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 a missal containing: St. Caesarius of Arles (27 August); Mass for the sick; Mass for travelers; Mass for the living and the dead; and St. Anne (26 July).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of Masses and 1-line initials at the beginning of prayers in red; other 1-line initials are in black highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing: Third Sunday after Pentecost; Fourth Sunday after Pentecost; Fifth Sunday after Pentecost; Eighth Sunday after Pentecost; and Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line initials alternate red and blue; written over guide letters in black ink; 1-line capitals, which include the first letter after the 2-line initials, are in black filled with yellow; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing: Feria III after the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost; Feria IV after the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost; Feria VI after the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost; and Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line initials at the beginning of lessons alternate blue with red flourishes or red with not flourishes; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses are black, highlighted with red dots; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing Palm Sunday and Feria II after Palm Sunday
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of rounded gothic script (littera textualis), a larger script for the lessons and prayers and a smaller script for chants., and Decoration: 2-line initials of prayers and lessons alternate red and blue; 1-line initials within lessons, of chants and the first letters following a 2-line initial are brown and yellow; rubrics written in a red cursive script; punctuated with the punctus; a contemporary hand has made corrections in black ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing the Saturday after the First Sunday of Quadragesima and the Second Sunday of Quadragesima
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of lessons and prayers alternate blue decorated with red penwork and red with no flourishes (the blue is faded); 1-line initials beginning the second word of the lessons alternate red and blue; other 1-line initials are brown highlighted with red strokes and dots; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation added by a later hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing the Common of Confessors and the Common of a Confessor Bishop
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis), with a larger script for the prayers and a smaller script for the chants., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials alternate red and blue; rubrics are in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing: Visitation of Mary (2 July); Mass for an unidentified martyr; St. Pantaleon (27 July); Mass on the five wounds of Christ; Mass for the living; and Votive Mass in time of temptation
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis formata) with a larger script for the lessons and prayers and a smaller script for the chants., and Decoration: there are spaces for initials and rubrics, but none have been added except for the lengthy rubric on fol. 2v; 1-line capitals within lessons are black; punctuated with the punctus, rarely; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; accents added by a later hand.
Manuscript on parchment of Matthew of Westminster, Flores historiarum. Written presumably at the Cluniac priory of St. Saviour, Bermondsey, Surrey
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in bold gothic textura; x is crossed., Rubrics, often accompanied by notes to rubricator in well formed current Anglicana script. Decorative initials not filled in. Numerous pen trials and crude drawings in margins (e.g., ff. 28r, 46v, 47r, 63r)., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blind-tooled brown calf with a gold-tooled title. Parchment flyleaves (formerly pastedowns) from a Missal (England, 15th century) much rubbed and worn, and with offset impression from original binding of corner tongues and four attachments. Gothic textura. Fine blue initials with intricate herringbone penwork designs in red. Headings in red; paragraph marks in blue.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and History
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