Manuscript fragment on parchment of Alan of Farfa, Homily I.87 (Vigil of Palm Sunday) and Homily I.88 (Maundy Thursday).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; corrections added in dark ink by a contemporary hand; annotations identifying biblical passages and Augustine's tractates added in pencil by a modern hand., and Decoration: 4-line initial "P" in brown and red on f. 2r; 1-line intials in brown uncials; rubric in red uncials; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and the punctus interrogativus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of St. Augustine, In Iohannis Evangelium (Tractus cxxiv), wherein the numbers given to the tractates are one less than those given in the edition (which is perhaps the result of scribal error or perhaps reflective of alternative content within this manuscript).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; annotations added by modern hands., and Decoration: 4-line initial "I," in orange with foliate ornamentation, beginning Tractus 36; 2-line initial "A" in a similar style; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubrics in orange rustic capitals; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, punctus interrogativus, and the punctus flexus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Bede's In Matthaei evangelium expositio
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule with a mixture of pre-Caroline and Caroline forms of "a"., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals with occasional use of uncial "m" and "e"; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, 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
Basil Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Published / Created:
[between 890 and 910].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 481.3
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of St. Basil of Caesarea, Regula ad Monachos (translated into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Visigothic minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials in brown uncials with occasional red-orange filling; 1-line initials in brown uncials; chapter headings in a script with both Visigothic and uncial elements; punctuated with puncti (occaionally, punctus elevatus).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Basil Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. and Rufinus,