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2.
- Creator:
- Laurent, Frère
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1470
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 204
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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:
- 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., Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges red. Brown calf, spine gold-tooled, with a red label: "Miroir du Monde M. S. S. Antiq.", Script: Written by two scribes in batarde script. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-100v, 131r-217v; Scribe 2) ff. 101r-130v, 217v-312r, 313r., and Watermarks: ff. ii-5, Briquet Armoiries 1876; ff. 6-315, similar to Briquet Lettre P 8527.
- Subject (Name):
- Laurent,--Frère
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Frere Laurent, Somme le Roi
3.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 285
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- A collection of moralistic sayings, compiled from various authorities, isthe French version of an Arabic work of the 11th century. Guillaume deTignonville (d. 1414) composed the French text from a Latin translationsometime before 1402. and Manuscript on parchment (worn and stained) of a collection of moralistic sayings, compiled from various authorities: the French version of an Arabic work of the 11th century. Guillaume de Tignonville (d. 1414) composed the French text from a Latin translation sometime before 1402. The philosophers represented include (in the order of their appearance): Sedachias, Hermes, Tac, Zalqualquin, Homer, Zalon, Abion, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Diogenes, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Ptolemy, Assaron, Loguion, Onese, Macdarge, Thesile, St. Gregory, Galen.
- Description:
- One miniature on f. 1r, 11-line, Ezekiel, Socrates, and Cicero with identifying banderoles, in grisaille with light green and ink washes.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arabic literature, Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Les dits moraulx des philosophes
4.
- Creator:
- Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670
- Published / Created:
- 1700
- Call Number:
- Uvb65 700w
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Signatures: A-H12 (incl. front) I6.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-bridge,
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 and Cooking -- Early works to 1800|Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800|Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800|Beauty, Personal -- Early works to 1800|Women -- Education -- Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Compleat Servant-Maid, or, The young maidens tutor ...
5.
- Creator:
- Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673
- Published / Created:
- 1631
- Call Number:
- Ih B737 631e
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Foldout frontispiece measures 32 x 23 cm. and Signatures: [a]1(folding leaf, "The meaning of the frontispice")[b]1(added engr. t.p.) [?]-[?][?]4([?]1[blank?]wanting)*-**4[?]-[?][?]B-Hh4Ii2.
- Publisher:
- Printed by B. Alsop and T. Favvcet, for Michaell Sparke, dwelling in Greene Arbor,
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The English gentlewoman : drawne out to the full body, expressing what habilliments doe best attire her, what ornaments doe best adorne her, what complements doe best accomplish her / by Richard Brathwait.
6.
- Creator:
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
- Published / Created:
- 1751
- Call Number:
- 1986 139
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Economy of human life
- Description:
- Likely the true first ed. and Published anonymously. By Robert Dodsley but authorship attributed also to the Earl of Chesterfield. Cf. Notes and queries, 1st ser., v. 10, p. 8, 74, 318.
- Publisher:
- Printed for M. Cooper,
- Subject (Name):
- Scoggin, Glo.--Autograph, Thomson, Mary--Autograph, and Thomson, Sarah--Autograph
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 and Maxims
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The oeconomy of human life. / Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discover'd. In a letter from an English gentleman, now residing in China, to t
7.
- Creator:
- Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604
Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624? - Published / Created:
- 1640
- Call Number:
- Ih F779 640
- Image Count:
- 103
- Alternative Title:
- Fortunatus (Romance). English and Right pleasant and variable tragicall historie of Fortvnatvs
- Description:
- For "T.G." (Thomas Gainsford?) the later editions have "T.C.", supposed to stand for Thomas Churchyard., Imperfect: Leaf 2 mutilated; outer corners frayed. Binding is an Elizabethan manuscript land deed. Inscriptions: An Clarkson her booke; This is An Clarkson booke., and Signatures: A-M⁸ (A1 blank). Numerous errors in pagination.
- Publisher:
- Printed by George Miller, dwelling in the Blacke-Friers
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800 and Courtesy--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The right pleasant and variable tragicall historie of Fortunatus : whereby a yong man may learne how to behaue himself in all worldly affaires, and casuall chances / first penned in the Dutch tongue ; therehence abstracted, and now first of all published in English, by T.G.
8.
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 80
- Image Count:
- 310
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (coarse, thick) of 1) Commentary on selections from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, beginning imperfectly in I.3. 2) 300 exempla. 3) Gualterus Angelicus, Fabulae. 4) More than 100 extracts about the Virgin Mary, and other topics. 5) Extracts about virtues and vices derived primarily from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. 6) Exempla drawn from Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. Arts. 7-18: collection of epitaphs.
- Description:
- 2-line plain initials, paragraph marks and headings, in red, throughout; some marginalia in red., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Limp vellum case made from a document; text not legible, but docketing note visible under ultra-violet light on upper cover: "N. 167"., Folio 151 damaged, with loss of text., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in semi-cursive gothic bookhand, above top line. Arts. 8-18 added by one or more contemporary hands., and Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11854 and unidentified mountain (?).
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604, Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 55 B.C.-ca. 39 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, Epitaphs, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Virtues and Vices, exempla