Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sequentiary containing multiple hymns, many by Notker Balbulus
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials are a mixture of orange uncials and square capitals; rubrics are written in orange rustic capitals; the first 2 to 4 words of each sequence are written in a mixture of brown uncials and square capitals; punctuated with the punctus; neumes in the St. Gall style are in the outer margins.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Notker, Balbulus, approximately 840-912 and Catholic Church
Manuscript on parchment (speckled, yellow on hair side) of a collection of sermons
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in early gothic bookhand by several scribes, above top line., Plain monochrome initials in red for ff. 1-18; similar initials, but with simple designs in both parchment and red ink for remainder of codex. Headings in red, ff. 1r-24v, 27r-30v only. Instructions to rubricator along outer and lower edges., Some staining at end of volume; no loss of text., and Binding: Twentieth century, England (?). Quires cut in for sewing. Rigid vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Leo P. P. Sermones".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on parchment in two volumes. Vol. 1: Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Begins in the middle of Matthew 5.17. Volume 2: Gospels of Luke and John. Both volumes exhibit the same physical format and were clearly bound together at an earlier date
Description:
In Greek., Script: Written by a single copyist in minuscule script, with headings and tables of chapters in uncials; writing runs through guide-lines rather than sitting on them., Full page portraits of Mark, Luke, and John; all are depicted on gold. Mark holds a codex in his left hand and touches his chin with the right. Luke (f. 3v, Vol. 2) writes in an open codex he is holding in his lap, while John (f. 87v, Vol. 2) holds a scroll bearing the opening phrases of his gospel. Illuminated headpieces and ornamental initials in gold with stylized foliage, before each book (except Mark); red initials at beginning of first, tenth, and twentieth lines of text., and Bindings: Volume 1, ca. 1904. Vellum case, gold-tooled. Volume 2, 1961. Orange goatskin gold-tooled, bound by Sidney Cockerell.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment in two volumes. Vol. 1: Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Begins in the middle of Matthew 5.17. Volume 2: Gospels of Luke and John. Both volumes exhibit the same physical format and were clearly bound together at an earlier date
Description:
In Greek., Script: Written by a single copyist in minuscule script, with headings and tables of chapters in uncials; writing runs through guide-lines rather than sitting on them., Full page portraits of Mark, Luke, and John; all are depicted on gold. Mark holds a codex in his left hand and touches his chin with the right. Luke (f. 3v, Vol. 2) writes in an open codex he is holding in his lap, while John (f. 87v, Vol. 2) holds a scroll bearing the opening phrases of his gospel. Illuminated headpieces and ornamental initials in gold with stylized foliage, before each book (except Mark); red initials at beginning of first, tenth, and twentieth lines of text., and Bindings: Volume 1, ca. 1904. Vellum case, gold-tooled. Volume 2, 1961. Orange goatskin gold-tooled, bound by Sidney Cockerell.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Synonyma
Description:
Script: Copied by a somewhat uneven hand in bold and angular Praegothica., Decoration: Red headings; alternately res and blue-gree 1-line versals; alternately red and blue 3-line half inset initials, plain or flourished with penwork. A curious pointing hand on f. 24v., Binding: None., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Isidore's Synonyma
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials in brown square capitals highlighted with red; other 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Augustine's Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium ccxxiv
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by Gottschalk, a monk from the abbey of Lambach, Austria, whose hand appears in of other manuscripts, including Beinecke MS 481.51., and Decoration: In the upper left corner of the verso is a faint sketch of a cat (or possibly a wolf or lion), probably contemporary with the manuscript; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript on parchment (coarse, yellow) of about 40 selections from saints' lives
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a single hand in careful Iberian Praegothica., Fine Romanesque initials (2-5 lines) with foliage penwork in red and blue. Some contain human heads (ff. 9r, 16v, 25r, 25v [two heads], 70r [two heads]). On ff. 64v, 125v and 135v initials of exceptional development, the latter two with animal decoration., Mutilated., and Binding: Twentieth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over....On the spine two labels with the hand-written inscriptions: "FLOS SANCTORUM MS" and "TOLEDO SAEC. XII".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval