Manuscript fragment on parchment of capitula, possibly from a breviary containing among others: Capitula for sext of Pentecost; Capitula for an unidentified office; capitula for unidentified Feria II-VI; capitula for an unidentified Saturday; Capitula from Isaiah 33.2 and Romans 10.13.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule bordering on early gothic., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red; rubrics written in red minuscule; the rubrics on fol. 2r are in a fifteenth-century hand; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; accents are in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of a Carthusian psalter with the Canticles and the Creed, with musical notation
Description:
In Latin., Incomplete. Text ends with Psalm 77., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Script: large gothic script., Decoration: smaller initial in alternate red and blue; 12 historiated initials; full illuminated border to one page with figures of Carthusian monks and an abbot., and Binding: contemporary pigskin over wooden boards; metal clasps, corner pieces and central bosses.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Carthusians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Prayers and devotions, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Psalters
Manuscript on parchment. Copied in the Charterhouse Val de Benediction (Vallis Benedictionis) at Villeneuve-les-Avignon
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in small Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., All important illuminated leaves missing. Headings in red. Yellow heightening of the majuscules. 1-line flourished initials alternately red and blue. Numerous 2-line flourished initials in the same colours. 3-line dentelle initials with partial floral borders in gold (on f. 56r with bar-shaped extensions, on f. 57v no border)., The manuscript is heavily mutilated, some leaves are out of order and many (presumably all illuminated) leaves are cut out., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Light-brown leather over pasteboard; the covers gold-tooled with floral border and centre-piece. Gold-tooled spine with four raised bands. One large modern silver clasp attached to rear cover. Edges gilt and gauffered.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carthusians. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
In Latin., Script: Written by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Pigskin over cardboard (previously over wooden boards), blind-tooled with rolls, rebacked. Red edges. On the front flyleaf there is a modern note: "The 16th century German binding has evidently been taken from another volume".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Graduals (Liturgical books), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Collection on paper and parchment of manuscript leaves, documents and printed leaves. Including paper leaves from a Latin Psalter, a parchment leaf from the Beauvais Missal (formerly owned by Otto Ege), and a parchment leaf from a Latin Bible concordance
Description:
In Latin, French and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and Psalters
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Conversio Sanctae Justinae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: only six lines of the homily initials "I" are preserved; the shaft of the letter is half red and half yellow on a geometric ground of blue and pale purple, with vine-stem decoration in red; 1-line initials are in brown uncials with occasional rustic capital forms (D, Q, M) and enlarged minuscule forms (n); punctuated with the punctus and the punctus interrogativus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript on parchment of prayers for priest and bishop to say before and during Mass
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in imitation of Roman font, upper and lower case, with cursive for headings and rubrics, by N. Jarry in Paris, 1649., Title page (p. 1), p. 31 (Gratiarum actio) and p. 40 (orationes) with finely executed headpieces and 3- or 2-line initials, gold edged in red, with flowers. 2-line initials gold edged in red or blue; 1-line initials in red. Running titles and headings in red. On p. 73 a monogram that incorporates the alphabet inside a wreath tied with a pink ribbon., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Red goatskin, gold-tooled, with two gold-plated clasps which may be later additions. Gilt edges.
Script: written by multiple hands in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., Binding: undecorated sheepskin over pasteboard. Rebacked in the eighteenth century. Spine with four raised bands, gold-tooled with a floweret. Remnants of a gold-tooled title label., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carthusians. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript fragment on one leaf of parchment (soft, furry; trimmed) of 1) Apoc. 21.4-5: Epistle for last Sunday after Pentecost (?). 2) Beginning of Proper of the Saints, with Epistle for St. Andrew (30 Nov.); Rom. 10.10-15.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in bold, well spaced, and slightly rounded gothic bookhand., and Red hufnagel neumes scattered over the text for the subdeacon who reads the Epistle at Mass. On recto, space of 12 lines (140 mm.) left blank between arts. 1 and 2, perhaps for a miniature. 5-line initial in red, ending in pen and ink flourishes. On verso, illuminated initial C, 11-line, of poor quality, on brownish-red ground within rectangular frame of bright orange, green, and blue. Initial in white with bands of gold and silver; two gold-bordered medallions with white-blue centers, resembling jewels or mirrors. Initial encloses full-length figure of St. Andrew holding cross of his martyrdom. Text initials touched with red.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Epistolaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval