Manuscript fragment on parchment of a psalter containing portions of Psalms 71 and 77.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials are the beginning of the Psalms are in red, which has oxidized in places to silver and decorated with with two or three small round red dots protruding into the interior of the letter; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses in red uncials and square capitals; rubrics written in red capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; there are several antiphons in the margins in a contemporary hand with interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing: Canon of the Mass; Christmas Eve (24 December); and Christmas (25 December).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 6-line Romanesque initial "D" in brown with intertwining brown vines ending in leaves; the letter and vines are decorated with bands filled with circles one of which has a 5-pointed asterisk in the center compartment; 2-line initials are in red square capitals; 1-line initials in red square capitals; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; the first line of the mass for Christmas Eve is written in red capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing among other items: Mass for a saint whose relics are held in the church; Mass for a priest; Mass requesting the grace of the Holy Spirit; Mass on the temptation of the flesh; Mass for the Bishop; Mass for the living; and Mass for the living and the dead
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of each Mass are in red square capitals; 1-line initials are in red square capitals; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing Feria for various dates
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2- to 3-line initials at the beginning of each Mass are in red square capitals; 1-line initials in a mixture of red uncials and square capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule, with some rustic capital forms; first word after the major initial is frequently written in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing numerous texts, including among others: St. Sebastian (20 January); St. Agnes (21 January); St. Vincent (22 January); St. Blaise (3 February); Deposition of St. Ambrose (5 April); an unidentified feast; Mass for almsgiving; Mass for the sick; Mass against mortality; Mass in tribulation; Mass to ask for fair weather; Mass for the living and the dead
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in small late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: initials for masses on fols. 1-3 are 2- to 5-line square capitals or uncials in red; on fols. 4-5 they are 1-line capitals in red; other 1-line initials are in red; rubrics, many rubbed and illegible, written in red minuscule; guide words for the rubricator written in brown minuscule; occasional chants have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript on paper (thick with heavy chain lines) of Sermons by Graeculus O.F.M. (early 14th century) and Conradus de Waldhausen Can. Reg. (d. 1369). With additional sermons
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by various hands all writing Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Currens. Scribes in quires I-V often make remarkable extensions to majuscules or ascenders on the first line, decorated with foliage or grotesque heads., Headings, heightening of majuscules and plain initials in red applied very irregularly and totally missing on ff. 26v-29v, 30v-118v, 119v-130v and 135v-138v. Some 2- or 3-line initials of coarse execution, with or without guide-letters; most initials are not executed., and Binding: Damaged original limp parchment with flap, made from several pieces of parchment sewn together by means of parchment strips. The sewing runs through the spine and is gathered in decorative patterns over two strips of heavy leather.
Manuscript on paper of John of Freiburg (Iohannes Lector Friburgensis OP, d. 1314), Summa confessorum, German adaptation by Berthold of Freiburg (Bertholdus Friburgensis OP, 14th century).
Description:
In German., Watermarks: var. Piccard, v. 15, VIII.1547?; var. Piccard, v. 110, III.1667?., Script: Copied by Johannes Geratwol in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with some Bastarda characteristics., Headings, heightening of the majuscules and mostly 1-line plain initials in red or green. The initial on f. 1r has green penwork. The first lines of all titles in art. 1 are underlined in red., and Binding: Original pigskin, blind-tooled with lozenges traced in double fillets over bevelled oak boards. Spine with three raised bands, a label with handwritten title (worn) and a small label with the shelfmark "634"; the same number is written on the front cover. Traces of one strap attached to the rear cover and clutching over a pin (lacking) on the front cover.The binding stays and the lining inside the spine are said to come from a 12th-century Antiphonary from Tyrol, with text from the office for Epiphany. One strip of the spine lining would be from an unidentified 14th-century manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Johannes, von Freiburg, d. 1314. and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Christian literature, German, Confession, Catholic Church, and Manuscripts, Medieval