Manuscript on parchment of Cuvelier (ca. 1350-1400), Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin
Description:
Script: Probably copied by one hand only, writing in a small Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Bastarda). The present version deviates from the basic text, edited by J.-C. Faucon (Toulouse, 1990)., Decoration: At the opening of the text (f. 1r), there is a 7-line historiated initial S which ends in a serpent head; Bertrand du Guesclin straddles the letter and pierces the serpent head with a spear. Over his armor, Bertrand wears his coat of arms. The left-margin foliate bar border is blue and gold and issues golden and red vine leaves. The full width of the lower margin shows a colored pen-and-ink drawing of an army preparing to storm a castle in the right margin. And throughout the text, there are 2-line flourished initials in gold (brown?) ink with brown or red penwork; guide-letters., Binding: 18th century parchment over cardboard; both covers gold-tooled with a border of palmettes and a fleur-de-lys in the each corner; gold-tooled spine with six raised bands, the compartments decorated with small fleur-de-lys stamps, and a gold-tooled red morocco title-label with inscription. The former rear pastedown (f. 125) is a large fragment of a now badly damaged document in French on parchment, written in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens (Bastarda); on the blank verso of this document (now f. 125r), there are pen-and-ink drawings of various coats of arms and several signatures and inscriptions in French, Flemish, and Latin by 15th-16th century hands., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cuvelier, Jo, active 1372-1387.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Manuscript on parchment of Nicolaus de Lyra, Postillae on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and I-IV Kings
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand., 19 pen-and-ink drawings with washes in red, green, blue and pale yellow, some inserted into the text column, others up to half-page size dealing with the Tabernacle in the Desert and the Temple of Solomon: the drawings serve to clarify the written text by depicting differences in interpretations between Jewish and Catholic exegesis; contrasting drawings are usually juxtaposed and labelled with the respective source for each., Many fine flourished initials, red and blue divided, 9- to 3-line, with penwork designs in red, blue and/or purple; somewhat smaller less ambitious initials alternate red and blue with designs in the opposite color. The minor decoration appears inconsistently, with running headlines, rubrics, paragraph marks and underlining of Biblical texts, in various colors or totally absent., and Binding: Modern restoration? Limp vellum case with earlier title (mostly illegible) running lengthwise on spine and later title added at top of spine: "Fr. Nicolai de Lyra ord. min. Commentaria in Libro historico Sacrae Scripturae".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
