Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Expositio in IV libros Regum, up to the middle of 3.4. PL 109.9-133. 2) Beda Venerabilis (d. 735), De templo Salomonis. 3) Hrabanus Maurus, Expositio in IV libros Regum, 3.8-4.25. 4) Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum et Dindimi regis Bragmanorum de philosophia per litteras facta collatio. The ficticious correspondence between Alexander the Great and the King of the Brahmins about philosophy and morals. 5) Large collection of short moral prescriptions without apparent order, several of them addressed at monks. The authors from whom the sentences are taken are rarely mentioned: Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, John Chrysostom, Plato
Description:
In Latin., Script: the original part copied by a single hand writing a careful Praegothica. The additional sections are copied by two slightly later hands in smaller and less formal forms of the same script., The decoration of the original part consists of headings and chapter numbering in red; 1-line versals alternately red and green in the chapter tables; and plain initials of various sizes (2-4, occasionally 6-11 lines, sometimes slightly decorated, in red, blue and green. In the additional artt. 4 and 5 red stroking of the majuscules, red headings (not in art. 5), and 1-2 lines plain red initials., and Binding: 18th century. Paper over pasteboard. On the spine red leather title label with inscription. Red mottled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C., Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856., Solomon, King of Israel., and Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on parchment of Gregory the Great's Homilies on the Gospels and Iohannes Diaconus's Life of Gregory
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by several scribes in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. A change of hands is visible between f. 120 recto and verso., Red stroking of majuscules. Red headings and explicit formulas. Alternately red and blue flourished initials or litterae duplices of various sizes, with penwork in the opposed colours or in both colours, sometimes very elaborate, extending into the margins or containing birds or fish., and Binding: English blue morocco binding over cardboard, by W.H. Smith and Son, Ltd., dated 1948. In the center of both covers a blind-tooled strapwork motif. Spine with raised bands; in the compartments the same strapwork motif, and the gold-tooled inscriptions "GREGORII / HOMILIAE" and "MS. / FROM ROYAU/MONT ABBEY / XIII CENT." Two clasps.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on parchment of Psuedo-Beda Venerabilis, Homiliae, 3.118
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Caroline script, using only the st- and et-ligatures and writing the diphthong ae., and A small red plain initial E (Uncial) on line 2 of f. 1r. At left in the upper margin of f. 1r a somewhat later hand has written “Probacio penne”. The fold in the inner margin, with its sewing holes, and several rusty holes in the margins show that the leaf has been used as an endleaf in a later (printed?) book; the large rusty hole in the center of the upper margin proves that the latter was chained.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of St. Augustine, In Iohannis Evangelium (Tractus cxxiv), wherein the numbers given to the tractates are one less than those given in the edition (which is perhaps the result of scribal error or perhaps reflective of alternative content within this manuscript).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; annotations added by modern hands., and Decoration: 4-line initial "I," in orange with foliate ornamentation, beginning Tractus 36; 2-line initial "A" in a similar style; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubrics in orange rustic capitals; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, punctus interrogativus, and the punctus flexus.
Manuscript on parchment of sermons on the Epistles and the Gospels of Sundays and sermons for Lent
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Ascenders at the top line are lengthened, thickened and indented and decorated with delicate penwork., Headings, underlining and paragraph marks in red. 2-line red plain initials, some filled with drawings of a human head; some are flourished initials with penwork in the same colour extending in the margin or in the intercolumnar space. The rubricator tends to place the short marginal notes in a red rectangular, diamond or leaf-shaped frame, or to link several notes on the same page by placing them in the loops of a curving line. Elegant pointing hands., and Binding: original binding: red leather over slightly bevelled wooden boards, sewn on five leather thongs, rebacked in white leather, the corners repaired with brown leather. Marks of two leather straps attached to the rear cover; holes of the iron pins on the front cover. Iron chain of nine elongated links and large round eyelet (length: 82 cm.), fixed to the top of the rear board by means of an iron staple.
