- Published / Created:
- between 1450 and 1500
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 514
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- 128r: Signature of Jannette Brongnart, Binding: Modern limp vellum with two pairs of white leather ties. The preceding 19th-century binding is preserved: dark brown leather over cardboard, both covers framed with blind-tooled fillets; spine with four raised bands and gold-tooled title: HEURES DE SENLIS; gilt edges., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Hours, Undetermined Use, with French Calendar. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment. Written by a single scribe in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda) in two sizes. The ascenders on the top line often have calligraphic extensions., Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. All initials (1- or 2-lines) are on a rectangular background and are executed in paint and liquid gold. At the opening of the various Hours there are 4-line initials of the same type, always accompanied by full acanthus borders and an arch-topped miniature. The borders are framed in gold and may also contain leaves, flowers, fruit, birds., and Senlis use according to the inscription on the binding, but this use is not documented. The saints in the Calendar and in the Litany point to Northern France and Hainault.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours, undetermined use, with French Calendar
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- Creator:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc.
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1450]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a58
- Image Count:
- 442
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura brevium; the text of The old tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."
- Description:
- A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34., Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis., Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue., In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering)., Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., and Script: English book hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Edward--III,--King of England,--1312-1377 and Taussig, Anthony
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--England--Early works to 1800, Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Writs--England--Early works to 1800, and Writs--Great Britain--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natura brevium and other works.