Manuscript fragment on parchment of capitula, possibly from a breviary containing among others: Capitula for sext of Pentecost; Capitula for an unidentified office; capitula for unidentified Feria II-VI; capitula for an unidentified Saturday; Capitula from Isaiah 33.2 and Romans 10.13.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule bordering on early gothic., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red; rubrics written in red minuscule; the rubrics on fol. 2r are in a fifteenth-century hand; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; accents are in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Jerome's Commentaria in Ezechielem
Description:
In Latin, Script: written in late Carolina minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; two words in Greek majuscules with a line drawn above them; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; double quotation marks in the outer margin of the recto.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a commentary on Priscian's Institutiones Grammaticae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule in a minute, highly abbreviated scholastic hand., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown; the lemmata are set apart from the preceding commentary by paragraph marks in brown; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Boethius' De syllogismo categorico and De differentiis topicis
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a highly abbreviated, late Caroline script., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of each section are red; 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; the explicit is written in brown rustic capitals with some use of uncial and minuscule forms; there are nine diagrams, one outlined in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript on parchment (one bifolium, one fragment) of 1) Hermannus Contractus, De utilitatibus astrolabii, text of bifolium not continuous. 2) Hermannus Contractus, Liber de mensura astrolabii, Book 1, portions of chs. 5-6. Annotated by several contemporary hands
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in romanesque minuscule verging on gothic bookhand., Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, headings and horizontal lines for chart in orange. Diagram of dial on f. 2r; star chart on f. 3v., and Bifolium used as a wrapper for a book numbered "5311".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hermannus, Contractus, 1013-1054.
Subject (Topic):
Astrolabes, Astronomy, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of portions of Pseudo-Isidore's Decretales
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in red square capitals; one initial is in brown; rubrics are written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Isidore's Etymologia with portions of books 13 and 14.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials are in red capitals with an uncial M and round E decorated with small round balls or with two or three cross-hatches; 1-line initials are in brown and a mixture of rustic capitals, uncials, and enlarged minuscules; rubrics are in red minuscule with some capital forms; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and the punctus versus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; accents added by later hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Etymology, and Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing: the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost; the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost; the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line Mass initials are in red square capitals; 1-line initial "A" of Alleluias is in red; other 1-line initials are in brown square capitals; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; the first line of each Mass is written in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; a later hand has added reference numbers in Roman numerals over the abbreviated chants.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual in part containing: Ascension; Sunday after Ascension; Vigil of Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3-line initials in red; "D" in square capital and "E" in uncial; 1-line initials are either red square capitals or brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red, usually as rustic capitals; punctuated with punctus placed on the bottom line at the end of chants; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; numbered cues added in red above all abbreviated chants; rubrics in red miniscule.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants)
Manuscript on parchment (many holes and repairs) of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several hands of different appearances, perhaps by scribes of varying ages or at different dates. The scripts range from rounded to angular minuscule., Plain orange initial, 7- to 2-line; heading and chapter notations (in margins) in same shade. Guide-letters and notes for rubricator., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Sewn on three supports laced into wooden boards. The spine is slightly rounded and lined, the lining extending onto the inside of the boards. Covered with white pigskin, blind-tooled. Two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. On the fore-edge of the lower cover is a notation contemporary with binding: "Gesta anglorum bede." Appears to have been bound at the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin of Spanheim in the diocese of Mainz.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Subject (Topic):
Church history, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History