Manuscript fragment on parchment of a biblical commentary on the Prologue to the Pentateuch through Exodus 30 and on the Song of Songs through Matthew 5.
Description:
In Latin and Middle High German., Script: written in a very small, heavily abbreviated gothic bookhand (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are written in brown; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Bible, 1 Kings, containing material from chapters 4, 8, 12, and 14.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., Decoration: Large 1-line initials in brown square capitals with the round form of E; smaller 1-line initials written in brown rustic capitals with an enlarged minuscule "e"; punctuated with punctus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; accents added by later hand; a hand in darker ink altered punctuation and made several corrections., and Condition: many worm holes; the letters have been retraced over earlier letters which were presumably damaged by water; another MS from Lambach with similar water damage is Beinecke MS 481.8.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of 1 Kings
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in progothic minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials alternate in red and blue; 1-line initials are in brown and a mixture of uncials and rustic capitals; running titles are written in black; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation, accents, and diacritical marks over double "i" and double "a" were added in lighter ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book Acts of the Apostles, including portions of chapters 21-23.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; hand very similar to that in Beinecke MS 482.12., and Decoration: two plain 2-line initials in red; 1-line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified commentary on the biblical book of Wisdom
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a small gothic script with frequent abbreviations (littera textualis currens)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in black; punctuated with the punctus; quotations from Wisdom are underlined in black.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Criticism, interpretation, etc and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of excerpts from the Latin Vulgate of Esther chapters 2, 3, 11, 12, and 13.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written by several scribes in Caroline minuscule; corrections added by contemporary hands., Decoration: 1-line capitals in brown uncials; some orange-red uncials; punctuation consisting of punctus, punctus elevatus, and vigule., and Former call number: Beinecke MS 482.1B (f. 2).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Bible, Ezechiel, containing parts of chapters 18, 19, and 20.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials in brown rustic capitals; portion of a running head in red in the upper margin of the verso; punctuated with punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus and punctus interrogativus; a contemporary hand has made some corrections and added a paraph at the beginning of chapter 20.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Genesis and Jerome's Epistula ad Paulinum
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic bookhand (littera textualis)., and Decoration: the preface on fol. 2r begins with a 10-line decorated initial "D" in red interlace on a green geometric ground with a blue ground for the central portion of the vine stem; the text of Genesis begins with a half-page decorated initial "I" in the same style; 1-line initials in the prefatory material are occasionally red; line fillers are in red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; accents added by a later hand; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
