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    Item No. 43. Entrée de Sa Majesté Louis XVIII le Désiré, dans sa bonne Ville de Paris, le Mardi 3 Mai 1814. … ; Entrée de Son Altesse Royale Monsier, Charles Philippe Comte d'Artois, Frère du Roi, Lieutenant Général de France, le 12 Avril 1814

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    [print, color; two panels] Printer/Publisher text: "A Paris chez Basset, Md. D'Estampes, rue St. Jacques, No. 64." From Anderson Galleries catalog no. 1404, item 69.

    RB 10015

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    Paris in my time

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    "Mark Steinmetz's long-awaited new monograph presents work culled from several extended trips that the artist made to Paris over a twenty-five year period. Paris was where his mother was born and raised, giving Steinmetz a special connection to, and familiarity with, the city. As a result, Steinmetz plays with the conventions of the Paris photographic tradition, from Atget to Kertész. Therefore the pictures are classical, with a modern feel. Consequently Steinmetz updates the tradition and follows the path he has set with his other books"--Publisher's description.

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  • Carte de la Partie Francoise de St. Domingue

    Carte de la Partie Francoise de St. Domingue

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    Scott has added English translations to the original French descriptive text. Bellin's original map apparently had "Places burnt by the Negroes coloured yellow." This map has yellow outline color, so those are lost. Kashnor dates as [1818]. Prime meridian: Paris. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 411 P 26.

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    Kaart Aaanwyzende de Wegen langs welken de Heer Hearne in de Jaaren 1770,1771, en 1772, zyne beide Landtogten gedaan heeft ter ontdekkinge van de Kopermijn Rivier onder't bestuur van de Maatschappy der Hudson's Baai

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    Kashnor notes, "A rare map of Hearne's journey to the Coppermine River." Hearne's routes shown in hand color. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Mercator. Watermark: Crowned coat-of-arms, Adriaan Rocce. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS. note: 26.

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  • Works by Gautier de Metz, Jean de Meun, Geoffroi de Paris and Jacobus de Cessolis : [manucript]

    Works by Gautier de Metz, Jean de Meun, Geoffroi de Paris and Jacobus de Cessolis : [manucript]

