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
Engraved title vignette (medallion-portrait of author), Translation, partly in verse, partly in prose, of Faust, first part., BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in contemporary green quarter morocco and marbled boards, with brown leather corners. First issues of the lithographs, on China paper., and BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is a large paper copy. Bound in red half morocco with marbled boards.
Publisher:
Chez Ch. Motte, Éditeur ... et chez Sautelet, libraire ... and Imprimerie de Gaultier-Laguionie
Subject (Name):
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. and Faust, -approximately 1540
BEIN 1971 439: Rubricated. Illustration of the Annunciation (B5 recto) completely hand-colored. Bookplate of Clarence Sweet Bement. Ownership inscription of Baron de Jean Haussonville. Contemporary ms. annotations in several hands., Signatures: A-L⁸, M⁴., Colophon: ... acheuees a Paris le huitiesme iour de Mars. Lan mil cinq cẽs et neuf. Par Gillet Hardouyn imprimeur demourant au bout du Pont au Change a lenseigne de al Rose au desboubz de la belle ymage., Printed on vellum., Illustrated t.p., Text within ornamental border., Guide letters for initials., and Contains a number of full-page illustrations, including one of the Annunciation.
To Nicocles and Pros Nikoklea, peri basileias logos
Description:
BEIN If M81 r516: From the libraries of Cuthbert Tunstall, Thomas Godwyn, J. Hilton, John Loveday, and the Loveday family from 1736-1940. Contemporary blindstamped Flemish binding, clasps wanting. No. 5 of 7 works bound together., BEIN Gfm83 b515: Stamp: Herzoglicher S. Meiningischer Bibliothek. Blind stamped pigskin binding. No. 6 of 6 works bound together., Record romanized., Caption title., Signatures: [Alpha]-[Delta]⁴ [alpha]-[delta]⁴ ([delta]3-4 blank)., "Isokratous pros Dēmonikon": sig. [alpha]-[delta]., Edited by Girolamo Aleandro., Imprint from BM STC French., and Described in Mémoires de la Société de l'histoire de Paris, XVIII (1891), p. 24-25.
Relief shown pictorially., Title from lower right cartouche., Originally in 4 sheets., Includes text and ill., and Insets: Les costes de la Louisiane de puis la Baye de l'Ascension jusques Acelle de St. Joseph ... Scale [ca. 1:1,000,000] -- Les environs de Québec -- Veüe de Québec.
Publisher:
Chez L'Auteur
Subject (Geographic):
North America, Mississippi River Delta (La.), Gulf Coast (Miss.), Gulf Coast (Ala.), and Québec Region (Québec)