Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours, containing 1) Computistical table including liturgical feasts. 2) Calendar. 3) Office of the Virgin. 4) Hours of Compassion of the Virgin. 5) Hours of Holy Wisdom. 6) Mass. 7) Penitential Psalms and Litanies. 8) Office of the Dead. Produced in Norwich, England, after 1367
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Script: Copied by two hands: A) the main scribe, writes Northern Gothica Textualis Formata with some English features; B) copied quire VI (artt. 5-6) in a smaller and simpler form of the same script. Musical notation in nota quadrata., Decoration: Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue 1-line versals. 2-line flourished initials with penwork; 4-line red and blue litterae duplices with blue and red penwork; in art. 8, the musical sections open with large cadels with some red decoration and fancy forms, often featuring grotesque human faces or animals. In ff. 39-42 red rubrics, yellow highlighting of majuscules, red 1-line versals and red 1- and 2-line plain initials., Binding: 17th century plain brown calfskin over pasteboard; spine (rebacked) with 4 raised bands and gold-tooled title; red edges., and In Latin.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours with an office for the dead
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In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand writing in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda)., and Decoration: Purplish red rubrics. Yellow highlighting of the majuscules. 1-line versals and 2- or 3-line initials, all in liquid gold on purplish red or blue square background decorated with foliage or flowers in liquid gold. Initials in red, blue, and gold. On f. 1v, there is a rectangular picture, framed in black and gold and treated as an initial 11 lines high, of God the Father with tiara, sitting, one hand on the globe, the other hand blessing rows of Seraphim and Cherubim before him. Elsewhere yellow-colored fleur-de-lys, animals, archers and a giant insects.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment. Includes a calendar for Augustinian hermits
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In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Humanistic influence (frequent use of Half-Uncial d), highly abbreviated., Heightening of the majuscules in yellow; headings in red. 1-line plain initials alternately in red and blue, with guide-letters, in the text (art. 2); 2-line plain initials alternately in red and blue, with guide-letters, placed half way in the text-block, except in col. a of the verso pages, where they are placed entirely in the margin. Running titles in red on most pages., Badly mutilated with missing folios., and Binding: ca. 1900 (before 1912) by P. Verburg in the workshop of Douglas Cockerell and in the style of the latter's bindings. Blind-tooled brown morocco over cardboard, with braided leather ties (defective) attached to the front cover and metal catchpins; hinges and back rubbed. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustinians. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript fragment on vellum of 1 leaf from a Breviary, with Feasts of Saint Luke (October 18) and the 11,000 Virgins (October 21).
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In Latin., Two 10-line historiated initials, blue on red background and red on blue background, both letter and background decorated with white penwork, patches of gold in the corners, with foliate marginal extensions. Yellow stroking of majuscules. Red rubrics and 1-line versals. Alternately red and blue half inset 3-line flourished initials with penwork respectively in blue and purple, with marginal extensions., and Script: copied by one hand in small Northern Gothica Textualis Formata.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ursula, Saint. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment. Includes computistical mnemonic verses for finding the date of Septuagesima for all the years of the 19-Years Cycle (Septuagesima interval prayer).
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In Latin., Script: copied by one hand, writing Gothica Textualis Formata in two sizes. The scribe Pierre Berger, priest of the church of Our Lady in Bourg-en-Bresse (France, dépt. de l'Ain), is unrecorded., and Binding: 18th century (?). Plain leather. On the flat spine and partly on the covers, a label with the handwritten title "Heures / manuscrites / Sur Vélin. / d'une belle / Conservation".
In Latin., Script: copied by two hands, both writing Gothica Textualis Formata. Hand A copied ff. 1r-8v in bold script with little angularity and long ascenders and descenders; hand B copied all the other pages in Textus Semiquadratus in two sizes, with conspicable forking at the top of the ascenders, spurs, hairlines, a very short d and Southern German or Central European features such as the shape of the -orum and -arum abbreviations, the use of y for ii, etc. The texts on the inserted leaflets and some corrections are in Gothica Hybrida (Fractura)., Slips of parchment with additional texts have been inserted between ff. 18-19, 33-34, 35-36., Red rubrics and red stroking of majuscules. Red initials: 1-line versals, 2-line plain initials; art. 1 opens with a 4-line initial and features several 3-line initials, all of the same type as the other ones in the manuscript., and Binding: original, yellowish pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets and rolls. Spine blind-tooled with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear board, with engraved brass catches (one partly preserved) on the front board. Yellow spine.
Manuscript on parchment of 14th century French breviary; includes a liturgical calendar, a ferial psalter, an Office for the Dead, a Temporal, a Sanctoral, a Common of the Saints, Readings, and a hymn in honor of St. Nicholas
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Script: Copied in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Art. 7 is written in the same script, but by a differnet hand, and in the15th century. Art. 8 and several other additions are written in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., Decoration: Yellow heightening of majuscules; red rubrics; underlinings and paragraph marks; alternately red and blue 1-line plain initials; 2-line (rarely 3-line) gold dentelle initials on a blue and/or red background with penwork; and several large foliate initials, anywhere between 4 and 8 lines, in the same colors, with decorative staff in the intercolumnary space or in the left margin. The lost first page of art. 2 possessed a large initial and full border in the same style. The 15th century addition has red rubrics and is decorated with 2-line red plain initials., Binding: 17th century undecorated brown sheepskin over cardboard, sewn on four double cords. The binding is very damaged and the spine is missing., and In Latin.
Manuscript on parchment of breviary (summer part) with calendars, ferial psalter and canticles, various hymns, lessons of the temporale, office of the virgin, and various prayers
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In Latin., Script: copied by various hands in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata or Libraria; and additional parts (artt. 1-3, 11, 18-20) are in 15th century Gothica Hybrida or Semihybrida; and art. 21 is in Gothica Hybrida., Decoration: In the original section of the manuscript, there are red headings and rubrics, red paragraph marks, red stroking of majuscules and red 1-line versals. Other various red or red and blue initials are generally 2- or 3-lines and are plain or have interior reserved shapes. The Calendar and the 15th century additions have simple red decoration., and Binding: contemporary, red pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on three split leather thongs. The reamins of two brass clasps are attached to the rear board with corresponding catches on the front board.
Manuscript on parchment of a breviary with ferial psalter, various prayers, computistical tables, and a calendar
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In Latin., Script: Copied by five hands in Gothica Hybrida Libraria: scribe A (Arnoldus Guetsen) copied ff. 1r-108v and 246r-268v; B copied f. 110r-v; C copied ff. 111r-206v; D copied ff. 207r-244v; and E copied f. 245r., Decoration: red rubrics, underlining and stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; plain initials; and flourished initials or litterae duplices with penwork, which often takes the form of foliage. Gold initials with or without penwork are seen on ff. 111r-125v and 134r-141v. Large initials variously in the trompe-l'oeil style, the dentelle type, in gold and colours with borders, the Renaissance style, and the landscape style of the Ghent-Bruges school. See catralog description for further detail., and Binding: 20th century red morocco over wooden boards, sewn on two thiongs; two braided leather and brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Red, blue or green parchment tabs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters