Manuscript fragment on parchment (6 non-consecutive leaves) of vesper antiphons. Feasts noted for some antiphons are: Ascension; 21st-23rd Sunday after Pentecost; Vigil of Saints Peter and Paul
Description:
In Latin., Script: written by a single scribe in a formal gothic bookhand., Six lines of text with musical notation on a four-line red staff. Initials in red, blue, and black., and Unbound.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Vespers (Music)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: the Annunciation (25 March); Responsories from the book of Job and Psalms; and a computistical table for calculating the time between Christmas and Shrove Tuesday, with explicatory notes in German
Description:
In Latin and German., Script: written by three scribes in gothic script (littera textualis); one scribed copied fol. 1, another copied fol. 2r, and a third copies fol. 2v., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of the antiphon on fol. 1 are in red; the guide letters for these initials are still visible in light brown ink and some have been ornamented, including one with a crude figure of a person; 2-line initials at the beginning of verses on fol. 1 are in black with black penwork; fol. 2v begins with a very crude 2-line round D in red; rubrics written in red; musical notation is in black and on fol. 1 is on a 4-line staff in black; on fol. 2r it is on a 5-line staff in black; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: Sts. Cosmas and Damian (27 September); Archangel Michael (29 September); St. Dionysius (9 October); and St. Gall (16 October).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: The offices of Archangel Michael and of St. Gall begin with 2-line initials in red and blue; the insider of the letters is decorated with an animal on a red and green ground surrounded by red and blue penwork and white dots; the outside of the letters is surrounded by red and blue penwork; 2-line initials of antiphons and responses alternate red and blue; the 2-line initial of the verse is in brown highlighted with red; the left margins of both versos are decorated with red and blue designs, which are topped by an animal head in red on fol. 1v; musical notation is in black on a 5-line staff in black; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing the Common of the Apostles
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in rounded gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: The 4-line initial at the beginning of the office is blue and red with blue and red flourishes; 2-line initials at the beginning of responses alternate blue and red; 2-line initials at the beginning of verses are brown with brown and yellow flourishes; 1-line initials within verses are in brown and are highlighted with red; rubrics 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 is on a four-line staff.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing unidentified chants and Holy Saturday, lauds
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: the 4-line initial "U" is in blue and red; some of the sketched flourishes outside of the letter have been traced in red and filled with green; inside the letter a floral pattern has been sketched and partially completed; the 2-line initial "O" is red with sketched flourishes only partially completed and filled with green; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; quadrata notation is in black on a 4-line staff in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript on parchment (sturdy, of uneven quality) of a breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in a small running script. Additions by several contemporary and later writers., Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout., Portions of text, badly worn or trimmed, have been lost., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on two tapes. Wooden boards. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled in a diamond pattern with indistinguishable ornaments within the diamonds and at their intersections. Traces of five round bosses, larger on lower board, metal corner pieces and a catch plate on the upper board. Rebacked, with leather formed in the shape of endbands in the turn-ins at head and tail of the spine and with a strap and pin (a modern nail?) fastening added.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing St. Andrew (30 November).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a hybrid gothic script (littera textualis with frequent but not consistent use of cursive forms of d, b, l, and t; s and f do not descend below the base line)., and Decoration: 1-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red; other 1-line initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; liturgical directions are written in brown and are underlined in red; punctuated with the punctus and virgule.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing: The Passion of St. Ursula and St. Ursula (21 October).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis libraria with simple form of "a")., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials alternate red and blue; other initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; there is no punctuation; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on paper (with parchment conjugate leaves at beginning and end of quires; calendar on parchment) of a Carmelite breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in an informal, but careful, gothic script. Numerous additions by contemporary and later writers., Plain initials and KL monograms, 6- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks, underlining, and initial strokes in red. The verso of the final folio bears the partially erased image of a large decorative initial, in green, over which the later text was written., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Head and fore-edge gilt, with tawed, pink markers on the fore-edge. Bound by William Matthews, a leading American binder (second half of the 19th century) in a dark brown goatskin Jansenist binding (plain outside with gold-tooled doublures).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carmelites. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life