Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a Book of Hours, use of Paris. Includes a Full calendar, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, Seven Requests, and a sonnet, all in French
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Written in Gothic bookhand., Sixteen miniatures from the workshops of the Lucon Master and the Master of the Duke of Bedford, in blue, pink, and gold arched frames, some with cusping. Each miniature with a lavish acanthus border incorporating arms on ff. 77r and 93r. Text pages with a 3/4 bar border, pink, blue and gold, with interlace knots at corners and terminals and delicate rinceaux, in two sizes on different folios. 3-line initials at text opening, two historiated: f. 77r and f. 93r; f. 51r with a blue and gold diapered ground; the remainder, blue with white highlights or in pink and blue acanthus filled with ivy, with blue and orange leaves, on gold, against pink, blue and/or gold grounds with white filigree; framed in gold, often with small ivy or acanthus serifs. 4- to 2-line initials in text and KL monograms, pink or blue with white highlights, filled with ivy, as above. 1-line initials blue, pink and gold with white filigree. Line endings, blue, pink and gold, three (ff. 57r, 102r, 102v) signed by Petrus Gilberti, known to have signed line-endings in at least four other manuscripts. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Gilt edges. Red velvet with a silver fastening and a silver medallion, with unidentified male figure preaching, in center of upper board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Engraved title vignette (medallion-portrait of author), Translation, partly in verse, partly in prose, of Faust, first part., BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in contemporary green quarter morocco and marbled boards, with brown leather corners. First issues of the lithographs, on China paper., and BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is a large paper copy. Bound in red half morocco with marbled boards.
Publisher:
Chez Ch. Motte, Éditeur ... et chez Sautelet, libraire ... and Imprimerie de Gaultier-Laguionie
Subject (Name):
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. and Faust, -approximately 1540
"Portrait of Madame de Maintenon, bust-length directed to right and looking to front, her dark hair in an updo and dressed with pearls, and wearing a pearl earring and a pearl necklace, in an oval frame, surrounded by four medallions celebrating her virtues, and her coat of arms at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Françoise Daubigny Marquise de Maintenon
Description:
Title from text in image., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.1341., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 96 (leaf numbered '145' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Series of 6 numbered postcards with narrative captions depicting a girl in legal attire advocating children's rights.
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a girl in legal attire, advocating children's rights and Legally themed postcards depicting a girl in legal attire, advocating children's rights
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. , Postcards are addressed to Mademoiselle Marie Thérèse Desmons; dates from postmark: Lille, France, 1902 and 1904., Some postcards include manuscript notes below captions., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281671, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.1 tall, In French., and Online resource; description based on print version record.
Series of 5 numbered postcards, with narrative captions, poking fun at the arrogance of the legal profession. The child peasant in need of legal assistance cannot pay the lawyer enough
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting two French children as attorney and peasant and Legally themed postcards depicting two French children as attorney and peasant
Description:
In lower right corner: R.P.I., Postmarked 1904., Title devised by cataloger. , Card number 5 dated 1903 in manuscript. Other manuscript notes on some postcards, some of which are addressed to Mademoiselle B. Devidel and Jeanne Lacaton. , Accompanied by translation., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281709, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.4 tall., In French., and Online resource; description based on print version record.
BEIN 1971 439: Rubricated. Illustration of the Annunciation (B5 recto) completely hand-colored. Bookplate of Clarence Sweet Bement. Ownership inscription of Baron de Jean Haussonville. Contemporary ms. annotations in several hands., Signatures: A-L⁸, M⁴., Colophon: ... acheuees a Paris le huitiesme iour de Mars. Lan mil cinq cẽs et neuf. Par Gillet Hardouyn imprimeur demourant au bout du Pont au Change a lenseigne de al Rose au desboubz de la belle ymage., Printed on vellum., Illustrated t.p., Text within ornamental border., Guide letters for initials., and Contains a number of full-page illustrations, including one of the Annunciation.