Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing St. Andrew (30 November).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a hybrid gothic script (littera textualis with frequent but not consistent use of cursive forms of d, b, l, and t; s and f do not descend below the base line)., and Decoration: 1-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red; other 1-line initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; liturgical directions are written in brown and are underlined in red; punctuated with the punctus and virgule.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing: The Passion of St. Ursula and St. Ursula (21 October).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis libraria with simple form of "a")., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials alternate red and blue; other initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; there is no punctuation; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on paper (with parchment conjugate leaves at beginning and end of quires; calendar on parchment) of a Carmelite breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in an informal, but careful, gothic script. Numerous additions by contemporary and later writers., Plain initials and KL monograms, 6- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks, underlining, and initial strokes in red. The verso of the final folio bears the partially erased image of a large decorative initial, in green, over which the later text was written., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Head and fore-edge gilt, with tawed, pink markers on the fore-edge. Bound by William Matthews, a leading American binder (second half of the 19th century) in a dark brown goatskin Jansenist binding (plain outside with gold-tooled doublures).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carmelites. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life
Manuscript on Paper of Breviary: Sanctorale and Common of the Saints from Erfurt, Southern Germany. Artt. 1, 2, 5, and 6 are the original texts in this volume
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria. The original arts. 1, 2, and 5 are written in one hand. Art. 6 is in a different hand. The other texts are written by various hands in small script., Decoration: In the original parts, there are countless red rubrics, 1-line versals, red underlinings, red stroking of majuscules and red running headlines. Some articles open with a larger red plain initial. In art. 3 there is red underlining and red stroking of majuscules. Art. 4 is undecorated. In artt. 7-9 there is red stroking of majuscules and extensive parts of the text are in red underline., and Binding: Original quarter binding sewn on three double cords: white pigskin over wooden boards, now covered by fragments of a 14th century liturgical music manuscript on parchment, with text in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata and “Hufnagel” notation on 4-line black staves. Handwritten title on spine (18th century). Paper(?) flyleaves.
Manuscript on parchment of a Carthusian calendar, prescriptions for diet, drinks and blood-letting, and collects and prayers for various occasions
Description:
In Latin and German., Script: copied by six hands in various scripts., Writing in black and red ink. Red stroking of majuscules (not in last section) and red paragraph marks. Red plain initials, 1-5 lines., and Binding: undecorated s. XVIII (?) parchment binding over pasteboard, with green marbled endleaves.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Würzburg (Germany)
Subject (Name):
Carthusians.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Religious calendars
Manuscript on parchment of a Charter of Wenzel (1361-1419) confirming the rights and privileges granted by his predecessors to the towns of Ober- and Nieder-Ingelheim, Wynterheim and Wachenheim, granted 1398 (?).
Description:
In German and Latin. and Much of text lost at folds, especially at the one running horizontally across the center of the leaf; more loss in the same area due to water and grease stains, and holes in parchment. Square has been cut out of lower right corner of parchment; loss of a few letters of charter and part of the note on the fold.
Manuscript on paper of the A-recension of Twinger's Chronicle which was written in 1386. Chapter 1: History of the Ancient World, based on the Bible and classical sources (ff. 2r-32v); 2: History of the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to King Wenceslas (ff. 32v-101r); 3: History of the Popes (ff. 101v-135r); 4: History of the Bishops of Strasbourg (ff. 135v-158v); 5: History of Strasbourg and Alsace (ff. 159v-225v). With a short passage referring to the war of the Swiss in Alsace and the Black Forest in 1468, added in a later hand
Description:
In German., Watermarks similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf VII.151., Script: Written in a cursive book hand by a single scribe. Numerous annotations to the text in margins by a later hand., Two uninspired initials, 7- and 5-line, in red with crude penwork in green. Plain initials, headings and rubrics in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries (?). Vellum over wooden boards with two brass clasps. Blue/green edges and title in ink on spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany
Subject (Name):
Twinger, Jakob, von Königshofen, 1346-1420.
Subject (Topic):
German literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on paper of (1) M. Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Laelius de amicitia; (2) Cicero, Cato Maior de senectute; (3) moral examples from antiquity; (4) commentary on parts of Canon Law
Description:
In Latin., Script: Artt. 1-2 (ff. 1-38) are copied in Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens, except f. 6v, which is in Semihybrida Libraria; art. 3 is copied in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; art. 4 is copied in Gothica Semihybrida Currens in two sizes (large for the texts and small for the commentaries); and art. 5 (the former pastedowns) are written in Gothica Textualis, with the marginal notes in small Gothica Hybrida., Decoration: Undecorated,; the former pastedowns (art. 5) contain Arabic numerals in black, red, and blue., and Binding: original, damaged brown calfskin over wooden boards sewn on three cords; covers are blind-tooled and stamped; two original clasps were replaced by a single clasp (now lost); spine with paper label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Wiblingen (Ulm, Germany)
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Christian education, History, Education, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life