Manuscript on parchment of a breviary with ferial psalter, various prayers, computistical tables, and a calendar
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by five hands in Gothica Hybrida Libraria: scribe A (Arnoldus Guetsen) copied ff. 1r-108v and 246r-268v; B copied f. 110r-v; C copied ff. 111r-206v; D copied ff. 207r-244v; and E copied f. 245r., Decoration: red rubrics, underlining and stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; plain initials; and flourished initials or litterae duplices with penwork, which often takes the form of foliage. Gold initials with or without penwork are seen on ff. 111r-125v and 134r-141v. Large initials variously in the trompe-l'oeil style, the dentelle type, in gold and colours with borders, the Renaissance style, and the landscape style of the Ghent-Bruges school. See catralog description for further detail., and Binding: 20th century red morocco over wooden boards, sewn on two thiongs; two braided leather and brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Red, blue or green parchment tabs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Canticles (Psalter) containing Te Deum and Canticle: Benedictus dominus deus
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line initial "B" in red with blue and red penwork; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses in red uncials; line dividers in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Canticles from a Psalter, including readings from Exodus 15 and Habakkuk 3.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3-line initial "D" is in red with blue flourishes; 1-line initials are in red square capitals; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of a Carthusian psalter with the Canticles and the Creed, with musical notation
Description:
In Latin., Incomplete. Text ends with Psalm 77., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Script: large gothic script., Decoration: smaller initial in alternate red and blue; 12 historiated initials; full illuminated border to one page with figures of Carthusian monks and an abbot., and Binding: contemporary pigskin over wooden boards; metal clasps, corner pieces and central bosses.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Carthusians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Prayers and devotions, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Psalters
Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated October 8, 1584. It includes psalms arranged as 66 prayers in prose, songs in praise of Christ's birth and the Lord's supper, metrical versions of 66 psalms by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, and "an exhortation unto ye praise of God to be songe before morning and evening praier."
Description:
In English., Illustration on title page of columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription "Christ adsit et praesit," and signed by T. S., On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673., On f. 152r, Rose Silvester signed it as her book on July 5, 1649. Next follows the signature of William Silvester and the inscription "his booke and hee that Steles him shall bee hanged upon a hoke as hie as William Silvester can looke.", Watermark: pot, Briquet 12725 (Bruges, 1581)., and Binding: thick vellum; mathematical calculations on back cover.
Collection on paper and parchment of manuscript leaves, documents and printed leaves. Including paper leaves from a Latin Psalter, a parchment leaf from the Beauvais Missal (formerly owned by Otto Ege), and a parchment leaf from a Latin Bible concordance
Description:
In Latin, French and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and Psalters
Group of eight manuscript fragments, on vellum, originally from the second of a three-volume set of Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. The scribe was probably Eadmer of Canterbury
Description:
In Latin., Marginal notations on two of the fragments probably date from the later fifteenth century., Fragments show marks of having been used as binding material., Layout: double-column, originally 42 lines., Script: "prickly script" associated with Christ Church, Canterbury., and Decoration: two large capitals in colored ink.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Eadmer, -1124?
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Calendar for the Benedictine Order. 2) Ferial Psalter, comprising Invitatories, Antiphons (with musical notation), Psalms, Hymns (with musical notation), Versicles, Responses and Canticles. 3) Hymnal, with notation. 4) Various antiphons
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda), using Uncial and Half-Uncial d. The additions and substitutions at the end of the codex are in a coarse form of the same type of handwriting. Musical notation in black Nota Quadrata., Rich decoration. Initials: (1) 1-line versals (flourished) alternately red and blue; (2) 2-line flourished initials in the same colours infilled with leaves and followed by a flourished majuscule in black, at the beginning of each text; if on the top line, they are surmounted by gable-like penwork. The KL-ligatures in the Calendar (4 lines) have the same decoration; (3) 4-5-line (6-line for I) foliate initials with foliate marginal extensions and generally 3 gold balls in the margin, followed by a 1- or 2-line flourished majuscule in black, at the beginning of the principal texts; (4) historiated initials, with floral extensions or gold balls in the margin, at the beginning of the major subdivisions of the text., The worn and defective edges (especially the lower edges) of many leaves were repaired by means of pieces of used parchment pasted on the damaged places., and Binding: 17th century. Reddish brown leather over wooden boards with square edges. The covers blind-tooled with fillets; spine with four flat bands. Marks of metal corner pieces and central bosses. Paper pastedowns. Numerous brown leather tabs at the outer edge of the leaves.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines.
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
Manuscript fragment on parchment of two initials that come from the same Psalter; for a further description of the manuscript from which they came, see Beinecke MS 483.11-14.
Description:
In Latin., Script: One letter "o" is preserved following the "H", written in gothic script in black ink., and Decoration: two 2-line initials "L" and "H" in blue decorated with foliate ornamentation outlined in brown and colored with green; the initials are for the beginning of Psalm verses.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Psalters, and Initials
