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Title : Statuts de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit au droit désir Author : Orimina, Cristoforo. Enlumineur Publication date : 1353-1354 Contributor : Louis de Tarente. Commanditaire du contenu Contributor : Venise (République). Ancien possesseur Contributor : Henri III (1551-1589 ; roi de France). Ancien possesseur Contributor : Hurault, Philippe (1523-1599). Ancien possesseur Contributor : Hurault de Cheverny, Philippe II (1579-1620). Ancien possesseur Contributor : Longueil, René de (1597-1677). Ancien possesseur Contributor : Nicolaï, Nicolas de (1623-1686 ; seigneur de Goussainville). Ancien possesseur Contributor : Gaignières, Roger de (1642-1715). Ancien possesseur Contributor : Gaignat, Louis-Jean (1697-1768). Ancien possesseur Contributor : Debure, Guillaume-François (1732-1782). Ancien possesseur Contributor : La Vallière, Louis-César de La Baume Le Blanc duc de (1708-1780). Ancien possesseur Contributor : Musée des souverains (Paris). Ancien possesseur Subject : Louis de Tarente Subject : Jeanne de Naples Relationship : http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc50635h Type : manuscript Language : french Format : Naples. - Littera gothica rotunda. - Enluminé par Cristoforo Orimina. Peinture à pleine page, miniatures, lettres ornées, bordures. - Parchemin et papier. - [2]+55 ff., précédés de quatre gardes de papier et suivis de deux gardes de papier. - 360 x 260 mm (just. 200 x 1400 mm). - Manuscrit trop... Description : Numérisation effectuée à partir d'un document original : Français 4274. Description : Numérisation avant la restauration de 2014. Description : Contient : F. 1 : Page de titre peinte, "Institution de l'ordre du Saint Esprit par le roy de Sicile et de Hierusalem l'an mil trois cent cinquante deux. Manuscrit original sur vélin orné de très belles magnatures" (France, première moitié du XVIIIe siècle). Réalisée quand le volume se trouvait... Continuation of text Rights : Public domain Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b8551130g Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Français 4274 Provenance : Bibliothèque nationale de France Date of online availability : 16/09/2013 |
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This digital reproduction of this binding is from Gallica (click here to see it)
There is another catalogue page with a lot more information about this manuscript (click here to see it)
The Bibliotheque nationale de France provides us with a list of important binders that links to biographic information for each as well as listing example bindings that have been digitized in Gallica. Now I have mentioned this before, when it comes to Derome le jeune, none of the example bindings shown were actually decorated by Derome. One can only guess that the 'experts" in the BnF have not been able to correctly identify his work. Part of the reason for this is that Derome employed other decorators to do the job and then added his ticket. Barber could not tell the difference between the work of Jubert and Derome or the work of Gosselin and Derome, thus he mixed these artists and the resultant mess has been followed by the BnF, yet here is a true Derome binding that they do not show and it is not easy to find. However in the information about this Manuscript binding we find this notation: "Reliure de maroquin rouge à décor doré à la dentelle, tranches dorées (Paris, atelier de Nicolas-Denis Derome, entre 1764 et 1768)". So they know full well this is a Derome, but do not show it in his list of bindings but instead show bindings by other binders! I should be glad that they have not solved this problem, as it gives my work a reason to exist. Now interestingly they state that Derome made this binding sometime between 1764 and 1768. I think that the earlier date is more likely on the basis of the palettes. However I am sure a documentalist can answer these questions, which revolve around who actually paid Derome to make this binding, I did not find this manuscript listed in De Bure le jeune's1769 catalogue Supplement à la Bibliographie instructive, ou Catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu m. Louis Jean Gaignat. It seems likely that Gaignat had it bound by Derome but if it is not in his catalogue then how and when did De Bure get it and then sell it to La Vallière? More importantly we discover in the BnF catalogue information that this Gallica digital reproduction was made fortunately before a restoration in 2014. That restoration may have removed the critical palette information that we see at the bottom and top of the spine (both are damaged) I have on a previous page (click here to see it) commented on the importance of this Jacques-Antoine Derome palette (jad-p-1) and accompanying 6 rings in the panels. This is proof positive that we have found a key to identifying the ultra rare J.A Derome bindings, because his son kept this ungainly palette in use for years after his father's death. In Comparative Diagram 2 we see then, the jad-p-1 palette and six ring panel, It is quite amazing to think that Derome le jeune kept this palette and spine panel combination in use long after his father had used these identical tools in this arrangement. |
| In Comparative Diagram 4, we notice that the decoration of the Français 4274 has a lot in common with the C11d6 binding found in the British Library, however the spines of these bindings are quite different and it may be that C11d6 was made quite a number of years after Français 4274. In Comparative Diagram 5 which was made a few years ago, I tried to find some sort of chronological order in these bindings, however it may turn out that Derome le jeune made the spines quite differently depending on the whims of his clients, so it might not be wise to go too far in attempting to order the chronology in terms of the spine decoration. In reviewing this work I have rediscovered something that was a great mystery to me a few years ago but now seems almost plausable, I will expose this on the next page. |
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A - 1760? - 1474? Petrarca - British Library C6a2 B - 1763? - 1472 Petrarca - Glasgow University Library - Gaignat sale, 1769, lot 1979 C - 1764? - 1718 Longus Maggs 362 D - 1764 - 1764 Sothebys 2018 E - 1761? -1484 Bandelis De Ricci 38 etiquette A 1 F - 1761? - 1524 Heures Library of Congress (see this page) G - 1768 - 1476 Philelphus - Glasgow University Library - Gaignat sale, 1769 lot 1689 H - 1766 - 1766 Petity - Sothebys 168 I - 1768? - 1563 Socinian Bible (Polish) British Library arms George III c11d6 (scroll down) J - 1769 - 1470? Bible (German?) Conusi ab ydolis: British Library c9c1 (scroll down) K - 1769 - 1475 Speculum Bod-inc. S-268 Bodleian Library Oxford University |
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