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- Creator:
- Cockerell, Douglas, binder
Gower, John, 1325?-1408 - Published / Created:
- ca. 1400
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa1
- Image Count:
- 402
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.", Manuscript on parchment in Anglicana (Scribes 1 and 2) and Secretary script (Scribe 3). The text is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-1393.The manuscript was produced around 1400 or the beginning of the fifteenth century in the same manner as the other surviving manuscripts from this time, presumably under the author's supervision., and The text of the manuscript is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-93. Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.
- Description:
- Binding: yellow morocco on wooden boards, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, 1962., Ex libris Sir George Meyrick. Gift of James M. Osborn, 1961., First and third quires wanting., Imperfect: stained by mildew throughout; rubbing; multiple repairs with some loss of text., Rubrications at running titles, initials, Latin commentary., Sir George Meyrick, Bart., who sold the manuscript after his father's death in 1960, said that the manuscript had been in his family's possession for over 100 years and that in 1775 the house was almost destroyed by fire. Many family papers were lost and perhaps it was then that the manuscript became damp and mildewed., and There are red and blue 1-3 line initials at small and large paragraph breaks. Books II (f. 13r), V (76r), VI (125r), VII (140r), and VIII (175v) contain initials with full page demi-vignette borders in gold, red, blue, green, orange, and brown.
- Subject (Name):
- Gower, John,--1325?-1408 and Meyrick, George,--Sir--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--14th century, English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500, French poetry--14th century, Latin poetry--14th century, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessio Amantis (Middle English poem)
- 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
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1290-1300
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 923
- Image Count:
- 73
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- On parchment; with a fitted case.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Folding calendar
5.
- Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 96
- Image Count:
- 90
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Ovid, Heroides 16 (Paris to Helen) 1-38, 145-378, with an unidentified French translation. Latin text, which is written only on the verso of each leaf, faces the French translation, which is written on the recto of each leaf.
- Description:
- Binding: Seventeenth century, France (?). Bound in red goatskin, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Title, much worn, on spine., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Latin text written in a round humanistic script much influenced by printing; Scribe 1) ff. 1v-21v and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r. French text written in upright batarde; Scribe 1) ff. 2r-22r and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r (a more flamboyant style of script)., and Two initials, one at beginning of Latin text (2-line), the other at the beginning of French text (3-line), respectively gold on blue square ground with gold filigree and gold on dark red square ground with gold filigree. Most stanzas introduced by paragraph marks in gold on blue or red alternating grounds, with gold filigree. First letter of each verse stroked with yellow, as are usually majuscules in text. Headings on ff. 1v and 2r in red.
- Subject (Name):
- Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Narrative poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Heroides
- Creator:
- Lachaise, Gaston, 1882-1935
- Published / Created:
- 1928 June-1931 May
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 434
- Collection Title:
- Gaston Lachaise collection
- Image Count:
- 22
- Description:
- Several pages blank throughout.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal reference to sculpture and drawings
- Creator:
- Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
- Published / Created:
- [1934]
- Call Number:
- J18 D856 +934
- Image Count:
- 4
- Subject (Name):
- Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires meme / Marcel Duchamp
- Creator:
- Jorn, Asger, 1914-1973
Sarlus, Julius
Schade, Jens August - Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 645
- Collection Title:
- Surrealisme revolutionnaire collection
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 108
- Image Count:
- 10
- Subject (Name):
- Arnaud, Noel and Groupe surrealiste-revolutionnaire en France
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists --Europe and Surrealism --France --History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le voleur de commodes ou l'amour immortel
- Creator:
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
- Published / Created:
- [18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c403
- Image Count:
- 27
- Abstract:
- Autograph MS draft with additions and corrections in the hand of Louise Marie Madeleine (Fontaine) Dupin (1707-1799).
- Description:
- Foliated. Most versos blank, not digitized. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Observations sur le mariage
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1790]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 507
- Image Count:
- 87
- Abstract:
- A guide to the creation of different silk fabrics, this manuscript is unusual in including the original fabric swatches with detailed technical diagrams for their construction.
- Description:
- Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
- Subject (Topic):
- Silk industry --France, Silk weaving --France --Early works to 1800, Textile industry --France, Weavers --France, and Workshop recipes --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pattern book for silk weaving