Collection of approximately twenty letters, fifteen with envelopes, to Carlos Piesaar received during a brief incarceration for Provo-related activities in 1970. Letters from family, friends, and Provo artists and sympathizers include drawings and clippings. With twenty-five empty envelopes, two addressed to Peter Bronkhorst.
Description:
Carlos Piesaar, member of Provo movement in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the 1960s. and Purchased from John Benjamins Antiquariat B. D. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
Subject (Geographic):
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Subject (Name):
Bronkhorst, Peter, Dutch Counterculture Collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and Provo (Organization)
Subject (Topic):
Counterculture--Netherlands--Amsterdam and Social movements--Netherlands--Amsterdam
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Ps. 6:4-11, 7:1-5, in Dutch translation. The same version in The Hague, Royal Library MS 133 D 26, J.G. Heymans,ed., Psalters der Moderne Devotie, Corpus Sacrae Scripturae Neerlandicae Medii Aevi, Series Minor, tomus 5, v. 2 (Leiden, 1978), p. 8.
Description:
f. 1r-v // mijn ziel is alte zeer ghestuert mer du, Here, hoe langhe? Kere di omme, Heer ... si moeten omghekeert werden ende schamen zeer snelliken. Heer ghif. Antifona. Keer di omme, Here, ende wttrecke minen ziel ... als hi niet en is die se verlosse noch behoude. Psalmus. Heer mijn God, heb ic ghehopet in di, behout mi van allen dien ... Heb ic hem weder ghegouden dien //, On parchment., Red heightening of majuscules. Alternately red and blue plain initials of 1 line (2 lines at the opening of a Psalm)., Ruled with pale brown ink for one column of 18 lines below top line (91 x 62 mm.) The ruling type is probably 16 and the last but one in the vertical row of prickings is double., Was folio 148 in a manuscript (pencil foliation s. XIX-XX)., and Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria.
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks in gutter; upper margin, trimmed) of a Ritual, possibly written for a nunnery.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century. Original sewing on three double, tawed supports laced into the wooden boards. The spine is heavily rounded, with the sewing supports well defined by blind-tooled lines. Covered in dark brown calf with a panel of the Annunciation, in a border of birds, animals and flowers blind-stamped on each board inside outer frames of lines. There is a brass catch on the upper board and a long, thin brass clasp on a leather strap attached to the lower with a brass plate. The leather is slightly torn at the head of the spine but otherwise the book is in fine condition, with no trace of sophistication. Front and back pastedowns from a 15th-century Latin liturgical manuscript., Calligraphic initials, 5- to 3-line, in green or red with red or grey flourishes, often extending the length of the written area. Initials, 3- to 1-line, underlining, strokes on 1-line initials, and headings in red., and Script: Written by three people in what Lieftinck calls Littera brevitura. Scribe 1, ff. 1r-87v and 98r-153v, writes in a large and rather careless hand; 2, ff. 90r-97v, in a small even hand; 3, ff. 154r-272v, in a large uneven hand.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800, and Rituals (Liturgical books)
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
Subject (Name):
Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956 and Mondriaan, Louis Cornelis, 1877-1943
Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis