BIB_ID
130437
Accession number
MA 9177
Display Date
16--[century only is known].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (90 leaves including plates) ; 17 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Formerly MS M.345; listed as such in the De Ricci census on p. 1430 and in the Supplement on p. 343.
Formerly PML 3987; reaccessioned by LHMS in 2017.
Numerous entries are dated 1633 or 1634.
Some pages appear to be cut down, with missing text. The Chanson amoureuses may not have been the original contents of the binding.
Additional information available in the Collection File.
Formerly PML 3987; reaccessioned by LHMS in 2017.
Numerous entries are dated 1633 or 1634.
Some pages appear to be cut down, with missing text. The Chanson amoureuses may not have been the original contents of the binding.
Additional information available in the Collection File.
Provenance
The coat-of-arms on the first leaf is signed Arnoult de Soeymer, Douay, 1633; certain of the succeeding leaves are signed Guislein de Pamele (1634), Jacques de Pamele, De Cornain, Ioannes a Zallant, Josse de Beauchamps, Dio: Meys (1633), J. de Jonghe and others. Ex-libris of P.E.H. and H. E. O'Sullivan: their sale, Brussels, 29 May 1907. I, no. 229, p. 34. Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearsons in 1908.
Summary
The text consists of courtly airs, mottoes and various sentiments, such as are generally intended for an album amicorum; interspered throughout are 58 leaves containing painted and colored engravings of costumes, coats-of-arms, and ornamental engravings.
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