Two adjacent binding fragments from a homily for Palm Sunday. Manuscript, on parchment, in Anglo-Saxon minuscule, produced in England in the first quarter of the eleventh century
Description:
In Old English., Discovered by Dr. James Molloy in a lumber room containing part of the old presbytery library at Winchester, the strips were once used in the binding of a copy of the sermons of St. Augustine. The strips were cut from adjacent portions of text from the inner margin of a folio in a manuscript which originally contained Aelfric's Catholic Homilies and Lives of Saints., The manuscript is from the "middle period" of Aelfric's productions of these texts, which lasted for about ten years after 992., and Fragments of the same manuscript exist in the Bodleian Library, Queen's College Library, Cambridge, and the Lilly Library of Indiana University.
Subject (Name):
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, English (Old). and Manuscripts, English (Old).
Manuscript charter, on parchment, by John le Carpenter, granting power of attorney to Henry Williams to grant seisin to Geoffrey, brother of John, of some lands in Stoke Waleys
Description:
In Latin., Script: anglicana., Decoration: with remains of red seal attached., and Docketed on verso in a 19th-century hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a charter of Gregory IX mandating Franciscan friars be received charitably
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in chancery script., and Decoration: large initial "G" and 1-line capitals are in brown; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; the rope for the seal is at the bottom of the document; there are no chancery marks or signatures under the fold.
Manuscript leaf on parchment of fragments of French verse
Description:
In French., Script: copied by a single hand writing Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. The opening majuscules of the verses are written in a separate column but there is no decoration., and The inner edge is damaged and on the recto a few opening letters of verses are lost because of a hole in the parchment. In the center of the upper margin of f. 1r, in red ink: "XII."
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a choir breviary, containing part of the offices for Epiphany
Description:
In Latin., Musical notation on four-line red staves., References to Thomas Becket struck through on verso., Layout: double columns of 51 lines., Script: gothic liturgical hand., and Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in blue with red penwork. Large illuminated initial "A" with full border on verso, gilt.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Breviaries, and Musical notation
