Object details
Object number
4.a.3.3
Creator(s)
Title
Acis et Galatée: pastorale heroique en musique, representée pour la premiere fois dans le Château d'Anet devant Monseigneur le dauphin, par l'Academie royale de musique ... par exprés commandement de Sa Majesté
Date
1686
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
French
Publication Place
Paris
Binding Description
Crimson morocco; on the sides, a single with a double fillet, fleurs-de-lys in the corners, the arms of Madame de Maintenon in the center; fleurs-de-lys in the panels of the back; gilt edges
Description
1 vol., ([8], 41, [7] p., [1] leaf of plates) : paper ; ill. ; 24 cm. (4°)
Dimensions
24.1 x 18.7 cm (9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Marked (binding, front cover): coat of arms of Madame de Maintenon
Enclosed: paper fragment, inscribed in pencil: "Madame de Mainternon" handwritten in pencil (recto); "from beginning of scene quatriane (sic).-- 4.a.3.3"
Provenance
Collection of the second wife of King Louis XIV of France, Françoise d'Aubigné (1635 –1719), Madame de Maintenon.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the bookseller J. Pearson & Co., London on 10 October 1901 for £60.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 1.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), p. 70.
Carl B. Schmidt. The livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Tragédies Lyriques: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York, 1995), LLC14-1.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Horn Book Case
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