Manuscript fragment on parchment of Conversio Sanctae Justinae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: only six lines of the homily initials "I" are preserved; the shaft of the letter is half red and half yellow on a geometric ground of blue and pale purple, with vine-stem decoration in red; 1-line initials are in brown uncials with occasional rustic capital forms (D, Q, M) and enlarged minuscule forms (n); punctuated with the punctus and the punctus interrogativus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a copy of a judician decision concerning Jacobus the bishop of Senigallia and the monasteries of S. Iohannes peneclaria and S. Iacobus in burgo, both in Ancona
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in notarial script by the notary Johannes, son of Julianus., and Decoration: The document begins with a flourished initial "I"; 1-line initials are in brown; the notary's sign is in the center of the lower margin; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment of fragments from Codex Iustinianus
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Carolina, marked by the use of Half Uncial and Uncial d, ri- and st- ligatures (but no ct-ligature), and the improper use of the ae-diphthong and e caudata. Noticeable spellings and miswritings: amguitatibus (for ambiguitatibus), conitionaliter (for cognitionaliter), licteris, magestas, proibentur, spetialiter. Headings and plain initials in red; small slightly decorated black initials., Fragments from Codex Iustinianus. There are a few contemporary interlinear glosses (word explanations) and many textual corrections. In the outer margin of f. 1r a red Nota mark and of f. 1v two contemporary notes., and Only the outer margin is partly preserved; at the three other sides the leaf has been severely cropped, with loss of text; the inner top part is torn, and holes have caused some additional text losses. In the outer margin of f. 1r the modern note in pencil: "103/68/8".
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a portion of Seneca, De Beneficiis, Book 4, Chapter 7.
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single column of 27 lines., Script: copied by one hand in Praegothica., Decoration: initial E in red ink with green tendrils., and Page is trimmed slightly at one edge, affecting the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Ps.-Dionysius Areopagita, De caelesti hierarchia, translated into Latin by Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), with his commentary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria in two sizes. The large script used for the text itself is written every two lines. The cursive r-abbreviation could point to England, the z standing on the line and the occasional use of j instead of i reminds us of Spain, the "horn" at the head of r is especially typical of German scribes., and The decoration consists of plain late Romanesque initials in red (2 lines).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Astronomy, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript fragments on parchment from a northern Italian copy of this work by Boethius. The bifolium contains Book 2, verse 7.7-Book 3, prose 2.14. The fragment contains Book 4, verse 4.5-Book 4, prose 4,18
Description:
In Latin., Some damage from previous use as a document wrapper. Annotated "1569 1572" and "Baldassar Mariucci.", Interlinear and marginal glosses in a contemporary small cursive hand., Script: gothica textualis., and Decoration: large initial "I" in red and brown penwork, other initials in red ink with smaller initials in black in touched in red.
Leaf of Cicero (106-43 B.C.), De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil) II.27-28.
Description:
Script: Copied by a single hand in a rather uneven Humanistica Textualis marked by frequent fusions. and Decoration: None. The modern folio number(?), 36, is written in pencil on the recto.