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Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de Noua maris Oceani Hyspania narratio Sacratissimo. ac Inuictissimo / Carolo Romanoru[m] imperatori semper Augusto, Hyspaniaru[m], [et]c Regi Anno Domini. M.D.XX transmissa: In qua Continentur Plurima scitu, & admiratione digna Circa egregias earu[m] puintiarũ Vrbes, Incolarũ mores, puerorũ Sacrificia, & Religiosas personas, Potissimũq; de Celebri Ciuitate Temixtitan Variisq; illi mirabilib, qu̧e legẽtẽ mirifice delectabũt, p. Doctorẽ Petrũ Saguorgnanũ [sic] Foro Iuliensẽ Reueñ. D. Ioan de Reuelles Episco. Viẽnẽsis Secretariũ ex Hyspano idiomate in Latinũ versa anno Dnĩ, M.D.XXIIII Kl. Martii: Cum Gratia, & Priuilegio. [Colophon (l. xlix[superscript]3) : explicit secunda Ferdinandi Cortesii Narratio per Doctorem Petrum Sauorgnanum Foro Iuliensem ex Hyspano Idiomate in latinum Conuersa. Impressa in Celebri Ciuitate Norimberga Cõuentui Imperiali presidente Serenissimo Ferdinando Hyspaniarũ Infãte, & Archiduce Austriæ Sac: R. Imp: Locũt. Generali Anno. Dñi. M.D.XXIIII: Quar. No. Mar. Per Fridericum Peypus

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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.

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    The collection spans the years 1841-2001, though the majority of it dates between 1960 and 1990. Almost all of the materials dated before the 1950s are reproductions made at Hine's request for reference in his research and writing, and many of them concern the 19th century figures Edward Kern, John Russell Bartlett, Josiah Royce and Theodore Talbot. The collection is organized to preserve, whenever possible, Robert Hine's original order. This includes most of his original folder titles, the original order of folders, and the original order of some of the boxes. As such there are small portions of it that do not follow the rules of cataloging to the letter (as in ascending date orders, etc). The collection contains Hine's professional work as a historian of the American West and a writer, and includes research notes, photocopied manuscripts, newspaper clippings, interviews, correspondence, and other research related papers. As such, the original order of Hine's papers reflects his process of collecting and referencing them as he worked on various book projects. In some instances, his original folders provide insight into the kinds of questions or themes he was pursuing in the course of his work. Box 16, Folder 6, for example, relates to his work on California's colonies and communes and is titled "Family," reflecting his special interest in this aspect of communal life. Hine also revised the organization of these papers as he prepared them for donation to the Huntington Library in the late 1990s. Despite Hine's own curatorship, some of his papers remained unsorted and unorganized at the time of this collection's cataloging. Those have been organized by the cataloger to reflect, as much as possible, Hine's own organizational methods. To this end, the boxes of the collection are organized largely according to the book or other scholarly project for which Hine obtained them, with the exception of the boxes that house correspondence. Boxes 1-22 pertain to Hine's work on California's colonies and communes, and in particular the books California's Utopian Colonies (1973) and Community on the American Frontier: Separate but Not Alone (1985). Within this series, boxes 1-12 are an alphabetical subseries of the communes by name; boxes 13 and 14 are a subseries dedicated specifically to the Llano Commune; boxes 15-18 are a miscellaneous subseries organized largely by subject (i.e. Family in colonies and communes); boxes 19-22 are miscellaneous notes, citations, and bibliographic index cards. Boxes 23-26 pertain to Hine's research into John Russell Bartlett and the book Bartlett's West: Drawing the Mexican Boundary (1969); boxes 27-30 relate to his work on Josiah Royce and the book Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard; boxes 31-33 relate to his work on Edward Kern and the book In the Shadow of Fremont: Edward Kern and the Art of American Exploration (1982); boxes 34-35 pertain to his research into Theodore Talbot and the book Soldiers in the West: Letters of Theodore Talbot During His Services in California, Mexico, and Oregon, 1845-53 (1972); box 36 relates to his memoir Second Sight (1993); boxes 37-39 contain miscellaneous research material, including chapter notes for California's Utopian Colonies, scholarly reviews of his books, and miscellaneous secondary scholarship; boxes 40-43 contain correspondence, largely with other historians but also notably with (then California governor) Ronald Reagan; boxes 44-47 contain bibliographic index cards; box 48 contains audio-visual material; box 49 contains ephemera; and lastly box 50 contains oversize material. 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