Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an antiphonal, containing parts of the offices for the first Tuesday and the second Sunday in Lent
Description:
In Latin., Script: late caroline minuscule with protogothic features., Decoration: rubricated. Large initials in red., and Musical notation (neumes) above the lines of text; no staves.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of 2 leaves from an Advent Sunday antiphonal
Description:
In Latin., Script: praegothica handwriting with Southern features. Notation on four-line staves, marked with letter keys. Headings in bold Uncial. Headings, versals and plain initials in red., and Fragments from an antiphonary, including the first Sunday of Advent and the Feast of St. Lucia (December 13). A bifolium; between the two leaves an unknown number of folios is missing.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Advent music, Antiphonaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Music
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156
Published / Created:
[between 1100 and 1150]
Call Number:
Marston MS 112
Image Count:
156
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (thick, end pieces; ff. 7v-8v palimpsest) of 1) Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarium. 2) Honorius Augustodunensis, Inevitabile, beginning of the first version. 3) Unidentified moral sentences
Description:
In Latin., Script: Folios 1r-7r written in late caroline minuscule (portions of text retraced); the underscript of the palimpsest on ff. 7v-8v was also written in caroline minuscule. Folios 7v-72v written in inelegant Beneventan script., Plain red initials, f. 1r-v; modest black initials filled with red, ff. 24v, 48r, 68v, 71v. Majuscules touched with red throughout., Upper edge of book block damaged, with some loss of text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries, Italy. Rigid vellum case with traces of title (upside down) on spine. Edges daubed red and green.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156.
Subject (Topic):
Christian education, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
