Manuscript fragment on parchment of a fragment of an antiphon from a liturgical book, possibly an antiphonary
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In Latin., Script: written in late pregothic script., Decoration: heightened neumes; initials in red., and This fragment is contained in Zi 145.5 (Utrisque juris canonum...), in which the fragment is used as a front endpaper.
Manuscript on of a large personal collection of stray notes and excerpts, mostly in Latin under strong influence of Italian dialect, rarely in Italian, dealing especially and in great detail with confession and penance, interrogations by the confessor, the sacraments, sins and vices, the duties of the priest, etc. Quotations from Ambrose, Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, the Bible, Cicero, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Thomas Aquinas, and others. There is a particular interest in magic and heathen practises. See further, catalog description
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Script: copied in Humanistica or Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva, probably by a single hand, at various moments and in various degrees of rapidity. The display script is large Humanistica Textualis or large Southern Gothica Texualis. and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (incomplete) of texts on various religious, devotional, and historical themes. Contents include Kirakos Vardapet, On the eight sacraments, ff. 1r-6v; treatises on gastronomy, adultery, avarice, melancholy, passion, idleness, vainglory, and pride, ff. 6v-42r; Story of the Hermit Macarius and the conversion of the Emir of Nisibis (incomplete), ff. 52r-125r; Story of the Greek emperor Heraclius on the discovery of the Holy Cross, ff. 125r-153r; Story of young Mehmet, ff. 153r-158v; Bishop Methodius, Commentary on the vision of the prophet Daniel, ff. 162r-181v; Victory of the Christians, ff. 181v-196r; Agadon, History of the propitious times when the power of the Armenians increased..., ff. 196v-219v; Miraculous deeds of St. Minas, ff. 220v-231r; Life and martyrdom of the Patriarch St. Cyril of Jerusalem, ff. 266v-284v; Moses of Khoren, Life of St. Hṙip'simē, ff. 284v-293v; and Anania Vardapet, Homily on St. John, ff. 305r-320r
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In Armenian., Layout: one column of 15-24 lines., Script: notragir., Decoration: rubrication., Binding: mutilated leather over boards, with striped linen doublures. Two parchment flyleaves at beginning from a 10th-century manuscript, and two paper flyleaves at end from a 12th-century manuscript, both in erkat'agir., Principal colophon wanting. Dating suggested by paleography. An inscription on f. 196r indicates that the manuscript was copied by the scribe Yandrēas., and Some leaves disordered; some missing, including one quire between ff. 51 and 52.
Subject (Geographic):
Armenia
Subject (Name):
Cyril, Saint, Bishop of Jerusalem, approximately 315-386., Heraclius, Emperor of the East, approximately 575-641., Hṛipʻsime, Saint., Macarius, the Egyptian, Saint, active 4th century., Miniatus, Saint, active 3rd century., and Armenian Church
Manuscript on parchment. Formerly known as the "Fouquet Missal", based on the mistaken attribution of the illumination to Fouquet
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In French., Script: Written by a single scribe in formal gothic bookhand., A richly decorated manuscript with an unusual and elaborate program of miniatures by at least four artists: the Master of the Vienna Mamerot, Jean Colombe, a hand close to the Masters of Morgan 96 and 366, and a fourth artist whose hand has not yet been identified in other manuscripts. Each large miniature (107 total) has a full border incorporating four marginal scenes (428 in all) with subjects which either amplify or follow closely from the action of the miniature, disposed with two rectangular scenes in the outer border and two roundels in the lower border. The subsidiary miniatures, framed in red, are surrounded by blue and gold acanthus, flowering vines in green, blue and red, ivy in black pen with gold dots, large, naturalistic flowers, and black hair-spray with gold dots. The borders are framed on the outer edges with a red bounding line, on the inner edges with a red or gold bounding line., 4- and 2-line initials throughout, shaded pink or blue with gold foliate decoration against blue or pink grounds with pink or blue curling leaves, heightened in gold. 1-line initials, gold, against pink or blue grounds with gold filigree. On ff. 6r-13v the 4- and 2-line initials, as well as line-fillers in the same manner, are painted over blue or red initials with red or blue penwork and line fillers in red, blue and gold. The overpainting of this archaizing decoration reflects a change in decorative scheme rather than an interval of three-quarters of a century between the writing and the illumination of the manuscript. Rubrics and some underlining in red throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound in brown goatskin. Blue/green cloth sides with silver fastenings and fittings. On fastenings small roundels with portraits of the evangelists; on clasp a roundel with Annunciation. Numerous Turk's head place-marks on fore edge. Earlier covers, 17th century, mounted inside boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript on parchment, composed of four parts. Written at the end of the 14th century (Parts I, III) and in 1578 (Parts II, IV); the prominence of St. Maclovius (Macutus) suggests that Parts II and IV were produced in Brittany or Normandy
