Manuscript fragment on parchment of a psalter containing portions of Psalms 93-100
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In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2- to 4-line initials at the beginning of the Psalms are in red uncials and capitals; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses are in red; the first word of each Psalm is written in rustic capitals; puncutated with the punctus; Psalms not written in verse.
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, on parchment, in Gothic script, produced in Flanders during the fourth quarter of the thirteenth century
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In Latin, French, and Middle English., Decorations include a half-page initial on f. 43r (six other half-page initials have been cut from the manuscript) and illustrations of the labors of the months in the calendar., The back flyleaf has, in two fourteenth century hands, a French song "Une bon chanson ay troue" and a Middle English carol "Mayde and moder, glade thou be.", On the calendar page for December, St. Thomas of Canterbury's name has been erased from its place, indicating English ownership at least in the sixteenth century., and Binding: dark brown calf skin over pasteboards (sixteenth or seventeenth century).
Manuscript on parchment of a Liturgical Psalter (Pss. 1-108) with hymns, canticles, and antiphons. Capitals A and B in outer margins every two Psalms, perhaps to denote change in reader. With Hymns for Matins and Lauds
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In Latin., Script: Written in a large round gothic bookhand., One crude historiated initial, 6-line (Ps. 1): David seated on ground with both hands raised in prayer, against a blue ground, the letter-form tan, orange, and red with white filigree; large blue, green, pink, and red acanthus leaves at the corners, against a gold ground, edged with two thick black bands, penwork, gold dots, and hair-spray. In bottom margin a "YHS" monogram, against a blue ground, inside sunburst and green, pink, and blue wreath, supported by large bud from which sprout two large acanthus leaves, red berries, gold dots and hair-spray, as above. 6- or 5-line initials red and/or blue, with large green or red dots, elaborate purple calligraphic decoration, portions filled with green and tan. 2-line initials, red or blue, with calligraphic ornament and flourishes, as above. 1-line initials, blue or red, with guide-letters throughout. On f. 160v a large pen drawing of a hand pointing to text., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Sewn on five tawed skin straps. Plain, wound endbands on cores laced into tunnels in the edges of heavy wooden boards. Covered with three separate pieces of dark brown leather (cowskin?) with leather straps extending across the spine and nailed to the boards over the sewing straps. Each board has four corner pieces, a central boss and a strip of metal, probably iron, nailed around the four edges. Strap and pin fastening, the pin on the lower board, stubs of pink, tawed straps attached to the upper one. Fragments from several parchment manuscripts and early printed texts used as binding reinforcements.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in a Gothic liturgical hand, of a Psalter, prefaced by a liturgical calendar and followed by the Office of the Dead
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In Latin., Tipped in at front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing copy of a letter from Joseph Mallord William Turner to John Ruskin, Midsummer Day [June 24] 1848, in the hand of John Ruskin., Tipped in to front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing a description of the illuminations in the hand of John Ruskin., Presentation inscription on front flyleaf: Laurence Hilliard with John Ruskin's love, Brantwood, 25th January 1881., and Binding: modern full blue velvet.
Manuscript on parchment of a Psalter-Hymnal, written for a Benedictine monastery. On the rear flyleaf, a fragment of the Gospel of Mark, 1:24-31 and 36-42, in West-Saxon translation
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In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., Script: Copied by three scribes, all writing Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. The fragment is copied in careful Anglo-Saxon Minuscule., The decoration consists of 1-line plain initials alternately in red and blue in the text; 2-line flourished initials in blue with red penwork with marginal extensions; 3- and 5-line litterae duplices with partial or full penwork borders (J-motifs) as indicated in art. 2. Litterae duplices also on ff. 116r, 133v, 143v (artt. 3, 6 and 7)., and Binding: Original undecorated leather over oak boards (?). Spine with three raised bands. Traces (?) of one clasp.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Hymns, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Psalters