- Creator:
- Robert, de Boron, 13th cent
- Published / Created:
- 1357.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 227
- Image Count:
- 638
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Robert de Borron, Joseph d'Arimathie. 2) Robert de Borron, Lestoire de Saint Graal. 3) Robert de Borron, Lestoire de Merlin. Lestoire de Merlin was copied in 1357, by Jehan de Loles. The other two works are probably contemporary, but rubbing on the first folio of each work suggests that they were once bound separately
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written by five scribes in gothic textura. Scribe 1: ff. 1r-11r (Joseph d'Aramathie). Scribes 2: ff. 12r-83v and 3: ff. 84r-140r (Lestoire de Saint Graal). Scribe 4: ff. 141r-317v (Lestoire de Merlin), except ff. 149r-156v, the second gathering, written by Scribe 5. Scribe 4 is identified as Jehan de Loles from the colophon. Guides for rubrics written in lower or inner margin. Inscriptions adjoining miniatures in 14th-century cursive, brown or black ink, are possibly either later identifications or instructions to the minaturist., The decoration, the work of four hands, is of relatively poor quality. Three large miniatures, 11- to 13-line and two column, blue and/or red frames, gold squares in corners, surrounded by a thin gold band, with gold ivy leaves on black hair-lines at midpoints and corners. Miniatures accompanied by 3/4 bar borders, red, blue and gold, with white highlights; dragon and ivy terminals, with additional ivy extending from the gold segments. 182 small miniatures, 8-line, one column, most in bottom margin, suggesting execution after the original illumination had been completed: thin gold, red, and blue frames, single gold ivy leaf on hair-line stem at each corner; gold and diapered grounds., One historiated initial, f. 186v, 3-line, red against a blue and gold ground, knight and three men outside tent. Illuminated initials, 6- to 4-line, for books and chapters, red against irregular blue grounds with white highlights; gold dots in cusps at corners, infilled with blue and red ivy against gold. 2-line initials (guide-letters remain), gold, against irregular blue, orange, and red grounds with white highlights; black hair-lines at corners. Rubrics in red throughout, with guides for rubrics written in lower or inner margin., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Worn purple velvet over boards, with massive brass corner pieces and fastenings; plaque with arms removed from front cover. Made for Henri, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Robert, de Boron, 13th cent.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arthurian romances, French literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arthurian romances
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- 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
- Creator:
- D'esclavonie, Georges
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 497
- Image Count:
- 128
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Georges d'Esclavonie (canon of the Cathedral of Tours), letter to Dame Isabelle de Villeblanche, a nun at the Benedictine convent of Beaumont-les-Tours; the work was apparently presented to her 31 December 1411, and this would seem to be an early copy
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat gothic script with batarde influence. Annotations and corrections by a contemporary hand., One simple initial on f. 1r (4-line) in red; other plain initials (3-line) alternating red and blue. Headings, paragraph marks, strokes on initials, in red., Water damage in lower margin of most leaves, ff. 13-54., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red straight-grained goatskin, wide gold-tooled floral border, with owner Richard Weir's "broken cable" roll. Gold-tooled panels on spine. Edges gilt. Title on spine: CURIEUX/ MSS SUR VELLIN.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- D'Esclavonie, Georges. and Benedictines.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Chateau de virginite
- 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:
- Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 33
- Image Count:
- 246
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Roman de la rose
- Creator:
- Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 216
- Image Count:
- 542
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Raoul LeFevre, Le Recueil des histoires de Troies. With Author's Prologue to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
- Description:
- In French., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Lettres et Monogrammes 9747., Script: Written in bold batarde by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-125r; Scribe 2) 125r-262r., On f. 6r, a 4-line initial in red and black, crude. 3- to 1-line plain initials and paragraph marks, in red. Rubrics, sometimes with calligraphic flourishes extending into margins, throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Yellow edges. Blue diced calf, gold-tooled, with red labels.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Troy (Extinct city)
- Subject (Name):
- Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460. and Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 1396-1467.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le recueil des histoires de Troies
- Creator:
- Bovet, Honore
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 605
- Image Count:
- 148
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Honore Bovet (often erroneously named Bonet, c. 1345-1405), L'arbre des batailles, composed between 1386 and 1389
- Description:
- In French., Accompanied by: Typescript of an English translation by G. W. Coopland: The Tree of battles of Honore Bonet (sic). With a hitherto unpublished historical interpolation translated by G. A. Knowlson ... Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949. Catalogued as Beinecke MS 605a., Watermark: similar to Briquet 389 (?)., Script: Probably copied by one hand, writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Bastarda)., In art. 1 red heightening of the majuscules. In art. 2 paragraph marks and underlining in red; red 2-line plain initials; at the opening of the text (f. 5r) 4-line red and blue littera duplex without penwork. Guide-letters., and Binding: ca. 1900 by Chambolle-Duru. Crimson morocco over cardboard, preserved in fleece-lined folder. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled title: "L'ARBRE DES BATAILLES PAR HONORE BONNET - MANUSCRIT DU QUINZIEME SIECLE". Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bovet, Honore.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Military art and science, and Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'arbre des batailles
- Creator:
- Franchières, Jean de, ca. 1400-1488
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 90
- Image Count:
- 343
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (watermarks buried in gutter) of Jean Franchieres, La fauconnerie. Begins imperfectly in the Prologue and apparently ends at the beginning of Bk. 4, ch. 22.
- Description:
- In French., Script: Art. 1 written by a single scribe in a sprawling batarde. Notes on ff. 145r-147r added by several later writers., Major headings in red., Loss of text on ff. 145r-146r due to trimming., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Green goatskin, gold-tooled, by the same binder as MS 467.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Franchières, Jean de, ca. 1400-1488.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry, French literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La fauconnerie
10.
- 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