Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing: Mass for Mary from the Nativity to the Purification; Mass for Mary from the Purification to Easter; Mass for Mary from Easter to Pentecost; and Mass for the patron saint of the church
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis formata), with a slightly smaller script for chants., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials are in gold on ground of blue and purple decorated with white penwork; 1-line capitals including the first letter after the initials in gold are in brown filled with yellow wash; rubrics written in red or in brown underlined with red and are in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; the use of "Ff" suggests England.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing among others: St. Felix in Pincis (14 January); St. Marcellus (16 January); St. Prisca (18 January); St. George (23 April); St. Mark (25 April); Letania Maior ad S. Laurentium (25 April); Apostles Philip and James (1 May); and Sts. Alexander, Eventius, Theodolus, and Juvenal (3 May).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule by two scribes, one on fols. 1-2 and the other on fols. 3-4., and Decoration: there are two 7-line initials on fol. 2; they are in red outline with a center shaft filled with red and are decorated with foliate ornamentation; 1- and 2-line prayer initials alternate red and brown; the red initials are sometimes filled with yellow; 1-line chant initials are in brown rustic capitals, occasionally highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; diacritical marks appear over the interrogative word in a question, in the Beneventan fashion; accents in the same ink as the text; there are 2 10-line initials on fols. 3-4; rubrics written in red rustic capitals marked with a horizontal yellow line; punctuated with the punctus.
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
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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 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
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
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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 Breviary (Nocturnale) containing a portion of a chant for an undisclosed office; St. Nicholas (6 December), from vespers to the first nocturn of matins; St. Nicholas, the first nocturn of matins; Office of St. Ulric, from vespers to the first nocturn of matins; Office of St. Afra (9 August), from the first to the second nocturn of matins with lessons from the Vita S. Afrae; Office of St. Gall (16 October), third nocturn of matins
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In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: written in two sizes, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger script for the lessons; drawing of a face with the words " Vita S. Uodalrici episcopi et confessoris" in brown ink; 2-line initial "V" at the beginning of the office on f. 2r is a red square capital; 1- and 2-line initials of lessons are in red uncials or square capitals; 1-line chant initials are brown uncials; rubrics written in red capitals; punctuated with the punctus for end of chants and punctus elevatus for lessons; antiphons and responses have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing the Office of the Dead with lessons from Augustine, Sermon 173
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger one for the lessons; by the same scribe who copied the psalter preserved in Beinecke MS 481.46., and Decoration: 3-line initial on f. 1v in orange that has been filled with crude, brown cross-hatching, perhaps later; 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in orange square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in orange minuscules with rustic capitals; punctuated with punctus in chants and punctus and punctus elevatus within lessons; chants have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; marginal notation in a contemporary hand on 3r.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Catholic Church
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing: Second Sunday of Advent; Feria II of the second week of Advent; and Feria III of the second week of Advent
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of late Caroline minuscule with a smaller script for the chants and a larger one for the lessons., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics are written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; accents have been added by a later hand; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing the Assumption of Mary (15 August).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger one for the lessons., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red square capitals; 1-line initials at the beginning of chants are in brown rustic capitals dotted or highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red rustic capitals except for the homily rubric which is partially in minuscule; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; the name "maria" has been supplied twice on the recto by a later hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing excerpts from Augustine's De sermone domini in monte, a lesson from Matthew 7, and an undetermined office for St. Apollinaris
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In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a larger script for the lessons and hymn and a smaller script for the antiphons and responses., and Decoration: on fol. 1v there are decorated initials "I" (7-line) and "F" (8-line), outlined in orange and colored with green and yellow ; 1- and 2-line initials are orange uncials; 1-line initials within the hymn are a mixture of orange uncials and rustic capitals; rubrics are written in orange minuscule; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; accents and diacritical marks over double "i" by later hands.