Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing the Common of Martyrs
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 4-line initial "A" in red and blue ornamented with red and blue penwork; chant initials alternate as 2-line blue initials and 1-line red initials; other 1-line capitals in black; rubrics written in red minuscule; musical notation is in black on 4-line staves in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing among other items: Epiphany; first through fourth Sundays after Epiphany; and Psalm responsories for use between Epiphany and Septuagesima
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials at the beginning of responses are in square capitals in thick brown ink dotted or filled with orange; 1-line initials at the beginning of antiphons and verses are brown rustic capitals highlighted with orange; rubrics are written in orange rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes for chants with full texts are in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing among other items: various Feria from Quadragesima; Saturday of the first week of Quadragesima; and Second Sunday of Quadragesima
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: on fol. 1v, there are portions of a 3-line square capital "T" in orange; initials of the antiphons beginning feriae IV and VI are 1-line rustic capitals in orange; initials of responses and of the antiphon beginning feria V are thick brown uncials filled with red; other 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; rubrics are written in orange rustic capitals; liturgical directions are written in brown minuscule highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes for chants with full text are in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: St. Pantaleon (27 July), from first vespers to the first nocturn of matins; St. Pantaleon, from the third nocturn of matins to lauds
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of the office, of the responsorial liturgy, and of lauds are in red square capitals; 1-line initials at the beginning of responses are in thick black square capitals highlighted with red; other 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; rubrics written in red with a mixture of rustic capital and minuscule forms; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style are on the recto and only occasionally on the verso; some of the neumes on the verso may be later additions.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: Sts. Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus (6 August); St. Laurence (10 August); Assumption of the Virgin (15 August).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of responsorial liturgy are in red square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capital with uncial forms of "M" and round forms of "E" and sometimes "D"; rubrics are written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus (rare); interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragments on parchment of an Antiphonary by Petrus Ferdinandez of Leon
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by a single hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata with Spanish features. Nota quadrata music notation. Additions of text and music by later hands., Paragraph marks and rubrics in red. Yellow heightening of majuscules. Large plain initials (height: 1 stave + 1 text line). Cadels of the same size., and Text and musical notation on a five-line staff. Large initials in red, brown, and blue. Rubrics and liturgical instructions in red. Additional antiphons with musical notation added in margins in a hand of the 17th-18th century.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ferdinandez, Petrus., Catholic Church, and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on paper of Apocryphal Gospel Books and Miracles of the Virgin, including 1) Evangelium infantiae; 2) Liber passionis et resurrectionis Iesu Christi; 3) miracle legends about the Virgin
Description:
In Italian., Script: Copied by two scribes. Hand 1, the notary Franciscus Salvator (Francesco Salvatore) from Ventimiglia, copied artt. 1-4 in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Mercantesca). Hand 2 copied artt. 5-6 in Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens (Mercantesca)., Decoration: Long red headings up to f. 29r (artt. 1-2). In artt. 3-4, space for headings was provided, but they were not executed. Space was reserved for 2-line initials, but these were not executed. Artt. 4 and 5 are undecorated; there are no guide letters for the 1-line initials at the opening of each of these articles, for which space was reserved., and Binding: 20th century, brown leather and wooden boards. Spine has three raised bands.
Manuscript on paper of an experimental alchemical compilation, devoted to laboratory procedures
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: Partly written by F.F. Weichenhaan in a clear, sometimes hasty cursive sloping to the right, in Fraktur for the passages in German; the remainder written by Anna Susanna Lieber in a rather loose and pointed Fraktur sloping to the right., Watermarks: Watermarks of the smaller papers at edges and cut, not identified; the paper folded in quarto with a decidely brownish tint and a large, faint watermark in the folds, not identified., Light to very dark brown inks, no color, a few sketches of apparatus in the text. No catchwords, no signatures., Compiled about 1743 by F.F. Weichenhaan, partly from materials written about 1705 by Anna Susanna Lieber., and Binding: Old paper boards with parchment back, a title lettered in brown ink by a modern hand in gothic letters on the backstrip, plain edges.
Manuscript on paper (thick) of methods and examples of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the rule of three
Description:
In Italian., Watermark: shield with kneeling man holding cross?. Similar to Briquet 7629?., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata., A few geometrical figures., Pages slightly damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment, a large circle traced with a sharp pencil on the front cover, a group of small circles in the form of a cross on the rear cover. At the top left corner of the front cover a paper label with the 16th-17th century inscription in Humanistica Cursiva: "Mathematicorum. Anonymi arithmetica manu scripta linguae Italicae". On the spine is written in the same type of script "Aritmetica" and, at the top, the letter "A".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval