Manuscript on parchment of the Bible, with prologues to almost every book; also includes interpretations of Hebrew names
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by several similar-looking hands writing in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Decoration: each Prologue (except Jeremiah, f. 240rb) opens with a painted initial, decorated with interlace and hybrid animals, fishes, etc. Numerous large and small decorative initials in red and blue pen-work. Execution of decoration ascribed to the "Vie de Saint Denis Atelier." See catalog description for further detail., and Binding: Eighteenth century : rose-coloured parchment over wooden boards; both covers gold-tooled; brass bosses and clasps; arms of Johann Christoph Borzek on front cover; cartouche containing a peasant pruning a tree, with the motto "Cum tempore fructus," on rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality, yellow and speckled on hair side) of William of Melitona, Commentarius in Ecclesiasticum. Copied from a stationer's exemplum secundum pecias
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand., One historiated initial of fine quality on f. 11r, 9-line, reddish brown with white filigree against blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing the author and three companions, presenting a book to a seated monarch dressed in a blue robe against a reddish ground with geometric designs in blue, black and red. Terminals of initial extend as a bar border into inner margin, blue and reddish brown against reddish-brown and blue grounds with white filigree and touches of gold. Border terminates in lower margin in a spray of spiky ivy, blue with gold leaves. Flourished initials, 6- to 3-line, blue or red with red and/or blue penwork designs, often extending the entire length of the text column. Running titles in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Biblical passages underlined in red. Initials touched with red. Remains of instructions to rubricator., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain. Early (?) resewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into grooves in wooden boards. Beaded, red, green and natural color secondary endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laced into the boards. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Front and back (mostly concealed by another parchment leaf) pastedowns from a liturgical manuscript with neumes (Spain, 12th century). Remains of contemporary rectangular label on lower board: "Holcot super eccl***/ cum". Covered in brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a central panel and alternate concentric frames filled with rope interlace with red bordering fillets. Spine: supports defined with double fillets on the spine and an X with a central cross-bar in the panels. There are four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps fastened with star-headed nails.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
William, of Melitona.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pecia
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a Book of Hours, use of Paris. Includes a Full calendar, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, Seven Requests, and a sonnet, all in French
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Written in Gothic bookhand., Sixteen miniatures from the workshops of the Lucon Master and the Master of the Duke of Bedford, in blue, pink, and gold arched frames, some with cusping. Each miniature with a lavish acanthus border incorporating arms on ff. 77r and 93r. Text pages with a 3/4 bar border, pink, blue and gold, with interlace knots at corners and terminals and delicate rinceaux, in two sizes on different folios. 3-line initials at text opening, two historiated: f. 77r and f. 93r; f. 51r with a blue and gold diapered ground; the remainder, blue with white highlights or in pink and blue acanthus filled with ivy, with blue and orange leaves, on gold, against pink, blue and/or gold grounds with white filigree; framed in gold, often with small ivy or acanthus serifs. 4- to 2-line initials in text and KL monograms, pink or blue with white highlights, filled with ivy, as above. 1-line initials blue, pink and gold with white filigree. Line endings, blue, pink and gold, three (ff. 57r, 102r, 102v) signed by Petrus Gilberti, known to have signed line-endings in at least four other manuscripts. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Gilt edges. Red velvet with a silver fastening and a silver medallion, with unidentified male figure preaching, in center of upper board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Contra poetas impudice loquentes, F. Baptiste Matuani Carmelite theologi, Aureum contra impudice scribentes opusculum, Fratris Baptist[a]e Ma[n]tuani Carmelit[a]e theologi, Aureum contra impudice scribentes opusculum, Aureum contra impudice scribentes opusculum, and Contra impudice scribentes opusculum
Description:
BEIN MS 903: Marginal ms. annotations. Bound with a contemporary ms., Commentary by Jodocus Badius Ascensius., Imprint from colophon. Georges Wolf named as additional printer in Proctor, GW, Goff, and ISTC (RLIN)., Signatures: 2A⁸ 2B-2C⁶., Verso of final leaf blank., and Includes index.
Publisher:
Impressum ... Thielma[n]ni Keruer Teutonis, expensis ... Ioa[n]nis Co[n]flue[n]tini & Ioan[n]is Pusilli, id est ... pour M. Hanse de Coblencz ... & Iehan Petit ... a Paris
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.
Full page woodcut on title page, which reads: Liber de vilitate conditionis humane., Final leaf entitled: De proprietatibus romanorum., and Signatures: a8-d8, e4.
BEIN If M81 r516: Inscription: Su[m] Tunstalli. From the libraries of Thomas Godwyn, J. Hilton, John Loveday, and the Loveday family from 1736-1940. Contemporary blindstamped Flemish binding, clasps wanting. No.4 of 7 works bound together., The earliest appearance of Hebrew type in France., Signatures: A-B⁴ C⁶ D-Y⁴., Imprint from colophon., Colophon: Operoso huic opusculo extremam imposuit manum Egidius Gourmontius integerrimus, ac fidelissimus, primus duce Francisco Tissardo Ambac[a]eo, gr[a]ecarum, et hebraearum litterarum Parrhisijs Impressor. Anno a natiuitate domini M.CCCCCVIII. Quarto Calen. Februa., Printer's device on p. [1]., and Described in Brunet, Manuel du libraire, 5e éd., t.5, col.866-867.
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