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    ff. 1-152v. [Gautier de Metz] [Image du Monde]. Incipit: //Qu'ainsi dampnent euls et autrui/ Ce qui puet l'omme a mal conduire. Explicit: Et il en a loisir et temps/ Car dieu lui rendra si hault don//. French. Second recension (with the Brendan interpolation on ff. 23-54v) according to the classification discussed by P. Meyer, "L'Image du Monde," Romania 21 (1892) 481-505. The Brendan interpolation printed by A. Jubinal, La Legénde latine de saint Brandaines (Paris 1836) 105-64. For a list of 72 manuscripts of the Image du Monde, not including EL 26 A 3, see E.-D. Grand in École nationale des Chartes, Positions des thèses (Paris 1885) 81-84. Status of text: Beginning and ending defectively. ff. 153-186v; ff. 187-188v, blank. [Jean de Meun] [Testament]. Incipit: Li peres, li fils et li Sains Esperis/ Uns dieux en troix personnes honores et cheris. Explicit: Et li prit humblement que nous soions escript/ Ou Saint livre de vie que il meismes escript. Amen. Explicit le testament maistre Iehan de meun qui fus nes sus loyre a meun. Et servi toute sa vie de bon ["coeur" indicated by a sketch of a heart] la vierge marie. Escript l'an mil iiii cens et x le iours de la Saint denis. Rubric: Le testament maistre Iehan de meun dit clopinel. French. D. M. Méon, ed., Le Roman de la Rose par Guillaume de Lorris et Jehan de Meung (Paris 1814) 4:1-116; G. Piffard, "Le Testament de Jehan de Meun d'après le manuscrit HM [incorrect citation] EL 26 A 3, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California," unpublished thesis, Strasbourg, 1965. For a list of 116 manuscripts, including EL 26 A 3, see S. Buzzetti Gallarati, "Nota bibliografica sulla tradizione manoscritta del Testament di Jean de Meun," Revue Romane 13 (1978) 2-35, citing this manuscript on pp. 5, 30. ff. 189-209v. [Descente de Saint Paul en Enfer, version of Geoffroi de Paris]. Incipit: Ore escoutes seigneurs/ Qui damledieu ames/ Qui les paines d'enfer/ Et les douleurs cremes/. Explicit: La nous doinst parvenir/ Ou li bons seront lie/ Em pardurable gloire/ En son haultisme sie. Amen. Explicit romanum Sancti pauli apostoli Anno domini millesimo quadrigentesimo quinto decimo. In festo sancti Marci evvangeliste. Rubric: Incipit Romanum Sancti pauli apostoli. French. Other creator(s): Geoffroi de Paris, version of. Similar to the version of the text printed by L. E. Kastner, "Les versions françaises inédites de la Descente de Saint Paul en enfer," Revue des Langues Romanes 49 (1906) 427-49, as the "version de Geoffroi de Paris," from Paris, B.N. fr. 1526 (a somewhat faulty copy); see also W. Meiden, unpublished doctoral edition, Ohio State University, 1945. The Huntington manuscript begins on line 9 of the printed text, and generally corresponds up to line 586; the printed text then has 3 more lines, while EL 26 A 3 continues for an additional 54 lines. ff. 209v-210. [Visio sancti Pauli]. Incipit: Item inveni in alio loco quomodo Sanctus michael archangelus duxit sanctum paulum ad omnia loca inferni. Et libellus Incipit sic. Dies dominicus dies est electus in quo gaudebunt angeli et archangeli maior diebus ceteris et cetera. Et quomodo sanctus michael prostravit se et paulus et milia milium angelorum ante filium dei ut Requiem haberent die dominico. Explicit: non possent dinumerare penas inferni. Nos ergo fratres karissimi audientes ista mala convertamur ad dominum ut cum ipso Regnemus et vivemus. In secula seculorum. Amen. Finis est libri ubi hec omnia inveni. Amen. Latin. T. Silverstein, Visio Sancti Pauli. Studies and Documents 4 (London 1935); this manuscript corresponds generally to the text on p. 202 (end of Redaction V). ff. 210v-212; f. 212v, blank. [Devotions to St. John the Baptist]. Latin. Hymn, versicle, response and prayer to John the Baptist. ff. 213-278v. [Jacobus de Cessolis]. Ludus scaccorum. Incipit: Entre tous les mauves signes qui puent estre en nul homme C'est quant homme ne doubte a couroucier par pecchie. Explicit: Car Ioie est une replection de chose qui est delittable espandue parmi tous les membres a tres grant leesce et dons si tendent a tres grant Ioie avoir. Mais ils ne scevent mie qu'il//. Rubric: Ci commence le livre de la moralite de nobles hommes fait sur le Gieu des esches et soubs quel Roy ils furent trouves premierement. French. Other creator(s): Jean de Vignay, translator. Text opens with a prologue ("A Tres noble et Excellent prinpce Iehan de france duc de Normandie et Ainsne fils de philippe pour la grace de dieu Roy de france frere Iehan de Vignay") and a chapter list. C. S. Fuller, "A Critical Edition of Le Jeu des eschés, moralisé, Translated by Jehan de Vignay," unpublished doctoral dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1974, based on 48 manuscripts, including EL 26 A 3 (ends defectively). Kaeppeli, SOPMA 2066.

    mssEL 26 A 3

  • Carte de l'Isle de Barbade Dresee au Depost des Cartes et Plans de la Marine

    Carte de l'Isle de Barbade Dresee au Depost des Cartes et Plans de la Marine

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    Kashnor notes, "showing the roads and churches." Kashnor locates publication as Paris. Seal of Depot de la Marine.. Prime meridian: London, Paris. Relief: pictorial & hachures. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Etching ?. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 172.

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