In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in small, neat, gothic bookhand; note in his hand on f. 209r, too trimmed to be legible., Approximately half the historiated initials have been excised. The initials, 51- to 9-line, painted gold, red and blue with white highlights and punctuated with gold dots, terminate in spiralling floral serifs, often with biting animal heads, with long projecting stems against cusped grounds. The figures are red, blue, orange and grey, against red or blue grounds, some of them diapered and decorated with groups of three white dots and gold dots. Illuminated initials, 51- to 5-line, occasionally for books (f. 74v [Joshua] and f. 175r [Nehemiah]), for the most part for the prologues, similar to the historiated initials, except infilled with interwining and angular vines with biting head terminals, red and/or blue against red or blue grounds with gold dots and set in frames of painted gold. 2-line calligraphic initials for chapters, red or blue with blue or red penwork, each attached to a column of superimposed I's, red and blue, running the full length of the text column, with penwork flourishes, especially at the terminals. Capitals for verses stroked in red. Running headings and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue letters or numbers., and Binding: Date? Resewn on four single, round, vegetable fiber cords which are frayed out and adhered inside the oak boards. There are no endbands, but traces of alum tawed endband cores and sewing supports remain in the holes in the boards. The spine is square. Some lettering in ink on the fore-edge. Covered in red-brown calf, with an exceptionally large stamp of the Virgin and child in an aureole within concentric frames, one with an inscription, on the upper board and diamonds filled with crosses, roses and IHS in circles on the lower. The latter ornaments are also stamped on the turn-ins underneath the pastedowns. Rebacked and edges repaired. Upper board detached. Not the original and possibly not an early binding. Rebacked in the Yale Conservation Studio in 1982. The upper and lower covers are lined with single leaves, pasted down, of a missale plenum (11th century?). Portions of Dominica VI post Pentecosten, Feria IV of that week (upper cover), an unidentified mass of the Sanctorale, Dominica III post Pentecosten (lower cover). Where they occur, the texts of the proper chants are notated in German neumes in campo aperto. Some of the chants are cited by incipit; these are usually not noted. The Alleluia for DMC III is Domine in virtute; that for DMC VI is Eripe me. (We thank K. D. Hartzell for his assistance with these fragments.)
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript on parchment, composed of four parts. Written at the end of the 14th century (Parts I, III) and in 1578 (Parts II, IV); the prominence of St. Maclovius (Macutus) suggests that Parts II and IV were produced in Brittany or Normandy
Description:
In Latin., Script: Parts I and III (ff. 1r-40v, 48r-72v): Written in liturgical gothic of two sizes, by one scribe. Parts II and IV (ff. 41r-47v, 73r-102v) were intended to be integrated into the earlier portion: Written in liturgical gothic of the late 16th century, in two sizes by a single scribe; the letters slant slightly toward the left., On f. 48r, a 5-line historiated initial (65 x 58 mm.), white-decorated red and blue on a gold ground, enclosing a priest serving Communion; from the corners sprout blue vines with white, gold, and red trilobe leaves, extending around 3 sides of the page. On f. 1r, an 8-line illuminated initial of white-decorated blue and red (63 x 65 mm.), filled with blue and red trilobe leaves, on a gold ground; the base of the letter is extended around the inner and lower margins as a gold, blue, red, and white bounding line; from the lower two corners of this line and the upper left corner of the initial sprout vines, as for the historiated initial. 3- and 2-line initials in orange-tinted red or blue; rubrics throughout. Square notes in brown on 4-line orange-tinted red staves (the red ink has bled so that the whole written space has an orange glow). Parts II and IV: 4- to 1-line initials in red and blue. Rubrics are sometimes set off on the right side of the page by a narrow vertical border in brown. Musical notation: square notes on 4-line staves, all in brown., and Binding: 1981. Quarter cloth case, retaining brown mottled paper covered boards, 19th century. Traces of earlier bindings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
f. 1r //tur vobis. Deus autem pacis qui eduxit de mortuis pastorem magnum dominum ... Secundum Marcum. In illo tempore mane prima sabbati ...et illi euntes nunciaverunt ceteris.
Thursday of the second week after Easter, with lessons from Hebrews 13:20 and Mark 16.2-13.
f. 1r-v Feria via. Ad Romanos. Fratres, cum adhuc essemus infirmi ... Secundum Matheum. In illo tempore exierunt mulieres de monumento ... usque in hodiernum diem.
Friday of the second week after Easter, with lessons from Romans 5:6-11 and Matth. 28:8-15.
f. 1v Sabbato. Si non fuerit festum novem lectionum sollempnizamus ultimam missam ...
Saturday of the second week after Easter.
Dominica iia post Pascha. Ad missam de beata Maria. Alleluia. Versus. Post partum ... Ad processionem per cimiterium. Antiphona. Surgens Dominus Ihesus ... Ad missam introitus. Misericordia Domini plena est terra ... Gloria in excelsis. Collecta. Deus qui in filii tui humilitate iacentem mundum erexisti ... Lectio epistolae beati Petri apostoli. Karissimi, Christus passus est pro nobis ... R. Alleluia. Versus. Ego sum pastor bonus et cognosco oves meas et cognoscunt me mee. //
Second Sunday after Easter, with lesson from 1 Peter 2:21-25., On parchment., Pricking in the upper and lower margins. Ruled with brown ink for two columns of 30 lines below top line (type 43, 212 x 140 mm., The majuscules are heightened in yellow. One line-filler in gold and paint. The decoration consists of (1) 2-line dentelle initials and (2) 3-line foliate initials. On f. 1v there is a gold and blue bar in the intercolumnium ending in the upper and lower margins in rinceaux with vine-leaves, a few flowers and acanthus leaves. Instructions for the rubricator are written in the margins in small Gothica Cursiva., and Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata in two sizes.