Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ḥullin, which covers a discussion of mutual exclusion, the father's responsibility for his minor daughter, levirate marriage obligations, when the ram's horn (shofar) is blown, and when the separation (havdalah) prayer is said at the end of a festival
Description:
In Aramaic and Hebrew., Script: written in semi-cursive script., and 1 column. 26 lines. Dry-point ruling.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of 1 Kings
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in progothic minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials alternate in red and blue; 1-line initials are in brown and a mixture of uncials and rustic capitals; running titles are written in black; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation, accents, and diacritical marks over double "i" and double "a" were added in lighter ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book Acts of the Apostles, including portions of chapters 21-23.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; hand very similar to that in Beinecke MS 482.12., and Decoration: two plain 2-line initials in red; 1-line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of excerpts from the Latin Vulgate of Luke chapters 12 and 13.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in uncial script and occasionally punctuated with a punctus. A later hand has added a punctus in Luke 13.5., and Decoration: the initials are slightly enlarged and are written on the inner vertical bounding line; and one initial "E" is filled with orange.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Sirach; the text includes the headings for chapters LXXXII through LXXXVII
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3- to 7-line initials are red uncials; 1-line initials are black uncials; chapter headings are written in red minuscule in a larger module; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation added by a later hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical Wisdom Books
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials are in red square capitals filled with yellow; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; the incipit is written in red and the explicit in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of the biblical book of Zacharias
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule in a hand that is very similar to that of MS 481.63, and it is possible that this leaf is from the same original codex as MS 481.63., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals with round "E" and minuscule "h"; traces of an initial, ca. 2 lines high, set apart from where the text should be in red ink on verso; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript on parchment. Includes a calendar for Augustinian hermits
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Humanistic influence (frequent use of Half-Uncial d), highly abbreviated., Heightening of the majuscules in yellow; headings in red. 1-line plain initials alternately in red and blue, with guide-letters, in the text (art. 2); 2-line plain initials alternately in red and blue, with guide-letters, placed half way in the text-block, except in col. a of the verso pages, where they are placed entirely in the margin. Running titles in red on most pages., Badly mutilated with missing folios., and Binding: ca. 1900 (before 1912) by P. Verburg in the workshop of Douglas Cockerell and in the style of the latter's bindings. Blind-tooled brown morocco over cardboard, with braided leather ties (defective) attached to the front cover and metal catchpins; hinges and back rubbed. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustinians. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a commentary on chapters of either Innocent IV's third collection of Decretals from the first council of Lyon in 1245 or the Sixth Book of Decretals of Pope Boniface VIII
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis) with frequent abbreviations., and Decoration: 2-line chapter initials are in red; 1-line initials within text are in brown capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule; guide letters for the rubricator in the margins; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303. and Innocent IV, Pope, approximately 1200-1254.