Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing among other texts: St. Thomas (21 December); Christmas Eve (24 December); Christmas morning (25 December); St. Anastasia (25 December); Christmas (25 December); Assumption (15 August); All Saints' Day (1 November); St. Martin (11 November); and St. Cecilia (22 November).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- to 3-line Mass initials and UD are in red with red penwork; initials of prayers are 1-line red uncial or square capitals; other 1-line initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; instructions to the rubricator in the outer margins; the first word of each Mass written in a mixture of rustic capitals and minuscule in brown highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing votive masses for all ranks within the church for peace, for harmony, for households, and for travelers
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials are in red; 1-line initials in black, sometimes highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; the foliation is written in black; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript on parchment (greatly trimmed) of a fragment of a Book of Hours. The twenty-six folios are the only fragment known to remain of the Book of Hours of Blanche of Burgundy (d. 1348), Countess of Savoy and granddaughter of Saint Louis of France, which was executed in Paris in the atelier of Jean Pucelle. The manuscript received additional texts and miniatures in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, when it was owned by Charles V, King of France, 1364-80.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand; ff. 1r, 1v, 4r, and 4v added in the third quarter of the fourteenth century by Jean L'Avenant., Contains fifty of the original two hundred and fifty-five miniatures, the majority executed between Pucelle's death in 1334 and Blanche's death in 1348, the remainder between ca. 1370 and 1378, the terminus ante quem being the death of Charles's wife, Jeanne de Bourbon, represented on one of the destroyed leaves. All of the miniatures are in tricolor quatrefoils, the first, earlier set against pink or blue grounds with white filigree, gold frames and gold leaves on hair-line stems, the later miniatures with the grounds in pink or blue imitation relief., Each folio with a 3/4 bar border, detached from initial, pink, blue and gold with ivy terminals, or a single bar with ivy attached to initial, in inner margin; some with grotesque terminals, and birds and hunters in the margins and bas-de-page. 2-line initials, with heads, ivy, the arms of Savoy (ff. 2r, 14r, 18v, etc.) or the arms of Burgundy (f. 3v); blue or pink with white highlights on gold grounds. 1-line initials, blue or gold with red or black penwork. Line endings, red, blue and gold, on ff. 1 and 4 only. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red-brown sheepskin heavily gold-tooled with floral borders and corner fans, the center filled in with a circle made up of fan tools.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pucelle, Jean, fl. 1320. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (heavy, rough) composed of four parts. Part I: Excerpts (divided into three parts) from the Malogranatum of Gallus, abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Koenigssaal, Bohemia. Part II: 3) Thomas a Kempis, Tractatus de imitatione Christi et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi, Book I only. 4) Unidentified Fasiculus florum or Fasiculus morum. 5) Brief excerpts from Augustine and Jerome. 6) Unidentified excerpts dealing primarily with defects in the performance of the mass. Part III: 7) Unidentified extracts on virtues and vices. 8) Series of exempla of virtues and vices perhaps intended as illustrations for the selections quoted in art. 7. 9) Exemplum of Udo, Abp. of Magdeburg. Part IV (parchment): Unidentified text
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified monogram buried in gutter. Parts II and III: similar in design to Piccard Buchstabe P XVI.301-29., Script: Part I (ff. 1-154): Copied by one person in a poorly formed, abbreviated gothic cursive. Part II (ff. 155-202): Written by two scribes: 1) ff. 155r-196r in hybrida; 2) ff. 196v-199v in hybrida. Part III (ff. 203-248): Written in neat gothic cursive by a single scribe. Part IV (ff. 249-256): f. 249r-252r (first column) written in small neat gothic textura; ff. 252r (col. b) - 255r written in gothic cursive., Part I: Small knobby initials, 3- to 2-line, in red. Underlining, paragraph marks, initial strokes, and circles enclosing marginal annotations by the scribe, in red, throughout. Part II: Scribe 1) Incipits, knobby initials (3-line), strokes on initials, in red; 2) Crudely drawn initials (2-line), paragraph marks, strokes on initials, and underlining for headings, in red. Part III: Many plain initials, 2- to 1-line, headings, initial strokes, and lines drawn through the names of authors cited, in red. Notes to rubricator, many perpendicular to text along outer edge of leaf. Part IV: Small plain initial (f. 249r) in red., The patterns of water damage and stains indicate that the codex originally consisted of several booklets., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Bound in the Charterhouse of St. Barbara in