Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of the biblical book of Mark, or a lectionary, or a missal
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus., and The speakers in the text are noted by letters above the first word of quoted text: "T" for Jesus, "C" for the narrator, and "I" for other speakers; these letters indicate the different ways to read the words of the speakers in the passage during Holy Week, in this case, Feria III.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, and Missals
Manuscript on parchment (varying quality) of 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts and ends incomplete. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidentified sermon for the feast of a Confessor in the Common of the Saints. 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by more than five hands in Carolingian script and Praegothica., Art. 1 is decorated with red plain initials, more or less small decorated initials in various colours and large initials. Art. 3 has a title in mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. The part of art. 4 copied by hand B has some highlighting in yellow, red or green and plain initials; the part copied by hand C has a few plain initials; the 12th-century part copied by hand D has red headings with instructions in small script written in the outer margins, plain or flourished Romanesque initials and an explicit in decorated mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. Art. 5 is undecorated apart from its title and the opening initial. There are effaced drawings in the lower margins of some leaves in art. 1., and Binding: Twentieth century. Reddish brown morocco over cardboard, by Riviere and Son. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription "S. GREGORII DIALOGI. SAEC. X".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Art. 1 is decorated with red plain initials, more or less small decorated initials in various colours and large initials. Art. 3 has a title in mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. The part of art. 4 copied by hand B has some highlighting in yellow, red or green and plain initials; the part copied by hand C has a few plain initials; the 12th-century part copied by hand D has red headings with instructions in small script written in the outer margins, plain or flourished Romanesque initials and an explicit in decorated mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. Art. 5 is undecorated apart from its title and the opening initial. There are effaced drawings in the lower margins of some leaves in art. 1., Binding: Twentieth-century. Reddish brown morocco over cardboard, by Riviere and Son. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription S. GREGORII DIALOGI. SAEC. X., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Kraus in memory of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1975., Gregory the Great, Dialogi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment of varying quality, some parts very bad (quire IX), with irregular edges. Contains 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts incomplete I, 3, 2 and ends incomplete III, 24, 3 followed by the title of III, 25. Between ff. 13 and 14 a page is missing which contained Dialogi I, 9, 8-13. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidentified sermon for the feast of a Confessor in the Common of the Saints, containing 7 (?) Lessons. Above the line a twelfth-century hand has repeatedly identified the saint with St. Aderaldus archdeacon of Troyes (d. beginning of the 11th cent.). 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae. There are more than five scribes: A (Carolingian script with very imperfect word separation, s. X2); B (large and bold Carolingian script, s. X2); C (smaller Carolingian script, very close to B, or same hand); D (Praegothica, s. XII); E (various hands writing Praegothica and succeeding each other at irregular intervals)., and T. E. Marston, A Manuscript of the Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great, Gazette, 50 (1976), pp. 15-18.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church, I, Pope, Gregory, ca. 540-604, and Severus, Sulpicius
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Sermons
Manuscript fragments on parchment of two bifolios not following each other. Includes passages from 2 homilies of Bede and one sermon of Petrus Chrysologus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Carolingian script., Headings in red capitals/uncials., and The fragments were used as endleaves in a printed book belonging to the Beinecke Library: Thomas Aquinas, Summae theologicae pars tertia (Venice, 1486).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Alan of Farfa, Homily I.87 (Vigil of Palm Sunday) and Homily I.88 (Maundy Thursday).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; corrections added in dark ink by a contemporary hand; annotations identifying biblical passages and Augustine's tractates added in pencil by a modern hand., and Decoration: 4-line initial "P" in brown and red on f. 2r; 1-line intials in brown uncials; rubric in red uncials; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and the punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Paul the Deacon's homilies, I.49 and I.50.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3-line square capital "Q" in orange, remainder of the first line written in brown rustic capitals; 1-line initials are in brown uncials; rubric written in orange rustic capitals; first line of the sermon is in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?. and Catholic Church
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a homiliary containing: Sermon on Fasting and Almsgiving for Quadragesima based on Augustine, Sermon 210; Sermon on Fasting and Almsgiving for Quadragesima based on Caesarius, Sermo 199
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in pre-Caroline minuscule, dated by Bernhard Bischoff to the first third of the ninth century and attributed to southeastern Germany., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown uncials, with rustic capital "E"; punctuated with the punctus, punctus versus, and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Venerable Bede, Homily II.10.110-15; 124-30; 138-44; and 153-58. Note that the folio has been cut vertically into two pieces with a corresponding column (A and B) to each piece
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; corrections added in darker ink by a contemporary hand., Decoration: 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals or uncials; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus., and Former call numbers: Beinecke MS 482.7 (column B of the folio).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 635-735. and Catholic Church
Manuscript fragment on parhcment of a south German lectionary including weekday readings concerning the Easter season
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., Decoration: 1-line initials in brown uncials with occasional square capital forms, frequently filled with dark red ink; rubics in dark red square capitals mixed with uncial and minuscule forms; punctuation consisting of punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus., and Former call numbers: Beinecke MS 482.10 (f. 1).