Manuscript on parchment of fragments from an Epistolary of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Temporale
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by a single hand writing a large and regular Carolina. Headings in a mixture of Capitalis and Uncialis. Neumatic notation on a red line., Headings in red. Heightening of majuscules in yellow. Initials in red heightened with yellow, placed between the double bounding lines., and Binding: red morocco over pasteboard; spine with 4 raised bands. The front cover decorated with a wreath in green, silver and gold containing the initials “S.C.C.” in gold.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a lectionary containing readings from Luke 1 and 3 and John 1.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: one 4-line and two 3-line initials are in red, decorated with blue penwork; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses are in brown uncials highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation and accents in the same ink as the text; there are three signs that occur over syllables of words, one similar to a backwards "3", one similar to a squarish backwards "C", and the third a virgule; perhaps theese are pitch or accent marks or some other type of aid for reading aloud.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a lectionary containing: Lamentations 9 and Hebrews 6.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: two 3-line initials outlined in brown; 1-line capitals are in brown rustic capitals; Hebrew words in Lamentations are written in rustic capitals; interlinear neumes for the lessons from Lamentations were added later; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an Italian lectionary, containing readings from Luke 7.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Italian gothic bookhand., Decoration: rubricated. Capitals in alternating red and blue ink., and Top of leaf trimmed, with margin and text loss.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an Italian lectionary, possibly containing Advent readings
Description:
In Latin., Script: late Caroline minuscule; headings in uncials., Decoration: rubricated. Three elongated initials in red ink., and Layout: two columns of 32 lines.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a lectionary for the Mass containing excerpts from Luke 1 and 12 and from John 21.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in progothic minuscule., and Decoration: 3-line initials "I" at the beginning of lessons are in red; other 1-line initials are in brown uncials; rubrics are written in red minuscule with some capital forms (H and Q); punctuated with the punctus and the punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a lectionary or missal containing portions of the biblical books of Wisdom, Hebrews, Proverbs, and the Apocalypse
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Beneventan script., and Decoration: 3- and 4-line initials are written on the inner vertical bounding line; one of them is a plain red square capital "I"; the others are brown square capitals filled with red foliate ornamentation; 1-line initials are brown, highlighted with red; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, and Missals
Manuscript on paper of Francesco Zabarella, Lectura super Clementinis
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified mountain and unidentified animal obscured by text., Script: Written by a single scribe in small neat fere-humanistic script. Marginal notes by several writers (15th-16th centuries), one of whom added running titles in upper right-hand corner (recto)., A large empty space on f. 1r indicates that a miniature of ca. 27 lines was planned for the opening of the text. One 7-line initial, f. 1r, shaded pink and orange, with red, green, and blue acanthus leaves on dark blue, with white filigree, against a gold ground edged thickly in black. In the border, a red, blue, and gold flower, with spiraling vines above and below, green, light blue, red, brown, the spirals filled with dark blue or gold, with white filigree. Large gold dots with four black spikes. 2- and 1-line paragraph marks in red or blue throughout. Instructions to the rubricator in margins., and Binding: Twentieth century. Brown goatskin with gold-tooled title. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (London, 1901 to the present).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Zabarella, Francesco, 1360-1417.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
