Manuscript fragment on parchment of canticles from a breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in large gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line lesson initials in red; 1-line verse initials in red; rubrics in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; line fillers following rubrics in red.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Canticles, and Breviaries
Manuscript fragment on parchment of capitula, possibly from a breviary containing among others: Capitula for sext of Pentecost; Capitula for an unidentified office; capitula for unidentified Feria II-VI; capitula for an unidentified Saturday; Capitula from Isaiah 33.2 and Romans 10.13.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule bordering on early gothic., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red; rubrics written in red minuscule; the rubrics on fol. 2r are in a fifteenth-century hand; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; accents are in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment. Copied in the Charterhouse Val de Benediction (Vallis Benedictionis) at Villeneuve-les-Avignon
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in small Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., All important illuminated leaves missing. Headings in red. Yellow heightening of the majuscules. 1-line flourished initials alternately red and blue. Numerous 2-line flourished initials in the same colours. 3-line dentelle initials with partial floral borders in gold (on f. 56r with bar-shaped extensions, on f. 57v no border)., The manuscript is heavily mutilated, some leaves are out of order and many (presumably all illuminated) leaves are cut out., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Light-brown leather over pasteboard; the covers gold-tooled with floral border and centre-piece. Gold-tooled spine with four raised bands. One large modern silver clasp attached to rear cover. Edges gilt and gauffered.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carthusians. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Noted Breviary (Nocturnale) containing a portion of a chant for an undisclosed office; St. Nicholas (6 December), from vespers to the first nocturn of matins; St. Nicholas, the first nocturn of matins; Office of St. Ulric, from vespers to the first nocturn of matins; Office of St. Afra (9 August), from the first to the second nocturn of matins with lessons from the Vita S. Afrae; Office of St. Gall (16 October), third nocturn of matins
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: written in two sizes, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger script for the lessons; drawing of a face with the words " Vita S. Uodalrici episcopi et confessoris" in brown ink; 2-line initial "V" at the beginning of the office on f. 2r is a red square capital; 1- and 2-line initials of lessons are in red uncials or square capitals; 1-line chant initials are brown uncials; rubrics written in red capitals; punctuated with the punctus for end of chants and punctus elevatus for lessons; antiphons and responses have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing the Office of the Dead with lessons from Augustine, Sermon 173
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger one for the lessons; by the same scribe who copied the psalter preserved in Beinecke MS 481.46., and Decoration: 3-line initial on f. 1v in orange that has been filled with crude, brown cross-hatching, perhaps later; 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in orange square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in orange minuscules with rustic capitals; punctuated with punctus in chants and punctus and punctus elevatus within lessons; chants have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; marginal notation in a contemporary hand on 3r.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Catholic Church
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing: Second Sunday of Advent; Feria II of the second week of Advent; and Feria III of the second week of Advent
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of late Caroline minuscule with a smaller script for the chants and a larger one for the lessons., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics are written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; accents have been added by a later hand; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing the Assumption of Mary (15 August).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger one for the lessons., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red square capitals; 1-line initials at the beginning of chants are in brown rustic capitals dotted or highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red rustic capitals except for the homily rubric which is partially in minuscule; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; the name "maria" has been supplied twice on the recto by a later hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing excerpts from Augustine's De sermone domini in monte, a lesson from Matthew 7, and an undetermined office for St. Apollinaris
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a larger script for the lessons and hymn and a smaller script for the antiphons and responses., and Decoration: on fol. 1v there are decorated initials "I" (7-line) and "F" (8-line), outlined in orange and colored with green and yellow ; 1- and 2-line initials are orange uncials; 1-line initials within the hymn are a mixture of orange uncials and rustic capitals; rubrics are written in orange minuscule; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; accents and diacritical marks over double "i" by later hands.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing Ascension, from vespers to the first nocturn of matins with lessons from Leo Magnus' Tractatus septem et nonaginta
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: written in two sizes, a smaller module for the chants and a larger one for the lessons; 2-line initials are in red square capitals; 1-line initials in brown square capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with punctus in chants and the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus within the lessons; accents in same ink as the text; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.