Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, of a portion of the text of Bede's Homily on the Ascension
Description:
In Latin., Text corresponds to Patrologia Latina (PL) 94: 180/81., Layout: double columns of 28 lines., Script: copied by a single hand in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: capitals touched with red ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Penitential Psalms (incomplete), probably written as part of a Book of Hours
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in liturgical gothic script., Carefully executed initials, 3-line, on blue or pink rectangles outlined in black, mark the beginning of each psalm; partial cusped borders, also in blue and pink, attached to each. Initials infilled with intertwining vines, often on gold ground, sometimes with small animals; modest use of gold dots inside rectangular grounds and borders. 1-line initials of blue with red penwork with blue dots and of gold with blue penwork and red dots. Line-fillers in combinations of red, blue and gold (various linear and flower designs)., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Bound in a piece of blind-tooled brown calf, once part of a 17th-18th century binding. Front pastedown and flyleaf from a Bible concordance, version 3 (France, ca. 1300). Back pastedown from 15th-century antiphonal, with musical notation, containing a portion of the office for Nicolas (6 Dec.).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Antiphonaries, Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragments on paper of humanistic miscellany
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by two hands, both writing a similar Humanistica Cursiva under Gothic influence, Currens in artt. 1-2, Libraria in art. 3., Space and guide letters for 2-line initials on ff. 1v and 2r, respectively at the beginning of the prologue and of the text proper of art. 2., and The manuscript contains: 1) Final page of a violent invective against a pope (Paul II, 1464-1471, or more probably Alexander VI, 1492-1503) by a woman (repeatedly referring to herself as "ipsa") who had been badly treated by him; it is addressed to another woman. Here attributed to the humanist Filippo Buonaccorsi ("Callimachus"), born 1437 in San Gemignano, d. 1496, a member of the Accademia Romana, who was among the accused of a conjuration against the life of Pope Paul II and had to flee Italy. 2) Francesco Pietrasanta from Milan, De opibus Christianae religionis, a treatise against the wealth of the clergy, addressed to the theologian Filippo Maineri. 3) Two fragments of a history of Florence.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503. and Paul II, Pope, 1417-1471.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a hymnal containing a variety of hymns, some unidentified, including Thomas Aquinas (Corpus Christi).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 2- to 12-line initials at the beginning of hymns are in red; only those that begin with the letter "I" are set apart from the text; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses are in red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a hymnal including among others: Bede, Carmen 6; Ambrose, hymn 12; anonymous hymns
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an elegant Caroline minuscule in the same style and presumably in the same scriptorium as Beinecke MS 481.39 as well as several other fragments still at Lambach., and Decoration: 2-line initials written in orange uncials; rubrics written in orange rustic capitals; the first 1 to 4 words of each hymn are written in brown rustic capitals; there is space for neumes in the outer margin but they have not been added; punctuated with punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church, Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., and Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a hymnal containing: an unidentified hymn; Anon., s. VI (Christmas); Venantius Fortunatus (Christmas); and Sedulius, A solis ortus cardine (Christmas).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in large gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line hymn initials alternate red and blue; 1-line verse initials are in red; rubrics are in red in the same script as the text; guides to the rubricator are written in the outer margin of fol. 1r in a cursive hand; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; in the outer margin of fol. 1r a fifteenth-century hand (littera cursiva libraria) has added the incipit for the hymn "Agnoscat omne seculum" several lines above where the text of the hymn begins.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a hymnal containing portions of five hymns on: St. Martin (11 November); St. Elizabeth (19 Novembers); St. Catharine of Alexandria (25 November); St. Andrew (30 November); and St. Nicholas (6 December).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of hymns alternate red and blue; first letter following these initials is a brown capital highlighted with red; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses alternate red and blue; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a hymnal containing fragments of two unidentified hymns and St. Faith (6 October).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: one large hymn initial "S" in red with red penwork; 1-line verse initials alternate red and blue; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; there is no punctuation; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; musical notation on 5-line staves.
