Manuscript on parchment of Capitularies of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious compiled by Ansegisus in 827. With Capitularies of Charles the Bald; and List of Frankish kings from Faramund to Philip II (1180).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in fine Carolingian minuscule primarily by two scribes. Scribe 1: ff. 1v-42v; Scribe 2: ff. 43r-96r, 98r-102r., Eleven large decorative initials (5- to 13-line) of very good quality in gold, green, red, and white, of the style usually associated with the school of Rheims. The initials are constructed of broad outlines in green which are decorated with unburnished gold (partly rubbed) and bordered with red. The letters terminate in interlace knots and animal heads. Empty spaces within the initials are filled with interlace grids of stylized foliage in unburnished gold laid on greenish ground. The stems of the most important initials (ff. 3r, 8v, 28v, 55r, 67r, 83r, 98r) are decorated with white interlace designs on red grounds., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges spattered red. Brown spattered calf, blind-tooled. Remains of paper label on spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and France
Subject (Name):
Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814., Charles II, King of France, 823-877., and Louis I, Emperor, 778-840.
Subject (Topic):
Law |z France, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified commentary on Galatians
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule with archaic features such as half-uncial "g", "rt" ligature, and occasionally half-uncial "a"., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown uncials with an enlarged minuscule "e"; punctuated with the punctus for major pauses and the punctus elevatus for minor pauses.
Manuscript on parchment of portions of Saint Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis, copied probably in Canterbury or Worcester. With glosses in Anglo-Saxon added between 950 and 1000, which may be of Kentish origin
Description:
In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., Script: Written by two scribes, Scribe 1, ff. 1r-9v: a vigorous and well spaced Anglo-Saxon minuscule; preference for minuscule d; strokes of letters often extend well into margin at end of line. Scribe 2, ff. 10r-26v: slightly cramped hand; preference for uncial d. Anglo-Saxon glosses added by several hands either in small upward-leaning Caroline minuscule or in a somewhat larger script that uses insular letter-forms., Decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, in black surrounded by red dots; smaller initials, 2- to 1-line, in red, often with traces of yellow. Letters, stroked with red, many now oxidized; occasional punctuation in red., Folios 8, 9, and 22 have been used as wrappers; mutilated with loss of text. Significant water damage on ff. 19r-20v, 26r; rewritten by later scribe., and Binding: ca. 1850. Olive paper case with "Middle Hill boards," bound by George Bretherton of Gloucester who worked for Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1848-51.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., English literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium. Conjugate leaves originally from the same manuscript as Beinecke MS 401. Stitching holes in center of bifolium; outer margins trimmed with some loss of text
Description:
In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., For the script see MS 401; MS 401A was written by Scribe 2., and Decorative T on f. 2r, black initial surrounded by red dots.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., English literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval