- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Lebegue, Jean - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 274
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Inscription along upper edge of f. iii verso indicates that Louis Malet de Graville, admiral de France (1441/50-1516) bequeathed the volume to his daughter Anne Malet de Graville. and Manuscript on paper of Leonardo Bruni, De bello punico, translated into French by Jean Lebegue; made, and presented in 1445, for Charles VII of France (1422-1461).
- Alternative Title:
- De bello punico
- Description:
- Belonged to Lucius Wilmerding; purchased at the sale of his estate by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1960 to Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Sixteenth century, France. Olive green goatskin, roughly gold-tooled with the arms of Claude d'Urfe in the center and a monogram of his initial (C) with that of his wife, Jeanne de Balzac (I) in the corners, together with cornucopiae, caducei, laurel and flaming altars. Gilt edges. Corners repaired., Red and blue divided initials, 5-line, on ff. 1r, 2v, 4v, and for major text divisions thereafter. 3- to 2-line plain red or blue initials throughout. Initials alternate red and blue for tables on ff. 1r-2v. Multi-line headings in red sharply indented toward right. Guideletters for illuminator., Script: Written by a single scribe in an elegant batarde script that sits above the line, rather than on it., and Watermarks: closest to Briquet Armoiries-Trois fleurs de lis 1686.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Punic wars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A anne de Grauille de la succession de feu monsieur L'admiral
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1760]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 109
- Image Count:
- 51
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Le veau d'or, an unidentified alchemy in French. 2) Le rosaire des philosophes, an unidentified text incorporating many borrowings from medieval alchemy. 3) W.R., Experimentum verae confectionis philosophorum lapidis, in Latin, partly extracted from Geber and Eirenaeus Philaletha.
- Alternative Title:
- Le veau d'or
- Description:
- Binding: Original mottled calf, the flat back divided into compartments by fold rules, floral ornaments gold-stamped in the compartments, modern leather title label on backstrip, original red edges; hinges, corners, and edges repaired., In French and Latin., Mellon MS 17, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Script: Written in an elegant cursive sloping to the right with many words tied together by ligatures., and Watermarks: Paper of endleaves with unidentified armorial watermark and countermark "FIRAILLE (?) FIN BOURGOGNE 1742," unidentified; paper of the text with the Amsterdam arms and countermark "FIN DE LECHALLE (?)," unidentified.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
- Creator:
- Lucan, 39-65
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1225]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 332
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Lucan, Bellum civile, with scholia. Preceded by Epitaphium Lucani, 4 lines only.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Light brown pigskin, blind-tooled, with brass fastenings., Decorative initials, red or blue, 12- to 4-line, with simple designs in opposite color, for each book. Rubrics added sporadically. Plan of Brindisi appears in the margin of f. 15v (II.610) to illustrate Caesar's siege of the city; on f. 47v is a schematic circular drawing of Paulus in the center, surrounded by Pelion, Ossa, Otrix, Pindus and Olympus., Rubbing, staining, trimming of leaves, and worm holes result in some loss of text and scholia., and Script: Main text written above and below top line in a small early gothic bookhand by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-37r; Scribe 2) ff. 37v-91v. First letter of each verse written to left of text between double rulings or on middle of three rulings; right-hand margin justified. Scholia, primarily at beginning of codex, written in a contemporary hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History
- Subject (Name):
- Lucan,--39-65
- Subject (Topic):
- Historical poetry, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bellum civile, with scholia
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1115]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 414
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of what appears to be the second of a two-volume Bible.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Red velvet case. Leather placemarks on fore edge., Script: Written in an elegant French minuscule, chapter divisions added in margins by a later hand., and Twenty-seven fine aniconic initials, 20- to 7-lines. The initials are drawn in black pen, filled with yellow, brown or blue, most with interlace knots at midpoints and terminals, some with dragon heads, infilled with intertwining palmette foliage against irregular red, blue, green, and yellow panelled grounds. Prologues open with 10- to 4-line initials, red and blue with terminals in a leafy "arabesque" design. Chapters with 3-line initials in red. 1-line initials, running headings, and rubrics throughout. Marginalia sometimes outlined in red.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 121
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Les livres du roy Modus et de la royne Ratio. 2) Le bon chien Soullart (in verse).
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter purple leather with textured cloth sides., Penwork drawing (with red added) of the hound, Soullart, on f. 59r; drawing of a lion (?) in same style on f. 60r. Simple decorative initials and headings in red, blue and/or black; some with calligraphic penwork designs and grotesques extending into margins. Paragraph marks, underlining, and highlights, in red., Script: Written by a single scribe in a running script, with a more formal style of writing for headings., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tete de cerf 15548, Tete de boeuf 14247, and unidentified unicorn.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dogs, French literature--To 1500, French poetry--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Mathematics, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Livre du roy Modus, etc.
- Creator:
- Barnaud, Nicolas, b. 1538 or 9
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1710]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 83
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an unidentified alchemical text illustrated with eighteen inserted drawings with captions relating them to the text.
- Description:
- Attribution of the text to Nicolas Barnaud appears uncertain., Binding: Original French calf binding, the otherwise plain covers with double perimeter border of gold-tooled lines, back divided into six compartments by five raised bands, the compartments outlined by a double gold rule and with a fleuron in the center, except for title "SOLI DONIV PHVS" impressed in gold in second compartment from top, red-speckled edges, head and foot of spine repaired., Script: Written in a good French cursive hand sloping to the right., and Watermarks: Text paper quite browned, with watermark of rays (?) within a double circle, with inscription, not identified; paper of leaves with drawings thicker and whiter, no watermark observed.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Solidonius philosophus