BEIN MS 1042.3: Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 24 leaves from quires b, c, e and g., BEIN MS 1042.3: These fragments were removed from the original binding of the manuscript Harangues et oraisons des anciens, Beinecke MS 1042 (Paris, circa 1530). From the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand. Purchased from Sam Fogg, London, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., BEIN MS 1042.3: Unbound. Covered in sheet of paper with manuscript note: Fragments d'un livre imprimé à Angoulême, à une date inconnue et intitulé: Auctores octo., Signatures: a-r⁸ s⁶., Description based on Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 2777., and "... correcto[rum] impresso[rum][que] engolisme die .xvii. mensis maii. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxxi."--Colophon.
Publisher:
Petrus Alanus and Andreas Calvinus
Subject (Topic):
Fables, Christian ethics, and Christian philosophy
Manuscript on paper of Adolfus von Wein, Doligamus. The text, a series of fables concerning the deceitful conduct of women, is heavily annotated with interlinear glosses and lengthy explanatory prose passages inserted both between segments of the text and in the outer margins. With Albertus Magnus, attributed author, De secretis mulierum; and Pope Pius II (Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini), Carmen in laudem Friderici Caesaris, a poem written in praise of Friedrich III (1415-93), King of the Germans and later crowned Holy Roman Emperor
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Piccard, Ochsenkopf XIII.173 and XI. 201, and similar in design to Briquet Main 11090, 11092-93., Script: Written by a single scribe in inelegant gothic cursive, with a smaller script for commentary and interlinear notations., Crude decorative initials, 2-line, in red, some with foliage designs in body of letter; first letter of each verse stroked with red., Some loss of marginalia due to trimming on ff. 8v, 9r., and Binding: Twentieth century. Red paste-paper case with a black, gold-tooled label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Adolfus, von Wien, 14th cent. and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1415-1493.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fables, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
An engraved writing sheet illustrated with seven scenes from Gay’s Fables, each titled above and with rhyming couplet below. At head, and the largest scene, is ‘The Shepherd and the Philosopher’; six smaller scenes form the right and left borders below. A garlanded oval, designed to carry a hand-inserted date-line, is engraved at the foot above the imprint
Description:
Title engraved at top of plate, on either side of the image of "The shepherd and the philosopher.", Watermark: [...]anshaw., and Sheet annotated in ink with the name 'Thomas Harbidge' and the date 'Decr. 19. 1787' in the blank oval at foot. Written in manuscript in black ink at the center of the sheet are three passages, beginning with 'Education either makes or mars us, and governments as well as private families, are concerned in it’s [sic] consequences, abcde’, and concluding with 'Good books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age, they support us under solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves'.
Publisher:
Published by Robt. Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Titles from text above each design., Six designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Manuscript on paper of Artt. 1-6: Aesop (Aesopus, 6th cent. before C.), Vita et fabulae, Latin translation by Rinuccio da Castiglione (Rinucius Aretinus, ca. 1395-after 1456). Artt. 7-8: Aesop, Fabulae, Latin translation by Ognibene Leoniceno (Omnibonus Leonicenus, 1412-1481).
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Briquet 2472 (?); var. Briquet 7918 (?); other (scissors and scale)., Script: Copied by two hands: Section I in unusual Humanistica Cursiva Libraria with the features of Humanistica Semitextualis; Section II in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Pale red headings in Section II only (the headings in Section I are in black ink). Pale red paragraph marks. 2- or 3-line pale red plain or slightly decorated initials, with guide-letters in the left margin., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Half leather over cardboard, the paper covers decorated with a lozenged pattern of black and red dots. Gold-tooled spine with brown leather title-label with gold-tooled inscription "ESOPI FABBUL. ***7".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aesop.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fables, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Berühmten Freih. v. Münchhausen wunderbare Reisen und lustige Abenteuer zu Wasser und zu Land., Feldzug der sieben Schwaben und ihre siegreiche Heimkehr., Geschichte der ebenso schönen als tugendhaften Agnes Bernauer, Tochter des Barbiers Kaspar Bernauer zu Augsburg., Geschichtliche Erlebnisse eines Hundertjährigen., Hirlanda, Herzogin von Bretagne., Interessante Erzählung von der geduldigen Helena, Tochter des Kaisers Antonii., Kreuz- und Qeurzüge des bekannten Spassvogels Tyll Eulenspiegel., Pfarrers Tochter von Taubenhain., Robinson Krusoe., Rosa von Tannenburg., Schinderhannes, des bekannten Leben und Thaten, seine Gefangennahme und Ende., Schöne Magelona und der Ritter mit den silbernen Schlüsseln., Student von Ulm., Weisse Frau und ihre bedeutungsvollen Erscheinungen an den Höfen zu Berlin, Carlsruhe, Darmstadt, München, Stuttgart, Wien u.s.w., and Zwölf Bücher Sibyllen-Weissagungen.
