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Contes de ma mère l'Oye : manuscript : [France], 1695.

BIB_ID
143572
Accession number
MA 1505
Creator
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
Display Date
1695.
Credit line

Gift of the Fellows, 1953.

Description

1 item (118 p.), bound : ill. ; 19.9 cm

Notes

High reserve.
Illustrated with seven gouache headpieces in color.
Prepared for presentation to "Mademoiselle" (Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans) with a dedication signed "P.P." [Pierre Perrault].
Text is possibly in the hand of Pierre Perrault.

Provenance

Front fly-leaf has inscription: "L ex Libris J:B:Bouvier. 1721." Leaves at end bear inscriptions of later ownership by Mlle. Sophie Frilet (Sept. 1803) and a Mlle. De Marie; gift of the Fellows in 1960.

Housed in

Blue cloth drop-spine box (21.1 cm)