Manuscript fragment on parchment of a liturgical book containing instructions for a Feria on Dec. 27, among others, possibly from a missal
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an unidentified script., Decoration: chapter marks and rubrics in red; unheightened neumes appear in red over parts of the text., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi +1215 (Albertus Magnus, Enarrationes in Evangelium Iohannis), in which they are used as front and back pastedowns.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of the biblical book of Mark, or a lectionary, or a missal
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus., and The speakers in the text are noted by letters above the first word of quoted text: "T" for Jesus, "C" for the narrator, and "I" for other speakers; these letters indicate the different ways to read the words of the speakers in the passage during Holy Week, in this case, Feria III.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, and Missals
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted missal, containing among others: Sts. Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrice (29 July); St. Felix II, Antipope (29 July); Sts. Abdon and Senan (30 July); Chains of Peter (1 August); Seven Maccabean Brothers (1 August).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a larger script for the lessons and prayers and a smaller script for the chants., and Decoration: 2-line initials in orange square capitals, but with round "D"; 1-line intials in brown rustic capitals frequently filled with orange; rubrics written in orange minuscule with uncial "M" and occasional rustic capitals; punctuated with punctus and punctus elevatus; chants on the recto have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing among others: St. Felix in Pincis (14 January); St. Marcellus (16 January); St. Prisca (18 January); St. George (23 April); St. Mark (25 April); Letania Maior ad S. Laurentium (25 April); Apostles Philip and James (1 May); and Sts. Alexander, Eventius, Theodolus, and Juvenal (3 May).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule by two scribes, one on fols. 1-2 and the other on fols. 3-4., and Decoration: there are two 7-line initials on fol. 2; they are in red outline with a center shaft filled with red and are decorated with foliate ornamentation; 1- and 2-line prayer initials alternate red and brown; the red initials are sometimes filled with yellow; 1-line chant initials are in brown rustic capitals, occasionally highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; diacritical marks appear over the interrogative word in a question, in the Beneventan fashion; accents in the same ink as the text; there are 2 10-line initials on fols. 3-4; rubrics written in red rustic capitals marked with a horizontal yellow line; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted missal containing St. Agatha (5 February); St. Valentine (14 February); and the Chair of St. Peter (22 February).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of late Caroline minuscule, a larger module for the lessons and prayers and a smaller module for the chants., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials in red square capitals, which has oxidized to a silver color; 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule; line fillers in red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; chants have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted missal containing among other items: Conversion of St. Paul (25 January); Octave of St. Agnes (28 January); Chair of St. Peter (22 February); St. Matthias (24 February); Sts. Perpetua and Felicity (7 March); St. Gregory (12 March); St. Cuthbert (20 March).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of late Caroline script, with a larger script for the lessons and prayers and a smaller script for the chants., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials are in red square capitals with round "D"; other 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule with occasional rustic capital and uncial forms; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation and accents are in the same ink as the text; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing the Sunday after Holy Trinity
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of late Caroline minuscule, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger one for the lessons., and Decoration: 3-line initial "I" at the beginning of the lesson is in red; 1-line chant initials are in red uncials; 1-line initials within the lessons are in brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of Beauvais
Description:
In Latin., Script: early gothic bookhand., Decoration: rubricated., and Binding: fourteenth-century (?) brown leather over beveled wooden boards; remains of one clasp.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing readings from: Common of Saints; Lesson from Hebrews 5; Unidentified secreta and postcommunio (Common of a Confessor?); and Common of Virgins
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: three lines of a large initial "F" (?) that is half green and half red are preserved on fol. 1r; 1-line initials at the beginning of prayers are in red square capitals; smaller 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; rubrics are written in a mixture of red capitals and minuscule forms; liturgical directions are written in brown minuscule with some rustic capital forms and are dotted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of St. Nicholas (Beauvais).
