Manuscript on parchment of Book of Hours printed in Paris, Thielman Kerver for Guillaume Eustace, 20 June 1500. The illuminated leaves, from a Book of Hours for the use of Rouen, between 1475 and 1500, were inserted into the printed Book of Hours before the present-day binding was made (ca. 1600).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., Decoration: Headings in red. Heightening of majuscules in yellow. Rectangular line-fillers decorated with red, blue and gold; 1-line dentelle initials; 2-line foliate initials; 4-5 line historiated initials (artt. 3 and 14); arch-topped miniatures (described above) above 3-4 lines of text, accompanied by 3- or 4-line foliate initials. The pages containing miniatures or historiated initials have full flower and acanthus borders, which may contain additional scenes or grotesques (see artt. 2, 4, 5, 11, 12). The woodcuts are coloured by hand throughout the book. Text pages containing a 2-line foliate initial have outer-margin or inner- and outer-margin borders (the latter on ff. 42 bis r and 64r)., and Binding: Red morocco similar to that of Beinecke MS 662.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Florii Francisci Florentini d'amore Camilli et Emilie Aretinorum, D'amore Camilli et Emilie Aretinorum, and De amore Camilli et Emilie Aretinorum
Description:
BEIN Beinecke MS 907: Imperfect: wormed, with slight loss of text. Blind-stamped quarter pigskin binding over wooden boards; with two metal clasps. Manuscript ownership note on rear pastedown: Anno 1561 22 Febr. 3. g. M. Pauli Bussini Magdeburg. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund. Number 6 of 6 titles bound together., Text is based upon Leonardo Bruni [Aretino]'s De duobus amantibus, which in turn is a Latin translation of the tale of Ghismunda and Guiscardo from Boccaccio's Decameron., Printer Jean Lambert was active in Paris from 1493-1514. Dealer slip in CtY-BR suggests 1505? as the date of imprint. However no reference sources confirm this date., Signatures: a⁶ B-C⁶ D⁴., Woodcut on title page., and Not cited in Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries or Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Jehan Lambert
Subject (Topic):
Fathers and daughters, Love, Murder, Suicide, and Italian literature
BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Hand-ruled and rubricated throughout; capitals supplies in gold on red and blue backgrounds. Hand-colored illustrations are: the printer's device on page [1], the skeleton and surrounding figures on page [2], full-page illustration of Bathsheba and David, full-page illustration of Mary surrounded by emblems (partially reconstructed when original text was removed and replaced with ms. insert?), and 18 small illustrations throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Imperfect: comprising 70 leaves (numbered in pencil), with lacunae after leaves 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 30, 37, 51, 54. Text of leaves 59-60 and 65-66 has been cut out and manuscript text inlaid within the borders instead. The signatures appear to have been erased throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Printed on vellum. Bound in morocco with gilt tooling and edges; emblematical clasp. Dealer's description on front paste-down., BEIN 1971 439: Rubricated. Printed on vellum. Illustration of the Annunciation (page [25]) completely hand-colored. Armorial bookplate of Clarence Sweet Bement. Ownership inscription of Baron de Jean Haussonville. Contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands on the final pages, indicating events occurring in specific years. Brown blind-tooled leather binding., Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴., Title from title-page on page [1], which bears Gilles Hardouyn's printer's device - all within an architectural frame. The device is repeated on page [184]., Imprint from colophon on page [184]: "Les presentes heures a lusaige de Ro[m]me tout au long sans rien requerir. Ont este acheuees a paris le huitiesme iour de Mars. Lan mil cinq ce[n]s et neuf. Par Gilet Hardouyn Imprimeur demourant au bout du pont au change a lenseige de la Rose desoub[-]z de la belle ymage"., Almanac on page [3] covers years 1508-1520, in French., In a Gothic type., Illustrated throughout with 19 full page illustrations, and several smaller cuts within the text., With a decorative border (primarily historiated or architectural) to every page., "R" (for Rome) on first four leaves of each quire, in a line with the signature., Initial spaces., and Collation and signatures given according to P. Lacombe, Livres d'Heures imprimés au XVe et au XVIe siècle, 199.
BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Hand-ruled and rubricated throughout; capitals supplies in gold on red and blue backgrounds. Hand-colored illustrations are: the printer's device on page [1], the skeleton and surrounding figures on page [2], full-page illustration of Bathsheba and David, full-page illustration of Mary surrounded by emblems (partially reconstructed when original text was removed and replaced with ms. insert?), and 18 small illustrations throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Imperfect: comprising 70 leaves (numbered in pencil), with lacunae after leaves 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 30, 37, 51, 54. Text of leaves 59-60 and 65-66 has been cut out and manuscript text inlaid within the borders instead. The signatures appear to have been erased throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Printed on vellum. Bound in morocco with gilt tooling and edges; emblematical clasp. Dealer's description on front paste-down., BEIN 1971 439: Rubricated. Printed on vellum. Illustration of the Annunciation (page [25]) completely hand-colored. Armorial bookplate of Clarence Sweet Bement. Ownership inscription of Baron de Jean Haussonville. Contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands on the final pages, indicating events occurring in specific years. Brown blind-tooled leather binding., Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴., Title from title-page on page [1], which bears Gilles Hardouyn's printer's device - all within an architectural frame. The device is repeated on page [184]., Imprint from colophon on page [184]: "Les presentes heures a lusaige de Ro[m]me tout au long sans rien requerir. Ont este acheuees a paris le huitiesme iour de Mars. Lan mil cinq ce[n]s et neuf. Par Gilet Hardouyn Imprimeur demourant au bout du pont au change a lenseige de la Rose desoub[-]z de la belle ymage"., Almanac on page [3] covers years 1508-1520, in French., In a Gothic type., Illustrated throughout with 19 full page illustrations, and several smaller cuts within the text., With a decorative border (primarily historiated or architectural) to every page., "R" (for Rome) on first four leaves of each quire, in a line with the signature., Initial spaces., and Collation and signatures given according to P. Lacombe, Livres d'Heures imprimés au XVe et au XVIe siècle, 199.
BEIN 1973 Folio 10: Sheet measures 61.2 x 96.4 cm. Bookplate of José M. Rodriguez. No. 55 of 63 maps bound together., Relief shown pictorially., Ferro meridian., "Cordier, sculp.", Bar scales given in "Stadia," "mille Passus," "milliaria unius horae," "leucae Gallicae," and "Dietce.", and Appears in Jaillot's Atlas françois; cf. Pastoureau, M. Les atlas français, Jaillot II A, 100.
Parthenice tertia, Parthenice tertia Baptistae Mantuani divarum Margarit[a]e, Agathes, Luci[a]e & Apoloni[a]e agonas continens, and Parthenice tertia Baptistae Mantuani divarum Margarit[a]e, Agathes, Luci[a]e et Apoloni[a]e agonas continens
Description:
BEIN Beinecke MS 907: Imperfect: wormed, with slight loss of text. Extensive interlinear and marginal manuscript annotations in the first half of the text, some bled. Blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards; with two metal clasps. Manuscript note on rear pastedown: Anno 1561 22 Febr. 3. g. M. Pauli Bussini Magdeburg. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund. Number 5 of 6 titles bound together., Commentary by Josse Badius., Printer and date of imprint from colophon., Signatures: A⁴ 3A-3C⁸ 3D⁴ 3E-3I⁸ 3K⁴ 3L-3M⁸ (3M8 blank)., Includes index., and Colophon: Explicitum est hoc opus agonum quattuor diuarum virginum Parisius impressum Pro Ioanne Petit. Commorante in vico diui Iacobi Sub Leone argenteo. Anno d[omi]ni. 1507 die 9 Mensis Iulii.
Publisher:
Jean Petit
Subject (Name):
Margaret, of Antioch, Saint, Lucy, Saint, -304, Agatha, Saint, -approximately 250, and Apollonia, Saint, -249
Signatures: a8-i8, k8, l7 (one preliminary and two final leaves are genuine blanks). and With manuscript notes on leaves 88-89, some color lettering, and hand numbered pages 1-172.
Herbarius, Rogatu plurimorum in opum nummorum egentium appotecas refutantium occasione illa quia necessaria ibidem ad corpus egrum spectantium sunt cara ..., and Herbarius latinus
Description:
Title from incipit on leaf pi2r., Imprint from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke., Signatures: pi⁴ a-u⁸ x¹⁰ (pi1 blank)., Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants., Initial spaces, some with guide-letters., Pages [1]-[2] are blank., Text in Latin; plant names under many of the woodcuts given in Latin and French., Includes some red lettering., and BAC Leaf Collection no. 0427: Imperfect: 3 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
