Manuscript fragment on parchment of an illuminated leaf from an Antiphonary.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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.
Aphricae tabula quarta continet Libyam et duas Aethiopias
Description:
Appears in Fries' 1535 Ptolemy., Includes ill., Relief shown pictorially., Sheet measures 40 x 50 cm., Signature mark: I4., Title from caption on verso., and Watermark: Bunch of grapes.
Manuscript on paper of Astrological tables for solar and lunar locations, probably for use in compiling calendars; tables of latitudes of cities; chronological tables for 1508-18. Most tables are accompanied by prose descriptions
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: trimmed, in upper margins; unidentified eagle enclosed by a circle similar in design to Briquet Aigle 204., Script: Written in Italian notarial script by a single scribe., Yellow added to initials and to astrological signs, and some numbers., Stained throughout; final folio repaired., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Blind-tooled brown sheepskin.
Collection of short texts including a manual on the astrolabe, treatises on the zodiac, several horoscopes, and a map of England.
Description:
1 map; parchment, some col.; 20.5 x 31 cm. and The manuscript is a composite of many separate treatises, some on paper,others on vellum, of varying sizes bound together. Bound in brown calf, gilt.