Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf of Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. The fragment contains Ps. 77:68-78:13, PL 93.909-914. The lemmata are announced by means of paragraph marks in the shape of gallows. There are many corrections; additions are written in the upper margins or vertically in the intercolumnar space, in the same way as in MS 517
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a careful small late Carolingian script., The upper corners and the lower part of the leaf have been trimmed with loss of text., and The fragment was used as cover for a binding of a 16th-century book, f. 1v being the outer side. On what was the spine a handwritten title is vaguely legible "SCHOLIA SAL*** TAN*"; on the front cover the letters "M C E //" and the date "15//" are stamped.
Manuscript on parchment of Ambrose, Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam. With Acts of the synod of Piacenza, March 1095 (Urban II), chs. 1-14.
Description:
In Latin., Numerous pen and ink initials of good quality, 8- to 3-line, drawn in red. The initials are constructed of thick vine stems, divided in half and swelling at the ends, issuing sprouts of intertwining stylized foliage. On f. 10v the letter E is formed from a bird and its extended wing; on ff. 75r and 103r the initials terminate in animal heads. The most important initials, ff. 1v, 13r, 36v, 62r, 75r, 114r, 115v and 119v, are touched with patches of ochre and summary modelling in the same color. On f. 1v the continuation capitals are filled in with red and ochre. Plain initials and headings in red. Remains of instructions to the rubricator along outer edge perpendicular to text (e.g., ff. 119v, 120v)., and Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides that have been covered with tan paper; edges spattered blue-green. Two gold-tooled labels on spine, the first left blank and the lower one reading "Saecul XII". Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 159, and 197, also from the Cisterican abbey of Hautecombe.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. and Urban II, Pope, ca. 1042-1099.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Papal documents
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of homilies. Written as part (ff. 154-177) of a codex intended for recitation: a series of accents added in a contemporary hand act as an aid for pronunciation
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a late caroline minuscule., Plain initials, 2-line, in red and/or brown. Headings in red. Instructions for rubricator and guide letters., and Binding: Twentieth century. Half bound in black goatskin with black cloth sides and gold tooling on the spine, including: "Omelie" and "MS. Saec. XI".
Manuscript on parchment of Lucan's De bello civili (Pharsalia).
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various hands writing a small late Carolingian script. Folios 24v-25r have been erased, ruled again in lead and rewritten by a 13th century hand using Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; the top 10 lines of f. 41r appear to be rewritten over erasure by one of the main hands. Headings, explicits and incipits in display script heightened with red. Red heightening of the opening majuscules of the verses and of the paragraph marks., Lucan's De bello civili (Pharsalia). The text is incomplete due to the loss of two quires in the middle and two leaves at the end. Marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections date from the 12th-15th centuries. There are running headlines “I”, “II”, “III” etc. on the recto pages up to f. 56. The manuscript also contains a fictitious epitaph of Lucan., The manuscript contains two maps: (1) in the outer margin of f. 21v: schematic drawing coloured in red and yellow illustrating the fauces, lingua and cornua of the harbour of Brundisium; (2) in the outer margin of f. 87v: erased T-O map with the winds, uncoloured, illustrating the description of the world beginning., and Binding: English 19th century binding: brown leather over cardboard; on the spine the gold-tooled title “LUCANI / PHAR./ SALIA”. Marbled endleaves.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lucan, 39-65.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, Latin
