Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Passio S. Margaritae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initial "O" is in red, decorated with two small red dots protruding into the interior of the letter; 1-line initials are in a mixture of brown uncial and rustic capital forms; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; marginal hymn has 1-line capitals, rubrics, and paragraphs marks in brown highlighted with red as well as interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a passionary containing portions of Sts. Simon and Jude and St. Narcissus
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials in red; other 1-line initials are in brown; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript on two fragments of a single parchment leaf, now crudely patched together in their original format. Contains lines of text from a Prayer "ad clericum faciendum"; Antiphon and Psalm; Part of an "ordinatio monachi"; and Prayer "ad barbas tonendas". The manuscript presumably originated in one of the episcopal seats of the period and perhaps in one of the monastic cathedrals
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a fine, large Anglo-Saxon square minuscule with headings, in red square capitals (mostly faded)., and Removed from a binding; numerous sections spotted and discolored.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Cathedrals, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pontificals
Manuscript on paper of Postillae ("sermons," or treatises) on the gospels and epistles in a style close to Petrus Alberti (or, Aldeberti, or Adalberti).
Description:
In Latin., Script: The main text (artt. 5-41) is copied by two hands in Gothica Cursiva Currens: hand (A) copied ff. 13r-108v (quires II-IX); and hand (B) copied ff. 109r-247v (quires X-XXI partim). The other texts are in similar script types., Decoration: Missing on many pages (ff. 37r-40r, 41v-56r, 67v-78v, 85v-89r, 92v-93v, etc.), but there is red underlining, paragraph marks, stroking of majuscules and punctuation, red headings, and occasional annotations and indications of the sources., and Binding: original blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards; both covers are decorated with a spread eagle, a rampant lion, and a fleur-de-lis, with an inscription on the front cover. Two leather and brass clasps are attached to the rear board while brass catches are on the front board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Church dedication sermons, Church year sermons, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of prayers for the dead, possibly from a rituale
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in large gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials are in black with black penwork, some filled with red; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus flexus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; line fillers in black; line divider on fol. 2r is in the shape of a square with four compartments like a coat of arms; one of the compartments contains the picture of a face.
Manuscript on paper of Prayers to be said at various times during the Mass. Composed by Paul Pellisson-Fontanier (1624-93).
Description:
In French., Script: Written by the master calligrapher Jean Pierre Rousselet, a follower of Nicholas Jarry, active in Paris between 1677 and 1736., Two full-page miniatures and nine historiated headpieces in gouache, all in frames best described as resembling the frames of 18th-century mirrors; the frames blue and purple with white highlights and gold side-pieces decorated with red flowers in diamonds; floral swags at bottom. Tail pieces with swags, as above and filled with gold, on f. 48v with the Holy Spirit as a dove. 3- and 2-line initials, blue with white highlights on gold; 1-line initials in red. Titles in gold, red and blue capitals; running headings and rubrics in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Black goatskin, gold-tooled. A red label and salmon pink doublures and flyleaves. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript, on parchment, in two scribal hands, of a processional according to the use of Sarum. The manuscript, which is apparently lacking two gatherings and includes fourteen later additions, features extensive musical notation on 4-line staves
Alternative Title:
Processional
Description:
In Latin; ownership inscription and anathema in Middle English., Ownership inscription for the parish church of St. Mary, Redgrave, Suffolk: "Iste liber constat de Redgrave" in a fifteenth-century hand., Anathema in Middle English verse on the verso of the second flyleaf: "This bok is on and goddys crus ys anodur/He that stel the ton mot haue the todyr" in a fifteenth-century hand., Numerous other early ownership inscriptions and pen trials on front flyleaves., Annotation on verso of nineteenth-century endpaper, in pencil, identifying the text as a "Sarum Processional," dated 1847., Layout: single columns, mostly of 23 lines., Script: gothic script., Decoration: musical notation on 4-line staves, red and blue penwork initials, rubrics, and blue paragraph marks. Numerous initials in brown ink, some decorated with faces and grotesques., and Binding: nineteenth-century black morocco, gilt; marbled endpapers. JHS monogram framing cross centered on both covers. Title in gilt on black leather tag on spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Catholic Church.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Processionals (Liturgical books)
Manuscript on parchment. Written as a gift for Barbara Pfintzing, who entered a nunnery in 1441 at the age of 16. The text indicates that the manuscript was produced for use in a Dominican house of nuns; liturgical directions are written in German (the feminine forms in the antiphons and prayers often bear suprascript masculine endings, in red).
Description:
In Latin and German., Script: Written by a single scribe in well formed gothic textura. Articles 1 and 6 have 4-line staves, in red, and black square notes., Uninspired blue initial, 2-stave, on f. 1r, infilled and surrounded by red penwork flourishes with blue accents. Similar plain initials, 2-line, alternate in blue, red, and black with red throughout. Running titles and headings in red., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Resewn, using original sewing holes, on three double vegetable fiber cords laced into back-cornered and indented oak boards. Endbands embroidered on a strip of vellum and adhered, the vellum extending onto the outside of the boards. The spine is square and lined all along with manuscript fragments extending to the inside of the boards. Covered in vellum blind-tooled with concentric borders containing heads in oval frames among foliage in the outer, and busts of saints in the inner. Two brass fastenings, the catch on the upper board, straps attached to the lower with a metal plate. Straps wanting and a slight crack in one joint.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Dominican sisters, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Processionals (Liturgical books)
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. Rubrics in Gothica Hybrida Formata (Bastarda). Music notation in Nota Quadrata., Red rubrics. Heightening of majuscules in yellow. Alternately red and blue1-line plain initials on ff. 176r-177r. Flourished initials (height: 1 stave + 1 text line) alternately red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork. Cadels (same size) in a rectangular frame decorated with foliage on a yellow background. On f. 1r damaged large golden initial (2 staves + 2 lines of text) on a blue background containing coat of arms of Hugo Gontard, a canon in the collegiate church of St. Genesius (St. Genez) at Clermont-Ferrand in 1515 and "abbot" of the said church, 1519-1545., Many pages badly damaged and faded, especially f. 1r., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled leather over cardboard, repaired. Gold-tooled spine with title on red leather label: "LIVRE D'HEURES". Brown marbled paper endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Music, and Processionals (Liturgical books)
