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 paper in a secretary hand of the complete text of Stephen Hopkins' translation of de Granada's Libro de oracion y meditatcion
Description:
In English., Text follows the 1584 Rouen edition., No title page, but Hopkins is identified as the author in the Prologue to the Dedicatory Epistle, which includes his attack on the English Puritans and which opens the work., Annotation on p. 1: "Ex Bib. S. Wilfredi.", Annotation on blank p. 684: "Elizabeth Cottan.", and Binding: blind-ruled parchment; fragments of parchment ms. (ca. 1600) used as liners.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Hopkins, Stephen, d. 1594?, Luis, de Granada, 1504-1588, and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Translations, Prayers and devotions, Catholics, Meditations (Religious)., Meditations, Catholic Church, Puritans, and Controversial literature
Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two hands, containing the text of the psalter, preceded by prayers and a calendar, and followed by canticles and a litany. The calendar is very detailed and includes dates of various English battles, the latest of which is the battle of Dunkirk (1483).
Description:
In Latin; a few notes in the calendar in Middle English., Note concerning the probable date of the volume in Latin, in a later hand (9v.), Layout: single columns of 21 lines., Script: rounded gothic liturgical script., Decoration: Rubricated. Small initials throughout in red and blue with contrasting penwork; seven large illuminated initials with two-sided borders; large illuminated initial on the first leaf of the text of the Psalter., and Binding: contemporary binding of reversed skin over bevelled wooden boards; sewn on five double bands. Remains of clasps on the front board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and England
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Prayers and devotions, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
Syriac-Armenian lexicon (pages 4-199), with the Armenian written in Syriac script, consists mainly of an alphabetical list of verbs in various forms. The lexicon is preceded by poems of Barhebraeus (pages 1-3), and followed by: 1. Poem on the "Life of Saint John", son of Euphemianus, of the city of Rome (pages 200-216). 2. "On the transit of the Mother of God Mary from the world" (folios 216-231). 3. "Syriac-Armenian glossary" of verbs in the imperative forms, conjugations of verbs, pronouns, etc. (pages 231-241). 4. Prayer of the solitary monks (yíḥídāyē) to each other (page 241). 5. Poems by Saint Ephrem: Commandments and admonitions for Christians (pages 242-286). 6. Prayers and miscellaneous statements in a different hand (285-286). The lexicon seems to have been written for the benefit of Syriac speakers within Armenian communities. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned probably from the 17th century
Description:
In Syriac and Armenian in Syriac script., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., The dictionary starts with: "Eštbíw. Talnúsān ...", The poems of Barhebraeus start with: "Qúm tāʼ aḥún kašrútā lak hā mṭāyibʼnā ...", 1. Poem on the "Life of Saint John", son of Euphemianus starts with: "Kātbínan tašʻítā d-Māry Yúḥanān bar ʼÚpímyanús d-men Rúmí Mdíntā b-níšā d-Māry Aprém Súryāyā ...", 2. On the transit of the Mother of God Mary from the world starts with: "Túb seprā da-štā ʻal šúnāyeh d-Yaldat Alāhā Maryam d-men ʻalmā hānā ṣlútah ʻaman. Āmín ...", 4. Prayer of the solitary monks (yíḥídāyē) to each other start with: "Ṣlútā d-nemrún yíḥíyāyē la-ḥdādē: Alāhā d-barek la-Šlíḥāwhy qadíšē mbarek lak ...", 5. Poems by Saint Ephrem start with: "Ḥúr b-Alāhā ḥabíbay d-madnaḥ šmšeh ʻal bíšē ...", Prayers and miscellaneous statements in a different hand start with: "Ematy d-qāymat b-ṣaprā men šentā pšúṭ ʼīdayk la-šmāyā ú-sím tlātā búrkē l-apay madnḥā ú-ʼemar ..., 10.5 x 15.5 cm; written surface varies ; lines per page vary., Binding: In wooden cover., In clear West Syriac script, in black ink on cream color paper, markings in red., Inside the front cover: An erased note (four lines)., On page 285: An erased note (one lines): "Šlem ktābā ..." (The book is completed ...)., and Many of the pages in the latter half of the manuscript include marginal glosses giving the Armenian renderings of words occuring in the Syriac text.
Subject (Name):
Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373. and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Assumption, Syriac language, Armenian, Armenian language, Syriac, Monks, Prayers and devotions, and Syriac poetry