BEIN: Has copy no. 19, III., SML Microtext Room: Negative film of copy 1 available for reproduction., "There has been printed for Plain edition by Durand, printer at Chartres, France, one hundred and twenty copies on antique Montval paper, of which one hundred copies numbered 1 to 100 are signed by the author, eighteen copies numbered I to XVIII are made for the author and two copies numbered 0 and 00 are for the French government.", and Written on Hugnet's poem, "Enfances".
Manuscript on parchment of the Bible, with prologues to almost every book; also includes interpretations of Hebrew names
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by several similar-looking hands writing in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Decoration: each Prologue (except Jeremiah, f. 240rb) opens with a painted initial, decorated with interlace and hybrid animals, fishes, etc. Numerous large and small decorative initials in red and blue pen-work. Execution of decoration ascribed to the "Vie de Saint Denis Atelier." See catalog description for further detail., and Binding: Eighteenth century : rose-coloured parchment over wooden boards; both covers gold-tooled; brass bosses and clasps; arms of Johann Christoph Borzek on front cover; cartouche containing a peasant pruning a tree, with the motto "Cum tempore fructus," on rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval