Accession number:
MS M.22
Title:
Lesson book of Louis, le Grand Dauphin
Created:
1666.
Binding:
Original 17th-century red morocco tooled with fleur-de-lis in corners and on back, enclosed in red cloth box.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description:
26 leaves (1 column, 8 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 120 x 80 mm
Provenance:
Louis, le Grand Dauphin; Guyot de Villeneuve sale (Paris, 1900, I, no. 21) to Pearson; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. written and decorated in Paris, France, in 1666.
Latin-French vocabulary book; Latin words followed by their French equivalents.
Scribe: Étienne Damoiselet; colophon on fol. 24 reads: Escrit par E. Damoiselet, à Paris, 1666.
Decoration: decorative headpiece on fol. 3, illuminated arms of Louis, le Grand Dauphin on fol. 2v, crowned device on fol. 10 and 24; Latin words in black; French equivalent words in red.
Script:
Roman capitals
Language:
Latin and French
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