Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt's Commentarium in Epistolam ad Hebraeos
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals with occasional use of an enlarged minuscule "e"; punctuated with punctus and punctus interrogativus; a contemporary hand has made corrections and altered punctuation in a somewhat lighter ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Conversio Sanctae Justinae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: only six lines of the homily initials "I" are preserved; the shaft of the letter is half red and half yellow on a geometric ground of blue and pale purple, with vine-stem decoration in red; 1-line initials are in brown uncials with occasional rustic capital forms (D, Q, M) and enlarged minuscule forms (n); punctuated with the punctus and the punctus interrogativus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Gospel of Mark, with interlinear and marginal glosses (Glossa ordinaria, as printed in PL 114.179-244), written on goatskin parchment. The manuscript originates in Italy, but was in the later Middle Ages probably moved to Germany
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a single scribe in Praegothica with Southern features in two sizes. Some glosses are added by other hands., Decoration: Limited decoration. Paragraph marks by the scribe in the ink of the text. A few 1-line versals in red. A few larger primitive flourished initials, red or blue, with penwork in the opposite colour. The text of art. 1 begins with a 4-line littera duplex “M” in red and blue colour. Art. 2 opens with a 10-line primitive dentelle initial “I” in gold on a blue and red background, which is heightened with white penwork design. The initial is shown resting on the back of a small bent male figure, coloured red and gold., and Binding: Romanesque, with undecorated white (deerskin?) leather over rounded wooden boards, sewn on three leather thongs (spine repaired). There was originally one leather strap fixed with two nails to the front board and closing over a pin in the center of the rear board. Later this strap was replaced by two straps similarly fixed with iron nails to the front board. This arrangement appears to have been changed at the end of the Middle Ages, when a title was inscribed on the front cover and an iron chain was attached at the bottom of the front board by means of an iron staple. The endleaves are two parchment bifolios from an antiphonary (Italy, 11th century), containing text and music for the offices of Ash Wednesday and the first weeks of Lent. The notation is diastematic. Rubrics and initials are missing.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Remigius of Auxerre's Homiliae (Expositio super Mattheum).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initial "E" is a red uncial highlighted with yellow; 1-line initials are a mixture of brown uncials, rustic capitals, and enlarged minuscule forms, usually filled with yellow; the rubric is written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus, some of the last altered from the punctus by a corrector; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Homiliae xl in evangelia
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 7-line initial "L" is in red, the horizontal stroke decorated with two round balls; 1-line initials are brown uncials; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text, but in a larger module; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: on fol. 1r there is a fine 7-line decorated initial "E" in yellow filled with red geometric penwork on a ground of blue, green, and dark red, with four vine stems originating from the lower bar of the "E"; a guide letter appears in the margin opposite the decorated initial; 1-line initials are black uncials; rubrics written in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation and accents were added by a later hand.