The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, an address book, a newspaper clipping, and a bookmark relating to Natalie Barney collected by Joan Schenkar, Box 1 contains correspondence, photographs, a legal document, an address book, and a newspaper clipping. The correspondence is among Barney, Bettina Bergery, Berthe Cleyrergue, Laura Dreyfus-Barney, Marcelle Fauchier-Delavigne, Nadine Hwang, Janine Lahovany, André Rouveyre, and Crédit Suisse Berne, dated 1935-1973. The bulk of the correspondence consists of eighty-five letters from Barney to Cleyrergue, dated 1940-1968. The photographs depict several individuals, including Barney, Dolly Wilde, Valery Larbaud, Hwang, Eva Palmer, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, Antoinette Gentien, Renée Vivien, Laura Dreyfus-Barney, and Marie Laurencin. The legal document is a typescript copy of a page from an April 1918 voir dire, detailing the troubled marriage between Colette and Henry de Jouvenal. The newspaper clipping is an undated cartoon of the temple de l'amitié in Barney's garden. The leather-bound address book belonged to Barney and contains two cartes de visite, Box 2 contains a photographic portrait of Barney at age sixteen, and Box 3 contains a metal bookmark with a butterfly design that belonged to Barney
Description:
Joan Schenkar is an American playwright and biographer., Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women., Accompanied by a vendor list (in box 1)., and In French and English.
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 parchment, in a single hand, incomplete, containing the text of a prose allegorical pilgrimage of the soul. The narrator's soul is led by Dame Inspiration to the Fountain of Penitence (Fontaine de penitence); after being washed there, the soul continues her journey toward the Promised Land (Terre de promission) on the Ship of Penitence (Navire de penitence).
Description:
In Middle French., Laid in: autograph letter,signed, from the Liverpool bookseller Jaggard to Allan Heywood Bright, 1896 April 27, concerning the unknown early provenance of the manuscript. With autograph and typed notes by Allan Heywood Bright, 1898 and undated., Title from ownership inscription by Remy Megret (f80r)., Opening sentence: Les continuelles meditationes de la volubilite et soudaine mutation des creatures raisonnables., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Script: gothic bastarda., and Decoration: 13 large full-color miniatures in architectural frames illustrating various events in the allegorical pilgrimage of the author's soul, guided by Dame Inspiration. The opening miniature is full-page and depicts the author asleep beneath a tree hung with her coat of arms. Other subjects include: the soul, accompanied by Dame Inspiration, begins her pilgrimage to the Fontaine de Penitence f.9; Inspiration explains to the soul what needs to be done in order to reach the Fontaine de Penitence f.11, the soul, carried on the back of Inspiration, flies to the Château de Contention diabolique f.17, Inspiration and the soul meet Raison f.20; the soul enters the Chemin de Crainte de Dieu f.35; souls are cleansed in the Fontaine de Penitence f.47; the soul sets off on her journey to the Terre de Promission f.50v; the company journey to the coast where they find boats awaiting them f.53; the company embark f.58; the company sets off on the Navire de Penitence f.61; the company is attacked by seven other boats f.63; the company is swept up by the Vent de Hypocrisie f.69v.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550. and Megret, Remy.
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Devotional literature, French, French prose literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Soul, Women, Conduct of life, and Women authors, French
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1475]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 427
Image Count:
212
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed).
Description:
In French., Script: Written in batarde, with elaborate flourishes and cadeaux in upper and lower margins., The manuscript includes four miniatures which are among the finest by the Master of Amiens 200, active in Hesdin and Mons and possibly in Amiens in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Four half-page miniatures, each with a 6- to 4-line initial, blue with white highlights, filled with red, blue and green ivy, against an irregular gold ground, edged in black, some with cusping. Initial on f. 1r with arms of Crevecoeur family (gules, 3 chevrons or) added later. Folios with miniatures have a blue and gold bar in inner margin, with diamond-shaped terminals and regularly spaced blocks of black hair-spray with two gold ivy leaves in margin; the other three margins with red, blue and green acanthus, with some gold, red and blue flowers, birds, insects, surrounded by blue and gold ivy leaves. 2-line initials, gold, filled with pink or blue against irregular, cusped blue or pink grounds with white filigree. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red, straight-grained goatskin gold-tooled with black onlays over the bands. Light blue, watered silk doublures and gilt edges. Bound by Bozerian (Paris, 1793-1817). Armorial binding of comte L. L. Pajot d'Ons-en-Bray.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Women authors, French
This collection consists principally of photographic prints of Barney at various ages: as a teenager; as a young woman in Victorian attire and in riding gear; with Gabriele d'Annunzio; with Romaine Brooks; with unidentified friends; and by herself at age 48. Also included are: a photographic postcard addressed to "Chère Rachilde"; an inscribed calling card; and a copy of a book of poems by Louis Emié ("Hauts Desirs Sans Absence" Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1953), inscribed to Barney, with a letter from Barney to Emié.
Alternative Title:
[Photograph of Natalie Barney standing and holding a flower]
Description:
Natalie Barney was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women. and Purchased from David J. Holmes on the Danforth N. Barney, Jr. Fund, 1996
Subject (Name):
Barney, Natalie Clifford, D'Annunzio, Gabriele,--1863-1938, and Emié, Louis,--1900-
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, and Women authors, French
This collection consists principally of photographic prints of Barney at various ages: as a teenager; as a young woman in Victorian attire and in riding gear; with Gabriele d'Annunzio; with Romaine Brooks; with unidentified friends; and by herself at age 48. Also included are: a photographic postcard addressed to "Chère Rachilde"; an inscribed calling card; and a copy of a book of poems by Louis Emié ("Hauts Desirs Sans Absence" Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1953), inscribed to Barney, with a letter from Barney to Emié.
Description:
Natalie Barney was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women., Purchased from David J. Holmes on the Danforth N. Barney, Jr. Fund, 1996, and Verso of photograph mount is blank.
Subject (Name):
Barney, Natalie Clifford, D'Annunzio, Gabriele,--1863-1938, and Emié, Louis,--1900-
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, and Women authors, French
This collection consists principally of photographic prints of Barney at various ages: as a teenager; as a young woman in Victorian attire and in riding gear; with Gabriele d'Annunzio; with Romaine Brooks; with unidentified friends; and by herself at age 48. Also included are: a photographic postcard addressed to "Chère Rachilde"; an inscribed calling card; and a copy of a book of poems by Louis Emié ("Hauts Desirs Sans Absence" Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1953), inscribed to Barney, with a letter from Barney to Emié.
Description:
Natalie Barney was a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist, whose salon in Paris, while serving as a gathering point for writers in general, aimed to promote the writings of women., Purchased from David J. Holmes on the Danforth N. Barney, Jr. Fund, 1996, and Verso of photograph mount is blank.
Subject (Name):
Barney, Natalie Clifford, D'Annunzio, Gabriele,--1863-1938, and Emié, Louis,--1900-
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century, Authors, French--20th century, and Women authors, French
