Prieres de la messe

Description

Title: Prieres de la messe
Creator: Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693
Published / Created: [between 1700 and 1750]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Prayers to be said at various times during the Mass. Composed by Paul Pellisson-Fontanier (1624-93).
Description: In French.
Script: Written by the master calligrapher Jean Pierre Rousselet, a follower of Nicholas Jarry, active in Paris between 1677 and 1736.
Two full-page miniatures and nine historiated headpieces in gouache, all in frames best described as resembling the frames of 18th-century mirrors; the frames blue and purple with white highlights and gold side-pieces decorated with red flowers in diamonds; floral swags at bottom. Tail pieces with swags, as above and filled with gold, on f. 48v with the Holy Spirit as a dove. 3- and 2-line initials, blue with white highlights on gold; 1-line initials in red. Titles in gold, red and blue capitals; running headings and rubrics in red.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Black goatskin, gold-tooled. A red label and salmon pink doublures and flyleaves. Gilt edges.
Provenance: Bookplate of Ray Livingston Murphy, by whom it was bequeathed to Yale in 1954.
Extent: ff. iv + 48 + iv : 173 x 109 (108 x 61) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French

Genre: Prayers and devotions
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693.
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Devotional literature, French
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Missals
Subjects: Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693
Catholic Church > Liturgy
Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Devotional literature, French
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Missals
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Paul Pellisson-Fontanier, Prieres de la Messe. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.