Manuscript fragment on parchment of a homiliary containing: Sermon on Fasting and Almsgiving for Quadragesima based on Augustine, Sermon 210; Sermon on Fasting and Almsgiving for Quadragesima based on Caesarius, Sermo 199
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in pre-Caroline minuscule, dated by Bernhard Bischoff to the first third of the ninth century and attributed to southeastern Germany., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown uncials, with rustic capital "E"; punctuated with the punctus, punctus versus, and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a southern German homiliary from the Carolingian period
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Caroline minuscule; the letters have been almost entirely retraced due to (perhaps 11th century) water damage., Decoration: 2-line intials in brown uncials; some highlighting in red; traces of a rubric between the two sermons; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus versus, and punctus elevatus., and Another copy of this homilary is found in Beinecke MSS 482.4 and 484.2.