Manuscript on parchment (rough, poorly prepared) of Petrus Quesvel, Directorium iuris. With Eleven short blessings at Easter for meat, cheese, bread, salt, and lard, added in the 15th century.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, with the leather sewn around the endbands., Part of outer column of f. 189 cut off, no loss of text., Red and blue split initials, 18- and 16-line, with elaborate penwork designs and plain full border in red and blue mark beginning of Books 1 and 2 (ff. 1r, 91r); smaller initial with partial border at beginning of Books 3 and 4 (ff. 191r, 297r) and for the two parts of art. 3 (ff. 428r, 439r). Numerous initials, 5- to 2-line, alternate blue with red flourishes and vice versa. Running titles in red and blue, paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Notes to rubricator, but rubrics never supplied. Initial strokes and underlining, in red, for arts. 2 and 3., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a hasty cursive schoolhand.
Subject (Name):
Quesvel, Petrus
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Emblemes sacrez svr le tres-saint et tres-adorable sacrement de l'evcharistie and Orpheus eucharisticus. French
Description:
"Acheué d'imprimer pour la premiere fois le 20. Ianuier 1666"--Colophon., Binding: green morocco, with interior dentelles., Chesneau identified as author in censors' permission and in privilege. His Orpheus eucharisticus (published by Lambert in 1657) was translated into French and shortened by Augustin Lubin., Signatures: pi² [dagger]⁴ A-M⁸ N⁶., and The "embleme dedicatoire" and 100 numbered emblems were etched by Albert Flamen. Cf. Landwehr.
Publisher:
Chez Florentin Lambert ...,
Subject (Name):
Flamen, Albert, active 17th century., Lambert, Florentin, -1693 or 1694, printer., and Lubin, Augustin, 1624-1695.
Subject (Topic):
Christian ethics--Early works to 1800. and Emblems--Early works to 1800.