Description:
[1.] Caspar Hauser / von K. Nitram -- [2.] Rosa von Tannenburg -- [3.] Die Teufelsmühle am Wienerberge / von Ferdinand Schmid -- [4.] Robinson Krusoe -- [5.] Kurzer Auszug aus der merkwürdigen Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck / von ihm selbst erzählt und geschrieben -- [6.] Des Pfarrers Tochter von Taubenhain -- [7.] Die weisse Frau und ihre bedeutungsvollen Erscheinungen an den Höfen zu Berlin, Carlsruhe, Darmstadt, München, Stuttgart, Wien u.s.w. -- [8.] Genovefa / von Gustav Höcker -- [9.] Schinderhannes, des bekannten Leben und Thaten, seine Gefangennahme und Ende -- [10.] Kreuz- und Qeurzüge des bekannten Spassvogels Tyll Eulenspiegel., [11.] Interessante Erzählung von der geduldigen Helena, Tochter des Kaisers Antonii -- [12.] Hirlanda, Herzogin von Bretagne -- [13.] Geschichte der ebenso schönen als tugendhaften Agnes Bernauer, Tochter des Barbiers Kaspar Bernauer zu Augsburg -- [14.] Unterhaltende Geschichte von den vier Haymonskindern, Reinald, Adelhart, Ritsart und Writsart / von Ferdinand Schneider -- [15.] Notburga, die fromme Königstochter / von Lorenz Lang -- [16.] Der Student von Ulm -- [17.] Die schöne Griseldis als Bauernmädchen und Gräfin / von Albert Haar -- [18.] Zwölf Bücher Sibyllen-Weissagungen -- [19.] Des berühmten Freih. v. Münchhausen wunderbare Reisen und lustige Abenteuer zu Wasser und zu Land -- [20.] Wilhelm Tell der heldenmütige Befreier der Schweiz / von August Haar., [21.] Das Steinkreuz auf der Esslinger Steige bei Stuttgart / aus der Hauschronik des Hans Marchthaler -- [22.] Die beiden Ritter von Rodenstein und Schnellert / gesammelt von Ottmar Schönhuth -- [23.] Die schöne Magelona und der Ritter mit den silbernen Schlüsseln -- [24.] Die Jungfrau v. Orleans / Eduard Günther -- [25.] Gräfin Itha von Toggenburg / von Eduard Günther -- [26.] Der Feldzug der sieben Schwaben und ihre siegreiche Heimkehr -- [27.] Der Freischütz / von Edmund Frey -- [28.] Die Bluthochzeit / Armin d'Rith -- [29.] Geschichtliche Erlebnisse eines Hundertjährigen., Acquired in 1929 from Ernst Dannappel, Buch- und Kunstantiquariat, Dresden, Germany., and Collection title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
[Rob. Bardtenschlager]
Subject (Name):
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe. German, D'Rith, Armin. Bluthochzeit, Ernst Dannappel, Buch- und Kunst-Antiquariat (Dresden, Germany), bookseller, Frey, Edmund. Freischütz, Günther, Eduard. Gräfin Itha von Toggenburg, Günther, Eduard. Jungfrau v. Orleans, Haar, Albert. Schöne Griseldis als Bauernmädchen und Gräfin, Haar, August. Wilhelm Tell der heldenmütige Befreier der Schweiz, Höcker, Gustav, 1832-1911. Genovefa, Lang, Lorenz. Notburga, die fromme Königstochter, Marchthaler, Hans. Steinkreuz auf der Esslinger Steige bei Stuttgart, Nitram, K. Caspar Hauser, Rob. Bardtenschlager, publisher, Schmid, Ferdinand. Teufelsmühle am Wienerberge, Schneider, Ferdinand. Unterhaltende Geschichte von den vier Haymonskindern, Schönhuth, Ottmar F. H. (Ottmar Friedrich Heinrich), 1806-1864. Beiden Ritter von Rodenstein und Schnellert, and Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794. Kurzer Auszug aus der merkwürdigen Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck
Four watercolors depicting scenes from accounts published in periodicals of the early 1820s, including The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction (volume I, 1822-23), John Long's Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader (1791). The Mirror (November 1822) and Knapp and Baldwin's Newgate Calendar (1824)., The first drawing, 'Sultan Mahamoud punishing a Ravisher', from Knapp and Baldwin's Newgate Calendar, 1824, shows the Sultan kneeling surrounded by four women and another man with a dagger in his handl, The second drawing 'Janvier About to Kill the Indian Who had Relieved His Hunger' illustrates the tale of Charles Janvier who with two other servants had been sent by their master, Mr. Fulton, to catch supplies of meat and fish. Saved from hunger by a passing native Canadian, Janvier kills and eats the stranger, a fate he later inflicts on one of his fellow servants, The third sketch, 'A Miser Distracted', is perhaps a depiction of Aesop's fable 'The Miser and his Gold', in which a miser concentrates all his wealth into one lump of gold which he buries before it is stolen from him. Here he is shown kneeling on the ground, arms extended in a gesture of surprise as a couple in the distance run towards a town in the distance, the man clasping a bag, and The fourth and final drawing shows a scene from 'Rescue of the Emperor Basilius Maredo', as he is snagged by a stag whilst hunting; he is saved by the sword of a servant who is subsequently sentenced to death for drawing his sword in the presence of the Emperor
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger, based on dealer's description., Artist is unidentified., Drawings on rectos of four leaves of wove paper which are sewn into a wrapper made from an18th-century sugar paper printed advertisement for William Henry Hall's New encylopaedia., and For further information, consult library staff.
