Manuscript on paper of Frère Laurent, Somme le Roi (The Book of Vices and Virtues). Written presumably for Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, who died at Moulins-sur-Allier in 1476.
Description:
At the beginning of each book there are spaces (9 to 13 lines) left blank for miniatures. 4- to 2-line initials for each book and for a few chapters, gold against blue and red grounds with silver or white filigree, with coarse gold ivy and black hair-spray. 2-line initials in blue or red for chapters; 1-line initials, blue or red, in table of contents. All initials with guide-letters. Chapter numbers and paragraph marks in red. Rubrics throughout., Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges red. Brown calf, spine gold-tooled, with a red label: "Miroir du Monde M. S. S. Antiq.", Script: Written by two scribes in batarde script. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-100v, 131r-217v; Scribe 2) ff. 101r-130v, 217v-312r, 313r., and Watermarks: ff. ii-5, Briquet Armoiries 1876; ff. 6-315, similar to Briquet Lettre P 8527.
Subject (Name):
Laurent,--Frère
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Copied in A.H. 894 (A.D. 1489), Islamic binding, velvet covered, with flap., Two titles bound together, and Wrongly entitled as: Intikha¯b Mant iq al-t ayr.
Bound with Bruni, Leonardo, Aretino. Historiae Florentini populi. Venice, 1476., Fol. c₈b, n₇b, n₈ blank., and For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. Capital spaces, some with guide-letters; a few initials roughly supplied in pencil and ink. Manuscript marginal notes, some bled. Fol. n₈ (blank) wanting; fol. i₆ torn; stains and worm-holes. Early modern half vellum binding. Bookplates of Charles Hughes and John Camp Williams.
Manuscript of parchment roll composed of 8 membranes, written in 4 columns. Column 1) Chronology of the popes from Peter to the antipope John XXIII. 2) Chronology of the rulers of the Empire from Augustus to Louis of Bavaria, Holy Roman Emperor from 1328-47. 3) Chronology of the Monarchs of France, beginning with the Trojan nobles and concluding with Charles VI, king from 1380-1422. 4) Chronology of the kings of England, from King Lud in the time of Julius Caesar to King Henry IV (d. 1413).
Description:
Binding: Unbound., Four illuminated initials, 4-line, at the top of each column, blue with white filigree against gold ground with stylized foliage or geometric patterns in red and blue. At the top of each initial, black inkspray with gold leaves; at the first initial (left column), decoration extends into the left margin to form a partial border. Numerous smaller initials, 2-line, gold on blue and mauve grounds with white filigree. Headings in red., Purchased from Maggs Bros. of London in 1958 by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in batarde script by a single scribe., and Text is accompanied by parallel schematic genealogical diagrams in red consisting of connected roundels inscribed with the names of various rulers in succession, between the columns. The genealogical diagrams are periodically interspersed with 58 roundels framed in red with lively pen drawings in brown ink with washes in blue, pink and green, depicting cities and churches whose foundations are ascribed to particular rulers or occurred during their reigns. Each of the genealogical diagrams begins at the top of the text with a roundel, depicting respectively (I) Mount Calvary, (II) Rome, (III) Venice (whose foundation is ascribed to Trojan nobles) and (IV) London. Included are drawings of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia, Santiago de Compostela; the majority of the drawings appear in the chronology of the French monarchs, with depictions of Paris, St. Genevieve, St. Denis, St. Martin-de-Champs, and others. The buildings are all late medieval in character and do not bear resemblance to the monuments themselves.
