BEIN 1985 177: Dust jacket., BEIN Iq W883 933F: Dust jacket., BEIN 1974 1548: Dust jacket. Bookplate of Linda Lee Thomas Porter., BEIN Shirley 3710: Dust jacket., "Large Paper Edition"--Dust jacket., "With four original drawings by Vanessa Bell ..."--Dust jacket., "First published, October, 1933."--p. [4], and "Authorities": p. 151.
A group of three Indian men and an Indian boy standing with a seated group of one man and two women, one with a baby, in front of a split log dwelling with a standing dog and one lying behind it.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Domestic., Dogs, Indian women., and Indians of North America.
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
Manuscript kennel book listing "whelps bread" from 1708 to 1727, giving sire, dam, and placement for each. A few pages at the back of the book list hounds given by Orlebar to John Biggs, the Duke of Grafton, and the Earl of Halifax between 1716 and 1726
Description:
Richard Orlebar (1671-1733) attended Trinity College, Oxford and was a member of the Middle Temple and a dedicated hunter. He married the heiress Diana Astry in 1708 and the couple built Hinwick Hall in Bedfordshire between 1709 and 1714. Orlebar served as High Sherriff of Bedfordshire in 1720, and died childless at Hinwick Hall in 1733., In English., Accompanied by a twentieth-century typescript carbon, "The Oakley Hunt.", and Binding: contemporary paper, stitched.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Bedfordshire., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Orlebar, Richard, 1671-1733.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Breeding, Hunting, Hunting dogs, Bedfordshire (England), and Social life and customs
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Moamin, Treatise on Falconry, parts 1-3. 2) Treatise of Dancus rex. 3) Treatise of Guillelmus falconarius. Artt. 4-5: Anonymous treatises on horses. 6) Moamin, part 4, on dogs
Alternative Title:
Moamin
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a small round gothic bookhand by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-37v, 67v-75v; Scribe 2) ff. 39r-67r., One 6-line initial, red and blue, filled with red and blue penwork in a floral pattern. 4-, 2-, and 1-line pen initials, red, with long trailing serifs and blue calligraphic flourishes. 2- and 1-line initials outside text column. On f. 1r, arms of the duchy of Austria (crudely executed; later addition?):, or, two eagles palewise displayed and crowned sable (Hungary): impaled with barry of 6 gules and argent; supported by griffins passant gules; the whole set between thick pink bands. Line-fillers red undulating lines. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Sewn on three supports, the two outer ones leather, the central one tawed skin, laid and nailed in channels in wooden boards. Plain wound primary endbands sewn on a tawed core at the head and a leather one at the tail, laid in grooves and nailed, with a secondary embroidery added. The square spine is lined with vellum between supports. Covered in dark red goatskin, blind-tooled, with four brass catches on the lower board. Leather cracking along joints, clasps wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Animal culture, Dogs, Falconry, Horses, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval