- Creator:
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382 - Published / Created:
- s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 215
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
- Description:
- French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
- Subject (Topic):
- Spiritual life --Catholic Church
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De civitate Dei
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- Creator:
- Laurent, Frère
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1470
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 204
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Frère Laurent, Somme le Roi (The Book of Vices and Virtues). Written presumably for Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, who died at Moulins-sur-Allier in 1476.
- Description:
- At the beginning of each book there are spaces (9 to 13 lines) left blank for miniatures. 4- to 2-line initials for each book and for a few chapters, gold against blue and red grounds with silver or white filigree, with coarse gold ivy and black hair-spray. 2-line initials in blue or red for chapters; 1-line initials, blue or red, in table of contents. All initials with guide-letters. Chapter numbers and paragraph marks in red. Rubrics throughout., Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges red. Brown calf, spine gold-tooled, with a red label: "Miroir du Monde M. S. S. Antiq.", Script: Written by two scribes in batarde script. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-100v, 131r-217v; Scribe 2) ff. 101r-130v, 217v-312r, 313r., and Watermarks: ff. ii-5, Briquet Armoiries 1876; ff. 6-315, similar to Briquet Lettre P 8527.
- Subject (Name):
- Laurent,--Frère
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Frere Laurent, Somme le Roi
- Creator:
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
- Published / Created:
- [1918-1922]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 398
- Collection Title:
- Marcel Proust letters to Gaston Gallimard.
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 3
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Purchased from Lucien Goldschmidt on the Milton Garver Fund, 1938.
- Subject (Name):
- Gallimard, Gaston,--1881-1975.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letters [1918-1922] (3 of 4).
- Creator:
- Chopin, Henri
- Published / Created:
- 1961-1969
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1512
- Collection Title:
- Henri Chopin drafts of Le dernier roman du monde
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Two drafts of Chopin's Le dernier roman du monde (Editions Cyanuur, 1970). One draft, typescript, typescript carbon, and autograph manuscript, corrected. Second draft, typescript, corrected, includes leaves of concrete poetry not present in the other draft. Accompanied by a printed volume of the work.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, French--20th century--Archives and Concrete poetry, French
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Dernier roman typescript]
- Creator:
- Chopin, Henri
- Published / Created:
- 1961-1969
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1512
- Collection Title:
- Henri Chopin drafts of Le dernier roman du monde
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 3
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Two drafts of Chopin's Le dernier roman du monde (Editions Cyanuur, 1970). One draft, typescript, typescript carbon, and autograph manuscript, corrected. Second draft, typescript, corrected, includes leaves of concrete poetry not present in the other draft. Accompanied by a printed volume of the work.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, French--20th century--Archives and Concrete poetry, French
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Le poème-concret est-il idiot?]