Manuscript on Parchment of a Legendarium, containing Passio sancta Polycarpi, Acta Sanctorum Ian., Agones martyrum mensis Ianuarii libro primo contenti, Miraculum sancti Polycarpi, Liber in Gloria martyrum, Vita sanctae Balthildis, Vita sancti Iuliani Cenomannensis, Vita sanctae Paulae, Vita sancti Iohannis Chrysostomi
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Script: copied by a single hand in Praegothica., Decoration: The first line or word of a text after the initial is written in Uncialis. 1-, 2-, or 3-lined plain intiails in red or blue, some with interior reserved shapes or primitive penwork. Large early flourished initials in brown, red and blue on ff. 115v (8 lines), 117v (7 lines), 119r (7 lines), 122r (7 lines), 127v (7 lines)., and In Latin.
Manuscript on parchment of a Letter of rejoicing, from Henri de la Thuillerie to his father, the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie upon the father's return
Description:
On the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie (1597-1653), see Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise, v. 9, cols. 146-47., In Latin., Script: Written in italic, with larger size of script for headings and proper names., Each page has full border incorporating personifications, coats-of-arms, mottoes, putti, birds, and flowers, in red, blue, green, yellow, gold and silver, all of mediocre quality. On f. 1r, full-page drawing with arms of the Coignet family of Auxerre (azure, 2 swords per saltire argent, hilted to the base or, between 4 crescents argent)., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled with a "seme" pattern of swords and crescents, flames and fleurs-de-lis. Satin doublures. Traces of two fastenings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thuillerie, Henri de la.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment. Formerly known as the "Fouquet Missal", based on the mistaken attribution of the illumination to Fouquet
Description:
In French., Script: Written by a single scribe in formal gothic bookhand., A richly decorated manuscript with an unusual and elaborate program of miniatures by at least four artists: the Master of the Vienna Mamerot, Jean Colombe, a hand close to the Masters of Morgan 96 and 366, and a fourth artist whose hand has not yet been identified in other manuscripts. Each large miniature (107 total) has a full border incorporating four marginal scenes (428 in all) with subjects which either amplify or follow closely from the action of the miniature, disposed with two rectangular scenes in the outer border and two roundels in the lower border. The subsidiary miniatures, framed in red, are surrounded by blue and gold acanthus, flowering vines in green, blue and red, ivy in black pen with gold dots, large, naturalistic flowers, and black hair-spray with gold dots. The borders are framed on the outer edges with a red bounding line, on the inner edges with a red or gold bounding line., 4- and 2-line initials throughout, shaded pink or blue with gold foliate decoration against blue or pink grounds with pink or blue curling leaves, heightened in gold. 1-line initials, gold, against pink or blue grounds with gold filigree. On ff. 6r-13v the 4- and 2-line initials, as well as line-fillers in the same manner, are painted over blue or red initials with red or blue penwork and line fillers in red, blue and gold. The overpainting of this archaizing decoration reflects a change in decorative scheme rather than an interval of three-quarters of a century between the writing and the illumination of the manuscript. Rubrics and some underlining in red throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound in brown goatskin. Blue/green cloth sides with silver fastenings and fittings. On fastenings small roundels with portraits of the evangelists; on clasp a roundel with Annunciation. Numerous Turk's head place-marks on fore edge. Earlier covers, 17th century, mounted inside boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript on parchment, composed of four parts. Written at the end of the 14th century (Parts I, III) and in 1578 (Parts II, IV); the prominence of St. Maclovius (Macutus) suggests that Parts II and IV were produced in Brittany or Normandy
Description:
In Latin., Script: Parts I and III (ff. 1r-40v, 48r-72v): Written in liturgical gothic of two sizes, by one scribe. Parts II and IV (ff. 41r-47v, 73r-102v) were intended to be integrated into the earlier portion: Written in liturgical gothic of the late 16th century, in two sizes by a single scribe; the letters slant slightly toward the left., On f. 48r, a 5-line historiated initial (65 x 58 mm.), white-decorated red and blue on a gold ground, enclosing a priest serving Communion; from the corners sprout blue vines with white, gold, and red trilobe leaves, extending around 3 sides of the page. On f. 1r, an 8-line illuminated initial of white-decorated blue and red (63 x 65 mm.), filled with blue and red trilobe leaves, on a gold ground; the base of the letter is extended around the inner and lower margins as a gold, blue, red, and white bounding line; from the lower two corners of this line and the upper left corner of the initial sprout vines, as for the historiated initial. 