Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ḥullin, which covers a discussion of mutual exclusion, the father's responsibility for his minor daughter, levirate marriage obligations, when the ram's horn (shofar) is blown, and when the separation (havdalah) prayer is said at the end of a festival
Description:
In Aramaic and Hebrew., Script: written in semi-cursive script., and 1 column. 26 lines. Dry-point ruling.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Casus Breves Decretalium Gregorii IX, which is closely related to Bernard of Parma's Casus longi super quinque libros decretalium; the commentary paraphrases Bernard but is much more abbreviated
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a small, highly abbreviated gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: there are guide letters and space for rubrics and initials but none have been added; a fourteenth-century hand has added some rubrics in brown in a cursive gothic script; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a charter of Gregory IX mandating Franciscan friars be received charitably
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in chancery script., and Decoration: large initial "G" and 1-line capitals are in brown; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; the rope for the seal is at the bottom of the document; there are no chancery marks or signatures under the fold.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a copy of a judician decision concerning Jacobus the bishop of Senigallia and the monasteries of S. Iohannes peneclaria and S. Iacobus in burgo, both in Ancona
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in notarial script by the notary Johannes, son of Julianus., and Decoration: The document begins with a flourished initial "I"; 1-line initials are in brown; the notary's sign is in the center of the lower margin; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of some decretales of Gregory IX.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: there are guide letters for initials at the beginning of each capitulum, but the initials have not been added; 1-line initials are in red; the heading of titulus VI is written in red; punctuated with the punctus; paragraph marks are in red ink, brackets in brown; corrections have been made by several contemporary hands.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Justinian's Digesta with the glossa ordinaria commentary of Accursius
Alternative Title:
Digesta
Description:
In Latin., Script: text of the Digest in a rounded gothic script (littera textualis), that of the commentary in a smaller hand (notularis), perhaps later., and Decoration: initials of the names of authorities alternate 1- and 2-line red and blue capitals; the first word of each section begins with a 1-line capital alternating red and blue; guide letters for both initials are written in light brown ink; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Law, Medieval, and Law, Roman
Manuscript fragments on parchment of John 1:1-14 and 13:33-35.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule with some later forms and chancery influence., and John 1:1-14. Noticeable spellings and variants: “comprenderunt” (“comprehenderunt”), “misus” (“missus”), “periberet” and “perhiberet”, “cotquot”,“ex voluptate” (“ex voluntate”). John 13:33-35. In 13:34 the words “ut et vos diligatis invicem” are missing. From a modern note accompanying the present leaf it was used in the binding of a copy of Iohannes Fontanus (Jean Fontaine, 16th century), Hortulus puerorum pergratus ac perutilis latine discentibus.
Parchment fragments of an antiphonary, including two strophes of the hymn "Sancte Dei pretiose / Protomartyr Stephane", and the end of the hymn "Te Deum laudamus."
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by a single scribe in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda), using Uncial and Half-Uncial d. The colophon and the colophon formula on f. 2r are in a small Gothica Cursiva Formata (Cancelleresca)., Red rubrics. Alternately red and blue flourished initials, with respectively blue and red penwork, in two sizes: the smaller ones reaching to the third line of the accompanying stave, the large ones to the top line of the accompanying stave. The writing, musical notation and illumination are by the scribe and miniaturist Iacobellus Muriolus de Salerno, whose first product this is according to the colophon., and Manuscript fragment on parchment of the end of "Te deum" in a Gradual, as well as two strophes of the hymn "Sancte Dei pretiose / Protomartyr Stephane." The colophon is signed by the scribe, Jacobellus de Salerno. With an additional leaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Graduals (Liturgical books), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a judicial decision emanating from the podesta of Trento, Riprandus Otonis Rici, by order of Bishop Aldricus of Trento concerning easement of a stable
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in notarial script by Rolandinus., and Decoration: at the opening of the document there is a design in brown ink resembling a chalice; a cross stands above the entire document; the initial "E" of the notary's signature is a 2-line square-shaped capital in black ink decorated with dots; punctuated with the punctus and, at the end of the document, the punctus versus.
