Manuscript document, Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Decoration: Initials, rubrication, and flourishes in red and blue., Binding: Disbound; leaf trimmed affecting annotations., Lettering: Textura.
Manuscript document, Collation: Parchment., Decoration: Initials in blue and gold, with red and purple flourishing, and red, blue, and gold line decoration., Binding: Disbound., Lettering: Written in a Gothic hand.
This bifolium preserves two pages of a liturgical Pentateuch, or humash, containing the Hebrew Masoretic text and the Aramaic translation of the Targum, alternating verse by verse, with the grammatical notes of the Masora parva between the columns. Despite the losses sustained from its later use as binding scrap, this item is mostly intact., Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single sheet of 2 leaves (4 pages)., Origin: Germany?, Layout: Double column, 34 lines., Script: written in a square script., Decoration: None., Annotations: A few marginal notations and a line of text in Italian in a later hand., Disbound; manuscript binding waste recovered from a binding and therefore quite browned and with the text on the one side of the sheet obscured (but legible) by binder's glue; small losses to the gutter and the corners filled with modern paper.
Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger. Music in neumatic notation. Numerous small holes in leaf, some affecting text and music., Folio is written on a palimpsest. The previous text has not been identified. Given the similar script running horizontal, it may be assumed that the parchment was reused soon after removal of previous text. Content: Recto – Starting from S: “Si diligitis me mandata mea servate alleluya alleluya alleluya.” Starting from E: “Ego sum via veritas et vita nemo venit ad patrem nisi per me alleluya.” Both are from the Feast of Jacobi Phillipi for Lauds. Verso – Starting from S: “Si manseritis in me et verba mea in vobis manserint quodcumque petieritis fiet vobis alleluia alleluia alleluia.” From Feast of Jacobi Phillipi for Second Vespers. Starting from O: “O crux splendidor cunctis astris mundi celebris hominibus multum amabilis…” From Feast of Inventio Crucis for Vespers., Collation: single sheet., Origin: Italy., Lettering: Written in Italian Gothic Rotunda., Decoration: Recto: lightly decorated S in blue and E in red. Text is in black. Lines of music are in red, with the music notes in black. Some smaller text is in red. Some bar lines and letters have yellow pigment fill. Verso: Lightly decorated S in blue and O in red. Most of the smaller text is in black but some in red. Music lines in red and music notes in black., Binding: Disbound.
Manuscript codex. Prologus, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri, Deuteronomiu, Iosue, Iudicu, Ruth, Regu I, II, III, IV. Paralip I, II. Esdras I, II, III. Tobit, Iudith, Hester, Iob, Psalms. Parabole salomonis, Eclesiastes. Cantica, Sapientie, Ecclesiasticus, Ysayis, Iherentia, Lamtatios. Baruch, Ezechihel, Daniel, Osee, Ioel, Amos, Abdia, Ionas, Micheas, Naum, Abacuch, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zachaias, Malachias, Machabeor[um] I, II. Titum, Philemone, Hebraos, Actus, Iacobus, Petrus I, II. Iohannes I, II, III. Iude, Apocalipsis, Interpretations (Hebrew Names), Concordance or Subject Index., Decoration: Illuminated with large initials in gold paint (not leaf) and tarnished silver leaf, blue, red, and green with white tracery. Designs include human faces, grotesque animals, and interlaced vines and strapwork. Capital letters in red and blue. Text pages have runner in alternating letters of blue and red., Binding: Dark green morocco over boards, blind-stamped in diagonal mesh. Gold tooled paneling with corner fleurons inside covers. Deeply tooled gilt crest with monogram TW (Theodore Williams) on front cover; armorial design on back. On six-paneled spine: 'S. S. BIBLIA LATINA. CODEX ANTIQUUS. SUPRA MEMBRANIS'. Gilt and gauffered edges. Two flyleaves of newer, heavier parchment. Text has been trimmed., Script: Minute (1 mm high) Gothic script in brown ink with rubrication. The size is typical of the 13th century, versus the large works of the 12th century (per Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (1840-1929) in Introduction to Greek and Latin Paleography). Includes corrections by another scribe. The uncrossed '7' for 'et' indicates Italian origin. However, the script also shows French influence. The appearance of some rounded letterforms points to an early date for this manuscript showing its strong Carolingian influence., Origin: On the leaf before the MS. commences is a note in a 14th c. hand, 9 lines, in red and black, giving rules for finding the date of Easter from 1350 onward. Also on this leaf the 14th c. owner's name apparently appeared, but has been erased; there remains a note that the MS. cost him 19 florins...Also a further note for finding the date of Easter occurs on the last leaf...repeating the words 'mill'io C.C.C. quinquagesimo. This shows the book is earlier than 1350 (Thomas Thorp, bookseller, London).
