Manuscript fragment on parchment from a breviary or antiphonary, with musical notation above the texts without staves. The recto text is in late Caroline minuscule and the music is notated in Hufnagel neumes. The verso text is in transitional protogothic and music is in letter notation in the style of Saint Gall. Neither text has been identified
Description:
In Latin., Script: recto: late Caroline minuscule. Verso: transitional protogothic., and Decoration: recto: small capitals in red ink. Verso: Small capitals and letter musical notation in red ink.
Manuscript waste (Binding), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Mathematics--Early works to 1800, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Ars Laureshamensis, Expositio in Donatum maiorem, an anonymous commentary on Donatus's Ars maior; the portion here is on part II of Donatus's grammar
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; double quotation marks are within the text.
Manuscript on parchment, composed of three parts, of Petrus Riga, Aurora, Biblia Versificata (a Latin verse translation of the Bible). Parts I and III in the same format and possibly from the same manuscript.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Belgium. Tan calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with the Arenberg arms on the sides. Title on spine: "Sacrae Scripturae excerptae/ Circa 1225-50". Remains of old fore-edge tabs., Parts I and III: Red initials, plain or with modest designs throughout. Headings in red often added to right of text. First letter of each verse stroked in red or ochre, often by drawing a single line the length of the written space. Part II: Plain initials and headings in red throughout., Presented by Otto Rauschberg in 1956 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Parts I and III (ff. 1-72 and 113-136): Copied by multiple scribes in small gothic bookhand, with first letter of each verse usually aligned on the second vertical bounding line. Part II (ff. 73-112): Written by multiple scribes in a larger module and a neater gothic script than that in Parts I and III; each verse is justified by the placement of the final letter along outer vertical ruling. Script has often been retraced.
Subject (Name):
Peter Riga,--ca. 1140-1209
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing Ezekiel 1:22 to 5:6.
Description:
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 50 lines., Recovered from a binding., and Script: late Carolingian.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Ezekiel., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of 1 Kings
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in progothic minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials alternate in red and blue; 1-line initials are in brown and a mixture of uncials and rustic capitals; running titles are written in black; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation, accents, and diacritical marks over double "i" and double "a" were added in lighter ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book Acts of the Apostles, including portions of chapters 21-23.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; hand very similar to that in Beinecke MS 482.12., and Decoration: two plain 2-line initials in red; 1-line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Bible, Ezechiel, containing parts of chapters 18, 19, and 20.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials in brown rustic capitals; portion of a running head in red in the upper margin of the verso; punctuated with punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus and punctus interrogativus; a contemporary hand has made some corrections and added a paraph at the beginning of chapter 20.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Genesis and Jerome's Epistula ad Paulinum
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic bookhand (littera textualis)., and Decoration: the preface on fol. 2r begins with a 10-line decorated initial "D" in red interlace on a green geometric ground with a blue ground for the central portion of the vine stem; the text of Genesis begins with a half-page decorated initial "I" in the same style; 1-line initials in the prefatory material are occasionally red; line fillers are in red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; accents added by a later hand; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.