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
Bound with: Versio trilinguis Italica, Gallica, Hispanica historicorum tractatuum qui adversus episcopi Romani veraveriorem antichristianam tyrannidem, in Latinis tomis operum D. Mart. Lutheri extant : & opusculorum ejusdem quae ex professo in illius commiserandae ecclesiae doctores erroresq[ue] edita sunt / Hironymo Valentino cognomento de Cantoral, interprete ; appositus est ejusdem dialogus appellatus Neophitus, ubi de suscipienda vera fide & gratia evangelij cum silentio, spe, reverentia & humilitate, tractatur, In Latin, Italian, French and Spanish., and Second of two works bound together.
Subject (Name):
Cantoral, Hieronymus Valentinus de
Subject (Topic):
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.
Manuscript on parchment of The Horloge de Sapience, a loose translation and adaptation into French of Henry Suso, Horologium sapientiae. With a Colophon, in French verse, stating that the translation was made by a French Franciscan master of theology at Neufchateau in 1389.
Description:
Binding: 1800-1810, France. Diced brown calf, blind-and gold-tooled. Edges gilt. Stains from turn-ins of early binding on original front parchment pastedown. Rebacked., Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, foliation and underlining, all in red., Purchased from Maggs Bros. of London in 1955 by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written in batarde script, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts and Seuse, Heinrich,--1295-1366
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, French, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Mysticism--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper, composed of two parts. Part I: L'Abuzé en court, a satire on court life in the form of a dialogue, in verse and prose. Part II: Georges Chastellain (c. 1415-1475), Le Temple de Boccace, a continuation to Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium, dedicated to Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England and daughter of René of Anjou (1429/1430-1482), composed 1465.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century. Calfskin over cardboard, the covers simply decorated with a frame of triple blind-tooled fillets. Gold-tooled spine with five raised bands and black leather label with gold-tooled title “LA BUSE / EN / COURT”. Marbled paper endleaves. The two first flyleaves at the end of the book are of the same paper as section I., Part I: Paragraph marks in red. Headings underlined in red. Majuscules heightened in yellow. Red plain initials (2 lines, on f. 1r 3 lines). Spaces for pictures (mostly half-page to three-quarter page) were provided but not executed. Part II: Headings and paragraph marks in red. Red plain initials (2-4 lines). A small picture (height: 7 lines) was provided but not executed on the first page (f. 68r)., Script: Each part written by a single scribe, both writing Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda)., The modern pencil foliation is erroneous, as it has successively ff. 36, 37, 36 bis, 38., and Watermark: Part I: a letter Y surmounted by a cross, var. Briquet 9183?. Part II: Watermark: mermaid, var. Briquet 13858-13859?.
Subject (Name):
Margaret,--of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England,--1430-1482
Subject (Topic):
French literature--To 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Satire, French
Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent. Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. 1210-ca. 1270
Published / Created:
ca. 1400
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 406
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun.
Description:
Imperfect: f. 1r-v mutilated with loss of text and image.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts and Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--14th cent
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Devotional literature, French, Devotional literature--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--Early works to 1800
Christian hagiography, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library