Manuscript fragment on portions of 2 parchment bifolios. Removed from a binding where it functioned as the pastedowns and the first and last flyleaves
Description:
In Latin., Script: Arts. 1-4, 8-15 written in uncial; arts. 5-7 in a pre-Caroline minuscule with prominent ascenders., Pen-drawn initials, touched with red, yellow, green, and/or orange occur for each art.; some incorporate a sawtooth pattern and fish motif. Heading for art. 8 in majuscules for first line (filled with yellow, red, green) and red uncials for second; remainder of headings in red uncials., Leaves damaged by pasting, cutting, and folding., and Boxed.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary written by the 12th- and 13th-century Lambach-based scribe Gottschalk. Among other items it contains: Epiphany (6 January); St. Agatha (5 February); St. Scholastica (10 February); Chair of St. Peter (22 February); St. Gregory (12 March); Annunciation (25 March); Maundy Thursday, compline; Good Friday; Easter; Exaltation of the Cross (14 September); St. Thomas (21 December); and St. Andrew (30 November).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by Gottschalk, a scribe at Lambach in the twelfth and early thirteenth century., and Decoration: the responsorial liturgy of most feasts begins with a 3- to 5-line initial in red with red vine-stem decoration and violet bands and foliage drawn by Gottschalk; three historiated initials of a trumpeter, Prophet Isaiah, and Gregory the great; 1-line red capitals are present in many antiphons as are 1-line initials of responses in thick brown uncials traced or dotted with red; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; tonary letters are written in the outer margin of each folio drawn on tiers of a column representing architectural support.
Manuscript on parchment of Gradual, with masses from the second Sunday after Easter through the 13th Sunday after Pentecost, omitting Ascension and Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by one scribe in round liturgical gothic script., Initial on f. 1v (2 lines + 2 staves high) made of cadeaux, with gold paint sloppily applied. Other initials 1 line + 1 staff, same style, in black or red, with or without gold. Square notes on 5-line red staves. Headings in red., Water has caused red ink to run on many folios; no loss of text. Some repairs in margins with pieces of coarse parchment., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in brown calf, gold-tooled, with blue cloth sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing among other items: St. Ambrose (4 April); Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (14 April); St. George (23 April); St. Boniface (5 June); Sts. Primus and Felician (9 June).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: the 3- and 4-line initials at the beginning of Masses are in two styles: several initials are composed of hollow intertwining vines in red outline on a blue and green background; other initials are plain red square capitals; 1-line initials are in thick brown square capitals; 1-line initials of Psalm incipits are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; liturgical directions are in brown rustic capitals as are the first few words of each mass; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes are in the St. Gall style; liturgical notes have been written in the morgin of fol. 3v in a fifteenth-century cursive gothic hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing: the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost; the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost; the fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line Mass initials are in red square capitals; 1-line initial "A" of Alleluias is in red; other 1-line initials are in brown square capitals; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; the first line of each Mass is written in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; a later hand has added reference numbers in Roman numerals over the abbreviated chants.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing: Letania maior; Mass for the Dead; and Holy Saturday
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials are in red and green; 1-line initials of Kyries and of antiphons on fol. 1 are in red; 1-line initials of hymn verses and of chants on fol. 1v are in brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; interlinear neumes are in the St. Gall style.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual in Latin with rubrics partially in Dutch containing the Vigil of St. Andrew (29 November) and St. Andrew (30 November).
Description:
In Latin and Dutch., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 4-line historiated initial "D" in blue on a dark red ground bordered with gold; the initial, of workshop quality and badly rubbed and damaged by water, shows Christ standing on the shore with Andrew and Peter in a boat; the extant margins on the recto are decorated with blue and gold vines from which come pink, green, and gold flowers; rubrics written in red in a less formal script than the text; punctuated with the punctus; words and syllables are separated by horizontal strokes in red; the foliation is written in red in the center of the upper margin of the recto.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing the Fourth Sunday of Advent; the decorations have been added in modern times
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata), with musical notation in black on a four-line staff in red., and Decoration: the parchment and writing appear to be from the sixteenth century, but the decoration was added in modern times; there is a 2-line initial "U" in blue, green, and purple on a gold ground and containing the figure of an angel striking a tambourine; foliage decorations in the same colors as the initial extend from the initial into the left margin; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing the Second and Third Sundays after Easter
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: one 4-line initial "I", the body of which is divided into three columns of blue, blue-grey, and light brown, each column decorated with a different pattern of white filigree; the first letter of the rubric is a blue uncial with red penwork, and the rest of the rubric is written in red; punctuated with the punctus; musical notation is in black on 4-line staves in red.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual in part containing: Ascension; Sunday after Ascension; Vigil of Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 3-line initials in red; "D" in square capital and "E" in uncial; 1-line initials are either red square capitals or brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red, usually as rustic capitals; punctuated with punctus placed on the bottom line at the end of chants; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; numbered cues added in red above all abbreviated chants; rubrics in red miniscule.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants)