- Creator:
- Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1509 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1201
- Image Count:
- 178
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, incomplete, containing the text of a prose allegorical pilgrimage of the soul. The narrator's soul is led by Dame Inspiration to the Fountain of Penitence (Fontaine de penitence); after being washed there, the soul continues her journey toward the Promised Land (Terre de promission) on the Ship of Penitence (Navire de penitence).
- Description:
- Decoration: 13 large full-color miniatures in architectural frames illustrating various events in the allegorical pilgrimage of the author's soul, guided by Dame Inspiration. The opening miniature is full-page and depicts the author asleep beneath a tree hung with her coat of arms. Other subjects include: the soul, accompanied by Dame Inspiration, begins her pilgrimage to the Fontaine de Penitence f.9; Inspiration explains to the soul what needs to be done in order to reach the Fontaine de Penitence f.11, the soul, carried on the back of Inspiration, flies to the Château de Contention diabolique f.17, Inspiration and the soul meet Raison f.20; the soul enters the Chemin de Crainte de Dieu f.35; souls are cleansed in the Fontaine de Penitence f.47; the soul sets off on her journey to the Terre de Promission f.50v; the company journey to the coast where they find boats awaiting them f.53; the company embark f.58; the company sets off on the Navire de Penitence f.61; the company is attacked by seven other boats f.63; the company is swept up by the Vent de Hypocrisie f.69v., Ex libris Catherine d'Amboise; Remy Megret of the Premonstratensian abbey of Notre Dame de Thenailles in Douay. Previously owned by Allan Heywood Bright. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Christie's London sale, 16 July 2014, lot 24) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., Laid in: autograph letter,signed, from the Liverpool bookseller Jaggard to Allan Heywood Bright, 1896 April 27, concerning the unknown early provenance of the manuscript. With autograph and typed notes by Allan Heywood Bright, 1898 and undated., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Opening sentence: Les continuelles meditationes de la volubilite et soudaine mutation des creatures raisonnables., Script: gothic bastarda., and Title from ownership inscription by Remy Megret (f80r).
- Subject (Name):
- Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550, Bright, Allan Heywood--Ownership., Megret, Remy., and Megret, Remy--Autograph.
- Subject (Topic):
- Allegories., Devotional literature, French--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--Early works to 1800., Illumination of books and manuscripts, French., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., Repentance--Early works to 1800., Soul--Early works to 1800., Women authors, French., and Women--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La passe solitaire.
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- Creator:
- L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
- Published / Created:
- [1701?]
- Call Number:
- 39 1701
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Maps, Atlases & Globes
- Alternative Title:
- Nova regni Hispaniae accurata descriptio
- Publisher:
- Chez I. Covens & C. Mortier,
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Subject (Name):
- Lugtenburg, Joan van and Méndez Silva, Rodrigo, 1607-1675
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'Espagne, dressée sur la description qui en a eté faite par Rodrigo Mendez Sylva ... = Nova regni Hispaniae accurata descriptio ... / par G. de l'Isle = authore G. de l'Isle ; Joan van Lugtenburg, sculp.
- Published / Created:
- [1500-1599]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 124
- Image Count:
- 216
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of annotated coats of arms for 177 members of the Knights of the Round Table. Each knight is represented by a coat of arms drawn in trick and followed by an explanation of each device and its appropriateness to that knight. The main text is preceded by a nine page text, "De l'invention des armes," and followed by a "Briefue narration de la table ronde."
- Description:
- Binding: eighteenth-century green velvet over boards; silver castle ornament mounted on front cover., Decoration: 177 pen and ink drawings in trick of coats of arms., Ex libris Edward Rowe Mores; Thomas Astle; Philip Hills; H. J. B. Clements; John MacDonnell. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: Single columns of varying length. Armorial entries begin with the name of the knight and a pen and ink drawing of his coat of arms in trick, followed by a descriptive paragraph,, Modern title page in English bound in before original title page., Ownership inscription of Philip Hills, 1785 December 21., Printed bookseller description pasted in on verso of rear flyleaf., and Script: secretary.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800.
