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Title:	Emblemes et devises morales View holdings at the UIUC Library \| MARC xml
Creator:	Montplaisir, Renâe de Bruc, marquis de, 1610-1683.
Publisher:	[France,
Date:	ca. 1680]
Physical Description:	112 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 198 x 149 mm.
Language:	fre
Notes:	Ms. codex. "A Monsievr de Montplaisir Sur son Liure d'Emblemes & de Deuises"--fol. 3. Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (i is pastedown) + 112 (paginated 1-220) + ii (ii is pastedown) ; 1p2s 2p4s 3p6s 4-28p4s. Binding: Contemporary blind-ruled black sealskin over paper boards; two silver clasps (lacking one clasp plate from front board); inserted contemporary cloth bookmarks; all edges gilt. In brown morocco case, velvet lined, made by Riviere & Son. Provenance: Purchased from Stonehill, 1945. Former shelfmark: Emblems 096.1 M768e (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Chiefly in French; some Latin, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
References:	McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois, M31 McGeary, Thomas. "Manuscript Emblem Books at the University of Illinois." In Emblematica 2 (1987): 357-370 Russell, Daniel. "M. de Montplaisir and His Emblems." In Neophilologus 67 (1983): 503-516 Sider & Obrist. Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts (1997), 134
Subject:	Manuscripts, French