Cologne. Vellum stays in the center of the gatherings and their backs cut in about 3 mm. at each sewing station. Sewn on four, double, vegetable fiber supports laced into oak boards and pegged as are the plain, wound endbands. Covered in light brown calf with very narrow corner tongues and defined supports. Blind-tooled with intersecting diagonal fillets with roses, two-headed eagles, crowned swans and fleurs-de-lis in the compartments, inside an outer frame. Trace of a catch on the upper board; edge of the lower one cut in for a strap. Rebacked and clasp wanting. Front and back flyleaves, formerly pastedowns, from a liturgical manuscript (Germany, 12th-13th centuries) containing Office of the Dead. Responses to the first five lessons are Qui lazarum, Heu michi, Ne recorderis, Domine quando, Peccantem me cottidie.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin, Exempla, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sequentiary containing: Notker Balbulus (Christmas, 25 December), Notker Balbulus (St. Stephen, 26 December), Notker Balbulus (Assumption of Mary, 15 August), and Adam of St. Victor (St. Augustine, 28 August).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of sequences are in red, decorated with blue penwork; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses alternate red and blue; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; musical notation in black on four-line staff in red.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sequentiary containing, among others, works by Gottschalk and Notker Balbulus as well as anonymous works
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3-line initials are the beginning of each sequence are written in a mixture of orange square capitals and uncials; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses are in a mixture of orange square capitals and uncials; rubrics written in orange minuscule; first line of each sequence written in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes are present in one sequence.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gottschalk, of Orbais, approximately 803-approximately 867., Catholic Church, and Notker, Balbulus, approximately 840-912
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sequentiary containing multiple hymns, many by Notker Balbulus
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials are a mixture of orange uncials and square capitals; rubrics are written in orange rustic capitals; the first 2 to 4 words of each sequence are written in a mixture of brown uncials and square capitals; punctuated with the punctus; neumes in the St. Gall style are in the outer margins.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Notker, Balbulus, approximately 840-912 and Catholic Church
Manuscript on paper (thick with heavy chain lines) of Sermons by Graeculus O.F.M. (early 14th century) and Conradus de Waldhausen Can. Reg. (d. 1369). With additional sermons
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by various hands all writing Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Currens. Scribes in quires I-V often make remarkable extensions to majuscules or ascenders on the first line, decorated with foliage or grotesque heads., Headings, heightening of majuscules and plain initials in red applied very irregularly and totally missing on ff. 26v-29v, 30v-118v, 119v-130v and 135v-138v. Some 2- or 3-line initials of coarse execution, with or without guide-letters; most initials are not executed., and Binding: Damaged original limp parchment with flap, made from several pieces of parchment sewn together by means of parchment strips. The sewing runs through the spine and is gathered in decorative patterns over two strips of heavy leather.
Manuscript on parchment, composed of 7 parts bound together
Description:
In Latin., Script: Each part written in different hand., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Damaged: sprinkled brown leather over cardboard. Spine with five raised bands, gold-tooled, with gold-tooled title on a red leather label: "MANUSCRIPT". Red sprinkled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170. and Catholic Church
Manuscript on paper of Sermons in Nahuatl, beginning defectively in the sermon for the second Sunday after Easter, through the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost; material for each Sunday includes a reading from the Epistles with a "Declaracion del testo" and an "Aplicacion del testo," and a reading from the Gospels with the same exegetic material. Some marginal notes in Spanish, 16th century
Description:
In Nahuatl and Spanish., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Croix Latine 5688., Script: Written in small, even humanistic script, with heavy clubbing of ascenders and descenders., Initials, 2-line, are square capitals done by scribe in brown ink. Headings by scribe in a larger version of humanistic script., Many signs of wear: stains in margin, large water stain running into gutter from f. 110 on, some worm holes in upper and lower margins, but no loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case. Edges spattered blue/green.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Central America.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Nahuas, Sermons, and Sermons, Nahuatl
