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
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
Description:
In French., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., Watermark: Crowned Lily, var. Briquet 7252 (mostly 1468-1477)., Written in campo aperto in one column, 20-23 lines., Headings and stroking of majuscules in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue mottled paper over cardboard.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, Manuscripts, Medieval, Women, and Religious life
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 318
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Christine de Pizan, La Cite des dames. With Jacques le Grand, Le Livre de bonnes moeurs
Description:
In French., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Char 3533 and Briquet Main 11086., Script: Written by a single hand in small, even batarde., On f. iii verso, pasted in by a later owner, a miniature (80 x 61 mm.) of 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, both with black dots and hair-spray, probably from different Northern French Books of Hours (Paris or Rouen), ca. 1500. The whole is set within single horizontal and vertical rulings in red ink, full length and full across. A label identifying the scene in the miniature, written in black ink (16th century?), has been inserted inside the border on a separate piece of parchment. 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. Seven initials (3- or 2-lines) in red or blue with blue or red penwork flourishes. Rubrics (faded) throughout., Some wormholes toward end of codex, not affecting text., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Worn red velvet, rebacked. Sewing and endbands possibly earlier.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431.
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Didactic literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, 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 Jacques Legrand (c. 1360-1415/1418), 1) Livre de bonnes meurs 2) Les peines d'enfer, a treatise in verse on the torments of Hell
Description:
In French., Script: probably copied by two hands, both writing a small Gothica Cursiva Currens: A copied artt. 1-2, B copied art. 3 in even smaller script., Brittle and defective edges due to moisture., Red stroking of majuscules (art. 1); red stroking of the punctuation and red underlining (art. 2). 2-line plain initials, alternately red and blue, with guide letters., and Unbound.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Legrand, Jacques, approximately 1365-1415.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French and Manuscripts, Medieval
