Manuscript bifolia, on parchment, from an unidentified theological work. Subjects include prayer, the Trinity, creation, and Revelations 6:21.
Description:
In Latin., Bottom of sheets trimmed with loss of margin and at least one line. One column of each bifolium largely cut away., Recovered from a binding., Script: small cursive gothic hand., Decoration: rubricated., and Layout: 20 columns, originally 50 lines each?, now 49 lines.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Verba Seniorum, which comprises chapters 5-7 of the Vitae Patrum, a collection of Saint's Lives
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in rounded early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials are in red with red and blue penwork; 1-line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and colon; accents and hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript leaf, on parchment, mostly complete, containing text from this life of Saint Severinus in eleventh-century script on one side. The verso is a palimpsest, containing an index of canon law in a fifteenth-century humanistic cursive script
Description:
In Latin., Leaf was used in a binding., Layout: double columns of 32 lines., and Script: Carolingian script.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois
Description:
In Middle High German., Script: written in a gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in red uncials; other 1-line initials are in black highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; the text is not written according to lines of verse.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wirnt, von Grafenberg, active 13th century.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, German literature, and History and criticism
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Wolfram von Eschenbach, Willehalm, 249.9-253.22 and 262.23-267.8; the text is not continuous, one bifolium missing between leaves
Description:
In German., Script: Written in gothic bookhand., Plain initials in red; first letters of verses touched with red., and Removed from a binding: text suffers from holes, stains, and creases.
Manuscript fragment on paper of an unidentified text
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a bâtarde script., Decoration: capitals heightened in red; red initials and chapter marks in the text., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi 3134 (Bartholomaeus de Chaimis, Confessionale), in which they are used as quire guards and front and back pastedowns.