Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: Common of the Martyrs; Common of a Confessor
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In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials at the beginning of chants are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; square musical notation in block on four-line red staff; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing the Common of Martyrs
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 4-line initial "A" in red and blue ornamented with red and blue penwork; chant initials alternate as 2-line blue initials and 1-line red initials; other 1-line capitals in black; rubrics written in red minuscule; musical notation is in black on 4-line staves in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing among other items: Epiphany; first through fourth Sundays after Epiphany; and Psalm responsories for use between Epiphany and Septuagesima
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In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials at the beginning of responses are in square capitals in thick brown ink dotted or filled with orange; 1-line initials at the beginning of antiphons and verses are brown rustic capitals highlighted with orange; rubrics are written in orange rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes for chants with full texts are in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing among other items: various Feria from Quadragesima; Saturday of the first week of Quadragesima; and Second Sunday of Quadragesima
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In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: on fol. 1v, there are portions of a 3-line square capital "T" in orange; initials of the antiphons beginning feriae IV and VI are 1-line rustic capitals in orange; initials of responses and of the antiphon beginning feria V are thick brown uncials filled with red; other 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; rubrics are written in orange rustic capitals; liturgical directions are written in brown minuscule highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes for chants with full text are in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: St. Pantaleon (27 July), from first vespers to the first nocturn of matins; St. Pantaleon, from the third nocturn of matins to lauds
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of the office, of the responsorial liturgy, and of lauds are in red square capitals; 1-line initials at the beginning of responses are in thick black square capitals highlighted with red; other 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; rubrics written in red with a mixture of rustic capital and minuscule forms; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style are on the recto and only occasionally on the verso; some of the neumes on the verso may be later additions.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: Sts. Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus (6 August); St. Laurence (10 August); Assumption of the Virgin (15 August).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of responsorial liturgy are in red square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capital with uncial forms of "M" and round forms of "E" and sometimes "D"; rubrics are written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus (rare); interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragments on parchment of an Antiphonary by Petrus Ferdinandez of Leon
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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 fragment on parchment of the Ars Laureshamensis, Expositio in Donatum maiorem, an anonymous commentary on Donatus's Ars maior; the portion here is on part II of Donatus's grammar
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; double quotation marks are within the text.
Manuscript on paper (unidentified armorial watermarks) of Basilici tyranni umbra, a Latin tragedy with a list of characters drawn partly from Byzantine history, including Umbra Basilici tyranni (d. 497), Zeno Imperator, Longinus eius frater, Gazeus Rhetor, Euphemianus, Castor tribunus militum, and various pupilli and ephebi. With a collection of poems in Horatian meters on early Jesuits, e. g., St. Francis Xavier (1506-52), Brother Rudolph Acquaviva (1550-83), St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), St. Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-91), and Edmund Campion (d. 1581). Includes other miscellaneous texts
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In Latin., Script: Written by several cursive hands, some clearly later additions. A few headings in square capitals., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Vellum case, blind-tooled. Bookblock almost detached. Front pastedown may be part of art. 2 of text, but is too badly mutilated to be certain.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Byzantine Empire
Subject (Name):
Jesuits
Subject (Topic):
History, Jesuit poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin drama (Tragedy), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Unidentified preface. 2) Sallust, Bellum Catilinae. 3) Unidentified scholia on Sallust, Bellum Catilinae. Although the commentary of Beinecke MS 358 belongs to the medieval school tradition rather than to the Renaissance tradition, neither the text of this article or of art. 5 below resembles closely any medieval texts currently known. 4) Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum. 5) Unidentified scholia on Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum
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In Latin., Script: Written in batarde, with scholia in a smaller version of the same hand., One miniature, 12-line, f. 74v, a T-O mappa mundi, in a red and gold frame, slightly waterstained at the edges. One 4-line initial, f. 3r (pink), and one 3-line initial, f. 57r (blue), both with white highlights, filled with red and blue ivy on gold against a gold ground. Twenty 2-line initials, gold, filled with pink and blue against pink and/or blue grounds, square or irregular, with white filigree. Capitals stroked in yellow, red or blue between ff. 1r and 26v; in yellow for the remainder of the text. Borders were perhaps added later (between 1425 and 1450) on folios with initials only; between ff. 1r and 57r, flowering vines, gold, green and blue with gold dots in lines above, below or in written space; blue and gold acanthus mixed with flowering vines, red, pink, blue, and green with gold ivy in line above written space and in inner margin within rulings for scholia; on a few folios, outer vertical bounding line reinforced in red with small acanthus terminals. Between ff. 57v and 162v pink, blue and/or green acanthus, with flowering vines, pink, blue and green, with gold ivy and dots, disposed as above; on f. 85v vertical bounding line repainted as a green stem with lopped off stalks. Lemmata underlined in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case with title in ink. Rodent damage.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C. and Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C., Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia