Devotions

Description

Title: Devotions
Published / Created: [between 1575 and 1600]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on trimmed parchment. Note rubrics on ff. 59v, 81r and 101v mentioning "l'eglise catholique" and "Institution catholique", and lengthy prayer against heretics, ff. 103r-106v
Description: In French.
Script: Written and illuminated by Pierre Aymes in a roman and italic script influenced by printing.
Thirty-two miniatures, in brown frames, of average quality. 2-line initials, gold, blue or silver against gold, red, green or blue grounds. Bounding lines reinforced in gold and pink. Rubrics throughout. Full border on title page made up of panels framed in gold filled with grotesques, candelabra, masks against pinks grounds.
Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Sewn on three single, tawed supports laced into the boards. Gilt edges and red- and cream-beaded endbands. Covered in brown calf, gold-tooled all over with strap work and arabesques in concentric frames. Two fastenings, now wanting. Engravings of the Virgin Mary glued to front and back pastedowns. Front pastedown: Virgin and child handing rosary to St. Dominic with legend Psalterii B. Mariae Virginis aut Rosarii inuentur S. Dnic. Back pastedown: S. Maria Mater Dei with four flowers in corners.
Provenance: Gift of Thomas E. Marston in 1970.
Extent: ff. 162 + i : 136 x 93 (106 x 67) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance France 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Devotional literature, French
French literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Devotional literature, French
French literature > 16th century
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Devotions. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.