Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium (thick) of Passion of St. Bartholomew (25 August). Text is continuous
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in neat but somewhat uneven Beneventan script. Passages added in cramped text hands, (ca. 1250), in lower margins, f. 2r-v., Leaves trimmed with some loss of text along upper and outer margins; portions of f. 2v illegible due to paste and offset impressions of leather turn-ins and wooden boards., and Bifolium used as flyleaf and pastedown.
Fragment, on vellum, of Piers Plowman, produced in Anglicana book script in Oxford or London at the beginning of the 15th century. The bifolium includes Passus II, line 200 to Passus III, line 44; and Passus IV, lines 123-174
Description:
In Middle English., The fragment was discovered during renovations in the Old Vicarage, Wickhambrook, Suffolk., and Schøyen MS 1953.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Pilgrim's Guide to Jerusalem and the beginning of a charm for epilepsy in Middle High German
Description:
In Latin and Middle High German., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: at the beginning of the text is a cross with ornamentation in brown penwork; 2-line initial "A" in brown ink with the left shaft and crossbar hollow and the right shaft solid; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; the charm is written in a thirteenth-century gothic hand (littera textualis), evidently in German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Travel literature, Charms, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Augustine's Sermon 69 on Matthew 11.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.