Manuscript on parchment (crude) of Copy of an account book for the hunting expenses of King Charles VI of France. The account is rendered by Philippe de Courguilleroy (?) "chevalier maistre veneur du Roy et maistre de ses canes et forestz" and encompasses November 1395 to 2 February 1396
Description:
In French., Script: Written in a chancery script by a single scribe., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Brown mottled and spattered calf with a red label, gold-tooled.
Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple scribal hands, of sections A and B of Part I of the Lancelot series of Arthurian romances. These sections cover Lancelot's birth, upbringing, adventures as a Knight of the Round Table, and passion for Queen Guenevere
Description:
In Middle French., Layout: double columns of 50-53 lines., Script: gothic (multiple scribes)., Decoration: large historiated initial at the opening of each section; smaller initials in red and blue penwork., and Binding: early nineteenth-century? red silk velvet binding; gilt decoration on spine. Gilt leather spine tag: Lancelot du Lac. M S.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Three miniatures, on vellum, from the copy of the Livre du Lancelot du Lac illustrated by the Dunois Master. They depict: 1) the Duke of Clarence and esquire, meeting a knight cutting off a woman's hair; 2) King Baudemagnus leading the battle against the Romans; 3) Lancelot's arrival at the city of Gorre
Description:
In Middle French. and Binding: individually mounted.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Arthurian romances in art
Manuscript bifolium, in a single hand, containing text from chapters 34, 35, and 39 of this prose romance
Description:
In Middle French., Layout: double columns of 52 lines., Script: gothic script., and Decoration: Rubricated. Three-line initials in gold against blue and rose grounds.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances, French prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of two sections of Jacques de Longuyon's Voeux du paon
Description:
In French., Script: copied by a single hand writing Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. 2-line half inset flourished initials alternately in red and blue, respectively with purple and red penwork extending into the margin. At the opening of the second section, a 6-line littera duplex with penwork. At the opening of the first section, a half-page miniature in three compartments in a decorative frame: at left a tent in which two knights in armour are seated; in the center a tent with two ladies standing; at right Alexander and Cassamus. Under the miniature 14 lines of text, opening with a 5-line foliate initial ending in a bar in the left margin, continued with a foliate bar border in the lower and the right margins; the horizontal section ends at left in the head, forelegs and wings of a monster; at right a bird is sitting., Two sections of the poem "Voeux du paon" by Jacques de Longuyon, composed 1312-1313., and Binding: 18th century. French dark olive green morocco gilt, lined with pink silk. Bound by Bisiaux (his ticket); arms of Edward Vernon Utterson on covers. Folio 8 is bound between ff. 1 and 2.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacques, de Longuyon, active 1290-1312.
Subject (Topic):
French poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
