Complete, with signature marks a-x in the centre lower margin of the rectos of the first half of each gathering, 40 lines written in brown ink in a semi-cursive bookhand between 2 verticals and 41 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 244 x 135mm, one-line initials of liquid gold on grounds of red or blue, line-endings of similar colours, each 'Harangue' opening with a four- or five-line illuminated initial of gold and colours of varying forms, including architectural, foliate or zoomorphic staves, Full-page frontispiece miniature in architectural frame. 16th-century green velvet, brass pins and enamelled brass clasps with the arms of Franois II, duc de La Rochefoucauld and his wife Anne of Polignac, boards replaced by the Bibliothque nationale in Paris in 1879.
From the library of Anne De Polignac. Original binding. and Manuscript of Harangues et oraisons des anciens. With fragments of 15th-century printed books from Angoulieve and related notes and letters.
Baudoin, Jean, 1590?-1650 Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616
Published / Created:
1658
Call Number:
1989 149
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Histoire des guerres ciuiles des Espagnols dans les Indes. and Historia general del Perú. French
Description:
A translation of the author's "Historia general del Perú," which forms partt 2 of his "Commentarios reales.", Added title-page, engraved., and Vol. 2 has title: Svitte des gverres civiles des Espagnols dans le Perv; iusques à la mort tragique du prince Tvpac Amarv, heritier de cét empire; et à l'exil funeste des Yncas les plus proches de la couronne. Traduction de l'espagnol ... par I. Bavdoin. Paris, S. Piget, 1658.
Publisher:
Chez Piget,
Subject (Geographic):
Peru--History--1548-1820 and Peru--History--To 1548
Armorial bookplate of Augustus Russell Street. Bookplate: Ex libris Francisci Dominici Bertram, pharmacopolae nemausnesis. Imperfect: Vol. 20 wanting., By A. F. Prévost, continued by A. G. Meusnier de Querlon, A. Deleyre and J. P. Rousselot de Surgy., and Title in red and black.
Publisher:
Didot, [etc., etc.],
Subject (Name):
Astley, Thomas., Bertram, Francis Dominick--Bookplate., Deleyre, Alexandre, b. 1726., Green, John, -1757., Meusnier de Querlon, A.-G. (Anne-Gabriel), 1702-1780., Rousselot de Surgy, Jacques-Philibert, b. 1737., Street, Augustus Russell--Bookplate., Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712 Second voyage de Tachard aux Indes Orientales., and Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712 Voyage de Gui Tachard a Siam.
Manuscript on parchment of Petrus de Tarentasia (Pope Innocent V), In quartum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Copied from a stationer's exemplar secundum pecias. With Distinctiones on the scholastic and monastic life, entered in a later highly abbreviated script; and Anonymous commentary on the Psalms.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Germany or Italy (?). Resewn (early) on three tawed skin slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of beech boards to channels on the outside and pegged; channels filled with glue. A pink, green and white, five core endband is sewn through a leather lining on a tawed skin core laced into the boards and pegged. Covered in brick red sheepskin with corner tongues; blind-tooled with an X and sparse use of oak-leaf edging tool. Two truncated diamond catches on lower board, the upper board cut in for the red fabric clasp straps which were attached with star-headed nails. Corner fittings and six-petalled central medallion. Traces of title, in ink, on spine. Spine of the bookblock partially eaten by rodents., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand; arts. 2 and 4 in less formal scripts., and Two historiated initials, 7- and 4-line. Folio 1r: mauve initial with white filigree on blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing a man drawing water from a well, against gold ground, illustrating the Biblical passage "Haurietis aquas...." Serifs, ending in heart-shaped red leaves, on blue and red cusped grounds, with gold balls, extending along the inner margin to form a partial bar border. Perched on the top of the initial is a small bird, grey with red wings. Folio 1v: blue initial with white shading against dark red ground with white filigree. Ascender blue against dark red ground, extending along text column to form a partial bar border. The initial shows the good Samaritan riding on a donkey, against gold ground. Numerous flourished initials, 4- to 3-line, alternate red and blue with penwork designs in the opposite color. Running headlines in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Guide letters for decorator visible beneath initials.
Subject (Name):
Innocent--V,--Pope,--ca. 1224-1276 and Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Psalms, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Pecia, Scholasticism, and Scholia