Subject (Geographic):
France--History, Great Britain--History, and Holy Roman Empire--History
Subject (Topic):
Church history--Chronology, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers--Genealogy, Legends, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Binding of v. 1: Original vellum ms. pastedowns with stubs; sewn on five supports attached to wooden boards; remains of brown calf stitched around plain wound headbands; rebacked with (probably) original calf sides inset; sides are blind-tooled with triple diagonals in an outer frame; an agnus dei, angel or floral tool is in each diamond formed., Binding of v. 2: vellum stays inside gatherings; sewn on 3 tawed skin slit straps laced into beech boards; the spine is lined with tawed skin between supports; remains of Kermes pink braid on a simple headband at the head, wanting at the tail; covered in tawed pigskin blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame; remains of two brown leather fastenings, the catches on the upper board; trace of writing and a label at the head of the upper board and an inscribed paper label on the spine., Provenance of v. 1: "Liber dom[us] sororu[m] sa[n]cte Agnetis Tong[r]is" and "Venerabilis Mater Monasterij S[anc]te in Oppido Tongrensi dono dedit hunc lib[r]um bibliothecae F[ra]trum Min[orum] in prefato Oppido commorantium Anno Dmi. 1671" (ms. on fol. 1); "Pro bibliotheca F[rat]rum Min[orum] Tongris" (ms. on fol 256 verso)., Provenance of v. 2: "Ex bibl. Frid. Jac. Roloff." (bookplate on front paste-down); "Ex Biblioth. Regia Berolinensi." and "[underciphered] Kol. Bibliothek Berlin" (stamps on fol. 1)., Rubricated throughout; capitals supplied in red (v. 1); in red or blue (v. 2)., Vol. 1 bought in May 1970; v. 2 bought in Sept. 1987; the Edwin J. Beinecke fund., and Vol. 2 imperfect: slightly wormed.
Publisher:
Konrad Winters,
Subject (Name):
Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Tongris Inscription (v. 1), Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin Stamp (v. 2), Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?, Roloff, Frid. Jac.--Bookplate., and Sisters of Saint Agnes (Tongeren, Belgium) Inscription (v. 1)
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons., Incunabula in Yale Library., and Sermons, Latin.
f. 221r-221v: Apostles' Creed and the Confiteor; the latter incomplete, ending with "consensu tactu uisu". The phrase "ego infelix peccatrix" in the Confiteor indicates that the book was written for use by a woman. and Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a Book of Hours, with Calendar and prayers in Flemish.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown, originally black, sheepskin; stamped in gold on the spine: "Psaterium." Red edges., Script: Written in liturgical gothic bookhand by one scribe., and Three full-page miniatures of mediocre quality. Each miniature set in a narrow frame of gold, black, pink, and white; full border of blue and gold acanthus leaves, red, pink, and blue flowers and strawberries, and black pen flecks. One 7-line historiated initial on f. 216r (Flemish Prayers): Pieta, pink with white highlights on gold; full border as above; text separated from border by a narrow band attached to initial of gold and pink, edged in black. Illuminated 5-line initials with full borders (eg. ff. 13r, 18r, 28r), pink or blue with white highlights on gold, filled with blue or pink trilobe leaves. 2-line initials, gold on pink and blue with white highlights, one on f. 92r (Advent Office) with a band attached, as above, and small sections of border, as above; one 3-line initial on f. 179r (Obsecro te) in similar manner. 1-line initials, blue with red penwork and gold with black penwork; initials within text washed in yellow. KL monograms as 2-line initials; Latin names of months and important feasts in red. Line fillers: oblique lines with dots attached, stylized plant motifs, dots, etc., in blue or gold. Rubrics in faded red.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
128r: Signature of Jannette Brongnart, Binding: Modern limp vellum with two pairs of white leather ties. The preceding 19th-century binding is preserved: dark brown leather over cardboard, both covers framed with blind-tooled fillets; spine with four raised bands and gold-tooled title: HEURES DE SENLIS; gilt edges., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Hours, Undetermined Use, with French Calendar. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment. Written by a single scribe in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda) in two sizes. The ascenders on the top line often have calligraphic extensions., Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. All initials (1- or 2-lines) are on a rectangular background and are executed in paint and liquid gold. At the opening of the various Hours there are 4-line initials of the same type, always accompanied by full acanthus borders and an arch-topped miniature. The borders are framed in gold and may also contain leaves, flowers, fruit, birds., and Senlis use according to the inscription on the binding, but this use is not documented. The saints in the Calendar and in the Litany point to Northern France and Hainault.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Manuscript on parchment. and Written in Bruges in the third quarter of the 15th century; belonged to Count Axel von Kalckreuth and Alva B. (Mrs. Bernard F.) Gimbel (bookplates). Given to Yale by Mrs. Gimbel in 1956 and often referred to as the "Gimbel Hours".
Description:
Binding: ca. 16th century
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours with prayers in Dutch. The manuscript is misbound. and Written in liturgical gothic bookhand by a single scribe.
Description:
On fol. 42r: Various manuscript signatures and notes with the name "Anna Bogardus" and "Bedelaer [?]" another hand has added a note with reference to "Haerlem.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library