Manuscript, on parchment, in a liturgical Gothic bookhand, with additional notes in later hands, containing a necrology for the parish church of Hollain in Hainaut, including information concerning the deceased, the donors, the donated properties, and...
Description:
In Middle French, with some Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Hainaut (Belgium), Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Finance, Church property, Endowments, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Necrologies, Obituaries, and Parishes (Canon law)
Three miniatures, on vellum, from the copy of the Livre du Lancelot du Lac illustrated by the Dunois Master. They depict: 1) the Duke of Clarence and esquire, meeting a knight cutting off a woman's hair; 2) King Baudemagnus leading the battle against ...
Description:
In Middle French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Arthurian romances in art
Manuscript on paper, composed of two parts. Part I: L'Abuzé en court, a satire on court life in the form of a dialogue, in verse and prose. Part II: Georges Chastellain (c. 1415-1475), Le Temple de Boccace, a continuation to Boccaccio's De casibus vi...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375., Chastellain, Georges, 1405?-1475., and Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Satire, French
Manuscript on parchment of The Horloge de Sapience, a loose translation and adaptation into French of Henry Suso, Horologium sapientiae. With a Colophon, in French verse, stating that the translation was made by a French Franciscan master of theology ...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Devotional literature, French, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mysticism
Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura Brevium; the text of The Old Tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norto...
Description:
In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377. and Taussig, Anthony.
Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and th...
Description:
In Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Science
Manuscript on parchment of Roman de la Rose. With Poem on Paris of Troy, added in a later hand (15th/16th century); and Poem including the name of the man for whom the volume was copied, Pierre Louvel
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. and Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Romances
Manuscript on parchment (thin, fine quality) of a collection of chansons. Written probably at the Aragonese court in Naples in the 1470's, perhaps as a wedding gift for Beatrice of Aragon, who married Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, in 1476
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Frye, Walter, d. 1474 or 5.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Music, and Songs, French
Manuscript on paper of Leonardo Bruni, De bello punico, translated into French by Jean Lebegue; made, and presented in 1445, for Charles VII of France (1422-1461).
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. and Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461.
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Punic wars
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.
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
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 318
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Christine de Pizan, La Cite des dames. With Jacques le Grand, Le Livre de bonnes moeurs
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431.
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Didactic literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Women authors, French
Manuscript on parchment and paper of 1) Jacques Milet, Histoire de la destruction de Troye la grant. A stage-play on the Trojan War. 2) Unpublished fifteenth-century poem in alexandrines known as L'abrege selon Daire et Dithis or L'abrege de Troie. Ap...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Milet, Jacques, approximately 1425-1466.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Trojan War
Manuscript on parchment, in at least two scribal hands, containing works by Alain Chartier, including Le quadrilogue invectif, Le livre des quatres dames, Le lay de paix, Le livre d'esperance, Le breviaire des nobles, Le debat du reveille-matin, Le la...
Description:
In Middle French.
Subject (Geographic):
France., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Caulier, Achille., Chartier, Alain, active 15th century., Dunois Master, active 1430-1465., Granson, Oton de, -1397., Gréban, Simon, -approximately 1473., Lecuy, Abbé., and Taillevent, approximately 1315-1395.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, French poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript leaf, on parchment, apparently from a collection of law reports (perhaps a Year-book). Actions mentioned include cases of Dower and Quare impedit
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing an illustration of the execution of the general Vitruvius, as described in Book 8, chapter 20 of Livy's Ab urbe condita (History of Rome). The verso contains 18 incomplete lines of text in French
Description:
In Middle French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Livy.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment. The book is not so much a guide to the pilgrimage churches of Rome, as a set of instructions on how to obtain the same spiritual benefits without making the actual pilgrimage. The seven letters designating the seven Roman basi...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Margaret, of York, Duchess, consort of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1446-1503.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences, and Manuscripts, Medieval
