BIB_ID
432325
Accession number
MA 23391
Display Date
Paris, France, 1690.
Credit line
Donated by Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Annette de la Renta.
Description
1 item (96 pages), bound ; 16.9 x 11.8 cm
Notes
Attributed to calligrapher and miniaturist (Jean Pierre) Rousselet.
Title from title page.
Calligraphic manuscript consisting of a title-page and 96 numbered pages; text written in red, blue, gold, and black; title-page decorated with an illuminated monogram executed in full color.
Title from title page.
Calligraphic manuscript consisting of a title-page and 96 numbered pages; text written in red, blue, gold, and black; title-page decorated with an illuminated monogram executed in full color.
Provenance
Bookplate of Mortimer Schiff; Jayne Wrightsman (1919-2019), New York.
Summary
Manuscript listing, in tabular form, the vessals in the French Navy of Louis XIV, January 1, 1690; including their names, tonnage, guns, departments, year and place of construction, builders, officers, etc.; with additional table listing the vessals by sttaion and port, names of officers, lists of vessels by type, artillery, etc.
Housed in
Red morocco pull-off box (19.1 cm)
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