Handwritten note on verso by Monroe Wheeler: Marianne Moore with her mother, Mary Warner Moore, at 260 Cumberland Street Brooklyn, N.Y. photograph by Cecil Beaton. MW
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, containing Louis Vaslet's transcriptions of lectures in natural philosophy delivered by Jean-Robert Chouet at the University of Geneva. The text is followed by an index.
Description:
Binding: contemporary mottled calf, rebacked; marbled endpapers., Ex libris British Medical Association Library. Purchased from Roger Gaskell Rare Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010., Jean-Robert Chouet studied Cartesian philosophy at Nîmes and theology at Geneva. He was professor of philosophy at Geneva from 1669 until 1686., Louis Vaslet (1666-1731) was a French Hugenot refugee who became master of Fulham School., and Title page gives place of production as "Salmurii" (Samur).
Subject (Name):
Chouet, Jean-Robert.
Subject (Topic):
Physics--Early works to 1800. and Physics--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript on parchment (sturdy) of Calendar; Psalter; Six canticles; and Litany. and Parchment (sturdy), ff. 125 (125 = back pastedown), 196 x 141 (128 x 89) mm. Written in 20 long lines; double horizontal bounding lines, single vertical, all full across. Ruled in ink; prickings (slashes) in upper, lower, and outer margins.
Description:
Script: Written by a single scribe in bold, early gothic bookhand. Notes by several later scribes, some of which have been erased. Full page initial B (f. 2v) in blue with pink and blue interior vine-stem patterns, on gold ground surrounded by red rectangular frame outlined in black. Smaller gold initials, 10- to 8-line, for Psalms 26, 38, 51, 52, 80, 97, 101, 109 (ff. 21r, 33v, 43r, 43v, 53v, 68r, 70r, 83r), of similar design, on blue ground with vine-stem patterns of olive green, white, and red, and rectangular frame of red and white. Other psalms introduced by gold initials, 9- to 3-line, outlined in red, infilled and surrounded by blue penwork designs; headings and first letter of each verse in red. Most decorative initials are severely rubbed.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Psalters
The first section, a copy of Alonso de Leon's narrative, carries the account to 1649, the second, in the same hand, continues the narrative to 1689, and, the third, is an account by Fernando Sánchez de Zamora, "Viajo...de Don Alonso de Leon...desde la provincia de Coahuila a la Bahia de Espiritu Santo y provincia de Tejas en 26 de Marzo de 1690."
Subject (Geographic):
Texas--History--To 1846
Subject (Name):
León, Alonso de,--ca. 1610-1661 and Sánchez de Zamora, Fernando,--fl. 1659-1689
Manuscript on parchment of Guido de Baysio, Rosarium decretorum, secunda pars. Missing leaves throughout.
Description:
Binding: Date? Brown leather over wooden boards, possibly early. Blind-tooled with concentric frames of fillets and a rectangular rope tool. Hearts in a central panel. Four fastenings, the catches on the upper board. Heavily restored., One fine miniature, f. 1r, 23-line, without frame, bishop enthroned under baldachin instructing the clergy; two trees at sides; two birds above. In lower margin, a roundel with a portrait of a student, in a blue, pink and white frame, surrounded by spiral foliage and large gold dots. At the end of the volume, f. 212v, a roundel with a portrait of an older man, with a thick red and blue frame with blue, green, and gold dots. Thirty initials, 16- to 12-line (ff. 1r, 15v, 36r, 45r, 47v, 52r, 59r, 64r, 68v, 81r, 92v, 96v, 100r, 103v, 123v, 127r, 129r, 131r, 137v, 156v, 163r, 163v, 166r, 166v, 172r, 174r, 190r, 190v, 193r, 194r), most with a single, some with as many as three figures, bishops, priests, monks, students, and women, either reading, instructing or debating; in one case, f. 194r, a priest celebrating mass (De consecratione). The figures set against navy blue grounds with white filigree; the initials shaded pink, orange, red, blue and green against square gold grounds with white filigree, framed in black, blue or green; curling foliate serifs attached to bar stems in inner or central margin, interrupted by initials in margin, blue, light blue, grey, pink, orange, red, and black, extending full length of margin; with large spiral foliate terminals with gold dots and flourishes in brown ink, often incorporating roundels, some with additional figures or birds. Numerous small, 4-line, flourished initials, red with blue flourishes and vice versa, as well as red and blue alternating paragraph marks throughout. Running titles added along upper edge., Script: Written in elegant round gothic bookhand secundum pecias., and Written probably in Bologna from a stationer's exemplar secundum pecias.
Subject (Name):
Guido,--de Baysio,--d. 1313
Subject (Topic):
Canon law--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Pecia