Collection of 65 legal documents, on parchment, from the region around Bordeaux in the Duchy of Aquitaine. Dating from between 1254 and 1469, most of the items are in Old Provençal (Occitan) and document various land transactions, including sales, leases, donations, and other transfers of lands, usually vineyards or other agricultural properties. There are also a few wills and letters, and one undated tithe map. The documents are from the Bordeaux region; fifteen concern properties in or near the town of St. Machaire
Description:
Digital version available;, Almost entirely in Old Provençal; six documents in Latin; two in Middle French., Finding aid available., Most documents docketed., and Most documents dated in accordance with the English regnal calendar; the remainder are dated in accordance with the French regnal calendar. A few give both regnal dates.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., France, Aquitaine., and Aquitaine (France)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Administration of estates, Church lands, Land tenure, and Economic conditions
Collection of 65 legal documents, on parchment, from the region around Bordeaux in the Duchy of Aquitaine. Dating from between 1254 and 1469, most of the items are in Old Provençal (Occitan) and document various land transactions, including sales, leases, donations, and other transfers of lands, usually vineyards or other agricultural properties. There are also a few wills and letters, and one undated tithe map. The documents are from the Bordeaux region; fifteen concern properties in or near the town of St. Machaire
Description:
Digital version available;, Almost entirely in Old Provençal; six documents in Latin; two in Middle French., Finding aid available., Most documents docketed., and Most documents dated in accordance with the English regnal calendar; the remainder are dated in accordance with the French regnal calendar. A few give both regnal dates.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., France, Aquitaine., and Aquitaine (France)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Administration of estates, Church lands, Land tenure, and Economic conditions
Manuscript on parchment of Chronique de Baudouin d'Avesnes or Trésor des histoires, a chronicle of the world in 633 chapters from Creation up to the time of emperor Tiberius, composed at the court of Hainaut between 1278 and 1281
Description:
In French., Script: Copied by one very developed hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Formata (Bastarda)., Decoration: Red headings and yellow heightening of the majuscules; flourished initials, with penwork, e.g., a 7-line blue foliate initial decorated with green stems, prickly leaves and a small flower, and a (rubbed) coat of arms in a wreath of golden leaves; and at the top, a column-wide picture (attributed to the Egerton Master) representing God leading Adam and Eve into the walled Paradise and pointing to the Tree of Wisdom., and Binding: 14th century red morocco de luxe over cardboard, with gilt edges, and gold-tooled, namely on the front board, with the coat of arms of the Duke of Newcastle in an oval, crowned medallion; and a blind-tooled spine with six raised bands and inscriptions.
Manuscript on paper of Frère Laurent, Somme le Roi (The Book of Vices and Virtues). Written presumably for Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, who died at Moulins-sur-Allier in 1476
Description:
In French., Watermarks: ff. ii-5, Briquet Armoiries 1876; ff. 6-315, similar to Briquet Lettre P 8527., Script: Written by two scribes in batarde script. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-100v, 131r-217v; Scribe 2) ff. 101r-130v, 217v-312r, 313r., At the beginning of each book there are spaces (9 to 13 lines) left blank for miniatures. 4- to 2-line initials for each book and for a few chapters, gold against blue and red grounds with silver or white filigree, with coarse gold ivy and black hair-spray. 2-line initials in blue or red for chapters; 1-line initials, blue or red, in table of contents. All initials with guide-letters. Chapter numbers and paragraph marks in red. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges red. Brown calf, spine gold-tooled, with a red label: "Miroir du Monde M. S. S. Antiq."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Laurent, Frère.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Summulae naturalium, composed in 1408 by Paulus Nicolettus Venetus O.E.S.A. (1369/72-1429).
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks, obscured by text: similar to Harlfinger Chapeau 17 and unidentified ladder., Script: Written by several scribes in humanistic cursive script with gothic features, below top line; inital words of each section in gothic bookhand., Decorated title page, f. 1r, with border, in black and red ink composed of various decorative devices: in the upper margin a bar border with a central semicircle flanked by stylized scrolls in black and red. In the outer margin, a roundel, black with red and black frame, filled with a flower of 6 petals in red; the roundel flanked by stylized scrolls. In center of lower margin a medallion framed in narrow black and red bands containing a flaming heart pierced by an arrow and an open book, also flanked by stylized scrolls. Numerous decorated initials, 30- to 4-line, black and red with interior designs of lozenges, small flowers, and wavy lines of paper ground. Plain initials and paragraph marks in red. Guide letters for rubricator throughout., Worm-eaten; some minor loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Blind-tooled brown goatskin with the same gold-tooled title on the spine and both covers: "Summule Naturalium/ Paulus de Venetiis/ M. S. 1373". Bound by Riviere (London) before 1881. Red edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle., Venetus, Paulus., and Augustinians.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Physics, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Book of Hours with Full calendar, in French
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in batarde script., Miniatures and an extensive cycle of border vignettes by Jean and Jacquelin Montlucon who were active in Bourges between 1477 and 1492. The calendar pages are framed by gilt columns and entablatures in the antique manner with the occupations of the month and signs of the zodiac in the outer margin and a Creation cycle in the lower margin. Eleven half-page miniatures framed in magenta and gold with cusping at the top; fanciful architectural bases, surrounded by simulated grey-black marble with joined wings and foliage branches in gold. Twenty-three miniatures, 8-lines in height, in magenta and gold frames, each with a full border of flowers and acanthus, birds and grotesques on compartmented gold and white grounds. Text pages with full borders: columns in inner margin; panels with masks, shields, garlands, and wings in upper margin; flowers and acanthus, as above, in outer margin; and, in the lower margin, one of the fullest known cycles devoted to the wild man (sometimes extended to include outer margin as well). Other manuscripts from the same shop, the Monypenny Hours and Grenoble Bibliotheque Municipale MS 1011, also contain extensive cycles of wild-man imagery; the artists Jean and Jacquelin de Montlucon lived in Bourges in a house "at the sign of the Wild Man.", 5- and 4-line initials with leafy branches, gold with fruits, flowers, profile heads on pink or mauve grounds. 2- and 1-line initials, line-endings, and KL monograms in the same style. Rubrics in red. Calendar entries alternate red and blue. F. i verso added in 16th century: the arms of Gian Francesco di Montegnacco in a frame closely modelled on the decoration of the calendar pages., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Tan goatskin, gold-tooled with concentric frames, the central panel daubed with green and red. Red label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
