Manuscript fragment on parchment of a group of sermons, including: Hildebert of Le Mans, Sermones de tempore; Unidentified sermon on John the Evangelist; and Unidentified sermon on the Circumcision (1 January).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an informal gothic script (approaching a littera textualis currens)., and Decoration: spaces have been left at the beginning of homilies for 2-line initials, but they have not been added; 1-line initials are in brown; punctuated with the punctus; a contemporary hand has made some corrections to the text in a darker ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a selection of sermons by Stephen Langton, including: an unidentified sermon on St. Paul; Sermon on the Conversion of St. Paul (25 January); unidentified sermon on the Annunciation (25 March); and Sermon on John the Baptist (24 June).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in small gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line and 6-line sermon initials are in red, except for the initial on fol. 1r, which is a 1-line capital in brown ink; 1-line initials are brown; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Song of Moses from a Psalter
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis), below top line., and Decoration: 1-line initials alternate red and blue; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a copy of the South German Homiliary containing parts of Homily II.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff (on the basis of his inspection of other leaves of the same manuscript) dated to the second quarter of the ninth century., and Decoration: the homily on fol. 1v begins with a 3-line initial "T" outlined in orange and filled and surrounded with brown; 1-line initials are in orange uncials and are set apart from the text between the double vertical bounding lines; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a southern German homiliary from the Carolingian period
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Caroline minuscule; the letters have been almost entirely retraced due to (perhaps 11th century) water damage., Decoration: 2-line intials in brown uncials; some highlighting in red; traces of a rubric between the two sermons; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus versus, and punctus elevatus., and Another copy of this homilary is found in Beinecke MSS 482.4 and 484.2.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a south German homiliary containing Homily II.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff has dated to the second quarter of the ninth century., and Decoration: the text is divided by paragraphs into short sense units, each beginning with a 1-line uncial in red that is set apart from the text; rubrics in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus.
Manuscript on parchment and paper containing theological and ascetic treatises and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various scribes in Gothica Semihybrida or Hybrida Libraria; the last section only (art. 11) is copied in a more rapid Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens, by Henricus de Benthem., The decoration differs from section to section. Red heightening of majuscules, red paragraph marks and red underlining. Headings in red or black, sometimes in Textualis. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) plain initials in red. 4-, 5- or 6-line flourished initials in red with black penwork on ff. 2r (art. 2), 50v (littera duplex, art. 4), 72r (littera duplex, art. 5), 146r (littera duplex, art. 8), 178r (art. 9)., The manuscript contains: 1) Guillelmus Peraldus (Guillaume Peyraud, s. XIII), De professione monachorum. 2) Requirements for the priest who is proceeding to the consecration of the Eucharist. 3) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione et de arte moriendi. 4) Anonymous treatise on the seven sacraments. 5) A short treatise on the Canonical Hours, being an annex to art. 5. 6) Henricus de Coesvelt OCarth. (d. 1410), De sacramento eucharistiae. 7) Anonymous treatise on the preparation to mass. 8) Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353), Historia Ioseph. 9) Thomas de Cantimprato (Thomas of Cantimpré, d. before 1266?), Vita sanctae Christinae Mirabilis (d. c. 1224). 10) Guido Vicentinus OP (d. 1332), Margarita Bibliae (Biblia metrica), without the prologues. 11) Table of contents., and Binding: circa 1900. Tan morocco binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; the covers decorated with a blind-tooled roll, and gold-tooled frames. Five decorated brass bosses with cornerpieces, of an undetermined age (16th century?), on each cover, and two brass clasps, equally much older than the binding, attached to the rear cover. Spine with four raised bands. Six leather tabs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, History, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment (coarse, yellow) of about 40 selections from saints' lives
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a single hand in careful Iberian Praegothica., Fine Romanesque initials (2-5 lines) with foliage penwork in red and blue. Some contain human heads (ff. 9r, 16v, 25r, 25v [two heads], 70r [two heads]). On ff. 64v, 125v and 135v initials of exceptional development, the latter two with animal decoration., Mutilated., and Binding: Twentieth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over....On the spine two labels with the hand-written inscriptions: "FLOS SANCTORUM MS" and "TOLEDO SAEC. XII".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of a ferial psalter containing a calendar, a psalter with hymns and antiphons, canticles, a litany, and the Office of the Dead
Alternative Title:
Psalterium Davidicum ad usam Anglicanum, cum antiphonis et hymnis ecclesiae, calalendario, et Officio Defunctorum
Description:
In Latin., Six leaves containing Psalms 24-25, 51-52, 110-112 are missing., Includes musical notation for the antiphons; neumes on red four-line staff., Script: copied in northern gothica textualis formata (textus rotundus) with English features., Decoration: rubrics in red (rare); red or blue paragraph marks. Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; brown or grey cadels, often decorated with a grotesque human face; numerous 2-line dentelle initials; large foliate initials on ff. 7v, 52r, 63v, 74v; these are accompanied by three-margins left floral borders., and Binding: early binding; undecorated brown leather over wooden boards.
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for a Dominican nuns' convent. Processions for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Easter, Dedication of a Church, and Holy Week are included
Description:
In Latin., Script: the text is written in a somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata., Decoration: red rubrics (rare); 2-line red plain initials for prayers; black cadels of 1-line height; initial on f. 1r decorated with a grotesque human face., and Binding: original binding; brown pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Germany, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Processionals (Liturgical books), Holy Week music, and Manuscripts, Medieval
