French aphorisms, library catalogue, etc
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Description
- Title
- French aphorisms, library catalogue, etc
- Creator
- Fribois, Noël de, active 1400-1468
- Contributor
- Gréban, Simon, -approximately 1473.
- Published / Created
- 15th-17th centuries
- Publication Place
- France and Flanders
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of 1) Noël de Fribois, Abrégé des croniques de France, presented to King Charles VII of France in 1459. 2) Simon Gréban, Epitaph for King Charles VII. 3) Catalogue of the library of Jaspar Scaeck, apparently a lawyer in northern France. The manuscript also includes a number of moral aphorisms. The manuscript consists of three parts of different ages
- Description
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In French.
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.
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 article 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 (exceptionally also the colophon); for the last two items also a note on the binding.
Watermarks: Part I, ox, Briquet 2786?? Part II, letter P, var. Briquet 8576??
Binding: circa 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". - Provenance
- Tajan sale, 15 June 1995, lot 6; acquired by Bernard M. Rosenthal (MS 187 in his collection); purchased from him in 2003 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Extent
- ff. 113 : 205 x 135 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 1029
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Renaissance Flanders (Belgium) 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance France 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven.
France - Subject (Name)
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Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461.
Fribois, Noël de, active 1400-1468. - Subject (Topic)
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Didactic literature, French
French poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
History - Subjects
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Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461
Fribois, Noël de, active 1400-1468
Didactic literature, French
French poetry > 16th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > History
Flanders (Belgium) > 16th century
France > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Noel de Fribois, French Aphorisms, Library Catalogue, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9893401
- Object ID (OID)
- 10563087
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