Record ID:
432513
Accession number:
MA 23402
Credit:
Donated by Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Annette de la Renta.
Description:
1 item (66 pages), bound ; 14.2 x 9.4 cm
Notes:
Title and date from title page.
At foot of title-page, immediately below date, "par L.P. Vallain", probably the French writing master Louis Pierre Vallain, who was received as master into his profession in 1744 and died in 1799.
Written in black and red ink, with a full-page illustrated frontispiece executed in black ink and ink wash, with frontispiece title: "Livre de prieres à l'usage de son Altesse Sérénnissime Monseigneur Le Prince de Condé".
Summary:
Manuscript composed of an illustrated frontispiece, title page, and 66 numbered pages of prayers, hymns, and devotional texts intended for the use of the young Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé.
Housed in:
Housed in red morocco clamshell box.
Binding:
Contemporary blue morocco tooled in gilt with fleurs-de-Iys on covers, arms in the center of covers, ribbed spine with fleurs-de-Iys, decorated and painted vellum and morocco doublures with the monogram L(ouis) J(oseph) in the center, and pink watered silk endleaves.
Provenance:
Louis Joseph, Prince de Condé; Jayne Wrightsman (1919-2019), New York.
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