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
Manuscript on parchment (much worn; many natural flaws; trimmed).
Description:
In Latin., Script: The commentary is written in a somewhat uneven early Caroline minuscule; the Biblical passages for commentary are written in orange uncials, many of which have faded and are now illegible (some letters written over in brown ink by a later hand)., Heading, f. 1v, square capitals and uncials, in orange. Initials, outlined in black, filled with orange and yellow, ff. 26v, 77v, 131v. Plain initials, black or red, some with modest scroll designs, at beginning of each segment of commentary., Upper portions of ff. 61, 68, 69 torn, loss of text; f. 132v extremely worn., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark green goatskin; gold-tooled. Title on spine: "Bedae Opera. VII. Siecle".
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Bede, Expositio in Lucae Evangelium: Luke 6.43-46.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in elegant Anglo-Saxon minuscule, with rubrics in which A and S are majuscule., Biblical passages, in red, are inset in columns., and Trimmed along outer column with some loss of text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Smaragdus, Abbot of St. Mihiel, Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti, chaps. 72-73.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Caroline minuscule, with accents added by a later hand; marginal references added by a 16th century cursive hand., and Decoration: 1-line capitals in brown uncials, with occasional rustic capital forms; the rubric of chap. 73 and qutations from the Regula S. Benedicti written in bright orange ink; punctuation consisting of punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and a series of three puncti.
Two manuscript fragments on parchment, in strips, containing partial lines from Book 1 of Homiliae in evangelia
Description:
In Latin., Script: Caroline minuscule. Several initial letters in the margin in purple and green inks., and Strips recovered from use in a later binding.
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).