Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Ars Laureshamensis, Expositio in Donatum maiorem, an anonymous commentary on Donatus's Ars maior; the portion here is on part II of Donatus's grammar
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; double quotation marks are within the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical Wisdom Books
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials are in red square capitals filled with yellow; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; the incipit is written in red and the explicit in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt's Commentarium in Epistolam ad Hebraeos
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals with occasional use of an enlarged minuscule "e"; punctuated with punctus and punctus interrogativus; a contemporary hand has made corrections and altered punctuation in a somewhat lighter ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Conversio Sanctae Justinae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: only six lines of the homily initials "I" are preserved; the shaft of the letter is half red and half yellow on a geometric ground of blue and pale purple, with vine-stem decoration in red; 1-line initials are in brown uncials with occasional rustic capital forms (D, Q, M) and enlarged minuscule forms (n); punctuated with the punctus and the punctus interrogativus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Remigius of Auxerre's Homiliae (Expositio super Mattheum).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initial "E" is a red uncial highlighted with yellow; 1-line initials are a mixture of brown uncials, rustic capitals, and enlarged minuscule forms, usually filled with yellow; the rubric is written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus, some of the last altered from the punctus by a corrector; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a homiliary containing Maximus Taurinensis, Sermon 48; Conversio Sanctae Justinae virginis et Sancti Cypriani episcopi
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: only the upper eight lines of the homily initial "I" are preserved; the initial is yellow on a red, blue, purple, and green ground; 1-line initials are a mixture of brown rustic capitals and uncial forms with the occasional use of an enlarged minuscule "e"; rubric in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation and diacritical marks in same ink as text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Homilies, possibly by Haimo of Halberstadt
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: on fol. 1v there is a very fine 3/4-page decorated initial "I" in red and yellow on a purple, blue, and orange ground, with vine-stem decoration lightly washed with yellow; 1-line initials are either in red rustic capitals or brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; rubrics are written in a mixture of red minuscule and rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; double quotation marks are within the text; accents are in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing among others: St. Felix in Pincis (14 January); St. Marcellus (16 January); St. Prisca (18 January); St. George (23 April); St. Mark (25 April); Letania Maior ad S. Laurentium (25 April); Apostles Philip and James (1 May); and Sts. Alexander, Eventius, Theodolus, and Juvenal (3 May).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule by two scribes, one on fols. 1-2 and the other on fols. 3-4., and Decoration: there are two 7-line initials on fol. 2; they are in red outline with a center shaft filled with red and are decorated with foliate ornamentation; 1- and 2-line prayer initials alternate red and brown; the red initials are sometimes filled with yellow; 1-line chant initials are in brown rustic capitals, occasionally highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; diacritical marks appear over the interrogative word in a question, in the Beneventan fashion; accents in the same ink as the text; there are 2 10-line initials on fols. 3-4; rubrics written in red rustic capitals marked with a horizontal yellow line; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great (Pope Gregory I), Moralia in Iob, chaps. 22.7.17-7.68; 22.8.48-9.28; and 31.43.14-51.27.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, with marginal notation (on f. 1v) in a contemporary hand, probably the text scribe., Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials in brown uncials; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus., and Former call numbers: Beinecke MS 482.17 (f. 2).