Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual in part containing: Ascension; Sunday after Ascension; Vigil of Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3-line initials in red; "D" in square capital and "E" in uncial; 1-line initials are either red square capitals or brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red, usually as rustic capitals; punctuated with punctus placed on the bottom line at the end of chants; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; numbered cues added in red above all abbreviated chants; rubrics in red miniscule.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing among other items: First Sunday of Advent; St. John the Evangelist (27 December); Holy Innocents (28 December); St. Silvester (31 December); Invention of the Cross (3 May); Sts. Gordian and Epimachus (10 May); Sts. Pancras, Nereus, and Achilleus (12 May); and Ascension
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: three-quarter page initial "A" on green, red, and pale yellow ground with vine-stem decoration; 5-line initial "O" with a face; 4-line initial "C" with a face; 5-line initial "U" with portrait of Christ on a red and gree ground with modest foliate appendages; other 3- and 4-line initials, some with herringbone patterns in red; rubrics written in a mixture of red capitals and minuscule.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing: St. Silvester (31 December); St. Maurus (15 January); St. Marcellus (16 January); St. Prisca (18 January); and Sts. Fabian and Sebastian (20 January).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of each feast are in blue with red penwork or red with blue penwork; 2-line initials alternate red and blue; 2-line initials of gradual verses and of Psalms are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; music notation of 4-line staves whose lines alternate yellow, green, red and green.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing among other items: Christmas Eve (24 December); Christmas (25 December); St. Agatha (5 February); St. Valentine (14 February); Chair of Peter (22 December); an unidentified Mass; Annunciation (25 March); and St. Rupert (27 March).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line initials of major feasts are in red uncials; 1-line chant initials are brown highlighted with red; rubrics are in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the rubrics; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants)
Manuscript bifolium fragment pasted on a wrap-around binding. 1r contains 4 Alleluia verses (Schlager 27u, 28a, 71d, 203a). 2v contains the Eia recolamus from the Liber hymnorum of Notker Babulus
Description:
In Latin., Rubricated., From the Lake Constance region?, and Bound with: Acta apostolorum Græce et Latine (Monachii, 1622). Upper cover marked with monogram PAZL 1671 (Placidus Heber Abt zu Lambach).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benediktinerstift Lambach
Subject (Topic):
Library, Manuscripts, Medieval, Graduals (Chants), and Neumes