Traité de la mignature et de plusieurs secrets pour différens usage

Alternate Title:

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

Contributor:

Boutet, Claude (attributed name)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1744

Description:

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.

Language:

French

Provenance:

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

Relation:

The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000264

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); manuals (instructional materials); treatises; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

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

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1645

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund