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French aphorisms, library catalogue, etc
Title
French aphorisms, library catalogue, etc.
Created
France and Flanders, 15th-17th centuries
Physical Description
ff. 113 : paper ; 205 x 135 mm.
Language
French
Notes
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??
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".
In French.
Provenance
Tajan sale, 15 June 1995, lot 6; acquired by Bernard M. Rosenthal (MS 187 in his collection); purchased from him in 2003 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
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.
Publications
K. Daly, G. Labory (eds.), Abregé des Croniques de France par Noël de Fribois (Paris, 2006), pp. 75-76 (the description, containing the wrong identification of art. 3 and believing art. 4 was also composed by Jacques de Bugnin, possibly as a first draft of art. 3, is based on notes by Gilbert Ouy).
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2011
References
Noel de Fribois, French Aphorisms, Library Catalogue, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Noel de Fribois, French Aphorisms, Library Catalogue, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Flanders (Belgium) - 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance - France - 16th century.
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