Manuscript fragment on parchment of a passionary containing two lives of St. Cassian
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Beneventan script., and Decoration: the Prudentius life is written in poetic stanzas; six-line decorated initial is outlined in brown; 1-line initials are brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Origen, Peri Archon (De principiis), translated into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia (345-410).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Caroline minuscule; corections added by a late 14th or early 15th century hand; an undeciphered annotation added by a modern hand., and Decoration: 1-line capitals in brown uncials; punctuation includes the punctus.
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
Basil Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Published / Created:
[between 890 and 910].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 481.3
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of St. Basil of Caesarea, Regula ad Monachos (translated into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Visigothic minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials in brown uncials with occasional red-orange filling; 1-line initials in brown uncials; chapter headings in a script with both Visigothic and uncial elements; punctuated with puncti (occaionally, punctus elevatus).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Basil Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. and Rufinus,
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Augustinian Sermons, possibly from an Alan of Farfa Homiliary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff has dated to the first third of the ninth century., and Decoration: the homily begins with a 7-line decorated initial "F" outlined in brown and filled with orange, dark orange, ochre, and olive green; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubric written in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; a leaf has been drawn in red in the space between the columns on the verso.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a copy of the South German Homiliary containing parts of Homily II.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff (on the basis of his inspection of other leaves of the same manuscript) dated to the second quarter of the ninth century., and Decoration: the homily on fol. 1v begins with a 3-line initial "T" outlined in orange and filled and surrounded with brown; 1-line initials are in orange uncials and are set apart from the text between the double vertical bounding lines; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a southern German homiliary from the Carolingian period
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Caroline minuscule; the letters have been almost entirely retraced due to (perhaps 11th century) water damage., Decoration: 2-line intials in brown uncials; some highlighting in red; traces of a rubric between the two sermons; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus versus, and punctus elevatus., and Another copy of this homilary is found in Beinecke MSS 482.4 and 484.2.