- Creator:
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1214
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 161
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of the text of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum, followed by the seven epistolae exchanged between him and Héloïse.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: compressed gothic book script., Decoration: 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing in red or purple. Medieval marginalia includes manicules and grotesques., Manuscript is incomplete (circa 50 leaves missing?). Text opens: id secreto fieret (Historia calamitatum). Text concludes: orationum instantiam confessio[ne]m lau[dis?] (Letter 7)., and Binding: modern blind-stamped white leather.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. and Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
- Subject (Topic):
- Autobiography, Women authors, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Love-letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia calamitatum and epistolae
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- Creator:
- Thuillerie, Henri de la.
- Published / Created:
- 1639.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 444
- Image Count:
- 51
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Letter of rejoicing, from Henri de la Thuillerie to his father, the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie upon the father's return
- Description:
- On the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie (1597-1653), see Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise, v. 9, cols. 146-47., In Latin., Script: Written in italic, with larger size of script for headings and proper names., Each page has full border incorporating personifications, coats-of-arms, mottoes, putti, birds, and flowers, in red, blue, green, yellow, gold and silver, all of mediocre quality. On f. 1r, full-page drawing with arms of the Coignet family of Auxerre (azure, 2 swords per saltire argent, hilted to the base or, between 4 crescents argent)., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled with a "seme" pattern of swords and crescents, flames and fleurs-de-lis. Satin doublures. Traces of two fastenings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thuillerie, Henri de la.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letter