Manuscript, on parchment, of two leaves of a Bible, containing Deuteronomy 30:9-32:6 and 32:12-34:12.
Description:
In Latin., Layout: two columns of 28 lines., Script: Anglo-Saxon minuscule., Decoration: well-formed initial 'a' embodying two animal heads, partially colored in red and blue., and With a thirteenth or fourteenth inscription on one of the leaves, "Iste liber est de armario Sarr".
Manuscript fragments, on parchment, of an English Bible. The bound volume consists of 75 leaves containing the complete texts of the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles and Hebrews. The disbound fragment consists of 62 leaves of Old Testament texts, including most of Jeremiah and Proverbs, most of Zachariah, and 1 and 2 Machabees
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: rubricated. The volume contains 39 illuminated marginal initials, many with long marginal extensions incorporating animals or monsters. The disbound leaves contain several smaller initials. Some illuminated initials, and some leaves that most likely contained illuminated initials, appear to have been cut out in the disbound leaves., and Binding: seventeenth-century Cambridge-style paneled calf, blind-tooled; rebacked.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Matthew, containing portions of chapter 25 (Parable of the Talents).
Description:
In Latin., Decoration: initials in red., Script: written in an unidentified script., and Contained in Zi +237 (Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulcri, Commentarii in Valerium Maximum), in which the fragment has been used as a spine support.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Sirach; the text includes the headings for chapters LXXXII through LXXXVII
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3- to 7-line initials are red uncials; 1-line initials are black uncials; chapter headings are written in red minuscule in a larger module; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation added by a later hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Matthew 20.14-22.10; 25.11-28.20, with glossa ordinaria ending: qui diuina mansione sint. Crayon notes throughout in an unskilled hand, now mostly erased
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in fine carolingian minuscule of two sizes, the smaller script with tall ascenders; marginalia added in several later hands., and Binding: Twentieth century. Plain vellum wrapper.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Book of Numbers (begins imperfectly at 5.14) with glossa ordinaria
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in two sizes of Carolingian minuscule., and Binding: Twentieth century. Vellum case with brown paper sides.
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.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand: a leaf from the table of readings at the beginning or end of a Wycliffite New Testament. The text is from the Sanctoral, from the feast of the Purifcation to the feast of St. Mark
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 36 lines., Script: small gothic bookhand., Decoration: headings in red, capitals in red and blue., and Binding: Inlaid into a large paper leaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
