Four French soldiers with hot pincers torturing "Madame Toussaint" by burning her flesh and pulling out her fingernails; Napoleon gloats on a throne to the right
Description:
Title etched below image. and Attribution from George, Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 25th 1804 by by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821. and Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, containing the remains of a book of hours, probably Use of Rome. All illuminations have been excised and there are few complete sections except for the Penitential Psalms (63r-75v) and the Office of the Dead (82r-112v). These texts are followed by two prayers to Saint Lazarus in Latin (113v- 115r ). Folios 115v-116v contain a personal narrative in French by Sister Collette d'Oisellet of the Hospice of Beaune, the owner of the volume. She describes being miraculously healed from paralysis in 1497 at Autun cathedral through the relics of Saint Lazarus; an annotation records her decision to remain at the Hospice of Beaune to care for the poor. Her account is followed by two additional prayers, also in French
Description:
In Latin and Middle French., Ownership inscription of Sister Alix de Besançon on 116v., Nineteenth-century printed bookseller description, annotated in pen, affixed to 116r., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textura (Book of Hours); bâtarde (personal narrative and final prayers)., Layout: single column, 14-16 lines (Book of Hours)., Decoration: rubricated. Many small decorated initials, gilt; some two-line initials, also gilt. Some line-filler decorated bars. Many ivy leaf borders with gold leaves and colored blossoms. All leaves that might have contained illuminations appear to have been excised from the volume., and Binding: modern amateur binding of reddish velvet over pasteboard. Needlepoint flowers and leaves on both covers; the embroidered word "Heures" on the front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
France., France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Autun (France)
Subject (Name):
Oisellet, Collette d'., Lazarus, Saint (Poor man from the Gospel of Luke), Cathedral of Saint-Lazare (Autun, France), Hospices civils de Beaune., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Relics, Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miracles, Nuns, Women, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of a book of hours, probably Use of Châlons. It contains a calendar (1r-12v); the Hours of the Virgin in the Use of Châlons (13r-70v); Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit (71r-78v); Seven Penetential Psalms (79r-98v); and the Office of the Dead (99r-138v).
Description:
In Latin., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata., Layout: single column, 14 lines., Decoration: Many small decorated initials, gilt, or with contrasting red and blue penwork; some two-line decorated initials, also gilt. Nearly all pages have one margin filled with an ivyleaf border with gold leaves and colored blossoms. Nine large miniatures accompanied by large gold initials and full gold borders: Annunciation (13r); Nativity (40v); the angel and the shepherds (47r); Presentation in the temple (55v); Coronation of Mary (66r); Crucifixion (71r); Pentecost (76r); David repenting (79r); Mass for the dead with mourners and clerics (99r)., and Binding: eighteenth-century full blind-tooled brown leather, rebacked: spine title "HORAE" on modern spine. Marbled endpapers.
Series of 15 numbered scenes on 5 postcards, with narrative captions, depicting a child as an advocate addressing a court.
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a child in legal attire addressing a court, Legally themed postcards depicting a child in legal attire addressing a court, and Rappelez-vous Lesurques
Description:
Date from postmark., Scene number 15 does not include a caption. , On card number [2], scene number 6: Rappelez-vous Lesurques, refers to Joseph Lesurques a notorious case of miscarriage of justice from 1796., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281764, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.11 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Series of 6 numbered postcards, with narrative captions, depicting a French child as advocate
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a child as advocate, Legally themed postcards depicting a child as advocate, and Rappelez-vous Lesurques
Description:
All postcards include manuscript notations and addressed to "Mademoiselle Laure Wattenne, Forest. par Aseg[?]"on verso., Caption on card number 6, "... Rappelez-vous Lesurques ...," refers to a notorious case of miscarriage of justice from 1796, Joseph Lesurques., Date from postmark and manuscript date, June 1902., In lower left corner: Collection G.I.D., Nantes., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281676, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.3 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Publisher:
Royer et Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Wattenne, Laure, Aseg, and Lesurques, Joseph, 1763-1796.
Title from item., Date written in image., In margin top: Actualités ; 175., Probably published in Le Charivari., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters., and Creases. 2x2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France. and France
Subject (Topic):
Monarchy, Enema, Pulse, Dead persons, Physicians, Clocks & watches, Politics and government, and History
Manuscript on parchment of Capitularies of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious compiled by Ansegisus in 827. With Capitularies of Charles the Bald; and List of Frankish kings from Faramund to Philip II (1180).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in fine Carolingian minuscule primarily by two scribes. Scribe 1: ff. 1v-42v; Scribe 2: ff. 43r-96r, 98r-102r., Eleven large decorative initials (5- to 13-line) of very good quality in gold, green, red, and white, of the style usually associated with the school of Rheims. The initials are constructed of broad outlines in green which are decorated with unburnished gold (partly rubbed) and bordered with red. The letters terminate in interlace knots and animal heads. Empty spaces within the initials are filled with interlace grids of stylized foliage in unburnished gold laid on greenish ground. The stems of the most important initials (ff. 3r, 8v, 28v, 55r, 67r, 83r, 98r) are decorated with white interlace designs on red grounds., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges spattered red. Brown spattered calf, blind-tooled. Remains of paper label on spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and France
Subject (Name):
Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814., Charles II, King of France, 823-877., and Louis I, Emperor, 778-840.
Subject (Topic):
Law |z France, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
40 1838A: Stamp: Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek in Seyfriedsberg., In Italian and German. Legend in Italian, German and French., Includes tables, text, and Shows detailed postal route information between Marseille, Augsburg, Warsaw, and Naples.
Publisher:
Poste nelle Prove. Venete,
Subject (Geographic):
France, Germany, and Italy--Maps
Subject (Name):
Botte, Antonio Federico and Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek in Seyfriedsberg Stamp
Subject (Topic):
Post roads--France--Maps, Post roads--Germany--Maps, Post roads--Italy--Maps, Postal service--France--Maps, Postal service--Germany--Maps, and Postal service--Italy--Maps
