Manuscript on paper of the Acts of the Apostles and Revelation
Description:
In Greek., Mutilated watermarks consisting of column (?) flanked by fleur-de-lis., Script: Written by a single person in a small neat minuscule script., Initial on f. 1r painted in blue and outlined in red. Illuminated initial on f. 65r in gold, on blue square serving as background; partial border at bottom of page: pink flowers in gold rectangle outlined in black. Running titles throughout., and Binding: Probably ca. 1530. Bruges (?). Sewn on four single, tawed thongs laced twice in and out of pasteboards. The tawed cores of the beaded endbands are also laced twice. Half bands divide the end sections of the spine. The book-block is remarkably clean and the leaves flat. Covered in brown calf with panel stamps of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael in arches with a line of dancing figures and a piper in between. Heavily repaired.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Noël de Fribois, Abrégé des croniques de France, presented to King Charles VII of France in 1459. 2) Simon Gréban, Epitaph for King Charles VII. 3) Catalogue of the library of Jaspar Scaeck, apparently a lawyer in northern France. The manuscript also includes a number of moral aphorisms. The manuscript consists of three parts of different ages
Description:
In French., Script: Part I (ff. 1-76), ca. 1450, copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Bastarda). Part II (ff. 77-88), between 1490 and 1500, copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Currens (Bastarda). Part III (ff. 89-113), after 1613, written in documentary Gothica Cursiva Currens., Manuscript on paper of 1) Noël de Fribois (d. 1467/1468), Abrégé des croniques de France, presented to King Charles VII of France in 1459. 2) Simon Gréban (d. ca. 1473), Epitaph for King Charles VII (1461). 3) Moral aphorisms in the form of distichs. 4) Moral aphorisms in French after the manner of the Disticha Catonis, perhaps by the same author as article 3. 5) Catalogue of the library of Jaspar Scaeck, apparently a lawyer in northern France (Lille?). The 57 books, listed without a clear order, are almost all in French and were printed between 1534 and 1595, with one book dated 1495; they mostly were produced in Paris, Lyons, Douai and Antwerp. For each the owner gives a full transcription of the title page, reproducing its layout (exceptionally also the colophon); for the last two items also a note on the binding., Watermarks: Part I, ox, Briquet 2786?? Part II, letter P, var. Briquet 8576??, and Binding: circa 1500?: blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Spine with four raised bands. On the front cover a parchment label with the sixteenth century inscription in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata "Cronicques / abreigiés".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and France
Subject (Name):
Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461. and Fribois, Noël de, active 1400-1468.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, French poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
