Chronologica de rebus Franciae tractatio.
Unknown
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1600 - 1700
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3227965
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 341, [43], 118, [10] p., bound ; 23 cm. (4to.) Former shelfmark: BC.sh.2. Running number: 6894. Water-staining at foot of leaves throughout; leaves cockled. Insect damage (deathwatch beetle?) in outer margin of leaves from p. 95 (second count) through to rear board. Provenance: small label on front pastedown: "L" [printed in red ink] / "39" [manuscript in black ink]. This letter/number sequence is repeated in manuscript on the verso of front free endpaper. These inventory or shelfmark labels are characteristic of books from the library of Louis-Henri de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1635-1698). Count Loménie de Brienne's library was sold by his son Henri-Louis in London in 1724, where Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) undoubtedly purchased it. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Larcsen"[?]. Manuscript inventory number in red crayon or pencil on recto of rear free endpaper: "A1301". Binding: eighteenth-century full gold-tooled red morocco; sewn on six supports; six raised bands; double and single gilt fillet border with small cornerpiece stamps; inner panel of double and single gilt fillets with floral cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine; gilt title 'Chrono de rebus Franciae' lettered directly onto spine; all edges gilt (over marbling on bottom fore-edge); nonpareil pattern marbled endpapers. Possibly bound by the famous French bookbinder Augustin Duseuil (1673-1746), to whom many of Loménie de Brienne's bindings have been attributed.
Makers and roles
Unknown, author