BIB_ID
287741
Accession number
MA 221.1-4
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Display Date
undated and 1656-1682.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 v. (4 items), bound ; 33.2 cm
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Collection consists of autograph manuscript copies of La Fontaine's fables Compagnons d'Ulisse à Monsieur le duc de Bourgogne, Philosophe Scithe (MA 221.1-2); the poems Sur la naissance de monseigneur le duc de bourgogne and Envoy a son altesse royale le Madame la Dauphine (MA 221.4); and an autograph letter signed to a Jacques Jannart (MA 221.3). Items in the collection have been described separately in four catalog records (MA 221.1-4); see related records for more information.
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