Traite sur l'art de la guerre

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Title: Traite sur l'art de la guerre
Creator: Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508
Published / Created: [between 1500 and 1525]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Berault Stuart (Bernard Stewart, ca. 1452/53-1508), Traite sur l'art de la guerre
Description: In French.
Script: Copied by one hand in a small Gothica Hybrida Formata (loopless Bastarda).
Line-fillers in liquid gold on red, blue or brown ground. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) initials on square background, in liquid gold on coloured background or in colour, heightened with white, on liquid gold background decorated with leaves and flowers. Six miniatures.
Binding: Early nineteenth century. Cross-grained red leather over pasteboard, the covers gold-tooled with a decorative border, the turn-ins gold-tooled with dentelle border; brownish marbled endpapers; the spine gold-tooled with flowerets and the title "L'ORDRE D'UN CHEF DE GUERRE PAR D'AUBIGNY".
Provenance: Purchased in 1986 (?) from H.P. Kraus, New York, and presented as a gift of the Beinecke Foundation in memory of Edwin J. Beinecke on his 100th birthday.
Extent: ff. ii + 26 + ii : 205 x 135 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance France 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508.
Subject (Topic): French literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Military art and science
Subjects: Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508
French literature > To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Military art and science > Early works to 1800
France > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Berault Stuart, Traite sur l'art de la guerre. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.