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1. Fauconnerie
- Creator:
- Artelouche de Alagona
- Published / Created:
- 1504.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 667
- Image Count:
- 110
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Artelouche de Alagona, Fauconnerie, printed several times between 1567 and 1628
- Description:
- In French., Script: Copied by scribe Vincent Philippon from Avignon (except f. 1) in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda). Calligraphic extensions of the letters in the upper and lower margin (on f. 48r ending in a monstrous animal's head)., Decoration: Paragraph marks in liquid gold on an alternately red and blue square background. 2- or 3-line, exceptionally 4-line plain initials in liquid gold (Capitalis) on an alternately red and blue square background. Space for a full-page miniature above two lines of text was provided on the facsimile page f. 1r.; a full-page picture, showing a falcon, on f. 45r. includes also a few small marginal images., and Binding: 20th century French red-brown morocco with gilt edges inside; spine has four raised bands and gold-tooled inscriptions.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Artelouche de Alagona.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fauconnerie
2. L'arbre des batailles
- Creator:
- Bovet, Honore
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 605
- Image Count:
- 148
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Honore Bovet (often erroneously named Bonet, c. 1345-1405), L'arbre des batailles, composed between 1386 and 1389
- Description:
- In French., Accompanied by: Typescript of an English translation by G. W. Coopland: The Tree of battles of Honore Bonet (sic). With a hitherto unpublished historical interpolation translated by G. A. Knowlson ... Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949. Catalogued as Beinecke MS 605a., Watermark: similar to Briquet 389 (?)., Script: Probably copied by one hand, writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Bastarda)., In art. 1 red heightening of the majuscules. In art. 2 paragraph marks and underlining in red; red 2-line plain initials; at the opening of the text (f. 5r) 4-line red and blue littera duplex without penwork. Guide-letters., and Binding: ca. 1900 by Chambolle-Duru. Crimson morocco over cardboard, preserved in fleece-lined folder. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled title: "L'ARBRE DES BATAILLES PAR HONORE BONNET - MANUSCRIT DU QUINZIEME SIECLE". Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bovet, Honore.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Military art and science, and Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'arbre des batailles
3. La fauconnerie
- Creator:
- Franchières, Jean de, ca. 1400-1488
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 90
- Image Count:
- 343
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (watermarks buried in gutter) of Jean Franchieres, La fauconnerie. Begins imperfectly in the Prologue and apparently ends at the beginning of Bk. 4, ch. 22.
- Description:
- In French., Script: Art. 1 written by a single scribe in a sprawling batarde. Notes on ff. 145r-147r added by several later writers., Major headings in red., Loss of text on ff. 145r-146r due to trimming., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Green goatskin, gold-tooled, by the same binder as MS 467.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Franchières, Jean de, ca. 1400-1488.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry, French literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La fauconnerie
4. La fauconnerie
- Creator:
- Alagona, Arthelouche de.
- Published / Created:
- 1502.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 162
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Arthelouche de Alagona, La Fauconnerie. Text is defective from ff. 32v-33r; leaf missing after f. 32.
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written by Vincent Philippon in elegant upright batarde., One undistinguished miniature (f. 1r), a falconer standing on a shallow ground, with some blue tinting for sky, set between blue and red columns with gold highlights; a blue and red band above inscribed in gold: "VRAI LVI SERAI AMI." A large coat of arms on f. ii verso (possibly a later addition and now effaced) supported by two angels with a miter above, in brown ink. One blue and red initial (f. 1r), 3- line, against a gold ground. 6- to 1-line initials throughout, brushed gold against blue or red grounds; line-endings, blue or red with gold highlights. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Original sewing on three tawed, slit straps laced in and out of the boards. The spine is square. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with vertical lines of square and diamond shaped tools in a border of flowers in squares. Two ribbon fastenings. The upper board is broken down the center and sewn together. Half the lower board, endbands, ties and leather around the edges of the boards wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alagona, Arthelouche de.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La fauconnerie
5. Traite sur l'art de la guerre
- Creator:
- Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 659
- Image Count:
- 34
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Berault Stuart (Bernard Stewart, ca. 1452/53-1508), Traite sur l'art de la guerre
- Description:
- In French., Script: Copied by one hand in a small Gothica Hybrida Formata (loopless Bastarda)., Line-fillers in liquid gold on red, blue or brown ground. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) initials on square background, in liquid gold on coloured background or in colour, heightened with white, on liquid gold background decorated with leaves and flowers. Six miniatures., and Binding: Early nineteenth century. Cross-grained red leather over pasteboard, the covers gold-tooled with a decorative border, the turn-ins gold-tooled with dentelle border; brownish marbled endpapers; the spine gold-tooled with flowerets and the title "L'ORDRE D'UN CHEF DE GUERRE PAR D'AUBIGNY".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Military art and science
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Traite sur l'art de la guerre
6. Commonplace book: holograph
- Creator:
- Faucket, Jean, fl. 1488-1497
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1497]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 648
- Image Count:
- 273
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Jean Faucket (or Faucquet), Commonplace Book: Holograph. Completed 1497 or later
- Description:
- In French., Four distinct watermarks: one resembles Piccard, vol. 2, IX 96 (Xanten, 1452), one resembles Piccard vol. 2, IX 182 or 190 (Rhine valley, 1470-1480 or Flanders, 1463-70), one closely resembles Briquet 9196 (St. Omer, 1491), and a fourth closely resembles Briquet 8992 or 8993 (Vaudrevange, 1499 and 1493, respectively)., Script: written by the author in a gothic bastarda script., Numerous full color illuminations of coats of arms. Ornate initials in black and red throughout. Rubricated., and Binding: heavy black cloth over boards made of early printed material. Several parchment manuscript fragments which were used in binding are visible in the spine. One contains 12th-century Caroline minuscule and the other contains a gothic bookhand of the 13th-14th century. Damaged, front board detached.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Faucket, Jean, fl. 1488-1497.
- Subject (Topic):
- Commonplace-books, Heraldry, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book: holograph