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
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
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
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
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
Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple scribal hands, of sections A and B of Part I of the Lancelot series of Arthurian romances. These sections cover Lancelot's birth, upbringing, adventures as a Knight of the Round Table, and passion for Queen Guenevere
Description:
In Middle French., Layout: double columns of 50-53 lines., Script: gothic (multiple scribes)., Decoration: large historiated initial at the opening of each section; smaller initials in red and blue penwork., and Binding: early nineteenth-century? red silk velvet binding; gilt decoration on spine. Gilt leather spine tag: Lancelot du Lac. M S.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Composed of two distinct parts. Written by multiple scribes in cursive, with or without loops., Part I (ff. 1r-92v): illustrated with 79 column miniatures; two others on ff. 83v and 85r have been cut out. The miniatures are simple pen drawings, tinted pink, red, tan, purple, and blue, in pen-ruled frames, tinted in yellow; on ff. 18r and 22r with ivy leaves on hair-line stems at corners and centers. On f. 16v an unframed drawing of the carpenter's pax. 2-line initials throughout, red or blue with black or red penwork. First letter of each verse stroked in yellow. Proper names in red., Part II (ff. 93r-129r, 129v-141v) has two distinct formats. Between ff. 93r and 135r (art. 5), two 2-line initials, red, with simple brown penwork. Some capitals stroked in red or yellow. Between ff. 135v and 141r (art. 6), three crude tinted drawings, red, green and brown, in initials, either divided red and brown with red flourishes and dots, or red, with a scroll and a fish incorporated. Three drawings cut out from ff. 135v, 136v and 137r. Space left for one drawing on f. 139r and for two on f. 140v. 2-line initials in red, some with red penwork., Folio 1r-v damaged, with loss of text and parts of miniatures., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and a red label. Edges spattered red.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Cosmography, Devotional literature, Devotional literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Manuscript on parchment (worn and stained) of a collection of moralistic sayings, compiled from various authorities: the French version of an Arabic work of the 11th century. Guillaume de Tignonville (d. 1414) composed the French text from a Latin translation sometime before 1402. The philosophers represented include (in the order of their appearance): Sedachias, Hermes, Tac, Zalqualquin, Homer, Zalon, Abion, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Diogenes, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Ptolemy, Assaron, Loguion, Onese, Macdarge, Thesile, St. Gregory, Galen
Description:
In French., Script: Written by a single scribe in an informal batarde, often with calligraphic flourishes extending into margins., One miniature on f. 1r, 11-line, Ezekiel, Socrates, and Cicero with identifying banderoles, in grisaille with light green and ink washes; in a frame of thin pink and gold bands. One 5-line initial on f. 1r, pink, with orange and pink ivy on a blue stem against a blue ground; a pink and gold bar border in inner margin, with ivy terminals, black ink ivy with gold leaves and gold dots. 2-line initials throughout, gold against pink and blue grounds with white highlights. Guide-letters and rubrics throughout., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Quarter bound in brown, spattered calf, gold-tooled. Marbled paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Arabic literature, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
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:
In French., Watermarks: ff. ii-5, Briquet Armoiries 1876; ff. 6-315, similar to Briquet Lettre P 8527., Script: Written by two scribes in batarde script. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-100v, 131r-217v; Scribe 2) ff. 101r-130v, 217v-312r, 313r., 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., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges red. Brown calf, spine gold-tooled, with a red label: "Miroir du Monde M. S. S. Antiq."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Laurent, Frère.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
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
