Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing: Common of a Martyr Bishop and Common of Martyrs
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red uncials; the initials for prayers are in red and are 3-line initials when they occur at the beginning of a line and 1-line initials when they occur within a line; 1-line initials within lessons are in black; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing the Fourth Sunday of Advent, second nocturn of matins, and Fourth Sunday of Advent, from the second to the third nocturn of matins
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: the initials of the lessons are slightly enlarged; they alternate blue with red penwork or red with blue penwork; initials at the beginning of verses are highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; liturgical directions are written in black and are underlined in red; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing, among others, the following texts: Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (14 April); Sts. Soter and Caius (22 April); St. George (23 April); St. Mark (25 April); St. Cletus (26 April); St. Vitalis (28 April); Pope Urban I (25 May); Pope John I (27 May); St. Barnabas (11 June); St. Paul (30 June); and Sts. Processus and Martinian (2 July).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1- to 5- line initials in red; other 1-line initials in black highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; liturgical directions in brown minuscule, sometimes underlined with red; Psalm incipits underlined with red; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing: Sts. Philip and James (1 May); Invention of the Cross (3 May); Sts. Gervase and Protase (19 June); Vigil of John the Baptist (23 June); and John the Baptist (24 June).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- to 7-line initials alternate red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork; 1-line initials in red or in black highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing among other texts: Saturday of an unidentified feast; Sunday after Ascension; and Feria VI after the Sunday after Ascension
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- to 3-line initials alternate in red and blue; 1-line initials in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript on parchment of prayers, liturgical regulations, and offices
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand., Ornate initials in red, blue, and violet., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Damaged brown leather over pasteboards, recovered in paper. Red leather gilt label on spine reading: "Breviarum Manuscriptum".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Breviaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Fragments of a Brut Chronicle. Begins imperfectly in chapter 36 (Constantine) and has several lacunae. The work ends in chapter 86 (beginning on f. 11r) with the thirty-first year of Edward III. With art. 3) A note (in Latin) stating that King Henry IV was consecrated in 1399 and documenting his descent from Adam. 4) A list (in Latin) of 86 kings (each numbered) from Brutus to Edward III. 5) Names of prisoners captured and killed at the battle of Poitiers (19 Sept. 1356). 6) Terms of the treaty of Bretigny (8 May 1360). 7) Parliamentary text
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In Anglo-Norman., Script: Written in Anglicana bookhand by one scribe., Decorative initials, blue with red penwork, appear only on ff. 1-12; initial strokes and headings, in red, throughout., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Stab sewn to a vellum folder made up of a legal document (trimmed with some loss of text) dated 1766 and involving the manors of Whitechurch and Milbourne in Wiltshire. The outside has an inscription, 19th century, "Some leaves of early English History in Norman French supposed to have come from Malmesbury Abbey." A similar inscription occurs on f. i verso.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Heinrich Seuse's Buchlein der Ewigen Weisheit; this is among the earliest known copies of the work and is written in a transitional dialect between Swabian and Alemannic
Description:
In Middle High German., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line initials at the beginning of chapters are in red; 1-line initials are in black highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and virgule.