Memoires de Philippes de Mornay, [...] Contenans divers discours, instructions, lettres, & depesches par lui dressées, ou escrites [...] depuis l'an M D LXXII. jusques a l'an M D LXXXIX. [-1599] [...].
Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly (1549-1623)
Category
Books
Date
1624 - 1628
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 3046837
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. . 4to.. Vol. 1: folded paper tab pasted onto front board [seventeenth century]: Sr. du Plessis 5 vol. This tab folds down over the top edge to display the title. Old manuscript shelfmark on front board: 383. Vol. 2: old manuscript shelfmark on front board: 384. Shelved with the Elzevir third and fourth vols. of 1651-2.. Binding: [Both vols.] Vellum; spines lettered in manuscript directly onto vellum: Plessis Memoires [shelfmarks added in later hand:] No 9 [and] No 10; both vols. have also had paper labels removed from the head of the spines.
Provenance
Indigenous collection purchased by Ministry of Works in 1954 and given to Dyrham Park in 1961.
Makers and roles
Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly (1549-1623) Jean Daillé (Châtellerault 1594 - Paris 1670)