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Lesson book of Louis, le Grand Dauphin (MS M.22).

Accession number
MS M.22
Object title
Lesson book of Louis, le Grand Dauphin (MS M.22).
Display Date
1666.
Created
1666.
Binding
Original 17th-century red morocco tooled with fleur-de-lis in corners and on back, enclosed in red cloth box.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.
Description
26 leaves (1 column, 8 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 120 x 80 mm
Provenance
Louis, le Grand Dauphin; Guyot de Villeneuve sale (Paris, 1900, I, no. 21) to Pearson; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in Paris, France, in 1666.
Latin-French vocabulary book; Latin words followed by their French equivalents.
Scribe: Étienne Damoiselet; colophon on fol. 24 reads: Escrit par E. Damoiselet, à Paris, 1666.
Decoration: decorative headpiece on fol. 3, illuminated arms of Louis, le Grand Dauphin on fol. 2v, crowned device on fol. 10 and 24; Latin words in black; French equivalent words in red.
Script
Roman capitals
Language
Latin and French
Century
Classification