Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of the biblical book of Mark, or a lectionary, or a missal
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus., and The speakers in the text are noted by letters above the first word of quoted text: "T" for Jesus, "C" for the narrator, and "I" for other speakers; these letters indicate the different ways to read the words of the speakers in the passage during Holy Week, in this case, Feria III.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, and Missals
Manuscript fragment on parchment from the biblical books of the minor prophets, including Zacharias and Malachi
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line round "E" of Zach. 14.1 in red; the chapter also begins with the number "XIIII" in alternating blue and red; 1-line initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in a slightly larger and more formal littera textualis; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus, many of which are added, altered, or highlighted in red; accents have been added in red ink; the rubricator has also made a number of corrections to the text, as has another contemporary hand in brown ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of excerpts from the Latin Vulgate of the books of various prophets, including Ezekiel (Ezechiel), Daniel, Hosea, Amos, Obadiah (Abdias), Haggai (Aggeus), Zachariah, and Malachi
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; a later hand has altered some punctuation; modern hands have added some textual indentifications and numbering., Decoration: 1-line initials in brown uncials; brown and/or orange-red rustic capitals on ff. 5r, 6r, and 12v; brown or/and orange-red uncials on f. 11r and v; punctuation consisting of punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; and quire signatures "v," "vi," and "vii" appear on ff. 4v, 8v, and 10v, respectively, suggesting the manuscript fragments preserve portions of the last five quires of a ten-quire manuscript., and Former call numbers: Beinecke MS 482.6A (f. 4), B (f. 9), C (f. 3), D (f. 6), E (f. 11), F (f. 2), G (f. 1), H (f. 8), I (f. 7), J (f. 5), K (f. 10); Beinecke MS 482.5A (f. 6), B (f. 9), D (f. 12), A (f. 14), and C (f. 15).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Sirach; the text includes the headings for chapters LXXXII through LXXXVII
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3- to 7-line initials are red uncials; 1-line initials are black uncials; chapter headings are written in red minuscule in a larger module; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation added by a later hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical Wisdom Books
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials are in red square capitals filled with yellow; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; the incipit is written in red and the explicit in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of the biblical book of Zacharias
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule in a hand that is very similar to that of MS 481.63, and it is possible that this leaf is from the same original codex as MS 481.63., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals with round "E" and minuscule "h"; traces of an initial, ca. 2 lines high, set apart from where the text should be in red ink on verso; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript on parchment (low quality), composed of several manuscripts bound together, of mostly unidentified sermons. Produced at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo
Description:
In Latin., Script: Small early Gothica Textualis or Semitextualis Libraria or Currens script by various hands, some very informal and difficult to decipher, often highly abbreviated., Short running titles are written above the right-hand columns of the recto pages in the following articles: 1, 3, 4, 9, 16, 18-23, which seem to be the original part of the codex; article 14 has running titles of a different type., The first folios are stained., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over cardboard, blind-tooled with triple fillets as in MS 517; spine with five raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper (watermarks in gutter) of 1) Petrarch, Boccacii Griseldis historia. 2) Pope Pius II, Epistola. 3) Petrarch, Famil. rerum., 12, 2. 4) Pope Pius II, Bulla retractationum. 5) Pope Pius II, Epistola de fortuna
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by three scribes in similar styles of informal gothic scripts (batarde influence). Scribe 1) ff. 1r-7r; 2) ff. 7v-14v; 3) ff. 15r-26v., One calligraphic initial, f. 1r, 4-line, blue with white floral motifs; infilled with red penwork floral designs tinted with green; penwork trails into inner margin, with plain green dots. Four initials, ff. 1v, 7v, 10v, 21v, red ink, 6- to 2-line. Paragraph marks in red. Numerous capitals stroked in red; rubrics throughout; explicits underlined in red., and Binding: Twentieth century. Vellum spine (verso of an unidentified manuscript) with "Petrarcae et Aeneae Silvii Epistoles" inscribed; grey-blue paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Papal documents
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Gaspare Zacchi, Bononiensium res publica. Most probably the dedication copy, sent by the author from Tivoli to the Signoria of Bologna on or soon after 29 Nov. 1471
Description:
The author (d. 1474) in 1450-1455, being protonotary of Volterra, was a member of Cardinal Bessarion's legation to Bologna. In 1460 he became bishop of Osimo. At the time he wrote the present treatise he was prefect of Tivoli ("Arx Tiburtina")., In Latin., Script: Copied by a single scribe writing Humanistica Cursiva Formata very close in aspect to Humanistica Textualis, with relatively numerous and unusual abbreviations. A second hand, probably the author, has corrected the scribe's errors., The headings and "Finis" on f. 9r are written in Capitalis in pale red ink. The nine chapters open with a plain initial alternately blue and pale red. Between two chapters one line is left free. The Prologus (f. 2r-v) opens with a 3-line gold initial on a blue-red-green rectangular background decorated with white and gold penwork. The body of text opens on f. 3r with a 5-line white vinestem initial with full-length marginal extension. F. 1v contains the coat of arms of the city of Bologna, f. 10r the coat of arms of the author, both in full colour., and Binding: Early nineteenth century by Rene Simier (d. 1826). Citron morocco over pasteboard, both covers with delicate gold-tooled frame, the spine gold-tooled, with gold-tooled title "GASP. / RESP." and binder's signature at the foot "REL. P(ar) SI.". Gilt edges. Grey marbled endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Bologna (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Zacchi, Gaspare.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government