Manuscript fragment on parchment (6 non-consecutive leaves) of vesper antiphons. Feasts noted for some antiphons are: Ascension; 21st-23rd Sunday after Pentecost; Vigil of Saints Peter and Paul
Description:
In Latin., Script: written by a single scribe in a formal gothic bookhand., Six lines of text with musical notation on a four-line red staff. Initials in red, blue, and black., and Unbound.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Vespers (Music)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: the Annunciation (25 March); Responsories from the book of Job and Psalms; and a computistical table for calculating the time between Christmas and Shrove Tuesday, with explicatory notes in German
Description:
In Latin and German., Script: written by three scribes in gothic script (littera textualis); one scribed copied fol. 1, another copied fol. 2r, and a third copies fol. 2v., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of the antiphon on fol. 1 are in red; the guide letters for these initials are still visible in light brown ink and some have been ornamented, including one with a crude figure of a person; 2-line initials at the beginning of verses on fol. 1 are in black with black penwork; fol. 2v begins with a very crude 2-line round D in red; rubrics written in red; musical notation is in black and on fol. 1 is on a 4-line staff in black; on fol. 2r it is on a 5-line staff in black; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing the Common of the Apostles
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in rounded gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: The 4-line initial at the beginning of the office is blue and red with blue and red flourishes; 2-line initials at the beginning of responses alternate blue and red; 2-line initials at the beginning of verses are brown with brown and yellow flourishes; 1-line initials within verses are in brown and are highlighted with red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; musical notation is on a four-line staff.
Manuscript on paper (watermarks in gutter) of 1) Petrarch, Boccacii Griseldis historia. 2) Pope Pius II, Epistola. 3) Petrarch, Famil. rerum., 12, 2. 4) Pope Pius II, Bulla retractationum. 5) Pope Pius II, Epistola de fortuna
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by three scribes in similar styles of informal gothic scripts (batarde influence). Scribe 1) ff. 1r-7r; 2) ff. 7v-14v; 3) ff. 15r-26v., One calligraphic initial, f. 1r, 4-line, blue with white floral motifs; infilled with red penwork floral designs tinted with green; penwork trails into inner margin, with plain green dots. Four initials, ff. 1v, 7v, 10v, 21v, red ink, 6- to 2-line. Paragraph marks in red. Numerous capitals stroked in red; rubrics throughout; explicits underlined in red., and Binding: Twentieth century. Vellum spine (verso of an unidentified manuscript) with "Petrarcae et Aeneae Silvii Epistoles" inscribed; grey-blue paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Papal documents
Manuscript fragment on parchment from a Book of Hours including the Suffrage for St. Paul
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: Historiated 7-line initial "O" on the recto in blue with white highlights filled by a depiction of the apostle Paul standing on a green field with a gold ground; Paul holds a book in his left hand and a sword in his right; the 2-line initial at the beginning of the antiphon is in red, surrounded by brown penwork; 1-line initials are in black; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript, on paper, in a single scribal hand, containing a version of Gratian's Decretum attributed to "Laurentius Pulericus, clericus Neapolitanus."
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 49-53 lines; some sidenotes., Script: gothica cursiva in brown ink., and Binding: 19th-century marbled paper over pasteboards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gratian, active 12th century and Puldericus, Laurentius.
Manuscript on parchment (sturdy, of uneven quality) of a breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in a small running script. Additions by several contemporary and later writers., Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout., Portions of text, badly worn or trimmed, have been lost., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on two tapes. Wooden boards. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled in a diamond pattern with indistinguishable ornaments within the diamonds and at their intersections. Traces of five round bosses, larger on lower board, metal corner pieces and a catch plate on the upper board. Rebacked, with leather formed in the shape of endbands in the turn-ins at head and tail of the spine and with a strap and pin (a modern nail?) fastening added.