Manuscript fragment on parchment of Vergil's Aeneid containing portions of Books 2 and 3, including a section of the Pseudo-Ovidian Prologue to Book 3.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: a portion of the initial "P" of Book 3 is preserved, written in red; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses are in brown in a mixture of rustic capital and uncial forms; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary, containing Antiphons for the week of Septuagesima; Sexagesima, first vespers to second vespers; Quinquagesima, from vespers to the first nocturn of matins
Description:
In Latin, Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initial "Q" on f. 1v in red; 1-line initials in brown capitals with uncial M and an enlarged minuscule e; rubrics written in red minuscule, with occasional use of uncial M; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; punctuated with punctus placed on the base line; cross-shaped "+" mark in brown ink on f. 1r.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing among other items: Epiphany; first through fourth Sundays after Epiphany; and Psalm responsories for use between Epiphany and Septuagesima
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials at the beginning of responses are in square capitals in thick brown ink dotted or filled with orange; 1-line initials at the beginning of antiphons and verses are brown rustic capitals highlighted with orange; rubrics are written in orange rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes for chants with full texts are in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing among other items: various Feria from Quadragesima; Saturday of the first week of Quadragesima; and Second Sunday of Quadragesima
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: on fol. 1v, there are portions of a 3-line square capital "T" in orange; initials of the antiphons beginning feriae IV and VI are 1-line rustic capitals in orange; initials of responses and of the antiphon beginning feria V are thick brown uncials filled with red; other 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; rubrics are written in orange rustic capitals; liturgical directions are written in brown minuscule highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes for chants with full text are in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: Sts. Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus (6 August); St. Laurence (10 August); Assumption of the Virgin (15 August).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of responsorial liturgy are in red square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capital with uncial forms of "M" and round forms of "E" and sometimes "D"; rubrics are written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus (rare); interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment from a breviary or antiphonary, with musical notation above the texts without staves. The recto text is in late Caroline minuscule and the music is notated in Hufnagel neumes. The verso text is in transitional protogothic and music is in letter notation in the style of Saint Gall. Neither text has been identified
Description:
In Latin., Script: recto: late Caroline minuscule. Verso: transitional protogothic., and Decoration: recto: small capitals in red ink. Verso: Small capitals and letter musical notation in red ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of portions of the biblical book of Genesis, chapter 27.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials written in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; some of which a later hand has altered to the punctus elevatus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical books of portions of the biblical books of Isaiah and Galatians
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Carolina minuscule., Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus., and Condition: severely damaged from binding use.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of the biblical book of Leviticus containing chapters 22-24.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; accents are in the same ink as the text; chap. 23 begins with the number "lxxvi" in red.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Sirach
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: there are three plain 2-line initials in red; 1-line initials are brown filled with red and a mixture of uncial and rustic capital forms; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing: Feria VI after Pentecost; Saturday after Pentecost; Octave of Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of late Caroline minuscule with a smaller script for the responses and a larger script for the lessons., and Decoration: 2-line initials are in orange-red square capitals; 1-line initials are in orange-red square capitals; other 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in orange-red, which has oxidized in places; punctuated with punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation in same ink as text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, from a breviary, containing readings for the 24th Sunday after Trinity Sunday. With neumes written above the text without staves
Description:
In Latin., Script: protogothic., and Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red ink.
Manuscript fragments on parchment, from a breviary, containing the beginning of the Divine Office series for the Sundays after Pentecost. With Saint Gall neumes
Description:
In Latin., Script: protogothic., and Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red ink.
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 fragment on parchment of Jerome's Commentaria in Ezechielem
Description:
In Latin, Script: written in late Carolina minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; two words in Greek majuscules with a line drawn above them; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; double quotation marks in the outer margin of the recto.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a commentary on Priscian's Institutiones Grammaticae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule in a minute, highly abbreviated scholastic hand., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown; the lemmata are set apart from the preceding commentary by paragraph marks in brown; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Boethius' De syllogismo categorico and De differentiis topicis
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a highly abbreviated, late Caroline script., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of each section are red; 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; the explicit is written in brown rustic capitals with some use of uncial and minuscule forms; there are nine diagrams, one outlined in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript on parchment (one bifolium, one fragment) of 1) Hermannus Contractus, De utilitatibus astrolabii, text of bifolium not continuous. 2) Hermannus Contractus, Liber de mensura astrolabii, Book 1, portions of chs. 5-6. Annotated by several contemporary hands
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in romanesque minuscule verging on gothic bookhand., Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, headings and horizontal lines for chart in orange. Diagram of dial on f. 2r; star chart on f. 3v., and Bifolium used as a wrapper for a book numbered "5311".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hermannus, Contractus, 1013-1054.
Subject (Topic):
Astrolabes, Astronomy, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
