Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing: an unidentified prayer; prayers for before and after meals; benedictions; and prayers for the exorcism of people possessed by devils (including candidates for baptism).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials are red rustic capitals with single round "D"; 1-line initials are brown uncials; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; accents 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 votive masses
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials in red square capitals; 1-line capitals in brown uncials; rubrics written in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; a thirteenth-century hand has added text in the margin; there are numerous erasures and corrections in 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 a mass for the living and dead and masses for dead bishops and for a dead priest
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 4-line initial "P" in red; the initials of other prayers are in red; rubrics in red minuscule; 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 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 fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing among other texts: St. Thomas (21 December); Christmas Eve (24 December); Christmas morning (25 December); St. Anastasia (25 December); Christmas (25 December); Assumption (15 August); All Saints' Day (1 November); St. Martin (11 November); and St. Cecilia (22 November).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- to 3-line Mass initials and UD are in red with red penwork; initials of prayers are 1-line red uncial or square capitals; other 1-line initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; instructions to the rubricator in the outer margins; the first word of each Mass written in a mixture of rustic capitals and minuscule in brown highlighted with red; 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 votive masses for all ranks within the church for peace, for harmony, for households, and for travelers
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials are in red; 1-line initials in black, sometimes highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; the foliation is written in black; 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 on parchment (greatly trimmed) of a fragment of a Book of Hours. The twenty-six folios are the only fragment known to remain of the Book of Hours of Blanche of Burgundy (d. 1348), Countess of Savoy and granddaughter of Saint Louis of France, which was executed in Paris in the atelier of Jean Pucelle. The manuscript received additional texts and miniatures in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, when it was owned by Charles V, King of France, 1364-80.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand; ff. 1r, 1v, 4r, and 4v added in the third quarter of the fourteenth century by Jean L'Avenant., Contains fifty of the original two hundred and fifty-five miniatures, the majority executed between Pucelle's death in 1334 and Blanche's death in 1348, the remainder between ca. 1370 and 1378, the terminus ante quem being the death of Charles's wife, Jeanne de Bourbon, represented on one of the destroyed leaves. All of the miniatures are in tricolor quatrefoils, the first, earlier set against pink or blue grounds with white filigree, gold frames and gold leaves on hair-line stems, the later miniatures with the grounds in pink or blue imitation relief., Each folio with a 3/4 bar border, detached from initial, pink, blue and gold with ivy terminals, or a single bar with ivy attached to initial, in inner margin; some with grotesque terminals, and birds and hunters in the margins and bas-de-page. 2-line initials, with heads, ivy, the arms of Savoy (ff. 2r, 14r, 18v, etc.) or the arms of Burgundy (f. 3v); blue or pink with white highlights on gold grounds. 1-line initials, blue or gold with red or black penwork. Line endings, red, blue and gold, on ff. 1 and 4 only. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red-brown sheepskin heavily gold-tooled with floral borders and corner fans, the center filled in with a circle made up of fan tools.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pucelle, Jean, fl. 1320. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sequentiary containing: Notker Balbulus (Christmas, 25 December), Notker Balbulus (St. Stephen, 26 December), Notker Balbulus (Assumption of Mary, 15 August), and Adam of St. Victor (St. Augustine, 28 August).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of sequences are in red, decorated with blue penwork; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses alternate red and blue; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; musical notation in black on four-line staff in red.