Manuscript fragment on parchment containing a portion of the Litany of the Saints. Saint Lubin of Chartres is among the saints invoked
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis semiquadrata., and Decoration: Ruled in red. Each invocation begins with a small gold capital on a red or blue ink ground. Line fillers in alternating red or blue ink with gold highlighting.
Two small manuscript fragments said to have been removed from a sixteenth-century German binding. Bound with a speculative partial transcript, typed, which interprets the fragments as having formed part of a "love letter" (Liebesbrief). The transcript is preceded by an account of the removal of the fragments from the binding of an unidentified sixteenth-century volume held by an unidentified German library
Description:
In German., Bookseller description available., Script: German cursive., and Binding: bound with a typed partial transcript/reconstruction of the text of the fragments in twentieth-century half machine-grained morocco over marbled calf. "Liebesbriefe. Handscrift, Um 1528" in gold tooling on upper morocco.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, from a martyrology. Verso contains a three line explicit in small capitals referring to "Sancti Lantperti, episcopi et martyris."
Manuscript fragment on parchment from a German martyrology
Description:
In Latin., Script: late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: small initials highlighted in red ink. One four-line initial in red and green ink, in "white vine" style.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published / Created:
approximately 1400-approximately 1425.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.90
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment containing the end of Act 2 and the beginning of Act 3 of Seneca's Octavia
Description:
In Latin., Script: late Italian gothic with some humanist letterforms., and Decoration: calligraphic initials in margin begin each line; speakers indicated by paraph marks in red ink. Large ornamental initial in red ink at the opening of Act 3.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.