Eliz 183: Bound in marbled-paper wrappers. Bibliotheca Heberiana stamp on endpaper, lot 5442 in the Heber sale, Sotheby's, 28 June 1834; on the endpaper is a note, probably by Heber, stating that this copy had come from "Bindleys Sale Pt. III 2040--Feb. 1819.", Eliz 183: This copy was also owned by George Daniel, and it was sold with his books, by Sotheby's, on 26 July 1864, lot 1425. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911., SML Microtext Room: Negative film available for reproduction., and The first edition.
Publisher:
for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde at his shoppe, at the signe of the White Hart, in Fleetestreete
Manuscript on parchment of Cuvelier (ca. 1350-1400), Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin
Description:
Script: Probably copied by one hand only, writing in a small Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Bastarda). The present version deviates from the basic text, edited by J.-C. Faucon (Toulouse, 1990)., Decoration: At the opening of the text (f. 1r), there is a 7-line historiated initial S which ends in a serpent head; Bertrand du Guesclin straddles the letter and pierces the serpent head with a spear. Over his armor, Bertrand wears his coat of arms. The left-margin foliate bar border is blue and gold and issues golden and red vine leaves. The full width of the lower margin shows a colored pen-and-ink drawing of an army preparing to storm a castle in the right margin. And throughout the text, there are 2-line flourished initials in gold (brown?) ink with brown or red penwork; guide-letters., Binding: 18th century parchment over cardboard; both covers gold-tooled with a border of palmettes and a fleur-de-lys in the each corner; gold-tooled spine with six raised bands, the compartments decorated with small fleur-de-lys stamps, and a gold-tooled red morocco title-label with inscription. The former rear pastedown (f. 125) is a large fragment of a now badly damaged document in French on parchment, written in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens (Bastarda); on the blank verso of this document (now f. 125r), there are pen-and-ink drawings of various coats of arms and several signatures and inscriptions in French, Flemish, and Latin by 15th-16th century hands., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cuvelier, Jo, active 1372-1387.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple scribal hands, of sections A and B of Part I of the Lancelot series of Arthurian romances. These sections cover Lancelot's birth, upbringing, adventures as a Knight of the Round Table, and passion for Queen Guenevere
Description:
In Middle French., Layout: double columns of 50-53 lines., Script: gothic (multiple scribes)., Decoration: large historiated initial at the opening of each section; smaller initials in red and blue penwork., and Binding: early nineteenth-century? red silk velvet binding; gilt decoration on spine. Gilt leather spine tag: Lancelot du Lac. M S.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Eliz 175: Bound in vellum. Manuscript note by Richard Heber on front endpaper, and Bibliotheca Heberaina stamp; sold as lot 5461 in the Heber sale by Sotheby's, 28 June 1834. Sold as lot 1431 in the George Daniel sale by Sotheby's, 26 July 1864. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and The first edition.
Publisher:
printed by Thomas Creede, for THo. Millington, and Iohn Busby. And are to be sold at his house in Carter Lane, next to the Powle head
