Clumber Park Chartier
Found In:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Clumber Park Chartier
16425934
Description
- Title
- Clumber Park Chartier
- Creator
- Chartier, Alain, active 15th century
- Published / Created
- [circa 1455-1460; circa 1475]
- Publication Place
- France
- Abstract
-
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 lay de plaisance, La belle dame sans mercy with La requeste baillee aux dames contra l'acteur and Lettres envoyees par les dames a l'auteur, L'excusation aux dames, Le debat des deux fortunes d'amour, and La complainte contre la mort. The volume also contains poems by Michault Taillevent, Boton de Grandson, Achille Caulier, and Simon Greban
- Description
-
In Middle French.
Script: lettre bâtarde.
Layout: 43 lines in two columns.
Decoration: Rubricated.Text capitals and versal initials highlighted in yellow. Numerous one- to eight-line initials in pink or blue on burnished gold grounds with pansies and numerous stanza markers with pansies on a gold ground. 22 initials with full borders. 11 small and 8 large figurative miniatures.
Modern foliation, in pencil, 1-136.
Byname: Clumber Park Chartier.
Binding: 18th-century full red morocco, gilt. Gilt-tooled six-compartment spine. Spine title in second compartment, in gilt: Alain Charti. - Provenance
- "AA" (otherwise unidentified). Formerly owned by Louis-Jean Gaignat. Formerly owned by Louis de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière. Formerly owned by Abbé Lecuy. Formerly owned by Henry Pelham, 7th Duke of Newcastle (Clumber Park). Ex libris Maurice Burrus. Purchased from Christie's on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
- Extent
- 136 ff. : 32 x 21 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 1216
- Container / Volume
- Box
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Illuminated manuscripts
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
France.
Connecticut
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.
Taillevent, approximately 1315-1395. - Subject (Topic)
-
French literature
French poetry
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
-
Caulier, Achille
Chartier, Alain, active 15th century
Dunois Master, active 1430-1465
Granson, Oton de, -1397
Gréban, Simon, -approximately 1473
Lecuy, Abbé.
Taillevent, approximately 1315-1395
French literature > To 1500
French poetry > To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > France
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Burrus, Maurice > Bookplate
Gaignat, Louis Jean, 1697-1768 > Ownership
La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de, 1708-1780 > Ownership
Newcastle, Henry Pelham, Duke of, 1811-1864 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Alain Chartier, Clumber Park Chartier. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13438547
- Object ID (OID)
- 16425934