The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
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f. 1r-v Antiphona. Cruci, corone spinee, clavisque dire, lancee ... per que corone gaudia perpetua speramus. Versus. Adoramus te Christe ... Oremus. Quesumus omnipotens Deus, ut qui sacratissima nostre redemptionis insignia temporaliter veneramur, per hec indesinenter muniti eternitatis gloriam consequamur. Per. De sancto Eustachio antiphona., On parchment., This small luxurious book of devotion seems to be organized according to the liturgical year, the Exaltation of the Cross being celebrated on 14 September, the martyr Eustace on 20 September., and Yellow heightening of the majuscules. One 2-line flourished initial, gold with blue flourishes, and on f. 1r one square miniature (5 lines) in a golden frame representing the Instruments of the Passion, accompanied by a full rinceaux border with a gold and pink bar in the inner margin. In the upper right and the two lower corners flowers and plants grow on a circular grassy patch of earth. The spiralling tendrils between them carry gold balls and vine leaves and flowers.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
Abundant decoration consisting of line-fillers in gold and paint containing animal and hybrid bodies and ending in human or animal heads; 1- and 2-line initials, the latter ending on f. 1r in borders consisting of a horizontal bar in the upper and lower margin on which grotesques are painted: in the upper margin an animal (its head partly cropped) shooting a bird and in the lower margin a monkey looking at a hybrid., f. 1r-v //Nam et testimonia tua meditacio mea est ... Et ne auferas de ore meo verbum veritatis usque//[quaque].
Ps. 118 :24-43, On parchment., Ruled with lead for one column of 19 lines below top line (type 31, 170 x 105 mm). The horizontal ruling is double, lines being traced for the headlines as well as for the baselines., and Written in a narrow Northern Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus).
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
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2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
August, with a feast for every day, important feasts distinguished by red ink and larger script. The computistical data are Golden Number, Day Letter and Roman Calendar without the numerals. Includes Nicasius (16 August!), Piatus (17 August!), Amandus (20 August!), Louis (25 August, in red), Fiacrius (30 August)., f. 1r-v // Aoust. KL. viii c Saint Pierre ... e KL. Saint Paulin., Heightening in yellow of majuscules. One 2-line dentelle initial for "KL." On both pages an unframed outer rinceaux border., On parchment., and Written in Northern Textualis Formata marked by the bold shape of the closing stroke of the upper bow of double-bow a.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
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22
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
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There is a feast for every day. The computistical data are Golden Number and Day Letter. Among the saints in red: Pontianus (14 Jan.), Pancratius (12 May), Servatius (13 May), Boniface (5 June), Odulphus (12 June), Lebuinus (25 June), Hieron (17 August), Lambert (17 Sept.), Maurice (22 Sept.), Remigius (1 Oct.), Victor and Gereon (10 Oct.), Willibrord (8 Nov.!), Lebuinus or Livinus (12 Nov.).
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On parchment., Red heightening of the majuscules and red and blue plain initials., The calendar is written continuously, without beginning a new page for each month. Ruled in light brown ink for one column of 18 lines below top line (type 15 with two additional vertical lines for the computistical data, 83 x 61 mm.). Pricking visible in the upper or lower margin., and Written in black and red ink in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
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2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
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f. 1r-v // Sinte Iacob, b. Sinte Philips, b. Sinte Bartholomeus, b. ...Alle heilighe apostelen ende ewangelisten, biddet voer ons. Alle heilighe discipulen Ons Heren, biddet voer ons. Alle heilighe Onnosele Kijnderen, b. ... Sinte Ponciaen, b. Sinte Sebastiaen, b. Sinte Fabiaen, b. //, On parchment., Red heightening of the majuscules and red and blue plain initials., The b's of "b[idt voer ons]" are heightened with red. The invocations begin with alternately red and blue plain initials S., The presence of Pontianus before Sebastian among the martyrs points to Utrecht., and Written in black and red ink in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
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4
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Archives or Manuscripts
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f. 1r-v // die herten der apostelen een nuwe teyken der heilicheit. Opdat in hoerre alre monde soude voertcomen manieren van allen tonghen. Alleluya. Veers. Dat godlike vuer was toecomende [= Advenit ignis divinus]. Antiphona. Glorie si den Vader ... dat in horen monden gheboren worden manieren van allen tonghen. Alleluya. Te Deum. Di, God, loven wi, di, Here, belien wi. Al eertrike eert di, ewighe Vader ... in die glorie dijns Vaders. Men gelovet //, f. 2r-v //ne, ende mijn sonde is altoes tegen mi. Di allene heb ic ghesondicht ... Heer, lucke op mine lippen, ende mijn mont sal voertkundigen dijn lof. Want //
[to be identified], On parchment. Folios not in sequence, Pentecost. The "Te Deum" is in the Dutch translation of Geert Groote, N. Van Wijk, ed., Het Getijdenboek van Geert Grote (Leiden, 1940), p. 42., Ruled with blue ink for one column of 19 lines below top line (type 13, 86 x 63 mm.)., The majuscules are heightened in red. 1-line flourished initials in alternately gold with blue and blue with red penwork. At the opening of "Te Deum" 2-line dentelle initial with bar in gold, red and blue in the left margin ending in tendrils with gold balls and leaves in the upper and lower margins., and Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
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2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
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Cutting of a foliate initial in blue on a square gold background, the interior of the letter containing two branches with leaves and a flower on a speckled background.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Cutting of an initial I ("Intret") at the beginning of the chants for the mass for the Common of Martyrs. On the verso only a few letters are preserved.
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Illuminated ornamental initial (1 stave) on gold background., Double ruling in beige ink., On parchment., and Written in large calligraphic Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda). The music is written in nota quadrata on 4-line red staves, width 38 mm.
Manuscript fragment on parchment containing a medical treatise.
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Decoration: rubrics in red; initials in blue with red penwork. Some marginal comments are circled in red., Script: written in an unidentified script., and This fragment is contained in Zi +4794 (Giovani Balbi of Genoa, Catholicon), around which the fragment is used as a cover.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.