- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1499].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.123
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Book of Hours containing: the Hours of the Virgin; full-page miniature of mediocre quality depicting the Adoration of the Magi; full-page miniature of mediocre quality depicting the Office of the Dead; the Office of the Dead; and Suffrages
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in a hybrid gothic script mixing elements of littera bastarda and littera cursiva formata., and Decoration: rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Books of hours
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours (fragment).
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- Published / Created:
- [14--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 483.2
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Book of Hours (in Latin with rubrics partially in French), containing: an unidentified office; St. Laurence (10 August); St. Nicholas (6 November); and St. Catharine of Alexandria (25 November).
- Description:
- In Latin and French., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 2-line initials in gold on a blue ground decorated with white filigree; initials filled with red and decorated with white filigree; 1-line initials are in black highlighted with yellow; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; the outer margin is modestly decorated with vine tendrils in black with green and gold leaves and blue, red, and pink flowers and berries.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Books of hours
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [14--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 483.3
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours containing St. Nicholas (6 November) and St. Catharine of Alexandria (25 November).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: two miniatures of mediocre quality, one for each saint; the miniature of St. Nicholas shows him in bishop's clothing, holding a staff and a book, and standing next to a tub with two children in it; St. Catharine is depicted as crowned, holding a book and a sword; on the floor behind her is the wheel upon which she was tortured; the antiphons and orations begin with a 2-line initial in gold on an alternating ground of blue with white filigree or red; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; rubrics written in red minuscule; upper, lower, and outer borders decorated with blue and gold vines, red vines with blue and red or gold and blue with gold flowers in the inner margin on the recto only.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Books of hours
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1599].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 630
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours with an office for the dead
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand writing in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda)., and Decoration: Purplish red rubrics. Yellow highlighting of the majuscules. 1-line versals and 2- or 3-line initials, all in liquid gold on purplish red or blue square background decorated with foliage or flowers in liquid gold. Initials in red, blue, and gold. On f. 1v, there is a rectangular picture, framed in black and gold and treated as an initial 11 lines high, of God the Father with tiara, sitting, one hand on the globe, the other hand blessing rows of Seraphim and Cherubim before him. Elsewhere yellow-colored fleur-de-lys, animals, archers and a giant insects.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours (fragments).
- Published / Created:
- [between 700 and 750]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 342
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on portions of 2 parchment bifolios. Removed from a binding where it functioned as the pastedowns and the first and last flyleaves
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Arts. 1-4, 8-15 written in uncial; arts. 5-7 in a pre-Caroline minuscule with prominent ascenders., Pen-drawn initials, touched with red, yellow, green, and/or orange occur for each art.; some incorporate a sawtooth pattern and fish motif. Heading for art. 8 in majuscules for first line (filled with yellow, red, green) and red uncials for second; remainder of headings in red uncials., Leaves damaged by pasting, cutting, and folding., and Boxed.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gallican sacramentary
6.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 19
- Image Count:
- 44
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Penitential Psalms (incomplete), probably written as part of a Book of Hours
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in liturgical gothic script., Carefully executed initials, 3-line, on blue or pink rectangles outlined in black, mark the beginning of each psalm; partial cusped borders, also in blue and pink, attached to each. Initials infilled with intertwining vines, often on gold ground, sometimes with small animals; modest use of gold dots inside rectangular grounds and borders. 1-line initials of blue with red penwork with blue dots and of gold with blue penwork and red dots. Line-fillers in combinations of red, blue and gold (various linear and flower designs)., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Bound in a piece of blind-tooled brown calf, once part of a 17th-18th century binding. Front pastedown and flyleaf from a Bible concordance, version 3 (France, ca. 1300). Back pastedown from 15th-century antiphonal, with musical notation, containing a portion of the office for Nicolas (6 Dec.).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiphonaries, Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours
- Creator:
- Langton, Stephen, -1228, author
- Published / Created:
- [12--]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.110
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a selection of sermons by Stephen Langton, including: an unidentified sermon on St. Paul; Sermon on the Conversion of St. Paul (25 January); unidentified sermon on the Annunciation (25 March); and Sermon on John the Baptist (24 June).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in small gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line and 6-line sermon initials are in red, except for the initial on fol. 1r, which is a 1-line capital in brown ink; 1-line initials are brown; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Langton, Stephen, d. 1228. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons (fragment).