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In Latin., Script: Parts I and III (ff. 1r-40v, 48r-72v): Written in liturgical gothic of two sizes, by one scribe. Parts II and IV (ff. 41r-47v, 73r-102v) were intended to be integrated into the earlier portion: Written in liturgical gothic of the late 16th century, in two sizes by a single scribe; the letters slant slightly toward the left., On f. 48r, a 5-line historiated initial (65 x 58 mm.), white-decorated red and blue on a gold ground, enclosing a priest serving Communion; from the corners sprout blue vines with white, gold, and red trilobe leaves, extending around 3 sides of the page. On f. 1r, an 8-line illuminated initial of white-decorated blue and red (63 x 65 mm.), filled with blue and red trilobe leaves, on a gold ground; the base of the letter is extended around the inner and lower margins as a gold, blue, red, and white bounding line; from the lower two corners of this line and the upper left corner of the initial sprout vines, as for the historiated initial. 3- and 2-line initials in orange-tinted red or blue; rubrics throughout. Square notes in brown on 4-line orange-tinted red staves (the red ink has bled so that the whole written space has an orange glow). Parts II and IV: 4- to 1-line initials in red and blue. Rubrics are sometimes set off on the right side of the page by a narrow vertical border in brown. Musical notation: square notes on 4-line staves, all in brown., and Binding: 1981. Quarter cloth case, retaining brown mottled paper covered boards, 19th century. Traces of earlier bindings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript on parchment (thick, good quality), composed of four parts. Although all four parts may be roughly contemporary in execution, they apparently were not assembled together as a "missal" until the 15th century, at which point the manuscript was annotated and cross-referenced from beginning to end; it is possible that only the lectionary and sacramentary in Part IV were originally intended to be used together
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In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 2-8): Text of calendar written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe; many later additions in several hands. Part II (ff. 9-56): Written in gothic bookhand, with additions in several different hands in less formal styles of writing. Musical notation consists of Austrian adiastematic neumes in the same ink as the text. Part III (ff. 57-64): Written in large liturgical gothic bookhand. Part IV (ff. 65-276): Written in gothic bookhand; several layers of marginalia added in less formal hands., Part I: KL monograms, in red, embellished with knobs. Part II: Eleven large initials, 12- to 6-line, drawn in red and/or brown ink against geometric grounds of blue and lime-green washes. The initials are constructed of dragons and other fantastic animals, or of stylized foliage inhabited by biting beasts and birds. Plain initials in blue, red or lime-green, some with blue and/or red penwork designs, others with knobs. Major headings in majuscules with letters alternating red, black, and sometimes lime green; other headings in red. Instructions to rubricator perpendicular to text. Part III: The decoration of the Canon of the Mass consists of a 3/4-page miniature of the crucifixion, f. 60r, framed with a narrow border of olive green, red and blue with white filigree. Christ is shown hanging from a Y-shaped Astkreuz flanked by Mary and St. John, against gold ground. The gold ground is largely rubbed and the figures are partly restored (lower part of St. John's robe has been reworked, and flaked paint on the cross and Christ's loin cloth replaced). Marginal illustration of what appears to be a kneeling Augustinian canon dressed in white and red robes, adjoining the Te igitur (f. 60v). Three illuminated initials, ff. 58r, 59v, 60v, for the Canon of the Mass, 7- to 5-line, pale mauve with stylized scrolls and green foliage against gold ground edged in blue with white filigree. Vere dignum initials, 3-line, alternate in red and blue with penwork in either blue or red. Part IV: Pen-and-ink initials, 7- to 4-line, of a similar design as in Part II, but lacking the vitality; drawn in brown and/or red ink with stylized foliage and palmettes sometimes touched with blue or red against blue, red and/or lime-green ground. Smaller initials, 4-line, red, blue or green with red and/or green penwork design. Plain initials in red. Headings in red. Instructions for rubricator perpendicular to text., Elegant repairs to parchment sewn with blue and chartreuse thread (e.g., f. 27). Most of the leaves of Part III have been repaired., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Quarter bound in brown calf, blind-tooled, over wooden board. Metal fittings at the head and tail of the leather and two fastenings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript on paper of a Missal, containing Masses and prayers for various occasions, a Benediction and Exorcism, and Liturgical notes
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Script: copied by a single hand in a bold Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Formata, Binding: Contemporary quarter binding sewn on three double cords: blind-tooled brown leather and wooden boards. One engraved brass clasp attached to the rear board, with an engraved brass catch on the front board. On the spine, two later parchment(?) labels carrying the shelfmark “E 40.” The binding is strengthened by means of a lead from an eleventh century biblical manuscript on parchment., and In Latin.
