Manuscript fragment on parchment of excerpts from the Latin Vulgate of Esther chapters 2, 3, 11, 12, and 13.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written by several scribes in Caroline minuscule; corrections added by contemporary hands., Decoration: 1-line capitals in brown uncials; some orange-red uncials; punctuation consisting of punctus, punctus elevatus, and vigule., and Former call number: Beinecke MS 482.1B (f. 2).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of excerpts from the Latin Vulgate of chapters 12 and 13 of the book of Job
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; a later hand has made some corrections., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials in brown uncials; running titles in brown rustic capitals; punctuation consisting of punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a part of the biblical book of Judges from the Old Latin version
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in pre-Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff has dated to around 800 and attributed to southwestern Germany or eastern France., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown uncials; portions of a running title in brown uncials are preserved in the upper margins of both sides; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; a contemporary hand using darker ink has made corrections and altered some of the punctuation.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of excerpts from the Latin Vulgate of the books of various prophets, including Ezekiel (Ezechiel), Daniel, Hosea, Amos, Obadiah (Abdias), Haggai (Aggeus), Zachariah, and Malachi
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; a later hand has altered some punctuation; modern hands have added some textual indentifications and numbering., Decoration: 1-line initials in brown uncials; brown and/or orange-red rustic capitals on ff. 5r, 6r, and 12v; brown or/and orange-red uncials on f. 11r and v; punctuation consisting of punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; and quire signatures "v," "vi," and "vii" appear on ff. 4v, 8v, and 10v, respectively, suggesting the manuscript fragments preserve portions of the last five quires of a ten-quire manuscript., and Former call numbers: Beinecke MS 482.6A (f. 4), B (f. 9), C (f. 3), D (f. 6), E (f. 11), F (f. 2), G (f. 1), H (f. 8), I (f. 7), J (f. 5), K (f. 10); Beinecke MS 482.5A (f. 6), B (f. 9), D (f. 12), A (f. 14), and C (f. 15).
Manuscript on parchment of Capitularies of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious compiled by Ansegisus in 827. With Capitularies of Charles the Bald; and List of Frankish kings from Faramund to Philip II (1180).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in fine Carolingian minuscule primarily by two scribes. Scribe 1: ff. 1v-42v; Scribe 2: ff. 43r-96r, 98r-102r., Eleven large decorative initials (5- to 13-line) of very good quality in gold, green, red, and white, of the style usually associated with the school of Rheims. The initials are constructed of broad outlines in green which are decorated with unburnished gold (partly rubbed) and bordered with red. The letters terminate in interlace knots and animal heads. Empty spaces within the initials are filled with interlace grids of stylized foliage in unburnished gold laid on greenish ground. The stems of the most important initials (ff. 3r, 8v, 28v, 55r, 67r, 83r, 98r) are decorated with white interlace designs on red grounds., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges spattered red. Brown spattered calf, blind-tooled. Remains of paper label on spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and France
Subject (Name):
Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814., Charles II, King of France, 823-877., and Louis I, Emperor, 778-840.
Subject (Topic):
Law |z France, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality) of excerpts from the writings of Church Fathers, canon law, and conciliar documents. There has been extensive scholarly debate about the manuscript's provenance and its relation to other copies of the Pseudo-Isidore Decretals. The manuscript seems to have been written, corrected, and rubricated by multiple scribes and to have been composed in units; the quality of the parchment often changes from scribe to scribe
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Caroline minuscule., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf with gold-tooled spine. Boards mostly detached, sewing breaking, part of spine leather wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Isidore.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval