Manuscript fragment, on vellum, in a single hand, of Book III, verses 1717-1913, of this long narrative poem
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: double columns of 49 lines., Script: cursive English bookhand., and Decoration: two initials in burnished gold on colored grounds, with foliate sprays.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Augustine's Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium ccxxiv
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by Gottschalk, a monk from the abbey of Lambach, Austria, whose hand appears in of other manuscripts, including Beinecke MS 481.51., and Decoration: In the upper left corner of the verso is a faint sketch of a cat (or possibly a wolf or lion), probably contemporary with the manuscript; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an unidentified chronicle of Venetian history
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: not present. Spaces for capitals and rubrics left blank., and Bifolia later used as archival wrappers.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, of an unidentified philosophical text, heavily glossed in a different, smaller hand
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 16 lines. Very wide margins for glossing., Script: main text in gothica textualis quadrata; marginal gloss in littera glossularis., and Decoration: rubricated. Small initials and paraphs in red ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium of an unidentified text that discusses the nature of man's hereditas (christus est hereditas nostra) and the distinction between serui boni and serui mali (perhaps referring to Luke 12:42?); text appears to be continuous
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in upright Visigothic minuscule., Traces of small, 2-line, decorative initial and rubric on f. 1r. Otherwise, text on this folio virtually illegible., and Removed from a binding: ff. 1r and 2v much damaged with loss of text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Catenae, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
