Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing among others: St. Felix in Pincis (14 January); St. Marcellus (16 January); St. Prisca (18 January); St. George (23 April); St. Mark (25 April); Letania Maior ad S. Laurentium (25 April); Apostles Philip and James (1 May); and Sts. Alexander, Eventius, Theodolus, and Juvenal (3 May).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule by two scribes, one on fols. 1-2 and the other on fols. 3-4., and Decoration: there are two 7-line initials on fol. 2; they are in red outline with a center shaft filled with red and are decorated with foliate ornamentation; 1- and 2-line prayer initials alternate red and brown; the red initials are sometimes filled with yellow; 1-line chant initials are in brown rustic capitals, occasionally highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; diacritical marks appear over the interrogative word in a question, in the Beneventan fashion; accents in the same ink as the text; there are 2 10-line initials on fols. 3-4; rubrics written in red rustic capitals marked with a horizontal yellow line; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal (use of Sarum) containing Feria IV after the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity and the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: there are three 2-line initials in blue with red penwork trailing up and down the entire margin or the column; 1-line initials are in brown; rubrics are written in red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
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:
f. 1r //tur vobis. Deus autem pacis qui eduxit de mortuis pastorem magnum dominum ... Secundum Marcum. In illo tempore mane prima sabbati ...et illi euntes nunciaverunt ceteris.
Thursday of the second week after Easter, with lessons from Hebrews 13:20 and Mark 16.2-13.
f. 1r-v Feria via. Ad Romanos. Fratres, cum adhuc essemus infirmi ... Secundum Matheum. In illo tempore exierunt mulieres de monumento ... usque in hodiernum diem.
Friday of the second week after Easter, with lessons from Romans 5:6-11 and Matth. 28:8-15.
f. 1v Sabbato. Si non fuerit festum novem lectionum sollempnizamus ultimam missam ...
Saturday of the second week after Easter.
Dominica iia post Pascha. Ad missam de beata Maria. Alleluia. Versus. Post partum ... Ad processionem per cimiterium. Antiphona. Surgens Dominus Ihesus ... Ad missam introitus. Misericordia Domini plena est terra ... Gloria in excelsis. Collecta. Deus qui in filii tui humilitate iacentem mundum erexisti ... Lectio epistolae beati Petri apostoli. Karissimi, Christus passus est pro nobis ... R. Alleluia. Versus. Ego sum pastor bonus et cognosco oves meas et cognoscunt me mee. //
Second Sunday after Easter, with lesson from 1 Peter 2:21-25., On parchment., Pricking in the upper and lower margins. Ruled with brown ink for two columns of 30 lines below top line (type 43, 212 x 140 mm., The majuscules are heightened in yellow. One line-filler in gold and paint. The decoration consists of (1) 2-line dentelle initials and (2) 3-line foliate initials. On f. 1v there is a gold and blue bar in the intercolumnium ending in the upper and lower margins in rinceaux with vine-leaves, a few flowers and acanthus leaves. Instructions for the rubricator are written in the margins in small Gothica Cursiva., and Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata in two sizes.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of Beauvais.
Description:
Binding: fourteenth-century (?) brown leather over beveled wooden boards; remains of one clasp., Decoration: rubricated., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals
Manuscript on parchment. With graded calendar, in red and black, lacking January and February; the qualifier "pape" erased or crossed out
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in elegant gothic textura (larger size for the Canon), with standard musical notation of Canon, etc., Sumptuous full bar borders surrounding text and running between text columns, alternating red and blue segments, divided by gold panels, from which sprout short sprigs of ivy (blue, red, pink with white highlights, often in a guilloche pattern) and daisy buds, gold cusped corners, filled with ivy or strapwork with flower terminals; the whole further embellished by hair-spray with gold balls and flowers; the gold with simple punches throughout. On the same folios, 7- to 5-line initials, blue and/or red with white highlights, filled with red, pink, and blue ivy or strapwork on irregular gold grounds, with simple punches. Elaborate 3- and 2-line initials throughout, pink and blue, filled with ivy, trailing pink and blue ivy, on irregular gold grounds extending with ivy into border, embellished with gold balls and hair-spray. 2- and 1-line gold initials throughout, with elaborate purple penwork designs, often far into margins; long (up to 10-line) I-initials in the same manner. 2- and 1-line blue initials throughout with red penwork; long I-initials in same manner. 1-line gold initials with simple brown penwork. Line-fillers in the litany, blue and gold. Two leaves, probably with miniatures of the Maiestas Domini and Crucifixion, have been removed before the Canon (after f. 136)., First four leaves are stained and trimmed, but with no loss of text., and Binding: Twentieth century. White, gold-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. Gilt edges. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (London, 1901 to the present).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of St. Nicholas (Beauvais).
Description:
Collation: 59 l. + 2 l. paper + 3 l. original parchment endleaves., Decoration: miniature of the Crucifixion on gold ground, with protective cloth stitched to leaf (6v.), Decoration: rubricated. The two-line initials are in gold on pink and blue grounds. Large historiated initial "PP (5v)., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: Gothic bookhand, large and angular.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals
Manuscript, in a single hand, containing a missal for the Use of St. Quentin.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century brown quarter-morocco., Decoration: rubricated. Larger initials in colored penwork., and Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals
Printed book fragment on parchment of a leaf from the Missale Bambergense, a printed missal. The leaf contains the Mass for rain and the Mass for fair weather
Description:
In Latin., Script: printed in two sizes of gothic typeface; the larger is for the lessons and prayers and the smaller type is for the chants., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of Masses, prayers, and lessons and 1-line initials at the beginning of chants are in red and are adorned with balls; 1-line initials of verses and within lessons are in black; rubrics are printed in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, the colon, and the punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.