Manuscript on parchment of 1) St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus), Enarrationes in Psalmos 134-150. 2) First half of Ps.-Iohannes Chrysostomus, Sermo de martyribus. 3) Antiphons for the feast of the Conception of the Virgin (8 Dec.), with neumatic notation
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied in Praegothica by three hands., Headings in red. Art. 1 has plain initials (Capitalis, ca. 4 lines) in red, followed by a word in Capitalis/Uncialis. The book opens with an 8-line Romanesque decorated initial in red and black. Art. 2 opens with a black capital followed by two words in Capitalis. Art. 3 is decorated with 1-line initials in black with heightening in red and opens with a 4-line red plain initial., Holes, original repairs and sometimes irregular lower edges., and Binding: Early (probably original) binding in pigskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards. The covers are blind-tooled with fillets. On the front cover the fillets make a St. Andrews cross, at a later time decorated with trees in Lederschnitt, countless small circular stamps and a few stars (?); the rear cover, with fillets in lozenge pattern, has only the circular stamps and the stars. Spine with three raised bands. On each cover marks of five brass and iron bosses. Two clasps attached to the rear cover. At the top of the front cover an original paper library label with the title (partly rewritten) "Expositio beati Augustini super Psalmo CXXXIIII et deinceps usque ad finem". The binding is strengthened by means of parchment strips placed around the first quire and taken from a 13th-century Latin manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Subject (Topic):
Antiphons (Music), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Group of eight manuscript fragments, on vellum, originally from the second of a three-volume set of Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. The scribe was probably Eadmer of Canterbury.
Description:
Decoration: two large capitals in colored ink., Fragments show marks of having been used as binding material., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double-column, originally 42 lines., Marginal notations on two of the fragments probably date from the later fifteenth century., and Script: "prickly script" associated with Christ Church, Canterbury.
Subject (Name):
Eadmer, -1124?
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Psalters--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Augustine's In Iohannis evangelium tractatus
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline script, similar to that written at Schaffhausen in manuscripts dated around 1100., and Decoration: inelegant 9-line initial "D" on the verso in rough gold with silver bands, outlined in red and with red in the center; the initial is on an orange, green, and blue ground. In the middle of the initial there is an eagle in gold and silver, with red dots, which holds a vine with flowers in his beak; 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals; scribal guidewords preserved in margin; heading written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Augustine's In Iohannis evangelium tractatus
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation by the first hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Augustine's Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium ccxxiv
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by Gottschalk, a monk from the abbey of Lambach, Austria, whose hand appears in of other manuscripts, including Beinecke MS 481.51., and Decoration: In the upper left corner of the verso is a faint sketch of a cat (or possibly a wolf or lion), probably contemporary with the manuscript; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.