The offset on f. 53v of an elaborately decorated border for the opening leaf of the office of St. Felicitas suggests that the codex was originally produced for an institution associated with this saint.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the end of Te deum in a Gradual. The colophon is signed by the scribe, Jacobellus de Salerno. With an additional leaf.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment (thick, worn, repaired) of a Homiliary with sermons by various authors, spanning the liturgical year.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides and red edges. There are three blackish green, gold-tooled labels on the spine: "Homeliae Usq./ Ad Domi. Post Natale/ Manuscr. Saecul. IX". Bound by the binder of Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 153, 158, 159 and 197, all of Hautecombe provenance., Headings in majuscules, some in red rustic capitals (e.g., f. 11r); many omitted. A modern hand has often added names of authors. Plain 2-line initials in red or black., Imperfect: incomplete, mutilated with loss of text., and Script: Written by several scribes in well formed early caroline minuscule.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy and Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?
Subject (Topic):
Homiliaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of homilies. Written as part (ff. 154-177) of a codex intended for recitation: a series of accents added in a contemporary hand act as an aid for pronunciation
Alternative Title:
Omelie
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Half bound in black goatskin with black cloth sides and gold tooling on the spine, including: "Omelie" and "MS. Saec. XI"., Plain initials, 2-line, in red and/or brown. Headings in red. Instructions for rubricator and guide letters., Purchased in 1956 from Arthur Rau of Paris by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1958 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a late caroline minuscule.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Homiliaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Lessons for the sanctorale from Saturninus through Catharine, including many Franciscan feasts. 2) Bull of canonization of Bernardinus of Siena, ending defectively. 3) Lessons for the common of saints and for the anniversary of a dedication of a church.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled. Five very small, round bosses on each board and two fastenings. Rebacked. Pastedowns and flyleaves are conjugate leaves from a gradual (Italy, 16th century): front pastedown hidden under bookplates; front flyleaf with parts of the third Christmas mass and the rubric for Circumcision; back flyleaf with part of the first Christmas mass; back pastedown with parts of the mass of Epiphany., One 9-line initial, f. 1r, St. Saturninus holding an open book and martyr's palm, three-quarter length in front of trees and sky, dark blue with white filigree; purple foliage against a gold ground edged in black, with curling purple, green, and gold foliage extending into margin. Full border, framed in blue and gold, with three roundels in lower margin, right and left, hour glasses with scrolls with the motto "Pan. se. de. moi.", center, a coat of arms (barry of 6, sable and argent; overall a bend or). In upper margin, at right, a smaller roundel with a duck; at center, a Greek cross in gold, on purple; each framed in gold with blue or purple. Some foliage, as in initial, in center outer margin; border otherwise filled with blue and purple flowers with red and green centers, symmetrically disposed with smaller blue, purple, and green flowers, blue, purple, red and gold dots and fine spiralling vines in light brown. 2-line initials throughout, red or blue with blue or red penwork, with flourishes. 1-line red or blue paragraph marks. Rubrics throughout., and Script: Written by one person in round gothic bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Padua (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment (thick, good quality), composed of four parts. Although all four parts may be roughly contemporary in execution, they apparently were not assembled together as a "missal" until the 15th century, at which point the manuscript was annotated and cross-referenced from beginning to end; it is possible that only the lectionary and sacramentary in Part IV were originally intended to be used together.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Quarter bound in brown calf, blind-tooled, over wooden board. Metal fittings at the head and tail of the leather and two fastenings., Elegant repairs to parchment sewn with blue and chartreuse thread (e.g., f. 27). Most of the leaves of Part III have been repaired., Part I: KL monograms, in red, embellished with knobs. Part II: Eleven large initials, 12- to 6-line, drawn in red and/or brown ink against geometric grounds of blue and lime-green washes. The initials are constructed of dragons and other fantastic animals, or of stylized foliage inhabited by biting beasts and birds. Plain initials in blue, red or lime-green, some with blue and/or red penwork designs, others with knobs. Major headings in majuscules with letters alternating red, black, and sometimes lime green; other headings in red. Instructions to rubricator perpendicular to text. Part III: The decoration of the Canon of the Mass consists of a 3/4-page miniature of the crucifixion, f. 60r, framed with a narrow border of olive green, red and blue with white filigree. Christ is shown hanging from a Y-shaped Astkreuz flanked by Mary and St. John, against gold ground. The gold ground is largely rubbed and the figures are partly restored (lower part of St. John's robe has been reworked, and flaked paint on the cross and Christ's loin cloth replaced). Marginal illustration of what appears to be a kneeling Augustinian canon dressed in white and red robes, adjoining the Te igitur (f. 60v). Three illuminated initials, ff. 58r, 59v, 60v, for the Canon of the Mass, 7- to 5-line, pale mauve with stylized scrolls and green foliage against gold ground edged in blue with white filigree. Vere dignum initials, 3-line, alternate in red and blue with penwork in either blue or red. Part IV: Pen-and-ink initials, 7- to 4-line, of a similar design as in Part II, but lacking the vitality; drawn in brown and/or red ink with stylized foliage and palmettes sometimes touched with blue or red against blue, red and/or lime-green ground. Smaller initials, 4-line, red, blue or green with red and/or green penwork design. Plain initials in red. Headings in red. Instructions for rubricator perpendicular to text., and Script: Part I (ff. 2-8): Text of calendar written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe; many later additions in several hands. Part II (ff. 9-56): Written in gothic bookhand, with additions in several different hands in less formal styles of writing. Musical notation consists of Austrian adiastematic neumes in the same ink as the text. Part III (ff. 57-64): Written in large liturgical gothic bookhand. Part IV (ff. 65-276): Written in gothic bookhand; several layers of marginalia added in less formal hands.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals
Blanks between ff. 62-63 [4],112-113 [3] not included in modern foliation. Not digitized. and Water staining at top edge. Some discoloration but minimal loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals
