Manuscript fragment on parhcment of a south German lectionary including weekday readings concerning the Easter season
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., Decoration: 1-line initials in brown uncials with occasional square capital forms, frequently filled with dark red ink; rubics in dark red square capitals mixed with uncial and minuscule forms; punctuation consisting of punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus., and Former call numbers: Beinecke MS 482.10 (f. 1).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a lectionary containing: portions of John 2; Exodus 32; and John 7.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff has dated to the third quarter of the ninth century and attributed to Freising., and Decoration: 4-line initials at the beginning of lessons are written in red square capitals; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; the first three words of each lesson are written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a lectionary containing: Lamentations 9 and Hebrews 6.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: two 3-line initials outlined in brown; 1-line capitals are in brown rustic capitals; Hebrew words in Lamentations are written in rustic capitals; interlinear neumes for the lessons from Lamentations were added later; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf (cut in halves in the middle of the height) of Passion of St. Terentianus, bishop of Todi (1 Sept.).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Beneventan script., Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in red and yellow. 5-line initials in same colours., Stained with paste. The outer edge is heavily trimmed and 8 rectangular cuttings have caused important text losses in the outer column., and Used in a binding. On the top of the verso, in the middle and at the bottom of the leaf the offset of texts written on a flyleaf (?) of the binding from which the fragments were taken [to be read with a mirror]. In the inner margin of the same verso is an undeciphered 19th-century inscription.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a passionary containing two lives of St. Cassian
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Beneventan script., and Decoration: the Prudentius life is written in poetic stanzas; six-line decorated initial is outlined in brown; 1-line initials are brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Origen, Peri Archon (De principiis), translated into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia (345-410).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Caroline minuscule; corections added by a late 14th or early 15th century hand; an undeciphered annotation added by a modern hand., and Decoration: 1-line capitals in brown uncials; punctuation includes the punctus.
Manuscript on two fragments of a single parchment leaf, now crudely patched together in their original format. Contains lines of text from a Prayer "ad clericum faciendum"; Antiphon and Psalm; Part of an "ordinatio monachi"; and Prayer "ad barbas tonendas". The manuscript presumably originated in one of the episcopal seats of the period and perhaps in one of the monastic cathedrals
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a fine, large Anglo-Saxon square minuscule with headings, in red square capitals (mostly faded)., and Removed from a binding; numerous sections spotted and discolored.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Cathedrals, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pontificals