3- and 2-line initials in orange-tinted red or blue; rubrics throughout. Square notes in brown on 4-line orange-tinted red staves (the red ink has bled so that the whole written space has an orange glow). Parts II and IV: 4- to 1-line initials in red and blue. Rubrics are sometimes set off on the right side of the page by a narrow vertical border in brown. Musical notation: square notes on 4-line staves, all in brown., and Binding: 1981. Quarter cloth case, retaining brown mottled paper covered boards, 19th century. Traces of earlier bindings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 10line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus flexus; double quotation marks in the margin; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment of a facsimile of the edition Venice, Aldus Manutius, [1495-1497]. In contrast with the edition, in which the Greek text is interleaved with the Latin translation by Marcus Musurus (c. 1470-1517), in the facsimile the Greek text is followed by the Latin translation and the copy of the two woodcuts illustrating the Hero and Leander story is placed between both on ff. 11v-12r
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In Greek and Latin., Script: "Typographic" Greek and Latin script., and Binding: De luxe binding by Francois Bozerian called Bozerian Jeune, 19th century. Black morocco over cardboard, both covers with gold-tooled frame and corner-pieces and the Aldine anchor and dolphin in the centre. Spine with seven raised bands with in the compartments the gold-tooled inscriptions "MUSAEUS", "ALDUS / 1495", "REL.P.BOZERIAN.JEU" and "IN MEMBRAN". The other compartments tooled. Gilt edges. Gold-tooled green silk doublure and silvery silk pasted on the facing flyleaf.
Manuscript on paper of Prayers to be said at various times during the Mass. Composed by Paul Pellisson-Fontanier (1624-93).
Description:
In French., Script: Written by the master calligrapher Jean Pierre Rousselet, a follower of Nicholas Jarry, active in Paris between 1677 and 1736., Two full-page miniatures and nine historiated headpieces in gouache, all in frames best described as resembling the frames of 18th-century mirrors; the frames blue and purple with white highlights and gold side-pieces decorated with red flowers in diamonds; floral swags at bottom. Tail pieces with swags, as above and filled with gold, on f. 48v with the Holy Spirit as a dove. 3- and 2-line initials, blue with white highlights on gold; 1-line initials in red. Titles in gold, red and blue capitals; running headings and rubrics in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Black goatskin, gold-tooled. A red label and salmon pink doublures and flyleaves. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a quodlibetical text, possibly associated with a student of Henry of Ghent
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a small, highly abbreviated gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line initials alternate red and blue, occasionally with red penwork; 1-line initials are in brown capitals, frequently preceded by a paragraph mark which alternates red and blue; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and the virgule; there are marginal corrections written in a contemporary cursive hand as well as numerous corrections within the main body of the text.
Manuscript on parchment of Roman de la Rose. With Poem on Paris of Troy, added in a later hand (15th/16th century); and Poem including the name of the man for whom the volume was copied, Pierre Louvel
Description:
In French., Script: Written in well-formed batarde by one scribe; art. 1 and some marginal notations in a slightly later hand., Inscriptions in almost every miniature to identify the figures. Sixty-six miniatures, 16- to 12-line, framed in gold, on f. 1r with a cusped arch and a full border of blue and gold acanthus at the corners and midpoints, red and blue flowers, and hair-spray with gold leaves, bounded in red and with a gold bar in inner margin. Other miniatures with 3/4 borders in the same style, some with birds. On f. 1r a 4-line initial, blue with white highlights, filled with red and blue ivy against a gold ground. 3- or 2-line initials, gold, with pink and blue grounds with white filigree. Capital at beginning of each verse stroked in yellow., Borders and miniature on f. 1r rubbed. Black ink hair-spray on many borders smeared., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case heavily gold-tooled, with a red label. Gilt, gauffered edges. Motto on upper cover: "Nobilis ira." Bound by Bevan.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. and Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Romances
Manuscript on parchment of Roman de la Rose. Seventeen leaves containing lines 8242-10751 are now missing between ff. 39 and 40; in addition, the text has been abridged to 16272 lines
Description:
In French., Script: Written by a single scribe in neat gothic textura., Plain initials, 2-line, alternating red and blue, throughout the text; headings in red. First letter of most verses stroked with yellow., Slits in parchment on ff. 42-44, some affecting text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. before 1881. A very fine Grolieresque binding in brick red goatskin, gold-tooled, by Riviere.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, French poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
