Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Traité de la mignature et de plusieurs secrets pour différens usage.

Authors

• Boutet, Claude
• Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund

Call number

Ms. Codex 1645
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9961137913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884511165
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p33f4kn2f http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281 https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000264

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

French

Origin

Date

1744

Place

Nancy

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.
   

Extent

111 leaves : 155 x 100 (117 x 67) mm bound to 166 x 108 mm

Collation

Paper, 111; 1²(-1) 2-13⁸ 14⁸(-2, one glued to endpaper); [i-ii], 1-220, contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary mottled sheep with gilt paneled spine (Croft), with spine title Trait. de la migna.

Layout

Written in 22-23 long lines; vertical margins marked by folding.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Keywords

• Treatise
• 18th century
• French
• France
• Paper
• Science

Licenses

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