Fribois, Noël de, fl. 1400-1468 Gréban, Simon, d. ca. 1473
Published / Created:
[ca. 1595]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1029
Image Count:
241
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
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 art. 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 (exceptionnally also the colophon); for the last two items also a note on the binding.
Description:
21 blank leaves at end not digitized., Binding: Binding ca. 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"., 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., and Watermarks: Part I, ox, Briquet 2786?? Part II, letter P, var. Briquet 8576??
Subject (Geographic):
France--History
Subject (Name):
Fribois, Noël de,--fl. 1400-1468
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, French poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Christine de Pizan, La Cite des dames. With Jacques le Grand, Le Livre de bonnes moeurs., On f. iii verso, pasted in by a later owner, a miniature (80 x 61 mm.), the Queen of Sheba before Solomon, and a separate compartmentalized border (161 x 105 mm.) of blue and gold acanthus on pink, and red, purple and white flowers and grapevines., and Pasted in on f. 137v a small miniature (41 x 32 mm.) of St. Barbara, originally for a Suffrage, probably from the same Book of Hours as the border of f. iii verso.
Alternative Title:
The Queen of Sheba before King Solomon
Description:
Note, in ink, inside front cover: "Secundarius posessor et vetus peraccens erit quiuis alius I.g.
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Didactic literature, French, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Women authors, French
Manuscript on paper of Jacques Legrand (c. 1360-1415/1418), Livre de bonnes meurs
Description:
In French., Script: copied by the unrecorded scribe Lambert in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens (Bastarda)., Watermarks: two parallel keys, Briquet 3818; three monograms, var. Briquet 9746 (DP) and 9913-9916., Red paragraph marks, red stroking of the majuscules and of the punctuation marks. The words following a majuscule are generally written in large and narrow Gothica Textualis and barred with horizontal parallel red lines. 2-line plain initials in red, with guide letters (3-line on ff. 2r and 3r)., and Binding: 21st century. Bound in paper cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Legrand, Jacques, approximately 1365-1415.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Instructions for a nun, addressed as "ma devote fille", by a priest, containing extensive Latin quotations, followed by their French translations, from the Bible, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, Cesarius of Arles, St. Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, Macrobius, Origen, Richard of St. Victor ("ung docteur nommé Richart"), Seneca, Thomas Aquinas. 2) The Passion according to the Gospel of St. John, as read in the office of Good Friday (Jn. 18:1-40; 19:1-42), to be read when a nun is dying, in French translation.
Alternative Title:
Instructions for a nun and the Passion according to St. John
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue mottled paper over cardboard., Headings and stroking of majuscules in red., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., Watermark: Crowned Lily, var. Briquet 7252 (mostly 1468-1477)., and Written in campo aperto in one column, 20-23 lines.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Women--Religious life