Manuscript on parchment of Isidore of Seville, Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various hands, all writing Praegothica., Red headings, chapter numbers and running headlines. Red, blue, brown or green half inset 2-line (sometimes 1-line) plain initials. Yellow heightening of the opening majuscules in the chapter lists. 4-line decorated initial in green, blue and red on f. 1r., and Binding: early binding, the back repaired with a piece of leather fixed with nails: dark brown leather over wooden boards. On both covers numerous marks of clasps, bosses and corner pieces. On the rear cover remnants of a paper title label. On the back a parchment label with the handwritten s. XVII title "S. Isidor. Hisp. / In Sacr. Script."
Manuscript on parchment rolls of records of real estate transactions between individuals and institutions in Pistoia, Italy
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various hands in Pregothic documentary script., and The charters include: Pope Alexander III(1159-1181) to the archdeacon, provost and canons of Siena, granting permission to the parishioners of Pugna to enter the church of Alfiano on holidays; concession by way of livellum of a piece of land by Maximilla, abbess of the abbey of San Mercuriale in Pistoia, to the brothers Paganellus and Iucta quondam Baldini Guidori; as well of sales of land and rental agreements.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Pistoia (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Business records, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Real property
Manuscript on parchment containing the Rule of St. Benedict, the Obituary of the Abbey of Vangadizza, and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various hands, all writing Southern Praegothica. In the Obituary (art. 6) the entries are added by many different, sometimes informal hands., The lower margin of f. 25 and the outer margin of f. 58 are replaced with modern parchment., The manuscript contains: 1) Benedictus Casinensis (500-550), Regula. 2) Promise formula of the novice upon his entry in religion. 3) Decrees of Pope Pascal II (1099-1118) and emperors Charlemagne (?800-814) and Lothar I (823-855) against alienating the goods of a church or monastery. 4) Alberic, bishop of Rimini (1158-1177), Letter to the prior and convent of Vangadizza, on the death of abbot Liutald. 5) Computistical notes and tables: (a) Table of the regulares lunae; (b) dates of the seven embolismi of the Nineteen-Years Cycle; (c) discussion of the three years of the Cycle in which epacts and embolismi differ; (d) table of the seven embolismi for all the years of the Nineteen-Years Cycle; in the first column the epacts; (e) a short table summarizing the data of table (d). 6) Obituary of the abbey of Vangadizza. 7) Liturgical instructions for observing the anniversary of Martin, first abbot of the monastery., Headings in red. Plain initials in red of various sizes (mostly 2-3 lines), sometimes with penwork decoration in the same colour (on f. 29 r in an initial a human head is drawn). On f. 4r the text of art. 1 opens with a 6-line zoomorphic initial "M" with two birds on a rectangular background. On f. 1r its preface opens with a 10-line historiated initial "A" , depicting St. Benedict explaining his rule to a monk, on a rectangular background. Both initials are in liquid gold, red, ocre and blue, and are followed by large display script in red, blue and ocre., and Binding: 19th century (?). Parchment over pasteboard. On the flat spine the handwritten 19th century inscription: "Regulae S. Benedicti et Kalendarium antiquum M.S."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino., Benedictines., and Vangadizza (Abbey : Badia Polesine, Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing votive masses
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials in red square capitals; 1-line capitals in brown uncials; rubrics written in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; a thirteenth-century hand has added text in the margin; there are numerous erasures and corrections in the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified text
Description:
In Latin., Script: pregothic minuscule, Decoration: initials and rubrics in red., and This fragment is contained in Zi 6309 (Dante, Convivio), in which it is used as the front spine support.
