Fribois, Noël de, fl. 1400-1468 Gréban, Simon, d. ca. 1473
Published / Created:
[ca. 1595]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1029
Image Count:
241
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Noël de Fribois (d. 1467/1468), Abrégé des croniques de France, presented to King Charles VII of France in 1459. 2) Simon Gréban (d. ca. 1473), Epitaph for King Charles VII (1461). 3) Moral aphorisms in the form of distichs. 4) Moral aphorisms in French after the manner of the Disticha Catonis, perhaps by the same author as art. 3. 5) Catalogue of the library of Jaspar Scaeck, apparently a lawyer in northern France (Lille?). The 57 books, listed without a clear order, are almost all in French and were printed between 1534 and 1595, with one book dated 1495; they mostly were produced in Paris, Lyons, Douai and Antwerp. For each the owner gives a full transcription of the title page, reproducing its layout (exceptionnally also the colophon); for the last two items also a note on the binding.
Description:
21 blank leaves at end not digitized., Binding: Binding ca. 1500??: blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Spine with four raised bands. On the front cover a parchment label with the sixteenth century inscription in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata "Cronicques / abreigiés"., Script: Part I (ff. 1-76), ca. 1450, Copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Bastarda). Part II (ff. 77-88), between 1490 and 1500, Copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Currens (Bastarda). Part III (ff. 89-113), after 1613, Written in documentary Gothica Cursiva Currens., and Watermarks: Part I, ox, Briquet 2786?? Part II, letter P, var. Briquet 8576??
Subject (Geographic):
France--History
Subject (Name):
Fribois, Noël de,--fl. 1400-1468
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, French poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment containing a possibly unique French translation of the Prologue and first five books of the Moralia in Job, copied in Chimay.
Alternative Title:
Moralia in Job. French
Description:
Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 91). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 28) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2011., Binding: nineteenth-century full blue calf, gold-tooled., and Script: written in a single gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Job--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment (calfskin) of a collection of prayers, passion narratives and hymns.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century. Plain brown leather over pasteboard. The spine gold-tooled, with five raised bands. Paper pastedowns; red sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. 1-line plain versals alternately red and blue; 2-line plain initials and 4-line initials (plain or of the littera duplex type, but without penwork; 5-line on ff. 2r, 126v and 145r) in red and/or blue. Although the main prayers and hymns generally begin with a 4- or 5-line initial, the distribution of the various kinds of initials often seems at random., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Libraria (Textus Quadratus, approximately Oeser variant II), with a tendency to develop cadels on the top line, in some cases (f. 57v) featuring a human profile.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Passion narratives (Gospels)