Accession number
MS M.296-297
Object title
Exemples.
Display Date
1667.
Created
Paris, France, 1667.
Binding
Both volumes in original 17th-century French red morocco, gilt-tooled; inner oblong panel with fleur-de-lis at corners has stamped inscription on front and back covers: Ad usum Delphini; fleurs-de-lis in panels on spine; in 20th-century red morocco case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1907.
Description
M.296 42 leaves (1 column, 12 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 130 x 90 mm
Provenance
Written for the Dauphin, son of Louis XIV of France; J. Barrois collection (no. 312); sold in 1849 to the Earl of Ashburnham; his sale (London, 1901, no. 464) to Newton; Charles Scribner, catalogue, New York, Nov. 27, 1903, no. 58; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ludovic Badin in 1907; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms; lesson book; examples of Latin verbs with their equivalents in French, in two volumes; written and decorated in Paris, France, in 1667.
Dedicated by the author in both volumes: Par M. le Président de Perigni, pour Monsigneur le Dauphin qui s'est servi de ce livre, 1667.
Scribe: Estienne Damoiselet; fol. 32 of v. 2 signed: escrit par Estienne Damoiselet, 1667.
M.296 Decoration: each page framed with gold lines.
M.297 Decoration: floral headpiece on fol. 1; each text page framed with gold lines.
Artist: Etienne Damoiselet?
Dedicated by the author in both volumes: Par M. le Président de Perigni, pour Monsigneur le Dauphin qui s'est servi de ce livre, 1667.
Scribe: Estienne Damoiselet; fol. 32 of v. 2 signed: escrit par Estienne Damoiselet, 1667.
M.296 Decoration: each page framed with gold lines.
M.297 Decoration: floral headpiece on fol. 1; each text page framed with gold lines.
Artist: Etienne Damoiselet?
Script
red and black Roman letters
Language
Latin and French
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