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
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Augustinian Sermons, possibly from an Alan of Farfa Homiliary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff has dated to the first third of the ninth century., and Decoration: the homily begins with a 7-line decorated initial "F" outlined in brown and filled with orange, dark orange, ochre, and olive green; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubric written in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; a leaf has been drawn in red in the space between the columns on the verso.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a group of sermons, including: Hildebert of Le Mans, Sermones de tempore; Unidentified sermon on John the Evangelist; and Unidentified sermon on the Circumcision (1 January).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an informal gothic script (approaching a littera textualis currens)., and Decoration: spaces have been left at the beginning of homilies for 2-line initials, but they have not been added; 1-line initials are in brown; punctuated with the punctus; a contemporary hand has made some corrections to the text in a darker ink.
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.