- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 776
- Image Count:
- 256
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'Abuzé en court; Georges Chastellain, Le Temple de Boccace
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 121
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Livre du roy Modus, etc.
13.
- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604
- Published / Created:
- 1388 January.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1152
- Image Count:
- 381
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing a possibly unique French translation of the Prologue and first five books of the Moralia in Job, copied in Chimay.
- Alternative Title:
- Moralia in Job. French
- Description:
- Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 91). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 28) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2011., Binding: nineteenth-century full blue calf, gold-tooled., and Script: written in a single gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Job--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Moralia in Job.
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [between 1190 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1110
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment.
- Description:
- Schøyen MS 652.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Physics--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Physica 6.2 (233)-6.4 (234)
15.
- Creator:
- Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1260]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1132
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Troy (Extinct city)--Legends
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature--To 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Roman de Troie
- Creator:
- Claudianus, Claudius
Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Martin, of Braga, Saint, ca. 515-579 or 80
Publilius, Syrus, 1st cent. B.C
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148? - Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1175]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 45
- Image Count:
- 236
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (good quality) of 2) Jerome, Prologus beati Ieronimi presbyteri. 3) Ps.-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae, Neronis imperatoris magistri, ad Paulum apostolum et Pauli apostoli ad Senecam. 4) Complete 6-line text of Anthologia latina 667. 5) Seneca, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales. 6) Seneca, De beneficiis libri vii. 7) Seneca, De clementia libri ii. 8) Martin of Braga, Formula vitae honestae. 9) Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum liber. 10) 19 sententiae attributed to Publilius Syrus and Seneca. 11) Claudian, Excerpta. 12) William of Saint-Thierry, De tribus dicendi generibus. Written in the Cistercian abbey at Igny near Rheims.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Bound in light brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and red label: "Opera Senecae MS". Red edges. Mended at tail. Discoloration from bosses (?) of earlier binding on first and last leaves., Carefully drawn monochrome initials with modest penwork designs, 12- to 2-line, in red, green and blue. Headings in red., and Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand; arts. 11-12 in less expert hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Cistercians and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Ethics, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Seneca; Claudian, etc.
- Creator:
- Barnaud, Nicolas, b. 1538 or 9
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1710]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 83
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an unidentified alchemical text illustrated with eighteen inserted drawings with captions relating them to the text.
- Description:
- Attribution of the text to Nicolas Barnaud appears uncertain., Binding: Original French calf binding, the otherwise plain covers with double perimeter border of gold-tooled lines, back divided into six compartments by five raised bands, the compartments outlined by a double gold rule and with a fleuron in the center, except for title "SOLI DONIV PHVS" impressed in gold in second compartment from top, red-speckled edges, head and foot of spine repaired., Script: Written in a good French cursive hand sloping to the right., and Watermarks: Text paper quite browned, with watermark of rays (?) within a double circle, with inscription, not identified; paper of leaves with drawings thicker and whiter, no watermark observed.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Solidonius philosophus
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1775]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 121
- Image Count:
- 75
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an alchemical text with illustrations of procedures pictured symbolically as taking place in flasks.
- Description:
- Binding: Modern English (?) binding of stiff parchment, the upper cover with a painting in colors closely copying the watercolor drawing which occurs as fig. XXIV on f. 27r of the manuscript. Plain edges., In Latin and French., Mellon MS 124, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Script: Written in a practiced cursive sloping to the right, sometimes carelessly but with care taken in the captions, the writing sometimes very small., and Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a crowned cartouche, a conventional design on the shield, the name "D & C Blauw" below; compare the much larger (later?) examples cited by Heawood, 3267-3268.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Thesaurus thesaurorum.
- Creator:
- Nicolas, de Byard
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 942
- Image Count:
- 294
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Nicolaus de Byard (ca. 1250), Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus, often improperly titled Summa de abstinentia (themes treated in alphabetical order). 2) Readings for the liturgical year, referring to the chapters of Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus, arranged as follows: the Vespers on Saturdays; Temporale and the feast of the Dedication of the church; Sanctorale ("De sanctis"), at the same time Common of the Saints.
- Description:
- Binding: Spine with four raised bands. On the spine and partly on the covers, an 18th century paper title label with handwritten inscription "Ancien / Manuscrit / sur / Velin / Complet / et ********" (cfr. MSS 940 and 941)., Headings and underlining in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2-line half inset flourished initials, respectively with penwork at the opening of the chapters, with guide letters. 6-line littera duplex with penwork in the same colours on f. 1v (opening of art. 2). Red heigthening of the majuscules in artt. 1 and 3., and Script: Probably copied by one hand, writing a small, rapid Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria with numerous abbreviations.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions and Nicolas,--de Byard
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus