Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing St. Cecilia (22 November).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: musical notation in black on a five-line staff in red; on the recto there is a 2-line initial "C" in red and blue on a rectangular ground of red and blue penwork; the 2-line initial "E" on the verso and the 1-line initials are black; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text, but in a smaller module; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing Saturday throughout the year, matins
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: on the recto there is a 4-line initial "C", in red and blue on a ground outlined in purple and decorated with purple foliage on red cross-hatching; 1-line initials at the beginning of the hymn and the psalm are red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and the comma; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
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 parchment. Includes a calendar for Augustinian hermits
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Humanistic influence (frequent use of Half-Uncial d), highly abbreviated., Heightening of the majuscules in yellow; headings in red. 1-line plain initials alternately in red and blue, with guide-letters, in the text (art. 2); 2-line plain initials alternately in red and blue, with guide-letters, placed half way in the text-block, except in col. a of the verso pages, where they are placed entirely in the margin. Running titles in red on most pages., Badly mutilated with missing folios., and Binding: ca. 1900 (before 1912) by P. Verburg in the workshop of Douglas Cockerell and in the style of the latter's bindings. Blind-tooled brown morocco over cardboard, with braided leather ties (defective) attached to the front cover and metal catchpins; hinges and back rubbed. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustinians. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment (sturdy, of uneven quality) of a breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in a small running script. Additions by several contemporary and later writers., Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout., Portions of text, badly worn or trimmed, have been lost., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on two tapes. Wooden boards. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled in a diamond pattern with indistinguishable ornaments within the diamonds and at their intersections. Traces of five round bosses, larger on lower board, metal corner pieces and a catch plate on the upper board. Rebacked, with leather formed in the shape of endbands in the turn-ins at head and tail of the spine and with a strap and pin (a modern nail?) fastening added.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing St. Andrew (30 November).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a hybrid gothic script (littera textualis with frequent but not consistent use of cursive forms of d, b, l, and t; s and f do not descend below the base line)., and Decoration: 1-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red; other 1-line initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; liturgical directions are written in brown and are underlined in red; punctuated with the punctus and virgule.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing Feria II throughout the year, lauds
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: the 2-line initial "S" at the beginning of the hymn is in olive-green, green, and red with white filigree and is filled with purple, blue, and red foliage decorated with white filigree; the initial is on a gold ground outlined in black and is surrounded by green, blue, and orange foliage that extends into the margin with gold balls; 1-line initials alternate blue and red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus flexus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing: The Passion of St. Ursula and St. Ursula (21 October).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis libraria with simple form of "a")., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials alternate red and blue; other initials are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; there is no punctuation; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on paper (with parchment conjugate leaves at beginning and end of quires; calendar on parchment) of a Carmelite breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in an informal, but careful, gothic script. Numerous additions by contemporary and later writers., Plain initials and KL monograms, 6- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks, underlining, and initial strokes in red. The verso of the final folio bears the partially erased image of a large decorative initial, in green, over which the later text was written., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Head and fore-edge gilt, with tawed, pink markers on the fore-edge. Bound by William Matthews, a leading American binder (second half of the 19th century) in a dark brown goatskin Jansenist binding (plain outside with gold-tooled doublures).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carmelites. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life