Halbou, Louis Michel, 1730-approximately 1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1784]
Call Number:
Print10091
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from publisher's date of death., Place of publication from item., Below title are eight lines of verse., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Sheet trimmed.
Publisher:
chez Ouvrier Graveur Place Maubert chez un Md. Bonnetier au Soleil d'Or
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Women in medicine, Drugs, Medicine shows, Patent medicines, Children, and Medals
Title below image., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
chez I. Mariette rue St. Jacques aux Colonnes d'Hercule
Description of the tournament in honor of the entry into Bologna of Margherita Aldobrandini, wife of Ranuccio Farnese, Duke of Parma, held 27 June 1600. One part of the spectacle was a machine, the 'mountain of Circe ...
Description:
Description of the tournament in honor of the entry into Bologna of Margherita Aldobrandini, wife of Ranuccio Farnese, Duke of Parma, held 27 June 1600. One part of the spectacle was a machine, the 'mountain of Circe', with a central mechanism making three changeable scenes. This 'mountain' is here represented by an engraved illustration, the center cut out, with three attached center illustrations to be folded into place., Signatures: A-O⁴., and Signed on p. 112: Melchiorre Zoppio.
Publisher:
Presso gli heredi di Giouanni Rossi,
Subject (Name):
Aldobrandini, Margherita,--Duchess, consort of Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma,--1588-1646., Heredi di Giovanni Rossi, printer., and Rosenthal, Albi,--1914-2004--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Festivals--Italy--Bologna--Early works to 1800. and Tournaments--Italy--Bologna--Early works to 1800.
Parte occidentale dell' antico, e nuovo Messico, con la Florida e la bassa Luigiana and Parte orientale dell' antico, e nuovo Messico, con la Florida e la bassa Luigiana
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, incomplete, containing the text of a prose allegorical pilgrimage of the soul. The narrator's soul is led by Dame Inspiration to the Fountain of Penitence (Fontaine de penitence); after being washed there, the soul continues her journey toward the Promised Land (Terre de promission) on the Ship of Penitence (Navire de penitence).
Description:
Decoration: 13 large full-color miniatures in architectural frames illustrating various events in the allegorical pilgrimage of the author's soul, guided by Dame Inspiration. The opening miniature is full-page and depicts the author asleep beneath a tree hung with her coat of arms. Other subjects include: the soul, accompanied by Dame Inspiration, begins her pilgrimage to the Fontaine de Penitence f.9; Inspiration explains to the soul what needs to be done in order to reach the Fontaine de Penitence f.11, the soul, carried on the back of Inspiration, flies to the Château de Contention diabolique f.17, Inspiration and the soul meet Raison f.20; the soul enters the Chemin de Crainte de Dieu f.35; souls are cleansed in the Fontaine de Penitence f.47; the soul sets off on her journey to the Terre de Promission f.50v; the company journey to the coast where they find boats awaiting them f.53; the company embark f.58; the company sets off on the Navire de Penitence f.61; the company is attacked by seven other boats f.63; the company is swept up by the Vent de Hypocrisie f.69v., Ex libris Catherine d'Amboise; Remy Megret of the Premonstratensian abbey of Notre Dame de Thenailles in Douay. Previously owned by Allan Heywood Bright. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Christie's London sale, 16 July 2014, lot 24) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., Laid in: autograph letter,signed, from the Liverpool bookseller Jaggard to Allan Heywood Bright, 1896 April 27, concerning the unknown early provenance of the manuscript. With autograph and typed notes by Allan Heywood Bright, 1898 and undated., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Opening sentence: Les continuelles meditationes de la volubilite et soudaine mutation des creatures raisonnables., Script: gothic bastarda., and Title from ownership inscription by Remy Megret (f80r).
Subject (Name):
Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550, Bright, Allan Heywood--Ownership., Megret, Remy., and Megret, Remy--Autograph.
Subject (Topic):
Allegories., Devotional literature, French--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--Early works to 1800., Illumination of books and manuscripts, French., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., Repentance--Early works to 1800., Soul--Early works to 1800., Women authors, French., and Women--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.