- Creator:
- Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 703
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (low quality) of 1) Jean de Meun (ca. 1240, d. before 1305), Le Testament. 2) Raoul de Houdenc (ca. 1170-ca. 1230), Le Songe d'Enfer (La Voie d'Enfer), 1-672. At least 6 verses are missing at the end; they were probably written on a leaf now missing after f. 18.
- Description:
- In French., Script: Copied by one hand in a rather uneven Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria, marked by many fusions., The opening letters of all verses are heightened in red; in art. 1 the first verse of each quatrain except the first one opens with a 1-line plain red initial. Art. 1 opens with a 3-line plain red initial, art. 2 with a 2-line one. All initials are executed over guide-letters., The codex is badly trimmed, causing the loss of letters at the end of verses., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half brown leather over pasteboard, the boards covered with red paper. On the spine a black leather label with the gold-tooled title "CODICILLE / I. DE MEUN" and a green circular paper label with the handwritten shelfmark "301".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305. and Raoul, de Houdenc, approximately 1165-approximately 1230.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, French poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le testament; Raoul de Houdenc, Le Songe d'Enfer
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- 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
- Creator:
- Baudouin d'Avesnes
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1315]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 339
- Image Count:
- 759
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Baudouin d'Avesnes (d. 1289; Lord of Beaumont and son of Margaret of Flanders), Chroniques de Hainaut. Continues to ca. 1131
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written in fine gothic textura. Corrections made over erasures., One fine historiated initial, 4-line (f. 4r): orange, pink and blue with white filigree; a king seated in conversation with three men, the figures orange, pink, and blue against a ground diapered in gold and blue with crowns in white; on a blue ground with white floral filigree framed in gold; curling vine serifs, red and green, extending into a 3/4 vine border, blue and pink, with red, blue, green and white leaves with some knots and gold cusping; large gold dots; two dogs, one with a bone, in lower margin. Two coats-of-arms in upper and lower margins. One fine calligraphic initial, 5-line, f. 197r, divided red and blue with particolored penwork, red and blue, with flourishes and a cascading column of I's, alternating red and blue and extending 3/4 length of inner margin. 4- to 2-line initials, red or blue, with blue or red penwork, dots and large flourishes, one on f. 4r with a cascading column of I's as above. 1-line initials, red or blue, with penwork, as above. Numerous crude marginal drawings in brown ink. Notes to rubricator, arts. 1 and 3., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced brown calf over heavy wooden boards which are possibly original.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Hainaut (Belgium)
- Subject (Name):
- Baudouin d'Avesnes.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chroniques de Hainaut
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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:
- Pierre, de Peckham, -1293
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1315]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 492
- Image Count:
- 242
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (soft, furry; trimmed) in two parts, the first of which has several distinct formats. Part I: 1) Pierre de Peckham, La lumiere as Lais, lacking all of Book I and part of Book II. Part II: 2) Edmund Rich, St., abp. of Canterbury, Speculum amicicie, also known as Speculum religiosorum or Speculum ecclesie, in a French translation. 3) Poem on the love of God and the hatred of sin. 4) Hymn based on the "Iesu dulcis memoria" (14 quatrains). 5) Appeal of Christ to sinner. 6) Collection of recipes
- Description:
- In French., Script: Part I: Written in gothic textura by two hands: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-71v; Scribe 2) ff. 72r-85v. Part II: Written in gothic textura by two hands: Scribe 1) ff. 86r-99v (column 1); Scribe 2) ff. 99v (column 2)-110v., Decoration, Part I: One historiated initial, f. 16v, Master expounding to a pupil, figures predominantly pink and blue on a pale purple and gold diapered ground; blue initial with white filigree and pink and green curling vine serifs on a pink ground with white ivy; ground framed by a thick gold band, edged in black. Two styles of minor decoration that correspond to work division of the two scribes: ff. 1r-71v, 2-line initials, blue or gold with red or blue penwork with flourishes; 1-line initials, blue or gold; numerous line-fillers, almost every line in different styles, blue and gold; first letter of each verse stroked in red. ff. 72r-85v, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork and flourishes. No line-fillers. First letter of each verse stroked in red. Rubrics throughout. Part II: Decorative initial, divided red and blue, 4-line, on f. 86r, with blue and red flourishes and design cascading down inner margin. 2-line initials, blue, with red penwork and flourishes. 1-line initials, red or blue. Rubrics throughout. Very crude drawings (16th century) added on f. 111r-v., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown, hard-grained goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Bound by F. Bedford (London, active 1851-ca. 1883). Title on spine: "Lume As Lais/ Poemes francais MS. XIV siecle".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pierre, de Peckham, -1293.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La lumiere as Lais; with Edmund Rich, Speculum amicicie, etc
- 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