Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Le chemin de verité qui conduit une ame desireuse de faire son salut à la perfection de la saintété.

Accession number
PML 2089-90
Creator
David, Pierre.
Published
A Paris : Chez François le Cointe, 1661.
Credit line
Pierpont Morgan,
Description
2 v. : plates ; 15.5 cm (12mo)
Binding
17th-century French white silk, with large flowers richly embroidered in colored and metallic threads, beads, and sequins, with elements of the Passion on spine. Orange silk pastedowns and endleaves (vol. I) and striped white silk pastedowns and endleaves
Provenance
Perhaps bound for Louis XIV, modern pencil inscription: "Reliure et brodées Louis XIV" (vol. I, front endleaf); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Bonaventure, 1906.
Classification
Century
Department