Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) - Yale University Library Search Results

Published / Created:: circa 1460-1469.
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 712.189
Container / Volume:: (File)
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Illumination from a French version of Livy's Ab urbe condita (fragment).

Creator:: D'esclavonie, Georges
Published / Created:: [between 1400 and 1450]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 497
Image Count:: 128
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment of Georges d'Esclavonie (canon of the Cathedral of Tours), letter to Dame Isabelle de Villeblanche, a nun at the Benedictine convent of Beaumont-les-Tours; the work was apparently presented to her 31 December 1411, and this wou...
Description:: In French.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: D'Esclavonie, Georges. and Benedictines.
Subject (Topic):: French literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Chateau de virginite

Creator:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La Cite des dames; With Jacques le Grand, Le Livre de bonnes moeurs

Published / Created:: [between 1425 and 1450]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 505
Image Count:: 304
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment. Includes Calendar, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, and Seven Requests to the Lord, all in French
Description:: In Latin and French.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours, use of Amiens

Published / Created:: between 1400 and 1450.
Call Number:: Manuscript 40 vault
Image Count:: 104
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, written on paper (leaves 1-92) and parchment (leaves 93-102). Contains medical recipes and lists of herbs in Middle English (incipit: Here begynne goode medecynes; ff. 5-71), French provers in verse (incipit: Ce ...
Alternative Title:: Medical recipes [in English] ; Imago mundi de Asia, Africa et Europa: Asia a regiam [in Latin] and Imago mundi de Asia
Description:: In Middle English, Middle French, and Latin.
Subject (Topic):: Cosmology, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medical recipes. Imago mundi... [etc.]

Published / Created:: [ca. 1450]
Call Number:: Osborn a58
Container / Volume:: Box
Image Count:: 442
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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.
Subject (Topic):: Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Writs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natura brevium and other works

Creator:: Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366
Published / Created:: [ca. 1450]
Call Number:: Marston MS 145
Image Count:: 380
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Horologium sapientiae

Published / Created:: [between 1400 and 1450]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 818
Image Count:: 32
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment of Pope Nicholas IV, Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis (Papal Bull Supra Montem, issued 17 August 1289), in French translation
Description:: In French.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Nicholas IV, Pope, 1227-1292. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):: Bulls, Papal, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Third orders
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis

Published / Created:: [between 1400 and 1450]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 757
Image Count:: 330
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment (calfskin) of a collection of prayers, passion narratives and hymns
Description:: In Middle French and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Hymns, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Passion narratives (Gospels)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayer book

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