Manuscript fragment on parchment of a psalter containing a portion of Psalm 36.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in large late Caroline minuscule., Decoration: 1-line initials of each verse are in orange square capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus., and Condition: tear in outer and lower margin repaired with gold and pale red thread.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a psalter containing portions of Psalms 71 and 77.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials are the beginning of the Psalms are in red, which has oxidized in places to silver and decorated with with two or three small round red dots protruding into the interior of the letter; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses in red uncials and square capitals; rubrics written in red capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; there are several antiphons in the margins in a contemporary hand with interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Psalter containing portions of Psalms 58, 64, and 65.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: each Psalm begins with a plain 2- or 3-line initial in red square capitals; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses in red rustic capitals; rubrics in red capitals; verse dividers are in red; the first words of each Psalm are written in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; there are several later marginal annotations which are mostly illegible.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a psalter containing portions of Psalms 77 and 83.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of Psalms alternate red and blue; 3-line initials of the versicles are in black highlighted with red and are not set apart from the text; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses alternate red and blue; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation added by a later hand; the versicles at the end of each Psalm have musical notation in black on a 4-line staff in red.
Manuscript fragment from an illuminated Psalter. The first leaf contains Psalm 47: 12-45 through Psalm 48:16; the second contains Psalm 53:5 through 54:13 (Vulgate numbering).
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 20 lines., Script: gothic book hand., and Decoration: Two larger illuminated initials with birds perched on them. Smaller initials alternating between gilt with green penwork and blue with red penwork. Decorated line fillers, red and blue penwork, gilt.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England, and Whitby (England)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a psalter containing portions of Psalm 121
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an unidentified script., Decoration: rubrics, initials, and chapter marks in red; heightened neumes present., and This fragment is contained in Zi +5140 (Roberto Caracciolo, Specchio della fede), in which the fragment is used as the back pastedown.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an incomplete Psalter with six illuminated initials. Supposedly created and used by a German nun in the last half of the fifteenth century, it has been considered an example of Nonnenarbeiten
Description:
In Latin., Engraved portrait bookplate? on front pastedown of Gerardus, dux Juliæ et Montium, Comes Ravensburgæ, Fundator ordinis anno 1444., Layout: single columns of 14 lines., Script: gothic bookhand., Decoration: Rubricated. Some banners with texts in margins. Six illuminated initials with gold or silver decoration: decorated silver initial (3v); birds, silver decoration (14v); Jonah, gold decoration (24v); monk with textual banner, gold decoration (35v); Virgin Mary and child, textual banner, gold decoration (43r); animal blowing instrument, silver decoration (50v); trumpeter, textual banner, gold decoration (80v)., and Binding: modern.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Nuns, Books and reading, Nuns as artists, and Psalters
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Psalter in English, in the 8-part liturgical division, beginning defectively. Text is the later version of the Wycliffite translation of the Psalms. 2-7) Book of Hours, use of Sarum. 8) St. Jerome's Psalter, with introductory prayer and text followed by a suffrage to the Virgin. With Notes on Historia, Alegoria, Anagogia, Tropologia
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Script: Written in small, well formed gothic bookhand., Five 6- to 5-line initials at the liturgical divisions of the Psalter (Psalms 26, 52, 68, 80, 97; initials for Psalms 1, 38, and 109 missing, offset initials on ff. 35v, 109r, and 156r), pink and blue with white highlights against cusped gold grounds, filled with brown, blue, and pink foliage with curling foliate serifs; pink, blue and gold bar border in outer margin with foliate shoots, terminals and horizontal extensions full across in upper and lower margins. Eleven 5- to 4-line initials (ff. 139v, 158v, 161r, 162r, 163r, 163v, 164r, 165v, 168r, 169v, 176v), gold, edged in black against a cusped ground, quartered in blue and pink, with white highlights and floral hair-spray. 3-line initials, blue with red penwork throughout. Capitals alternating red and blue. Rubrics throughout. Red and blue line-fillers in litany., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Brown leather case, blind-tooled. Red edges. Smells like a Middleton binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a calendar from a Benedictine psalter. The calendar, which is missing the leaf for November and December, contains several entries from the Use of Rheims, including the feasts of Saints Rigobert, Arnulf and Nichasius
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textura semi-quadrata., Decoration: Rubricated., Format: single columns of 33 lines., and Annotations and additions in several contemporary and near-contemporary hands.
