Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing a variety of Feriae and the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 2-line initials are in red; 1-line initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; the foliation is written in red in the upper center of the recto; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal (use of Sarum) containing Feria IV after the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity and the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: there are three 2-line initials in blue with red penwork trailing up and down the entire margin or the column; 1-line initials are in brown; rubrics are written in red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of Beauvais
Description:
In Latin., Script: early gothic bookhand., Decoration: rubricated., and Binding: fourteenth-century (?) brown leather over beveled wooden boards; remains of one clasp.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church
Manuscript on parchment. With graded calendar, in red and black, lacking January and February; the qualifier "pape" erased or crossed out
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in elegant gothic textura (larger size for the Canon), with standard musical notation of Canon, etc., Sumptuous full bar borders surrounding text and running between text columns, alternating red and blue segments, divided by gold panels, from which sprout short sprigs of ivy (blue, red, pink with white highlights, often in a guilloche pattern) and daisy buds, gold cusped corners, filled with ivy or strapwork with flower terminals; the whole further embellished by hair-spray with gold balls and flowers; the gold with simple punches throughout. On the same folios, 7- to 5-line initials, blue and/or red with white highlights, filled with red, pink, and blue ivy or strapwork on irregular gold grounds, with simple punches. Elaborate 3- and 2-line initials throughout, pink and blue, filled with ivy, trailing pink and blue ivy, on irregular gold grounds extending with ivy into border, embellished with gold balls and hair-spray. 2- and 1-line gold initials throughout, with elaborate purple penwork designs, often far into margins; long (up to 10-line) I-initials in the same manner. 2- and 1-line blue initials throughout with red penwork; long I-initials in same manner. 1-line gold initials with simple brown penwork. Line-fillers in the litany, blue and gold. Two leaves, probably with miniatures of the Maiestas Domini and Crucifixion, have been removed before the Canon (after f. 136)., First four leaves are stained and trimmed, but with no loss of text., and Binding: Twentieth century. White, gold-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. Gilt edges. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (London, 1901 to the present).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript leaves from a Sarum missal, containing text from Masses for the third and eighth Sundays after Pentecost and for the dedication of a church
Description:
In Latin., Layout: double columns of 39 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., and Decoration: numerous initials in burnished gold or blue; extensive penwork.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of St. Nicholas (Beauvais).
Description:
In Latin., Collation: 59 l. + 2 l. paper + 3 l. original parchment endleaves., Script: Gothic bookhand, large and angular., Decoration: rubricated. The two-line initials are in gold on pink and blue grounds. Large historiated initial "PP (5v)., and Decoration: miniature of the Crucifixion on gold ground, with protective cloth stitched to leaf (6v.)
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Printed book fragment on parchment of a leaf from the Missale Bambergense, a printed missal. The leaf contains the Mass for rain and the Mass for fair weather
Description:
In Latin., Script: printed in two sizes of gothic typeface; the larger is for the lessons and prayers and the smaller type is for the chants., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of Masses, prayers, and lessons and 1-line initials at the beginning of chants are in red and are adorned with balls; 1-line initials of verses and within lessons are in black; rubrics are printed in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, the colon, and the punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted missal containing among other texts: St. Matthias (24 February); St. Benedict (21 March); Annunciation (25 March); Ash Wednesday; Common of the Apostles; Dedication of a church; and Mary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 4-line initial "D" for the Annunciation is outlined in red with an interlace pattern and filled with blue and red on a square ground outlined with red; 3- to 6-line initials for other feasts and for hymns in red with red penwork; 1-line initials of prayers and of hymn verses are in red; other 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals traced with red; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; the alleluia and prosula hymn following the "Gaude maria templum" has interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted missal containing Holy Saturday
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script in red ink (littera textualis), at Klosterneuburg according to Alois Haidinger., and Decoration: 2-line initials of each verse are in green; the rubric is written in red minuscule; each word is separated by a green line; punctuated with the punctus; musical notation in gold outlined in black on 4-line staves in orange ink; the upper and lower margins are decorated with green foliage and penwork; the side margins are decorated with brown foliage and penwork.
