Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Canticles (Psalter) containing Te Deum and Canticle: Benedictus dominus deus
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line initial "B" in red with blue and red penwork; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses in red uncials; line dividers in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of canticles from a breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in large gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line lesson initials in red; 1-line verse initials in red; rubrics in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; line fillers following rubrics in red.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Canticles, and Breviaries
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Canticles from a Psalter, including readings from Exodus 15 and Habakkuk 3.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3-line initial "D" is in red with blue flourishes; 1-line initials are in red square capitals; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of capitula, possibly from a breviary containing among others: Capitula for sext of Pentecost; Capitula for an unidentified office; capitula for unidentified Feria II-VI; capitula for an unidentified Saturday; Capitula from Isaiah 33.2 and Romans 10.13.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule bordering on early gothic., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red; rubrics written in red minuscule; the rubrics on fol. 2r are in a fifteenth-century hand; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; accents are in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of a Carthusian psalter with the Canticles and the Creed, with musical notation
Description:
In Latin., Incomplete. Text ends with Psalm 77., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Script: large gothic script., Decoration: smaller initial in alternate red and blue; 12 historiated initials; full illuminated border to one page with figures of Carthusian monks and an abbot., and Binding: contemporary pigskin over wooden boards; metal clasps, corner pieces and central bosses.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Carthusians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Prayers and devotions, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Psalters
Manuscript on paper of the A-recension of Twinger's Chronicle which was written in 1386. Chapter 1: History of the Ancient World, based on the Bible and classical sources (ff. 2r-32v); 2: History of the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to King Wenceslas (ff. 32v-101r); 3: History of the Popes (ff. 101v-135r); 4: History of the Bishops of Strasbourg (ff. 135v-158v); 5: History of Strasbourg and Alsace (ff. 159v-225v). With a short passage referring to the war of the Swiss in Alsace and the Black Forest in 1468, added in a later hand
Description:
In German., Watermarks similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf VII.151., Script: Written in a cursive book hand by a single scribe. Numerous annotations to the text in margins by a later hand., Two uninspired initials, 7- and 5-line, in red with crude penwork in green. Plain initials, headings and rubrics in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries (?). Vellum over wooden boards with two brass clasps. Blue/green edges and title in ink on spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany
Subject (Name):
Twinger, Jakob, von Königshofen, 1346-1420.
Subject (Topic):
German literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
In Latin., Script: Written by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Pigskin over cardboard (previously over wooden boards), blind-tooled with rolls, rebacked. Red edges. On the front flyleaf there is a modern note: "The 16th century German binding has evidently been taken from another volume".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Graduals (Liturgical books), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript, on paper, in several unidentified hands, containing a collection of 30 astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and matematical instruments, such as the organ, clavichord, Turkish instrument, cylindrical clocks, sundial, astrolabe, etc. Texts include treatises by Franco de Polonia, (Pseudo-)Bede, Johannes Symonis de Zalandria, Johannes de Lineriis, Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt, and Gerardus Cremonensis. Number 2 of 4 titles bound together
Alternative Title:
Manuscripts, composed of astronomical and mathematical texts and instructions for making musical instruments written down by two different scribes [i.e. Yale Medical Historical Library Manuscript 25]
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: Ample rubricated mathematical tables and diagrams. Two- to four-line capital letters in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 35 lines., Binding: 16th-century red blind-tooled leather on wooden boards. Rebacked in the 19th century. Two clasps closing on the top cover., Locally also referred to as Manuscript 25., Foliation in modern ink; starting at f. 1., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomical Instruments, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Musical instruments
Receipt book; German text on materia medica : written on vellum and paper in two different hands, with original wooden boards
Description:
Manuscript, in parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical recipes in German (ff. 1-11 and 18-67), materia medica in German and Latin (ff. 11-18), and more recipes added between the late 15th century and the 18th century (ff. 67-88). Includes a 15th-century prayer against the falling sickness on the back flyleaf., In German and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic minuscule., Layout: single column of varying length., Decoration: medical receipts (ff. 1-67) rubricated., and Binding: bound in wooden boards; no backing. Traces of clasps. "Sermones" visible on the wood.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes