Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing Feria II throughout the year, lauds
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: the 2-line initial "S" at the beginning of the hymn is in olive-green, green, and red with white filigree and is filled with purple, blue, and red foliage decorated with white filigree; the initial is on a gold ground outlined in black and is surrounded by green, blue, and orange foliage that extends into the margin with gold balls; 1-line initials alternate blue and red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus flexus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment (thick, worn, repaired) of a Homiliary with sermons by various authors, spanning the liturgical year
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in well formed early caroline minuscule., Headings in majuscules, some in red rustic capitals (e.g., f. 11r); many omitted. A modern hand has often added names of authors. Plain 2-line initials in red or black., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides and red edges. There are three blackish green, gold-tooled labels on the spine: "Homeliae Usq./ Ad Domi. Post Natale/ Manuscr. Saecul. IX". Bound by the binder of Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 153, 158, 159 and 197, all of Hautecombe provenance.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799? and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Homiliaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
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".
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria (Rotunda), especially marked by the use of two forms of d (Uncial and Half-Uncial)., Headings in red. The decoration consists of (1) alternately gold and blue flourished initials, 1 line, within the text and in the Litany; the penwork is mauve with the gold initials, red with the blue ones; (2) dentelle initials, 2 lines, also used for "KL" in the Calendar; (3) decorated foliate initials, 5 lines, with full "Ferrarese" borders, painted at the beginning of the Hours from Lauds to Compline in the Hours of the Virgin; (4) large historiated initials, mostly 7 lines, at the opening of the various sections: f. 13r (Hours of the Virgin), Virgin with Child, full border with in its lower section a shield held by two putti; f. 93r (Penitential Psalms), King David in prayer, full border; f. 117v (Hours of the Cross), the Cross on a hill, two-margins border; f. 122r (Hours of the Holy Spirit), the Holy Spirit as a dove, two-margins border; f. 126r (Mass of the Virgin), a lily, full border., and Binding: Eighteenth century (?). Parchment checkered with green-gold motifs. On the spine red title-label with gold-tooled inscription "Manuscrit du XIIIe siecle".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, containing the text of a prophetic work concerning the Papal Schism. The text recounts a dream-vision Telephorus claims to have received on Easter morning of 1386, in which an angel directed him to research the causes of the Schism, to determine the identity of the true and false popes, and to prophesy the end of the schism. Telesphorus draws on and interprets escatological treatises by such authors as Joachim de Fiore and Johannes de Rupescissa, and predicts that the Italian antipope will be killed in Perugia in 1393, following which the crown of the Holy Roman Empire will be given to France
Description:
Telesphorus of Cosenza (active approximately 1360-1390) was the pseudonym of the author of a popular apocalyptic work of prophecy about the Papal Schism., In Latin., The volume opens with a dedicatory preface addressed to Antoniotto Adorno, doge of Genoa., Incipit: Libellus fr[atr]is thelofori p[re]sbiteri heremite...., Layout: single column, usually 37 lines., Script: Italian semigothic., Decoration: Rubricated with red penwork initials. Multiple illustrations on ff. 5,19r,19v,21r,22e,22v,24r,28v,31v and 32r, drawn in brown with ochre, red, blue and brown body colors and pale pink wash for flesh, depicting key events of the prophecy, including the battles with the various Anti-Christs, showing rulers, angels, demons, and the true and false popes., and Binding: 19th-century English full calf, heavily embossed with lattice pattern.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417.
Subject (Name):
Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365, Joachim, of Fiore, approximately 1132-1202, Telesphorus, of Cosenza., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Prophecies, Apocalyptic literature, Eschatology, Manuscripts, Medieval, Prophecy, and Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Augustinian Sermons, possibly from an Alan of Farfa Homiliary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff has dated to the first third of the ninth century., and Decoration: the homily begins with a 7-line decorated initial "F" outlined in brown and filled with orange, dark orange, ochre, and olive green; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubric written in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; a leaf has been drawn in red in the space between the columns on the verso.
