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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
- Published / Created:
- 16th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 3.53
- Container / Volume:
- No. 53
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Written in 66 or 79 long lines; one side only, no rulings. Written in 2 different hands, both informal batarde. Stains and remnants of paste; used as pastedowns and binding reinforcements.
- Description:
- 3 fragments, 70 x 80 mm., ca. 155 x 69 mm., and ca. 55 x 550 mm., the largest dated 1525., Parchment, and Subjects unidentified.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Legal documents]
- Creator:
- Boyvin, René, approximately 1525-approximately 1598, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1563]
- Call Number:
- Print01435
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title, creator, date, and place of creation supplied by curator., From: The History of Jason and the Conquest of the Golden Fleece., Above image: 25. In image at bottom: B., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Marriage and Married Life; Children and Childcare.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character). and Jason (Mythological character).
- Subject (Topic):
- Retribution, Infanticide, Postpartum depression, Mothers, Children, Homicides, Snakes, Putti, and Warriors
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Medea killing her children] [graphic].