Manuscript on parchment (thick, stiff) of 1) Record of those for whom memorial prayers were to be said during November, divided into 6 estaciones, with a total of 501 memoriae. The place where the prayer is to be said is often given; from those mentioned, the church in question can be identified as the Cathedral of Cordoba. Still at the Cathedral in 1625, when memoriae for Don Diego de Mardones were added. 2) Prayers for the Dead
Description:
In Latin and Spanish., Script: Written by a single scribe in rotunda, very well executed, with additions at end of estaciones in rotunda and humanistic script, by later hands., Initials, ff. 20r-21v (2-line), in alternating red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork. 1-line capitals sometimes have yellow wash. Rubrics in orange-tinted red, paragraph marks in blue. Added memoriae for Don Diego de Mardones have elaborate penwork cadeaux at the beginning., Offset impression of red lines (from pastedowns or flyleaves now lost?) appear on ff. 1r (running vertically) and 21v (horizontally); no loss of text., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Resewn on three small, vegetable fiber supports laced into wooden boards. The spine is square and lined with vellum between the supports. Covered in tan sheepskin blind-tooled with a floral roll border and arabesques in the center. A paper label on the upper cover: "Noviembre." Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Córdoba (Spain)
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a Book of Hours, use of Paris. Includes a Full calendar, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, Seven Requests, and a sonnet, all in French
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Written in Gothic bookhand., Sixteen miniatures from the workshops of the Lucon Master and the Master of the Duke of Bedford, in blue, pink, and gold arched frames, some with cusping. Each miniature with a lavish acanthus border incorporating arms on ff. 77r and 93r. Text pages with a 3/4 bar border, pink, blue and gold, with interlace knots at corners and terminals and delicate rinceaux, in two sizes on different folios. 3-line initials at text opening, two historiated: f. 77r and f. 93r; f. 51r with a blue and gold diapered ground; the remainder, blue with white highlights or in pink and blue acanthus filled with ivy, with blue and orange leaves, on gold, against pink, blue and/or gold grounds with white filigree; framed in gold, often with small ivy or acanthus serifs. 4- to 2-line initials in text and KL monograms, pink or blue with white highlights, filled with ivy, as above. 1-line initials blue, pink and gold with white filigree. Line endings, blue, pink and gold, three (ff. 57r, 102r, 102v) signed by Petrus Gilberti, known to have signed line-endings in at least four other manuscripts. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Gilt edges. Red velvet with a silver fastening and a silver medallion, with unidentified male figure preaching, in center of upper board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality: many ends, some stitched pieces; trimmed) of Suffrages and Prayers. Reputed to have been made for Marguerite de Valois, duchess of Savoy (1523-74), though there is no evidence of this within the manuscript
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Written in batarde by several persons., Forty-six miniatures of very poor quality, the majority 10- to 8-lines, rectangular and full width of folio, framed in brown ink; four others (ff. 42v, 53r, 73v, and 104v) 5- to 4-lines, square, in gold frames edged in blue. 4- to 3-lines initials, ff. 1r-7v only, silver or gold on magenta or blue irregular grounds, with gold or silver filigree. 2- and 1-lines initials in red. Line-fillers in red and brown floral patterns. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Resewn on four very small vegetable fiber cords. The spine of the cover shows that the earlier supports were nearly flat and double and that there were two half-bands near head and tail. Red edges. Covered in yellow/brown calf, blind-tooled with a central panel filled with strap work inside floral borders. A rectangle of leather near the center is painted red and "Margveritte de Savoye" is tooled near the head of the lower board. The cover has been made into a case or hollow-backed binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of prayers for priest and bishop to say before and during Mass
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in imitation of Roman font, upper and lower case, with cursive for headings and rubrics, by N. Jarry in Paris, 1649., Title page (p. 1), p. 31 (Gratiarum actio) and p. 40 (orationes) with finely executed headpieces and 3- or 2-line initials, gold edged in red, with flowers. 2-line initials gold edged in red or blue; 1-line initials in red. Running titles and headings in red. On p. 73 a monogram that incorporates the alphabet inside a wreath tied with a pink ribbon., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Red goatskin, gold-tooled, with two gold-plated clasps which may be later additions. Gilt edges.
Manuscript on paper and parchment, heavily illuminated (trimmed), of Devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Written in Cologne/Lower Rhine (Ripuarian language area) for Augustinian use
Description:
In German and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Armoiries 1656., Script: Text written in varying bookhands, most with batarde influence; more formal scripts for some rubrics and portions of text on parchment., Two historiated initials, 12- and 10-line, on parchment bifolios, the letters gold and blue with brown and red penwork, the figures crudely drawn in pen and colored brown, blue and green, against bright red grounds with white highlights; brown and red calligraphic flourishes with red, green, blue and yellow dots extending along upper and side edges of written space. 12-, 10-, and 9-line initials (ff. 13r, 96r, 115r, 179r, 222r, 258r, 322v) gold (or red for ff. 258r, 322v) and blue, filled with brown floral penwork designs with calligraphic flourishes and dots, as above. Floral borders for each 12- through 9-line initial (except ff. 15r and 258r), red, blue, and green flowers with gold dot centers, connected by brown ink stems, arranged in rows or spirals; ff. 13r and 84v with a vase and bird in the margins. Two 9-line initials, ff. 274r and 298r, on parchment bifolios, in a markedly different style, green and blue respectively, with yellow and white highlights, against gold grounds, filled on f. 274r with a large flower, blue and red, on f. 298r with short sections of curling pink and green acanthus. Borders large blue or red flowers with gold dots and centers or short sections of blue and red acanthus on spiraling brown stems with small green teardrop leaves. Numerous 7- through 2-line initials, red and/or blue, with brown penwork and flourishes, as above. I-initials, up to 13-line, red or blue throughout. Some capital W's in text in blue or red. 2-line KL monograms, alternating red and blue. Some portions of the text, including proper names, underlined in red. Notes for rubricator in gutter, perpendicular to text., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Original sewing on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covered in dark brown calf with corner turn-in tongues. Blind-tooled with concentric borders, an X, roses and small flowers in the central panel, roses and rampant lions in the outer borders. Two clasp-and-catch fastenings, the catch on the upper board. Rebacked and the endbands probably added. Straps replaced. Covers lined with fragments of unidentified scientific text, in Latin (15th century).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Augustinians., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotion to., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Hand-ruled and rubricated throughout; capitals supplies in gold on red and blue backgrounds. Hand-colored illustrations are: the printer's device on page [1], the skeleton and surrounding figures on page [2], full-page illustration of Bathsheba and David, full-page illustration of Mary surrounded by emblems (partially reconstructed when original text was removed and replaced with ms. insert?), and 18 small illustrations throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Imperfect: comprising 70 leaves (numbered in pencil), with lacunae after leaves 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 30, 37, 51, 54. Text of leaves 59-60 and 65-66 has been cut out and manuscript text inlaid within the borders instead. The signatures appear to have been erased throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Printed on vellum. Bound in morocco with gilt tooling and edges; emblematical clasp. Dealer's description on front paste-down., BEIN 1971 439: Rubricated. Printed on vellum. Illustration of the Annunciation (page [25]) completely hand-colored. Armorial bookplate of Clarence Sweet Bement. Ownership inscription of Baron de Jean Haussonville. Contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands on the final pages, indicating events occurring in specific years. Brown blind-tooled leather binding., Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴., Title from title-page on page [1], which bears Gilles Hardouyn's printer's device - all within an architectural frame. The device is repeated on page [184]., Imprint from colophon on page [184]: "Les presentes heures a lusaige de Ro[m]me tout au long sans rien requerir. Ont este acheuees a paris le huitiesme iour de Mars. Lan mil cinq ce[n]s et neuf. Par Gilet Hardouyn Imprimeur demourant au bout du pont au change a lenseige de la Rose desoub[-]z de la belle ymage"., Almanac on page [3] covers years 1508-1520, in French., In a Gothic type., Illustrated throughout with 19 full page illustrations, and several smaller cuts within the text., With a decorative border (primarily historiated or architectural) to every page., "R" (for Rome) on first four leaves of each quire, in a line with the signature., Initial spaces., and Collation and signatures given according to P. Lacombe, Livres d'Heures imprimés au XVe et au XVIe siècle, 199.
BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Hand-ruled and rubricated throughout; capitals supplies in gold on red and blue backgrounds. Hand-colored illustrations are: the printer's device on page [1], the skeleton and surrounding figures on page [2], full-page illustration of Bathsheba and David, full-page illustration of Mary surrounded by emblems (partially reconstructed when original text was removed and replaced with ms. insert?), and 18 small illustrations throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Imperfect: comprising 70 leaves (numbered in pencil), with lacunae after leaves 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 30, 37, 51, 54. Text of leaves 59-60 and 65-66 has been cut out and manuscript text inlaid within the borders instead. The signatures appear to have been erased throughout., BEIN Mzd45 H6 1509: Printed on vellum. Bound in morocco with gilt tooling and edges; emblematical clasp. Dealer's description on front paste-down., BEIN 1971 439: Rubricated. Printed on vellum. Illustration of the Annunciation (page [25]) completely hand-colored. Armorial bookplate of Clarence Sweet Bement. Ownership inscription of Baron de Jean Haussonville. Contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands on the final pages, indicating events occurring in specific years. Brown blind-tooled leather binding., Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴., Title from title-page on page [1], which bears Gilles Hardouyn's printer's device - all within an architectural frame. The device is repeated on page [184]., Imprint from colophon on page [184]: "Les presentes heures a lusaige de Ro[m]me tout au long sans rien requerir. Ont este acheuees a paris le huitiesme iour de Mars. Lan mil cinq ce[n]s et neuf. Par Gilet Hardouyn Imprimeur demourant au bout du pont au change a lenseige de la Rose desoub[-]z de la belle ymage"., Almanac on page [3] covers years 1508-1520, in French., In a Gothic type., Illustrated throughout with 19 full page illustrations, and several smaller cuts within the text., With a decorative border (primarily historiated or architectural) to every page., "R" (for Rome) on first four leaves of each quire, in a line with the signature., Initial spaces., and Collation and signatures given according to P. Lacombe, Livres d'Heures imprimés au XVe et au XVIe siècle, 199.
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata, in two sizes., Rich decoration: 1-line versals and 2-line initials, both of the dentelle type; 2-line KL-monograms of the same type in the Calendar. Floral outer margin borders normally on the pages with 2-line initials. Four-margins borders and miniatures above 3 lines of text opening with a 3-line foliate initial, on ff. 13r (Annuntiation), 25r (Visitation), 38r (Crucifixion), 39v (Pentecost), 41r (Nativity), 46r (Annuntiation to the Shepherds), 50r (Adoration of the Magi), 58v (Flight into Egypt), 65r (Coronation of the Virgin), 76r (Saint John on Patmos), 99r (Funeral mass). The miniatures are rounded at the top. The borders contain acanths and a multitude of gold vine and other leaves, flowers, animals, hybrids and monsters. The artist is said to be Péronet Lamy, an illuminator in the service of the Dukes of Savoy in the second quarter of the fifteenth century., and Binding: contemporary binding: brown calf over rounded wooden boards. Both covers entirely blind-tooled with rows of juxtaposed stamps: monkeys and fleurs-de-lys in the central panel; rosettes and phoenix(?) in the frame. Clasps missing.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
