Istoria di Maria Stuarda, Regina di Francia, e di Scotia : manuscript translation of a portion of La cour sainte, [ca. 1750].

Record ID: 
81754
Accession number: 
MA 19
Author: 
Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description: 
1 item (98 p.), bound ; 28 cm
Notes: 

On title page: "Del Padre Carlo Antonio Berardi della Compagnia di Gesù."
A translation by Berardi of a portion of La Cour Sainte by Nicholas Caussin related to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, first published in Italian ca. 1645; this manuscript, in the hand of a secretary and probably copied from a printed version, is abridged.

Housed in: 
Brown morocco pull-off box (29.7 cm).
Binding: 
Full vellum with endpapers of decorative block-printed paste paper, with title and number on spine.
Provenance: 
With the armorial bookplate of a member of the Gradenigo family of Venice; Guilford Collection (no. 135); Phillipps Collection (no. 7353); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1906.