Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing, among others, the following texts: Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (14 April); Sts. Soter and Caius (22 April); St. George (23 April); St. Mark (25 April); St. Cletus (26 April); St. Vitalis (28 April); Pope Urban I (25 May); Pope John I (27 May); St. Barnabas (11 June); St. Paul (30 June); and Sts. Processus and Martinian (2 July).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1- to 5- line initials in red; other 1-line initials in black highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; liturgical directions in brown minuscule, sometimes underlined with red; Psalm incipits underlined with red; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing: Sts. Philip and James (1 May); Invention of the Cross (3 May); Sts. Gervase and Protase (19 June); Vigil of John the Baptist (23 June); and John the Baptist (24 June).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- to 7-line initials alternate red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork; 1-line initials in red or in black highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing among other texts: Saturday of an unidentified feast; Sunday after Ascension; and Feria VI after the Sunday after Ascension
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- to 3-line initials alternate in red and blue; 1-line initials in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing: The Passion of St. Ursula and St. Ursula (21 October).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis libraria with simple form of "a")., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials alternate red and blue; other initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; there is no punctuation; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing Bede's Exegesis on the Gospel of John
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in caroline minuscule., Decoration: unheightened neumes; initials and rubrics in red., and This fragment is contained in Zi 466 (Johannes de Lapide, Resolutiorium dubiorum...), in which it is used as the back pastedown.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. and Catholic Church
Manuscript on paper (with parchment conjugate leaves at beginning and end of quires; calendar on parchment) of a Carmelite breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in an informal, but careful, gothic script. Numerous additions by contemporary and later writers., Plain initials and KL monograms, 6- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks, underlining, and initial strokes in red. The verso of the final folio bears the partially erased image of a large decorative initial, in green, over which the later text was written., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Head and fore-edge gilt, with tawed, pink markers on the fore-edge. Bound by William Matthews, a leading American binder (second half of the 19th century) in a dark brown goatskin Jansenist binding (plain outside with gold-tooled doublures).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carmelites. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life
Manuscript on Paper of Breviary: Sanctorale and Common of the Saints from Erfurt, Southern Germany. Artt. 1, 2, 5, and 6 are the original texts in this volume
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria. The original arts. 1, 2, and 5 are written in one hand. Art. 6 is in a different hand. The other texts are written by various hands in small script., Decoration: In the original parts, there are countless red rubrics, 1-line versals, red underlinings, red stroking of majuscules and red running headlines. Some articles open with a larger red plain initial. In art. 3 there is red underlining and red stroking of majuscules. Art. 4 is undecorated. In artt. 7-9 there is red stroking of majuscules and extensive parts of the text are in red underline., and Binding: Original quarter binding sewn on three double cords: white pigskin over wooden boards, now covered by fragments of a 14th century liturgical music manuscript on parchment, with text in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata and “Hufnagel” notation on 4-line black staves. Handwritten title on spine (18th century). Paper(?) flyleaves.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Heinrich Seuse's Buchlein der Ewigen Weisheit; this is among the earliest known copies of the work and is written in a transitional dialect between Swabian and Alemannic
Description:
In Middle High German., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line initials at the beginning of chapters are in red; 1-line initials are in black highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and virgule.
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.
