Lettres de l'illvstrissime et reverendissime Cardinal D'Ossat, evesqve de Bayevx : Au roy Henry le Grand, et à Monsieur de Villeroy. Depuis l'année M.D.XCIV. jusqves à l'année M.DC.IIII.
Cardinal Arnaud d'Osat (1536-1604)
Category
Books
Date
1627
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3083470
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. in 1 ([48], 1389, [9] p.) . port.. . 17cm. (8vo). Previous shelfmark: C.7.22. Imperfect: wanting all after p. 708 (i.e. vol. 2). Identified in 1796 inventory as 2 vols.: D 100b "Lettres D'Ossat", price 1s. Christies, 21 June 2004, lot 602.. Provenance: Bookplate: 'Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton' [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest armorial, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914. manuscript shelfmark on front pastedown: "B.3. French &c".. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding; gold-tooled spine, with remnants of manuscript label: "C.c.116".
Makers and roles
Cardinal Arnaud d'Osat (1536-1604) King Henri IV, King of France (1553–1610) Nicholas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy (1543-1617)