La fauconnerie.

Description

Title: La fauconnerie.
Creator: Alagona, Arthelouche de
Published / Created: 1502
Publication Place: France,
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Arthelouche de Alagona, La Fauconnerie. Text is defective from ff. 32v-33r; leaf missing after f. 32.
Description: Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Original sewing on three tawed, slit straps laced in and out of the boards. The spine is square. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with vertical lines of square and diamond shaped tools in a border of flowers in squares. Two ribbon fastenings. The upper board is broken down the center and sewn together. Half the lower board, endbands, ties and leather around the edges of the boards wanting.
One undistinguished miniature (f. 1r), a falconer standing on a shallow ground, with some blue tinting for sky, set between blue and red columns with gold highlights; a blue and red band above inscribed in gold: "VRAI LVI SERAI AMI." A large coat of arms on f. ii verso (possibly a later addition and now effaced) supported by two angels with a miter above, in brown ink. One blue and red initial (f. 1r), 3- line, against a gold ground. 6- to 1-line initials throughout, brushed gold against blue or red grounds; line-endings, blue or red with gold highlights. Rubrics throughout.
Script: Written by Vincent Philippon in elegant upright batarde.
Extent: ff. ii + 38 : parchment ; 175 x 126 (100 x 71) mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: French

Format: text
Genre: Armorial bookplates
Decorated initials
Hand coloring
illustrations (AAT)
manuscripts (AAT)
Rubrics
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Alagona, Arthelouche de
Subject (Topic): Falconry--Early works to 1800
French literature--To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Arthelouche de Alagona, La Fauconnerie. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 162.

Orbis Record: 9796778
Object ID (OID): 10166365
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms162.htm