- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400, 1000 and 1100]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 578
- Image Count:
- 386
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Psalter-Hymnal, written for a Benedictine monastery. On the rear flyleaf, a fragment of the Gospel of Mark, 1:24-31 and 36-42, in West-Saxon translation
- Description:
- In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., Script: Copied by three scribes, all writing Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. The fragment is copied in careful Anglo-Saxon Minuscule., The decoration consists of 1-line plain initials alternately in red and blue in the text; 2-line flourished initials in blue with red penwork with marginal extensions; 3- and 5-line litterae duplices with partial or full penwork borders (J-motifs) as indicated in art. 2. Litterae duplices also on ff. 116r, 133v, 143v (artt. 3, 6 and 7)., and Binding: Original undecorated leather over oak boards (?). Spine with three raised bands. Traces (?) of one clasp.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Benedictines. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Hymns, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter-hymnal
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