Description:
In Latin., Collation: 59 l. + 2 l. paper + 3 l. original parchment endleaves., Script: Gothic bookhand, large and angular., Decoration: rubricated. The two-line initials are in gold on pink and blue grounds. Large historiated initial "PP (5v)., and Decoration: miniature of the Crucifixion on gold ground, with protective cloth stitched to leaf (6v.)
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted missal containing among other texts: St. Matthias (24 February); St. Benedict (21 March); Annunciation (25 March); Ash Wednesday; Common of the Apostles; Dedication of a church; and Mary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 4-line initial "D" for the Annunciation is outlined in red with an interlace pattern and filled with blue and red on a square ground outlined with red; 3- to 6-line initials for other feasts and for hymns in red with red penwork; 1-line initials of prayers and of hymn verses are in red; other 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals traced with red; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; the alleluia and prosula hymn following the "Gaude maria templum" has interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a lectionary or missal containing portions of the biblical books of Wisdom, Hebrews, Proverbs, and the Apocalypse
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Beneventan script., and Decoration: 3- and 4-line initials are written on the inner vertical bounding line; one of them is a plain red square capital "I"; the others are brown square capitals filled with red foliate ornamentation; 1-line initials are brown, highlighted with red; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, and Missals
Manuscript fragment on parchment of lessons from the Mass, from a lectionary or missal, including among others: Anthony (13 June); Sts. Gervase and Protase (24 June); Vigil of St. John the Baptist (23 June); Vigil of Sts. Peter and Paul (28 June); and Octave of the Apostles
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: the words "In illo tempore" begin with a 7- to 8-line initial "I" in blue with red penwork; the initials of the lessons are 1-line red or blue initials decorated with blue or red penwork; 1-line initials within lessons are in black highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation and accents are in the same ink as the text; there are symbols similar to neumes above some of the text, perhaps aids for reading aloud.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, 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
Description:
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
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in small, neat, gothic bookhand; note in his hand on f. 209r, too trimmed to be legible., Approximately half the historiated initials have been excised. The initials, 51- to 9-line, painted gold, red and blue with white highlights and punctuated with gold dots, terminate in spiralling floral serifs, often with biting animal heads, with long projecting stems against cusped grounds. The figures are red, blue, orange and grey, against red or blue grounds, some of them diapered and decorated with groups of three white dots and gold dots. Illuminated initials, 51- to 5-line, occasionally for books (f. 74v [Joshua] and f. 175r [Nehemiah]), for the most part for the prologues, similar to the historiated initials, except infilled with interwining and angular vines with biting head terminals, red and/or blue against red or blue grounds with gold dots and set in frames of painted gold. 2-line calligraphic initials for chapters, red or blue with blue or red penwork, each attached to a column of superimposed I's, red and blue, running the full length of the text column, with penwork flourishes, especially at the terminals. Capitals for verses stroked in red. Running headings and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters or numbers., and Binding: Date? Resewn on four single, round, vegetable fiber cords which are frayed out and adhered inside the oak boards. There are no endbands, but traces of alum tawed endband cores and sewing supports remain in the holes in the boards. The spine is square. Some lettering in ink on the fore-edge. Covered in red-brown calf, with an exceptionally large stamp of the Virgin and child in an aureole within concentric frames, one with an inscription, on the upper board and diamonds filled with crosses, roses and IHS in circles on the lower. The latter ornaments are also stamped on the turn-ins underneath the pastedowns. Rebacked and edges repaired. Upper board detached. Not the original and possibly not an early binding. Rebacked in the Yale Conservation Studio in 1982. The upper and lower covers are lined with single leaves, pasted down, of a missale plenum (11th century?). Portions of Dominica VI post Pentecosten, Feria IV of that week (upper cover), an unidentified mass of the Sanctorale, Dominica III post Pentecosten (lower cover). Where they occur, the texts of the proper chants are notated in German neumes in campo aperto. Some of the chants are cited by incipit; these are usually not noted. The Alleluia for DMC III is Domine in virtute; that for DMC VI is Eripe me. (We thank K. D. Hartzell for his assistance with these fragments.)
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
