Manuscript on parchment (poor quality, yellow and speckled on hair side) of William of Melitona, Commentarius in Ecclesiasticum. Copied from a stationer's exemplum secundum pecias.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain. Early (?) resewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into grooves in wooden boards. Beaded, red, green and natural color secondary endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laced into the boards. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Front and back (mostly concealed by another parchment leaf) pastedowns from a liturgical manuscript with neumes (Spain, 12th century). Remains of contemporary rectangular label on lower board: "Holcot super eccl***/ cum". Covered in brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a central panel and alternate concentric frames filled with rope interlace with red bordering fillets. Spine: supports defined with double fillets on the spine and an X with a central cross-bar in the panels. There are four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps fastened with star-headed nails., One historiated initial of fine quality on f. 11r, 9-line, reddish brown with white filigree against blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing the author and three companions, presenting a book to a seated monarch dressed in a blue robe against a reddish ground with geometric designs in blue, black and red. Terminals of initial extend as a bar border into inner margin, blue and reddish brown against reddish-brown and blue grounds with white filigree and touches of gold. Border terminates in lower margin in a spray of spiky ivy, blue with gold leaves. Flourished initials, 6- to 3-line, blue or red with red and/or blue penwork designs, often extending the entire length of the text column. Running titles in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Biblical passages underlined in red. Initials touched with red. Remains of instructions to rubricator., and Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
William,--of Melitona
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Ecclesiasticus, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Pecia
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.
Caption title., Directed by Aristide Bruant, proprietor, Cabaret du Mirliton., Illustrations chiefly by T. A. Steinlen., Includes songs (with music) by Aristide Bruant, contributions by Georges Courteline, Camille de Sainte-Crois, Oscar Méténier, etc., etc. theatrical notices, etc., No more published?, and Nos. 1-100 (1.-9. année) were issued from Oct.? 1885 to March 10, 1893.
Publisher:
1885-1906] and Au Cabaret du Mirliton [etc.,
Subject (Topic):
French periodicals--History--19th century and French periodicals--History--20th century
Caption title., Directed by Aristide Bruant, proprietor, Cabaret du Mirliton., Illustrations chiefly by T. A. Steinlen., Includes songs (with music) by Aristide Bruant, contributions by Georges Courteline, Camille de Sainte-Crois, Oscar Méténier, etc., etc. theatrical notices, etc., No more published?, and Nos. 1-100 (1.-9. année) were issued from Oct.? 1885 to March 10, 1893.
Publisher:
1885-1906] and Au Cabaret du Mirliton [etc.,
Subject (Topic):
French periodicals--History--19th century and French periodicals--History--20th century
Caption title., Directed by Aristide Bruant, proprietor, Cabaret du Mirliton., Illustrations chiefly by T. A. Steinlen., Includes songs (with music) by Aristide Bruant, contributions by Georges Courteline, Camille de Sainte-Crois, Oscar Méténier, etc., etc. theatrical notices, etc., No more published?, and Nos. 1-100 (1.-9. année) were issued from Oct.? 1885 to March 10, 1893.
Publisher:
1885-1906] and Au Cabaret du Mirliton [etc.,
Subject (Topic):
French periodicals--History--19th century and French periodicals--History--20th century
Caption title., Directed by Aristide Bruant, proprietor, Cabaret du Mirliton., Illustrations chiefly by T. A. Steinlen., Includes songs (with music) by Aristide Bruant, contributions by Georges Courteline, Camille de Sainte-Crois, Oscar Méténier, etc., etc. theatrical notices, etc., No more published?, and Nos. 1-100 (1.-9. année) were issued from Oct.? 1885 to March 10, 1893.
Publisher:
1885-1906] and Au Cabaret du Mirliton [etc.,
Subject (Topic):
French periodicals--History--19th century and French periodicals--History--20th century
Caption title., Directed by Aristide Bruant, proprietor, Cabaret du Mirliton., Illustrations chiefly by T. A. Steinlen., Includes songs (with music) by Aristide Bruant, contributions by Georges Courteline, Camille de Sainte-Crois, Oscar Méténier, etc., etc. theatrical notices, etc., No more published?, and Nos. 1-100 (1.-9. année) were issued from Oct.? 1885 to March 10, 1893.
Publisher:
1885-1906] and Au Cabaret du Mirliton [etc.,
Subject (Topic):
French periodicals--History--19th century and French periodicals--History--20th century
Caption title., Directed by Aristide Bruant, proprietor, Cabaret du Mirliton., Illustrations chiefly by T. A. Steinlen., Includes songs (with music) by Aristide Bruant, contributions by Georges Courteline, Camille de Sainte-Crois, Oscar Méténier, etc., etc. theatrical notices, etc., No more published?, and Nos. 1-100 (1.-9. année) were issued from Oct.? 1885 to March 10, 1893.
Publisher:
1885-1906] and Au Cabaret du Mirliton [etc.,
Subject (Topic):
French periodicals--History--19th century and French periodicals--History--20th century
Caption title., Directed by Aristide Bruant, proprietor, Cabaret du Mirliton., Illustrations chiefly by T. A. Steinlen., Includes songs (with music) by Aristide Bruant, contributions by Georges Courteline, Camille de Sainte-Crois, Oscar Méténier, etc., etc. theatrical notices, etc., No more published?, and Nos. 1-100 (1.-9. année) were issued from Oct.? 1885 to March 10, 1893.
Publisher:
1885-1906] and Au Cabaret du Mirliton [etc.,
Subject (Topic):
French periodicals--History--19th century and French periodicals--History--20th century