Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Breviari d'Amor by Matfre Ermengaud. This fragment, the sole example of troubadour lyric in North America outside of the Morgan Library, contains sections II.15913-16015 of the poem, which details the ten punishments of hell. Marginal notes in two later hands are present
Description:
In Old Occitan (Old Provençal)., Accompanied by: nineteenth-century printed description in French and translation into modern French., Script: main text in vernacular Gothic bookhand. Marginal notes in a late medieval hand and an early modern hand., Decoration: nine four-line initials in alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork. Two two-line initials in red. A single red capitulum mark. Rubrics present in red., and Layout: single column of thirty lines; the initial letter of each line is set slightly apart. Light brown ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of book two of Avicenna's Canon medicinae as translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerard of Cremona; the section contained in the fragment details a variety of herbs and their medicinal qualities
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated, Gothic hand., Decoration: each medicinal entry begins with a 3-line initial, alternating red and blue with penwork in the contrasting color. Headings at the top of each page in red and blue. Each column contains decorative borderwork consisting of elongated strokes alternating in red and blue with red penwork., Layout: in two columns of 68 lines each., and Damage: the fragment has been removed from a binding, where it possibly served as a wrapper. Glue and binding material are still attached to one side of the leaf; the other side is discolored with offsetting from the later book. A piece from the spine remains attached and reads "Bbb" [?].
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037 and Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Arab
Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia of botanical descripitons
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: rubricated. Paraphs and initials in red and blue ink., and Grid ruling very visible in margins and even within text.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from this Latin grammar text
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 24 lines, centered, with gloss in a much smaller script surrounding the central text., Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata, with gloss in littera glossularis., and Decoration: paraph marks in alternating red and blue inks, in both the text and the gloss.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a legal text surrounded by its accompanying gloss
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In Latin., Script: gothica textura., Decoration: rubricated. Decorated marginal capitals in blue ink; small internal capitals in red ink for main text. Gloss contains small capitals in red and blue ink., and Gloss further annotated in a 14th century gothic cursive hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, of an unidentified philosophical text, heavily glossed in a different, smaller hand
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 16 lines. Very wide margins for glossing., Script: main text in gothica textualis quadrata; marginal gloss in littera glossularis., and Decoration: rubricated. Small initials and paraphs in red ink.