Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of 1 Kings
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in progothic minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials alternate in red and blue; 1-line initials are in brown and a mixture of uncials and rustic capitals; running titles are written in black; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation, accents, and diacritical marks over double "i" and double "a" were added in lighter ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book Acts of the Apostles, including portions of chapters 21-23.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; hand very similar to that in Beinecke MS 482.12., and Decoration: two plain 2-line initials in red; 1-line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Sirach; the text includes the headings for chapters LXXXII through LXXXVII
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3- to 7-line initials are red uncials; 1-line initials are black uncials; chapter headings are written in red minuscule in a larger module; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation added by a later hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of the biblical book of Zacharias
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule in a hand that is very similar to that of MS 481.63, and it is possible that this leaf is from the same original codex as MS 481.63., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals with round "E" and minuscule "h"; traces of an initial, ca. 2 lines high, set apart from where the text should be in red ink on verso; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Matthew 20.14-22.10; 25.11-28.20, with glossa ordinaria ending: qui diuina mansione sint. Crayon notes throughout in an unskilled hand, now mostly erased
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in fine carolingian minuscule of two sizes, the smaller script with tall ascenders; marginalia added in several later hands., and Binding: Twentieth century. Plain vellum wrapper.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Book of Numbers (begins imperfectly at 5.14) with glossa ordinaria
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in two sizes of Carolingian minuscule., and Binding: Twentieth century. Vellum case with brown paper sides.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Daniel, Chapter 3, verses 22-36.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Beneventan minuscule., Two fragments from a manuscript on parchment, used, together with a few other small fragments of Latin manuscripts, for reinforcing the binding of a printed book: Marcus Marullus, De institutione bene beateque vivendi libri sex (Solingen, Iohannes Soter, 1540)., and Binding: the 16th century binding, now detached, is plain parchment over pasteboard, sewn on three split leather thongs. On the spine is written in large Gothica Textualis Formata, the title “Marc. Marulus +”; on the lower edge in Capitalis: “M. Marull.”
Manuscript on paper of 1) Ambrosiaster, Commentarius in Epistolam S. Pauli ad Romanos, recensio. 2) Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt (here attributed to his pupil Remigius of Auxerre), Commentaries on Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Hebrews, Philemon, and Titus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a group of scribes, all writing a more or less careful Italian Late Carolingian script. There are numerous and extensive alterations and corrections on erasure. Headings in a mixture of Capitals and Uncials., Headings in red. Initials of various styles: (1) plain Romanesque initials, sometimes with developed decoration, in red; (2) more or less large painted initials in various bright colours on coloured background and filled with white vinestem; the body of the letter often filled with various interlace and frets; the vinestem may be issuing from an animal's mouth. Special forms of these painted initials: ff. 88v (wheel-shape), 90r (a snake winding round the shafts of the letter), 126r (outline drawing of vinestem initial), 136v (zoomorphic: bird-shape), 186v (inhabited by two birds), 204v (zoomorphic: dragon-shape), 209r (idem, with head at both ends), 215v (zoomorphic: fish), 216r (zoomorphic: dragon with head at both ends), 222v (inhabited by two birds), 268v (partly zoomorphic: bird), 274v (historiated: head of St. Paul). Initials are lacking f. 197v, 201v., and Binding: Original doeskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards. On each cover traces of five circular bosses; traces of two straps fixed to the rear cover and clutching over pins in the front cover. On the front cover an inscription largely worn off: "Remigius super epistolas sancti Pauli" (13th century?).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ambrosiaster.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Expositio in canticum canticorum, containing points 7, 9, and 14.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in caroline minuscule., Decoration: rubrics and initials in red., and Contained in Zi +7157 2 (Ovid, Opera) as a pastedown extending over the interior surface of both the front and back boards.
Gospel of Mark, with interlinear and marginal glosses (Glossa ordinaria, as printed in PL 114.179-244), written on goatskin parchment. The manuscript originates in Italy, but was in the later Middle Ages probably moved to Germany
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a single scribe in Praegothica with Southern features in two sizes. Some glosses are added by other hands., Decoration: Limited decoration. Paragraph marks by the scribe in the ink of the text. A few 1-line versals in red. A few larger primitive flourished initials, red or blue, with penwork in the opposite colour. The text of art. 1 begins with a 4-line littera duplex “M” in red and blue colour. Art. 2 opens with a 10-line primitive dentelle initial “I” in gold on a blue and red background, which is heightened with white penwork design. The initial is shown resting on the back of a small bent male figure, coloured red and gold., and Binding: Romanesque, with undecorated white (deerskin?) leather over rounded wooden boards, sewn on three leather thongs (spine repaired). There was originally one leather strap fixed with two nails to the front board and closing over a pin in the center of the rear board. Later this strap was replaced by two straps similarly fixed with iron nails to the front board. This arrangement appears to have been changed at the end of the Middle Ages, when a title was inscribed on the front cover and an iron chain was attached at the bottom of the front board by means of an iron staple. The endleaves are two parchment bifolios from an antiphonary (Italy, 11th century), containing text and music for the offices of Ash Wednesday and the first weeks of Lent. The notation is diastematic. Rubrics and initials are missing.
