- Creator:
- Alagona, Arthelouche de.
- Published / Created:
- 1502.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 162
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Arthelouche de Alagona, La Fauconnerie. Text is defective from ff. 32v-33r; leaf missing after f. 32.
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written by Vincent Philippon in elegant upright batarde., One undistinguished miniature (f. 1r), a falconer standing on a shallow ground, with some blue tinting for sky, set between blue and red columns with gold highlights; a blue and red band above inscribed in gold: "VRAI LVI SERAI AMI." A large coat of arms on f. ii verso (possibly a later addition and now effaced) supported by two angels with a miter above, in brown ink. One blue and red initial (f. 1r), 3- line, against a gold ground. 6- to 1-line initials throughout, brushed gold against blue or red grounds; line-endings, blue or red with gold highlights. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Original sewing on three tawed, slit straps laced in and out of the boards. The spine is square. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with vertical lines of square and diamond shaped tools in a border of flowers in squares. Two ribbon fastenings. The upper board is broken down the center and sewn together. Half the lower board, endbands, ties and leather around the edges of the boards wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alagona, Arthelouche de.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La fauconnerie
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- Creator:
- Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 427
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed).
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written in batarde, with elaborate flourishes and cadeaux in upper and lower margins., The manuscript includes four miniatures which are among the finest by the Master of Amiens 200, active in Hesdin and Mons and possibly in Amiens in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Four half-page miniatures, each with a 6- to 4-line initial, blue with white highlights, filled with red, blue and green ivy, against an irregular gold ground, edged in black, some with cusping. Initial on f. 1r with arms of Crevecoeur family (gules, 3 chevrons or) added later. Folios with miniatures have a blue and gold bar in inner margin, with diamond-shaped terminals and regularly spaced blocks of black hair-spray with two gold ivy leaves in margin; the other three margins with red, blue and green acanthus, with some gold, red and blue flowers, birds, insects, surrounded by blue and gold ivy leaves. 2-line initials, gold, filled with pink or blue against irregular, cusped blue or pink grounds with white filigree. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red, straight-grained goatskin gold-tooled with black onlays over the bands. Light blue, watered silk doublures and gilt edges. Bound by Bozerian (Paris, 1793-1817). Armorial binding of comte L. L. Pajot d'Ons-en-Bray.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Women authors, French
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Livre des trois vertus
- Creator:
- Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 418
- Image Count:
- 644
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Roman de la rose
- Creator:
- Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 659
- Image Count:
- 34
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Berault Stuart (Bernard Stewart, ca. 1452/53-1508), Traite sur l'art de la guerre
- Description:
- In French., Script: Copied by one hand in a small Gothica Hybrida Formata (loopless Bastarda)., Line-fillers in liquid gold on red, blue or brown ground. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) initials on square background, in liquid gold on coloured background or in colour, heightened with white, on liquid gold background decorated with leaves and flowers. Six miniatures., and Binding: Early nineteenth century. Cross-grained red leather over pasteboard, the covers gold-tooled with a decorative border, the turn-ins gold-tooled with dentelle border; brownish marbled endpapers; the spine gold-tooled with flowerets and the title "L'ORDRE D'UN CHEF DE GUERRE PAR D'AUBIGNY".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Military art and science
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Traite sur l'art de la guerre