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1. Devotions
- Published / Created:
- [between 1575 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 498
- Image Count:
- 335
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on trimmed parchment. Note rubrics on ff. 59v, 81r and 101v mentioning "l'eglise catholique" and "Institution catholique", and lengthy prayer against heretics, ff. 103r-106v
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written and illuminated by Pierre Aymes in a roman and italic script influenced by printing., Thirty-two miniatures, in brown frames, of average quality. 2-line initials, gold, blue or silver against gold, red, green or blue grounds. Bounding lines reinforced in gold and pink. Rubrics throughout. Full border on title page made up of panels framed in gold filled with grotesques, candelabra, masks against pinks grounds., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Sewn on three single, tawed supports laced into the boards. Gilt edges and red- and cream-beaded endbands. Covered in brown calf, gold-tooled all over with strap work and arabesques in concentric frames. Two fastenings, now wanting. Engravings of the Virgin Mary glued to front and back pastedowns. Front pastedown: Virgin and child handing rosary to St. Dominic with legend Psalterii B. Mariae Virginis aut Rosarii inuentur S. Dnic. Back pastedown: S. Maria Mater Dei with four flowers in corners.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devotions
2. Devotions
- Published / Created:
- 1557.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 314
- Image Count:
- 223
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality: many ends, some stitched pieces; trimmed) of Suffrages and Prayers. Reputed to have been made for Marguerite de Valois, duchess of Savoy (1523-74), though there is no evidence of this within the manuscript
- Description:
- In Latin and French., Script: Written in batarde by several persons., Forty-six miniatures of very poor quality, the majority 10- to 8-lines, rectangular and full width of folio, framed in brown ink; four others (ff. 42v, 53r, 73v, and 104v) 5- to 4-lines, square, in gold frames edged in blue. 4- to 3-lines initials, ff. 1r-7v only, silver or gold on magenta or blue irregular grounds, with gold or silver filigree. 2- and 1-lines initials in red. Line-fillers in red and brown floral patterns. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Resewn on four very small vegetable fiber cords. The spine of the cover shows that the earlier supports were nearly flat and double and that there were two half-bands near head and tail. Red edges. Covered in yellow/brown calf, blind-tooled with a central panel filled with strap work inside floral borders. A rectangle of leather near the center is painted red and "Margveritte de Savoye" is tooled near the head of the lower board. The cover has been made into a case or hollow-backed binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devotions
3. Horologium sapientiae
- Creator:
- Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 145
- Image Count:
- 380
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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:
- In French., Script: Written in batarde script, below top line., Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, foliation and underlining, all in red., and 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366. and Franciscans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Devotional literature, French, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mysticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Horologium sapientiae
4. La passe solitaire
- Creator:
- Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550
- Published / Created:
- [between 1509 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1201
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 178
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, incomplete, containing the text of a prose allegorical pilgrimage of the soul. The narrator's soul is led by Dame Inspiration to the Fountain of Penitence (Fontaine de penitence); after being washed there, the soul continues her journey toward the Promised Land (Terre de promission) on the Ship of Penitence (Navire de penitence).
- Description:
- In Middle French., Laid in: autograph letter,signed, from the Liverpool bookseller Jaggard to Allan Heywood Bright, 1896 April 27, concerning the unknown early provenance of the manuscript. With autograph and typed notes by Allan Heywood Bright, 1898 and undated., Title from ownership inscription by Remy Megret (f80r)., Opening sentence: Les continuelles meditationes de la volubilite et soudaine mutation des creatures raisonnables., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Script: gothic bastarda., and Decoration: 13 large full-color miniatures in architectural frames illustrating various events in the allegorical pilgrimage of the author's soul, guided by Dame Inspiration. The opening miniature is full-page and depicts the author asleep beneath a tree hung with her coat of arms. Other subjects include: the soul, accompanied by Dame Inspiration, begins her pilgrimage to the Fontaine de Penitence f.9; Inspiration explains to the soul what needs to be done in order to reach the Fontaine de Penitence f.11, the soul, carried on the back of Inspiration, flies to the Château de Contention diabolique f.17, Inspiration and the soul meet Raison f.20; the soul enters the Chemin de Crainte de Dieu f.35; souls are cleansed in the Fontaine de Penitence f.47; the soul sets off on her journey to the Terre de Promission f.50v; the company journey to the coast where they find boats awaiting them f.53; the company embark f.58; the company sets off on the Navire de Penitence f.61; the company is attacked by seven other boats f.63; the company is swept up by the Vent de Hypocrisie f.69v.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550. and Megret, Remy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Allegories, Devotional literature, French, French prose literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Soul, Women, Conduct of life, and Women authors, French
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La passe solitaire
5. Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc
- Creator:
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 406
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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:
- In Latin and French., Script: Composed of two distinct parts. Written by multiple scribes in cursive, with or without loops., Part I (ff. 1r-92v): illustrated with 79 column miniatures; two others on ff. 83v and 85r have been cut out. The miniatures are simple pen drawings, tinted pink, red, tan, purple, and blue, in pen-ruled frames, tinted in yellow; on ff. 18r and 22r with ivy leaves on hair-line stems at corners and centers. On f. 16v an unframed drawing of the carpenter's pax. 2-line initials throughout, red or blue with black or red penwork. First letter of each verse stroked in yellow. Proper names in red., Part II (ff. 93r-129r, 129v-141v) has two distinct formats. Between ff. 93r and 135r (art. 5), two 2-line initials, red, with simple brown penwork. Some capitals stroked in red or yellow. Between ff. 135v and 141r (art. 6), three crude tinted drawings, red, green and brown, in initials, either divided red and brown with red flourishes and dots, or red, with a scroll and a fish incorporated. Three drawings cut out from ff. 135v, 136v and 137r. Space left for one drawing on f. 139r and for two on f. 140v. 2-line initials in red, some with red penwork., Folio 1r-v damaged, with loss of text and parts of miniatures., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and a red label. Edges spattered red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century. and Franciscans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Cosmography, Devotional literature, Devotional literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc
6. Prieres de la messe
- Creator:
- Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693
- Published / Created:
- [between 1700 and 1750]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 464
- Image Count:
- 117
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prieres de la messe
