Plaisirs de l’isle enchantee, ou, Les festes, et divertissements du roy, a Versailles, Festes, et diuertissements du roy, a Versailles, and Plaisirs de l’isle enchantee
Description:
1 unnumbered plate by Francois Chauveau, representing entertainments held in 1674 on the termination of the campaign in Franche-Comte., 5 plates, numbered I-V, by Jean Le Pautre, representing the festivities at Versailles on July 18, 1668., 5 unnumbered plates by Jean Le Pautre., Armorial bookplate with motto: Ubique patriam reminisci., Binding with French royal arms (Bourbon)., Nine plates, numbered 1-9, by Israel Silvestre., On spine: Tom. XI., The first series of 9 plates was originally published in 1673 under the title: Les plaisirs de l’isle enchantee ..., The next series of 5 plates was originally published in 1679 under the title: Relation de la feste de Versailles, du 18e juillet mil six cens soixante-huit., The third series of 6 plates was originally published in 1676 under the title: Les divertissemens de Versailles donnez par la roy a toute sa cour, au retour de la conqueste de la Franche-Comte, en l’annee M.DC.LXXIV ..., The three sequences of plates were each originally published separately with text by Andre Felibien., and Two plates have Yale proprietary stamps on verso; all other versos blank.
Subject (Geographic):
France --Court and courtiers --Pictorial works
and France --History --Louis XIV, 1643-1715
Subject (Name):
Chauveau, Francois, 1613-1676, Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Divertissemens de Versailles donnez par le roy a toute sa cour au retour de la conqueste de la Franche-Comte en l’annee M.DC.LXXIV, Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Plaisirs de l’isle enchantee, Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Relation de la feste de Versailles du dix-huitieme juillet mil six cents soixante-huit, Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682, and Silvestre, Israel, 1621-1691
Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of letters, attributed to Hippocrates (ff. 1r-50v). Also includes a series of epitaphs (ff. 51r-53v); incipit: Caesari sacrum Ennius Montanus fecit auxit. Concludes with a collection of pseudo-classical letters of unknown Renaissance authorship (ff. 54r-72v): correspondence between Marius Appius and Latianus (2 letters, 54r-55r), letters by and to Curtius Rufus (22 letters, ff. 56r-73v), and a letter by Genutius to the Roman senate (1 letter, ff. 73r-74r). Leaves 50, 73-77 are blank
Alternative Title:
[Epistolae : translated into Latin by Alamanno Rinuccini].
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: historiated gold initial showing king seated on a throne (Ataxerxes?), with sword and orb in hand, and full border decoration including animals, puti, and human figures (f. 1r); five-line gold initial on blue frame (f. 25r); 2-line gold initials on purple and blue frames; gold capital letters. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 15 lines., Binding: old burgundy velvet over parchment., and Foliation added in modern pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing books 1 (1r-97v), 2 (98r-195r), 4 (196r-303v), and 5 (306r-) of Avicenna's Liber Canonis or Canon Medicinae. Book 3 wanting. Collection of short medical texts follows: "Distinctio mensuraru[m] [et] ponderu[m] ex breuiario alfebyr" (342v-343r), "Distinctio ponderu[m] [et] m[en]suratu[m] ex breuiario filii sarapionis" (343r), "Pondera medicinalia signa conati sum[us]" (343r-343v), and the Secreta Ypocratis (343v-344v): "Peruenit ad nos [quia] cu[m] ypocras morti ap[pro]pinquaret". Also includes incomplete alphabetical index of medicial herbs (a-c; leaves iii verso-iv recto) and index of Arabic names: Incipiu[n]t expo[s]itiones nominu[m] arabico[rum] Auice[n]ne (leaves 345r-348v; Alfirdafu-Zicibil).
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Latin, Liber canonis, and Liber canonis medicinae
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: several large puzzle initials in red and blue; alternating red and blue two-line initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 53 lines., and Binding: modern light-brown calf over pasteboards. Spine title in gold-tooling: Avicenna / Canon Medicinae / MS Saec. XIV.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on paper, in unidentified hand, of an Italian translation of Averroës' Latin Tractatus or Epitome in physicorum libros (ff. 1r-53v)--a text originally written in Arabic. Also includes a treatise on human diseases in 46 chapters (ff. 54r-65r), entitled: In questo libro trataremo de tutte linfermita che posseno avenire nel corpo delomo dentro ede fuora dal capo ai piedii. Concludes with a list of remedies (ff. 65r-68r), written in a different hand; incipit: Per male de pieda cossa provata
Alternative Title:
Trattato di fisica
Description:
In Italian., Title from closing rubric., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: 2-line red initials. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 30 to 40 lines., and Binding: modern brown leather half-binding over brown and green marbled paper (over pasteboard). Spine title in gold-tooling: Trattato di medicina in volgare.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Title from item., Date based on year (1853) when Robert Handyside became a Lord of Session., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 164 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Bookplate of F. Manley Sims., Each tract has special title page., and The first part of his Several tracts of 1. Conscience, 2. Scandall ... published by R. Royston in 1646, containing seven tracts. Another ed. in same year contains eleven tracts.
