- Creator:
- López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 79
- Image Count:
- 146
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Pedro Lopez de Ayala, Aves de caça.
- Description:
- In Spanish., Script: Written by a single scribe in a careful italic script., Crude initial and heading (in gold and subdued water colors) on f. i recto and f. 1r; other small initials, 4- to 1-line, in similar colors throughout text. Headings in red; initials of each paragraph in blue or red., Waterstained throughout., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Black goatskin, blind-tooled. Fragments of manuscripts (covered by paper pastedowns) serve as binding reinforcements.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Spanish literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aves de caça.
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 635
- Image Count:
- 155
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment. Possibly produced at the Cistercian abbey of Fitero (between Pamplona and Tudela).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by various hands in Iberian Praegothica., The original sections (articles 1, 2, 7 and 8) have red headings and red decorative line-fillers; 1-line plain initials and numerous 2-line (sometimes 3- or 4-line) plain or flourished initials or litterae duplices intermingled. Many round initials such as C, D, O, Q are filled with a human face ("face initials"); in art. 7 some initials I are zoomorphic and take the shape of a fish (ff. 127r, 134r). Red and purple initials normally alternate. Art. 4 has red initials. The remaining articles are undecorated., Lower edge of many leaves damaged, with loss of text. The final pages worn and smudged., and Binding: ca. 1800. Limp parchment with remains of two leather ties. On the spine the hand-written title "Charta charitatis, liber usuum et institut. Ordinis S. Bernardi. M.S." At the bottom of the spine a label with the handwritten modern number "1280".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cistercians
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cistercian statutes
- Creator:
- López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 138
- Image Count:
- 319
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Juan de Sant-Fahagun and Pedro Lopez de Ayala, Libros de Cetreria. With the Commentary of Don Beltran de la Cueva, Duke of Alburquerque, in margins surrounding text
- Description:
- In Spanish., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Main 11154., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand, with a somewhat smaller script for the surrounding commentary., Two initials (both f. 1r), the first, 5-line, for the rubric, purple with red penwork; immediately below, the second, for the text, 9-line, the upper portion red, filled with purple penwork, the lower portion purple, filled with red; attached to a thick bar border (side and lower margins) of red and purple vine scrolls in pen, with touches of light brown. One 7-line initial (f. 88r) red, with purple penwork, with exuberant loops and flourishes extending into top and side margins. Depictions of various implements, in black, within text (ff. 37v, 72v, 114r, 115r, 125r, 127r, and 137r). 3-line initials, paragraph marks, and headings in red throughout (except f. 1r, on which, in keeping with the initials, some of the paragraph marks are purple)., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Limp vellum case; title, now illegible, on spine. Front and back pastedown and back flyleaf contain extensive Latin legal references (17th century).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Spanish literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libros de cetreria