Details

Other Title:

Traitè de la mignature et d'autres matiéres curieuses pour la peinture, pratiquées et tirées des meilleurs auteurs modernes

Subjects:

Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Early works to 1800.
Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Technique.
Illumination of books and manuscripts.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

18th-century copy of a technical treatise on the painting of miniatures, in print from 1673. Includes information on the reduction of images and mixes of pigments for landscapes, skies, varieties of flowers, skin, faces, drapery, and jewels. Slightly more than half the manuscript (through p. 138) closely matches early printed editions; the remainder of the text presents material from other sources, including preparations and uses of gold leaf, varnish, lacquer, and gold and silver inks, and instructions for marbling paper and tinting parchment.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. i recto); caption title, Traitè de la mignature et d'autres matiéres curieuses pour la peinture, pratiquées et tirées des meilleurs auteurs modernes (p. 1); spine title Trait. de la migna.
Collation: Paper, 111; 1²(-1) 2-13⁸ 14⁸(-2, one glued to endpaper); [i-ii], 1-220, contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.
Layout: Written in 22-23 long lines; vertical margins marked by folding.
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Vignettes in ink at the end of some sections (for example, p. 4, 13, 16, 26, 40, 41, 55, 59, 96, 138, 171, 193).
Binding: Contemporary mottled sheep with gilt paneled spine (Croft), with spine title Trait. de la migna.
Origin: Written in Nancy, France, completed 1 September 1744 (p. 208).

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Justin Croft Antiquarian Books (Kent, England), catalog 8 (2014), no. 3.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1645

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

OCLC:

1049448606

Web link:

The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page