Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of text from a Brut chronicle in Anglo-Norman rhyming octosyllabic couplets.
Description:
Decoration: initial C in blue and initial Q in red., Formerly owned by Martin Schøyen (MS 650). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: two columns of 39 lines., Script: gothic hand., and Stained and somewhat worn from use as a pastedown, with some later pen trials.
Subject (Name):
Schøyen, Martin--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature., Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character), Chronicles of England., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript binding fragment, on parchment, of part of the text of Lancelot du Lac.
Description:
Accompanied by three unidentified manuscript fragments that were part of the 2002 sale lot., Decoration: illuminated initial with brown penwork., Script: gothic script., and Sotheby's 2002 June 18 sale, lot 4. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., Lancelot (Prose romance), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript bifolium, in a single hand, containing text from chapters 34, 35, and 39 of this prose romance.
Description:
Decoration: Rubricated. Three-line initials in gold against blue and rose grounds., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 52 lines., and Script: gothic script.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Méliadus de Léonnoys.
Manuscript leaves, on parchment, in a single hand, containing lines 8198-8405 and 9612-9811 of this fourteenth-century religious poem.
Description:
Decoration: initials in red and blue., Ex libris Hermann Suchier. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of varying lengths., and Script: bâtarde script.
Subject (Name):
Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--active 14th century. and Suchier, Hermann,--1848-1914--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
French poetry--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Four manuscript fragments from three leaves containing text from Version III of the Roman de Tristan.
Description:
Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: gothic script.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renai, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library.