The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
August, with a feast for every day, important feasts distinguished by red ink and larger script. The computistical data are Golden Number, Day Letter and Roman Calendar without the numerals. Includes Nicasius (16 August!), Piatus (17 August!), Amandus (20 August!), Louis (25 August, in red), Fiacrius (30 August)., f. 1r-v // Aoust. KL. viii c Saint Pierre ... e KL. Saint Paulin., Heightening in yellow of majuscules. One 2-line dentelle initial for "KL." On both pages an unframed outer rinceaux border., On parchment., and Written in Northern Textualis Formata marked by the bold shape of the closing stroke of the upper bow of double-bow a.
"AA" (otherwise unidentified). Formerly owned by Louis-Jean Gaignat. Formerly owned by Louis de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière. Formerly owned by Abbé Lecuy. Formerly owned by Henry Pelham, 7th Duke of Newcastle (Clumber Park). Ex libris Maurice Burrus. Purchased from Christie's on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017., Binding: 18th-century full red morocco, gilt. Gilt-tooled six-compartment spine. Spine title in second compartment, in gilt: Alain Charti., Byname: Clumber Park Chartier., Contents: Le quadrilogue invectif (1r-17r) -- Les complaintes des quatre dames (Le livre des quatre dames) (18r-38v) -- Lay de paix (39r-40v) -- Le livre d'esperance (41r-83r) -- Le breviaire des nobles (83r-86v) -- copy the rest from the thing in EC folder) get the format for the note from DCRMMSS and AMREMM, and Modern foliation, in pencil, 1-136.
Subject (Name):
Burrus, Maurice--Bookplate., Caulier, Achille., Chartier, Alain,--active 15th century., Dunois Master,--active 1430-1465., Ferrell, Elizabeth E, Ferrell, James K.--Ownership., Gaignat, Louis Jean,--1697-1768, Granson, Oton de,---1397., Gréban, Simon,---approximately 1473., La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc,--duc de,--1708-1780, Lecuy, Abbé., Newcastle, Henry Pelham,--Duke of,--1811-1864, and Taillevent,--approximately 1315-1395.
Subject (Topic):
French literature--To 1500., French poetry--To 1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Fribois, Noël de, fl. 1400-1468 Gréban, Simon, d. ca. 1473
Published / Created:
[ca. 1595]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1029
Image Count:
241
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Noël de Fribois (d. 1467/1468), Abrégé des croniques de France, presented to King Charles VII of France in 1459. 2) Simon Gréban (d. ca. 1473), Epitaph for King Charles VII (1461). 3) Moral aphorisms in the form of distichs. 4) Moral aphorisms in French after the manner of the Disticha Catonis, perhaps by the same author as art. 3. 5) Catalogue of the library of Jaspar Scaeck, apparently a lawyer in northern France (Lille?). The 57 books, listed without a clear order, are almost all in French and were printed between 1534 and 1595, with one book dated 1495; they mostly were produced in Paris, Lyons, Douai and Antwerp. For each the owner gives a full transcription of the title page, reproducing its layout (exceptionnally also the colophon); for the last two items also a note on the binding.
Description:
21 blank leaves at end not digitized., Binding: Binding ca. 1500??: blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Spine with four raised bands. On the front cover a parchment label with the sixteenth century inscription in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata "Cronicques / abreigiés"., Script: Part I (ff. 1-76), ca. 1450, Copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Bastarda). Part II (ff. 77-88), between 1490 and 1500, Copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Currens (Bastarda). Part III (ff. 89-113), after 1613, Written in documentary Gothica Cursiva Currens., and Watermarks: Part I, ox, Briquet 2786?? Part II, letter P, var. Briquet 8576??
Subject (Geographic):
France--History
Subject (Name):
Fribois, Noël de,--fl. 1400-1468
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, French poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Complete, with signature marks a-x in the centre lower margin of the rectos of the first half of each gathering, 40 lines written in brown ink in a semi-cursive bookhand between 2 verticals and 41 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 244 x 135mm, one-line initials of liquid gold on grounds of red or blue, line-endings of similar colours, each 'Harangue' opening with a four- or five-line illuminated initial of gold and colours of varying forms, including architectural, foliate or zoomorphic staves, Full-page frontispiece miniature in architectural frame. 16th-century green velvet, brass pins and enamelled brass clasps with the arms of Franois II, duc de La Rochefoucauld and his wife Anne of Polignac, boards replaced by the Bibliothque nationale in Paris in 1879.
From the library of Anne De Polignac. Original binding. and Manuscript of Harangues et oraisons des anciens. With fragments of 15th-century printed books from Angoulieve and related notes and letters.
Christian hagiography, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of 1-2) Registrum brevium. 3) Novae narrationes (in Anglo-Norman). 4) Part of an article of indenture (13 lines; 18th-century hand), in English, concerning William Jenninges of Birmingham.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords laced into flush wooden boards. The covering extends over the endbands and is sewn around them. Traces of a secondary embroidery. Spine lined with tawed skin extending to outside of boards. Covered with tawed, cream-colored skin. A brass catch on the lower cover and traces of a clasp attachment on the first few leaves. Lower board detached, upper board and most of the spine covering wanting, probably for some time., In Latin and Anglo-Norman., Lower half of ff. 33, 78 torn; large portions of text stained and illegible., Script: Written in small, cramped anglicana by one scribe., and Twelve illuminated initials (crudely drawn and much rubbed), in dark red, blue, gold, green, and orange, with simple borders extending the length of the folio. Paragraph marks in blue or gold throughout.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law--Great Britain, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple hands, of a complete set of the statutes of England from 1327 to 1427. In Law French with Latin headings.
Description:
Binding: early flexible binding, designed to accomodate further additions of leaves, with stiff leather covers stitched on with leather thongs; original bands and sewing visible. "Edw. Bennett" cut into upper cover in a later hand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., Foliation provided by cataloger., Formerly owned by William Elwys; Edward Bennett; T. Butler; Colin Franklin. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 30-36 lines., Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in a number of hands., Ownership inscription: "T. Butler 1759" on first leaf (1r)., Ownership inscription: "Wilelmo Elwys" on first leaf (1r) and final leaf (269v)., and Script: several secretary scripts.
Subject (Name):
Elwys, William--Autograph., England.--Parliament., and Franklin, Colin--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Feudal law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.