- Subject (Name):
- Arthur,--King--Early works to 1800., Astle, Thomas,--1735-1803--Ownership., Clements, Henry J. B.--(Henry John Beresford),--1869-1940--Bookplate., Hills, Philip,--1768-1830--Autograph., MacDonnell, John--Bookplate., and Mores, Edward Rowe,--1730-1778--Ownership.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arthurian romances--Dictionaries., Heraldry--Dictionaries., Heraldry--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devise des armes des chevaliers de la table ronde : lequels estoyent du tres renomme et verteux Artus Roy de la grand Bretaigne avecq la description de leurs armoires.
- Creator:
- Cantoral, Hieronymus Valentinus de
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1598]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1084
- Image Count:
- 280
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Description:
- Bound with: Versio trilinguis Italica, Gallica, Hispanica historicorum tractatuum qui adversus episcopi Romani veraveriorem antichristianam tyrannidem, in Latinis tomis operum D. Mart. Lutheri extant : & opusculorum ejusdem quae ex professo in illius commiserandae ecclesiae doctores erroresq[ue] edita sunt / Hironymo Valentino cognomento de Cantoral, interprete ; appositus est ejusdem dialogus appellatus Neophitus, ubi de suscipienda vera fide & gratia evangelij cum silentio, spe, reverentia & humilitate, tractatur, In Latin, Italian, French and Spanish., and Second of two works bound together.
- Subject (Name):
- Cantoral, Hieronymus Valentinus de
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessio fidei exhibita invict. imp. Carolo V. Caesari Aug. in Comiciis Augustae
- Creator:
- Fribois, Noël de, fl. 1400-1468
Gréban, Simon, d. ca. 1473 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1595]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1029
- Image Count:
- 241
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Noël de Fribois (d. 1467/1468), Abrégé des croniques de France, presented to King Charles VII of France in 1459. 2) Simon Gréban (d. ca. 1473), Epitaph for King Charles VII (1461). 3) Moral aphorisms in the form of distichs. 4) Moral aphorisms in French after the manner of the Disticha Catonis, perhaps by the same author as art. 3. 5) Catalogue of the library of Jaspar Scaeck, apparently a lawyer in northern France (Lille?). The 57 books, listed without a clear order, are almost all in French and were printed between 1534 and 1595, with one book dated 1495; they mostly were produced in Paris, Lyons, Douai and Antwerp. For each the owner gives a full transcription of the title page, reproducing its layout (exceptionnally also the colophon); for the last two items also a note on the binding.
- Description:
- 21 blank leaves at end not digitized., Binding: Binding ca. 1500??: blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Spine with four raised bands. On the front cover a parchment label with the sixteenth century inscription in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata "Cronicques / abreigiés"., Script: Part I (ff. 1-76), ca. 1450, Copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Bastarda). Part II (ff. 77-88), between 1490 and 1500, Copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Currens (Bastarda). Part III (ff. 89-113), after 1613, Written in documentary Gothica Cursiva Currens., and Watermarks: Part I, ox, Briquet 2786?? Part II, letter P, var. Briquet 8576??
- Subject (Geographic):
- France--History
- Subject (Name):
- Fribois, Noël de,--fl. 1400-1468
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, French, French poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > French aphorisms, library catalogue
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1530]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1042
- Image Count:
- 341
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Complete, with signature marks a-x in the centre lower margin of the rectos of the first half of each gathering, 40 lines written in brown ink in a semi-cursive bookhand between 2 verticals and 41 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 244 x 135mm, one-line initials of liquid gold on grounds of red or blue, line-endings of similar colours, each 'Harangue' opening with a four- or five-line illuminated initial of gold and colours of varying forms, including architectural, foliate or zoomorphic staves, Full-page frontispiece miniature in architectural frame. 16th-century green velvet, brass pins and enamelled brass clasps with the arms of Franois II, duc de La Rochefoucauld and his wife Anne of Polignac, boards replaced by the Bibliothque nationale in Paris in 1879. From the library of Anne De Polignac. Original binding. and Manuscript of Harangues et oraisons des anciens. With fragments of 15th-century printed books from Angoulieve and related notes and letters.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts--France
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Harangues et oraisons des anciens
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 105
- Image Count:
- 224
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript copy, on parchment, in several scribal hands, of this English ordinary of arms, containing approximately 1600 coats of arms in full color, with descriptive annotations. The manuscript also contains approximately 300 shields outlined but left blank. This manuscript is the oldest recorded copy of the Queen Margaret version of this text.
- Description:
- Autograph and notes by Sir Syndey Cockerell on front flyleaf; autograph of Brian S. Cron on front flyleaf., Binding: contemporary binding of reversed white leather over wooden boards., Contemporary foliation omits ff. 11-12, 78-79, Decoration: coats of arms in full color; some initials in red or blue., Ex libris Sir Sydney Cockerell; ex libris Brian S. Cron., Layout: coats of arms arranged in three rows of four on each page, with descriptive notes above each., and Script: cursive bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle,--Sir,--1867-1962--Autograph. and Cron, B. S.--Autograph.
- Subject (Topic):
- Heraldry--Dictionaries., Heraldry--England., Heraldry--England--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Re
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ordinary of arms : Thomas Jenyns book.
- Published / Created:
- between 1450 and 1500
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 514
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- 128r: Signature of Jannette Brongnart, Binding: Modern limp vellum with two pairs of white leather ties. The preceding 19th-century binding is preserved: dark brown leather over cardboard, both covers framed with blind-tooled fillets; spine with four raised bands and gold-tooled title: HEURES DE SENLIS; gilt edges., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Hours, Undetermined Use, with French Calendar. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment. Written by a single scribe in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda) in two sizes. The ascenders on the top line often have calligraphic extensions., Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. All initials (1- or 2-lines) are on a rectangular background and are executed in paint and liquid gold. At the opening of the various Hours there are 4-line initials of the same type, always accompanied by full acanthus borders and an arch-topped miniature. The borders are framed in gold and may also contain leaves, flowers, fruit, birds., and Senlis use according to the inscription on the binding, but this use is not documented. The saints in the Calendar and in the Litany point to Northern France and Hainault.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours, undetermined use, with French Calendar
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 879
- Image Count:
- 58
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Instructions for a nun, addressed as "ma devote fille", by a priest, containing extensive Latin quotations, followed by their French translations, from the Bible, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, Cesarius of Arles, St. Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, Macrobius, Origen, Richard of St. Victor ("ung docteur nommé Richart"), Seneca, Thomas Aquinas. 2) The Passion according to the Gospel of St. John, as read in the office of Good Friday (Jn. 18:1-40; 19:1-42), to be read when a nun is dying, in French translation.
- Alternative Title:
- Instructions for a nun and the Passion according to St. John
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue mottled paper over cardboard., Headings and stroking of majuscules in red., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., Watermark: Crowned Lily, var. Briquet 7252 (mostly 1468-1477)., and Written in campo aperto in one column, 20-23 lines.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, French, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Women--Religious life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sensuit une bonne doctrine pour ensengnner des religieuse
- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Lebegue, Jean - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 274
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Inscription along upper edge of f. iii verso indicates that Louis Malet de Graville, admiral de France (1441/50-1516) bequeathed the volume to his daughter Anne Malet de Graville. and 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).
- Alternative Title:
- De bello punico
- Description:
- Belonged to Lucius Wilmerding; purchased at the sale of his estate by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1960 to Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Sixteenth century, France. Olive green goatskin, roughly gold-tooled with the arms of Claude d'Urfe in the center and a monogram of his initial (C) with that of his wife, Jeanne de Balzac (I) in the corners, together with cornucopiae, caducei, laurel and flaming altars. Gilt edges. Corners repaired., Red and blue divided initials, 5-line, on ff. 1r, 2v, 4v, and for major text divisions thereafter. 3- to 2-line plain red or blue initials throughout. Initials alternate red and blue for tables on ff. 1r-2v. Multi-line headings in red sharply indented toward right. Guideletters for illuminator., Script: Written by a single scribe in an elegant batarde script that sits above the line, rather than on it., and Watermarks: closest to Briquet Armoiries-Trois fleurs de lis 1686.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Punic wars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A anne de Grauille de la succession de feu monsieur L'admiral