Record ID:
159406
Accession number:
MA 391
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description:
1 item (16 p.), bound ; 29.4 cm
Notes:
Manuscript is preceded by an autograph declaration of authenticity signed by Charles Auguste (de Sales), Bishop of Geneva, dated March 12, 1654, with seal; counter-signed by Seigneur J. [Challet?]. According to the declaration, the manuscript is a portion of his "Traicté de l'amour de Dieu" published in 1616.
Contains numerous insertions, corrections and deletions.
The manuscript was bound for presentation and given by Charles Auguste de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and nephew of St. Francis de Sales, to Louise Catherine Vernat (b. 1606, d. 1689), Mother Superior, and to the nuns of the Convent of the Order of the Visitation of Saint Mary, Lyon, in 1654.
Housed in:
Blue cloth drop-spine box (32.6 cm).
Binding:
Swiss or French 17th century binding of white satin over thin cardboard, lined with pink silk. Applied embroidered borders and the following lettering on the covers: VIVE. M. I. ALA. MERE. L. C. VERNAT. ET. A. SES. FILLES/WE. IESUS. ESCRIT. DE. LA. MAIN. DE N. B. P. F. DE. SALES. Two blue ribbon ties.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1907.
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