Manuscript sheet, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an anatomical drawing of a seated woman. Text includes descriptions of the different parts of the body
Alternative Title:
Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures : [a large anatomical drawing in color, surrounded by explanatory text]
Description:
In Middle French., Title from heading., Script: humanist hand., Layout: anatomical drawing in center, double columns of 80 lines surrounding and underneath drawing., No text on verso. Used as binding waste., Included in a portfolio (66 x 51 cm.) with eight 58 x 38 cm. color photoreproductions., and Dr. Peter Jones, May, 2003, states that this single sheet most likely is a manuscript copy of the Jean Ruelle fugitive sheet (female figure only) Paris, 1540. cf. Carlino, A. Paper bodies ... London, 1999, page 171.
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Human anatomy, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours with an office for the dead
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand writing in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda)., and Decoration: Purplish red rubrics. Yellow highlighting of the majuscules. 1-line versals and 2- or 3-line initials, all in liquid gold on purplish red or blue square background decorated with foliage or flowers in liquid gold. Initials in red, blue, and gold. On f. 1v, there is a rectangular picture, framed in black and gold and treated as an initial 11 lines high, of God the Father with tiara, sitting, one hand on the globe, the other hand blessing rows of Seraphim and Cherubim before him. Elsewhere yellow-colored fleur-de-lys, animals, archers and a giant insects.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Below image: Cum privil. Regis; Genseos 25., From: Histoire de la Genèse., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Rebekah (Biblical matriarch)., Jacob (Biblical patriarch)., and Esau (Biblical figure).
Subject (Topic):
Childbirth, Twins, Medicine in the Bible, Births, Midwives, Servants, and Beds
Manuscript on trimmed parchment. Note rubrics on ff. 59v, 81r and 101v mentioning "l'eglise catholique" and "Institution catholique", and lengthy prayer against heretics, ff. 103r-106v
Description:
In French., Script: Written and illuminated by Pierre Aymes in a roman and italic script influenced by printing., Thirty-two miniatures, in brown frames, of average quality. 2-line initials, gold, blue or silver against gold, red, green or blue grounds. Bounding lines reinforced in gold and pink. Rubrics throughout. Full border on title page made up of panels framed in gold filled with grotesques, candelabra, masks against pinks grounds., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Sewn on three single, tawed supports laced into the boards. Gilt edges and red- and cream-beaded endbands. Covered in brown calf, gold-tooled all over with strap work and arabesques in concentric frames. Two fastenings, now wanting. Engravings of the Virgin Mary glued to front and back pastedowns. Front pastedown: Virgin and child handing rosary to St. Dominic with legend Psalterii B. Mariae Virginis aut Rosarii inuentur S. Dnic. Back pastedown: S. Maria Mater Dei with four flowers in corners.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
A collection of documents bearing the signatures of rulers or important personages of France; most are preceded or followed by an engraving of the person. Mounted so that both sides of the document are visible
Description:
In French, English, Italian, Latin and Spanish., Collected, mounted and bound in one volume during the 19th century., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark blue goatskin, gilt, by Riviere and Son.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and France
Subject (Name):
Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666., Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589, Charles VIII, King of France, 1470-1498, Charles IX, King of France, 1550-1574, Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836, Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1578-1637, Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547, Francis II, King of France, 1544-1560, Henry II, King of France, 1519-1559, Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589, Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610, Louis XI, King of France, 1423-1483, Louis XII, King of France, 1462-1515, Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643, Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850, Louise, de Savoie, duchesse d'Angoulême, 1476-1531, Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Marie Leszczyńska, Queen, consort of Louis XV, King of France, 1703-1768, Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642, Marie-Thérèse, Queen, consort of Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1683, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873
Manuscript on paper (watermarks buried in gutter) of Jean Franchieres, La fauconnerie. Begins imperfectly in the Prologue and apparently ends at the beginning of Bk. 4, ch. 22.
Description:
In French., Script: Art. 1 written by a single scribe in a sprawling batarde. Notes on ff. 145r-147r added by several later writers., Major headings in red., Loss of text on ff. 145r-146r due to trimming., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Green goatskin, gold-tooled, by the same binder as MS 467.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Franchières, Jean de, ca. 1400-1488.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, French literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Below image: Gene 25., From: Histoire de la Genèse., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Pencil marking in margins.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Abraham (Biblical patriarch).
Subject (Topic):
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medicine in the Bible, Dead persons, Shrouds, Caves, and Tombs
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.