Record ID:
81754
Accession number:
MA 19
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.
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