• This material is open for research.
• Manuscript, on paper, in two hands, of a Dominican lectionary containing Scriptural readings from the first Sunday in Advent through Corpus Christi and the lives of the saints from November 30 (St. Andrew) through June 22 (10,000 Martyrs). The appendices include lessons for feasts celebrated especially in Cologne (St. Ignatius of Antioch and St. Servatius). The inclusion of the feast of Peter Martyr of Milan suggests a Dominican origin for the manuscript.
• Purchased from Maggs Brothers, Ltd. on the Asahel Henry Grant Fund, 2014.
• Includes musical notation (square notation on three-line staves) for Passion week lessons (57v-60v).
• Paper is torn and damaged in many places and has been repaired with strips and patches of parchment manuscript waste, mostly from a fourteenth-century Latin breviary in gothic miniscule. There are also manuscript fragments from a parchment manuscript in German and Latin, possibly a Latin-German dictionary.
• Front pastedown contains annotations in a sixteenth-century German hand.
• Watermarks include Briquet 9173-9185.
• Layout: double columns of 33-38 lines.
• Script: gothic cursive.
• Decoration: Rubricated. Several larger initials in red ink.
• Binding: contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; paneled with triple fillets on boards and central diagonal fillets, forming lozenges.
• Lectionary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects:

• Catholic Church
• Dominicans.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Lectionaries.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany -- 15th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.