbound leaves contain several smaller initials. Some illuminated initials, and some leaves that most likely contained illuminated initials, appear to have been cut out in the disbound leaves., and Binding: seventeenth-century Cambridge-style paneled calf, blind-tooled; rebacked.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Matthew, containing portions of chapter 25 (Parable of the Talents).
Description:
In Latin., Decoration: initials in red., Script: written in an unidentified script., and Contained in Zi +237 (Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulcri, Commentarii in Valerium Maximum), in which the fragment has been used as a spine support.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Sirach; the text includes the headings for chapters LXXXII through LXXXVII
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3- to 7-line initials are red uncials; 1-line initials are black uncials; chapter headings are written in red minuscule in a larger module; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation added by a later hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Matthew 20.14-22.10; 25.11-28.20, with glossa ordinaria ending: qui diuina mansione sint. Crayon notes throughout in an unskilled hand, now mostly erased
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in fine carolingian minuscule of two sizes, the smaller script with tall ascenders; marginalia added in several later hands., and Binding: Twentieth century. Plain vellum wrapper.
Manuscript on parchment of text of Ezra and Nehemiah. With Glossa ordinaria, both in margins and between lines of text
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in two sizes of neat French minuscule by a single scribe; text written either above or below top line and gloss below top line., Lower half of f. 62 repaired with contemporary (?) parchment., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Plain vellum wrapper.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Book of Numbers (begins imperfectly at 5.14) with glossa ordinaria
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in two sizes of Carolingian minuscule., and Binding: Twentieth century. Vellum case with brown paper sides.
