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
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Eberhardus Bethuniensis' Graecismus
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line initials at the top of each page in black decorated with black penwork and highlighted with red; 2-line initial "P" in red; 1-line verse initials are in black highlighted with red; the text is written in verse lines; red paragraph marks appear immediately to the left of some initials; punctuated very rarely with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Homiliae xl in evangelia
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: At the beginning of Homily 4 (fol. 2r) there is a 3-line initial "C" sketched, but not completed, in brown ink with foliate decoration; it may be a later addition; 1-line initials are brown uncials; the rubrics for Homily 4 and its lesson are written in red minuscule mixed with uncial forms, with red line-filler; there are no initials or rubrics for the beginning of each lesson; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; accents were added by a later hand; on fol. 2v there are three interlinear Latin glosses in a fifteenth-century hand; other fifteenth-century hands have added marginal notations and figures of heads on fols. 7v-8r.
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
Manuscript fragment on parchment of St. Augustine, In Iohannis Evangelium (Tractus cxxiv), wherein the numbers given to the tractates are one less than those given in the edition (which is perhaps the result of scribal error or perhaps reflective of alternative content within this manuscript).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; annotations added by modern hands., and Decoration: 4-line initial "I," in orange with foliate ornamentation, beginning Tractus 36; 2-line initial "A" in a similar style; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubrics in orange rustic capitals; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, punctus interrogativus, and the punctus flexus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 10line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus flexus; double quotation marks in the margin; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.