- Creator:
- Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693
- Published / Created:
- [between 1700 and 1750]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 464
- Image Count:
- 117
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Prayers to be said at various times during the Mass. Composed by Paul Pellisson-Fontanier (1624-93).
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written by the master calligrapher Jean Pierre Rousselet, a follower of Nicholas Jarry, active in Paris between 1677 and 1736., Two full-page miniatures and nine historiated headpieces in gouache, all in frames best described as resembling the frames of 18th-century mirrors; the frames blue and purple with white highlights and gold side-pieces decorated with red flowers in diamonds; floral swags at bottom. Tail pieces with swags, as above and filled with gold, on f. 48v with the Holy Spirit as a dove. 3- and 2-line initials, blue with white highlights on gold; 1-line initials in red. Titles in gold, red and blue capitals; running headings and rubrics in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Black goatskin, gold-tooled. A red label and salmon pink doublures and flyleaves. Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prieres de la messe
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- Creator:
- Langton, Stephen, -1228, author
- Published / Created:
- [12--]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.110
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a selection of sermons by Stephen Langton, including: an unidentified sermon on St. Paul; Sermon on the Conversion of St. Paul (25 January); unidentified sermon on the Annunciation (25 March); and Sermon on John the Baptist (24 June).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in small gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line and 6-line sermon initials are in red, except for the initial on fol. 1r, which is a 1-line capital in brown ink; 1-line initials are brown; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Langton, Stephen, d. 1228. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons (fragment).
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1475 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 436
- Image Count:
- 138
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Book of Hours with Full calendar, in French
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in batarde script., Miniatures and an extensive cycle of border vignettes by Jean and Jacquelin Montlucon who were active in Bourges between 1477 and 1492. The calendar pages are framed by gilt columns and entablatures in the antique manner with the occupations of the month and signs of the zodiac in the outer margin and a Creation cycle in the lower margin. Eleven half-page miniatures framed in magenta and gold with cusping at the top; fanciful architectural bases, surrounded by simulated grey-black marble with joined wings and foliage branches in gold. Twenty-three miniatures, 8-lines in height, in magenta and gold frames, each with a full border of flowers and acanthus, birds and grotesques on compartmented gold and white grounds. Text pages with full borders: columns in inner margin; panels with masks, shields, garlands, and wings in upper margin; flowers and acanthus, as above, in outer margin; and, in the lower margin, one of the fullest known cycles devoted to the wild man (sometimes extended to include outer margin as well). Other manuscripts from the same shop, the Monypenny Hours and Grenoble Bibliotheque Municipale MS 1011, also contain extensive cycles of wild-man imagery; the artists Jean and Jacquelin de Montlucon lived in Bourges in a house "at the sign of the Wild Man.", 5- and 4-line initials with leafy branches, gold with fruits, flowers, profile heads on pink or mauve grounds. 2- and 1-line initials, line-endings, and KL monograms in the same style. Rubrics in red. Calendar entries alternate red and blue. F. i verso added in 16th century: the arms of Gian Francesco di Montegnacco in a frame closely modelled on the decoration of the calendar pages., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Tan goatskin, gold-tooled with concentric frames, the central panel daubed with green and red. Red label.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vanderbilt hours