Manuscript document, Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Decoration: Initials in red and blue; red paraph markings and running title; rubrication., Binding: Unbound., Lettering: Textura script.
Manuscript codex. Title devised by cataloger., No translation of the text has been made but it has been described as, A ritual, not very old. by Dr. Louis Ginzberg of the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1921. This work also contains psalms and hymns., Collation: Quarto in quires varying in number; I, III, V⁶; II, IV¹⁴; VI¹²;VII-XII¹⁰. Catchwords in bottom margin, folio numbers in pencil added later., Origin: Samaria, Mount Gerazim, Nablus, 19th Century. Date given as Ragab 1265, that is, March-April 1887., Script: Samaritan square hand. Intermittent rubrication in same Samaritan Square Hand with some red in Arabic. 118 leaves of text, 2 of index & notes., Decoration: Abecedarion of Samaritan into Arabic inside front cover. Various colophons with staggered rubrication., Binding: Original leather with oriental flap 203 x 165 mm rag paper pasted onto both covers.
Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Recto: lines 1-3 appear to be Luke 11:23, but slightly jumbled. Lines 4 – 10 are Ephesians 5:5. Lines 11-14 are Luke 11:24. The final three lines are Ephesians 5:8 and the beginning of 5:9. Verso: Verso – Lines 1-3 continue Ephesians 5:9. Lines 3-10 are Luke 11:27-28. Lines 10-12 are Luke 4:24. “sua” is tacked onto the end of the 13th line. Lines 13-17 do not match any of the vulgate verses. Transcribed, it appears to read: “Cordibus nostris qu(i)s domi(n)e gauatua beuignus infunde ut ficut abesus cospilibus abstinem (?)ita sensus.”, Collation: single sheet., Origin: France., Lettering: Gothic (textualis prescissa)., Decoration: Some capitals in red and blue and certain text in red, otherwise all text in black. Verso has a thin red and black foliate design at the bas-de-page. Some vertical and horizontal rubrication still visible., Binding: disbound.
Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Collation: 5 leaves (2 bifolia and 1 leaf). Leaf measurements differ., Origin: England., Lettering: Gothic script (textualis rotunda)., Decoration: Various decorated initials on each leaf. Pigments used are red, a blue ink that bleeds through the parchment, a very light blue, and possibly a gray pigment for preparatory drawing. 118a, recto: Letter T in red with preparatory decoration lightly visible in gray. Letter D is in blue and red, with a red inner decoration. Letter C in blue with red decoration inside. Both D and C have an outer red flourish extending downwards vertically. Text in black and red ink. Verso only contains some red ink and mostly black ink. 118b, recto: Letter E in red with preparatory inner decoration and flourish. Letter P is blue with inner and outer red flourish. Letter A has preparatory flourish within and around it, and the letter is in red. Letter I is blue with red flourish. Text is in black and red ink. Verso: letter O is red with light gray preparatory flourish. Letter S is blue with red inner and outer flourish. Text is in black and red ink. 118c, recto: Letter P is in red with faint blue inner and outer flourish. Red E with minimal, faint blue flourish. Letter I in red with faint blue flourish. Letters F and I in blue with no flourish. Text is in red and black ink. Verso: blue A with minimal flourish in red. C is blue with red inner and outer flourish. A in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter Q in red with blue inner and outer flourish. Letter F in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter A in blue with no flourish. Letter I in red with blue flourish. Text is in black and red. 118d, recto: letter I in blue with red flourish, and another letter I in red with blue flourish. Ink in red and black. Verso: blue D with red inner and outer flourish. Letter F in red with minimal blue flourish. Letter I in blue with red flourish. 118e, recto: letter C in blue with red inner and outer flourish. Letter M in red with inner and outer blue flourish. Letter F in blue with minimal red flourish. Letter I in red with blue flourish. Text is in black and red ink. Verso, letter I in blue with red flourish. Text in black and red ink., Binding: Disbound.
Manuscript document., Title devised by cataloger., Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Origin: France?, Layout: Two columns, 57 lines each. Horizontal and vertical ruling is visible on both recto and verso., Lettering: Gothic textualis., Decoration: Initials in red and blue flourishing. Script is in black ink. Running titles alternating red and blue., Binding: Disbound.