Letter

Description

Title: Letter
Creator: Thuillerie, Henri de la.
Published / Created: 1639.
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a Letter of rejoicing, from Henri de la Thuillerie to his father, the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie upon the father's return
Description: On the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie (1597-1653), see Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise, v. 9, cols. 146-47.
In Latin.
Script: Written in italic, with larger size of script for headings and proper names.
Each page has full border incorporating personifications, coats-of-arms, mottoes, putti, birds, and flowers, in red, blue, green, yellow, gold and silver, all of mediocre quality. On f. 1r, full-page drawing with arms of the Coignet family of Auxerre (azure, 2 swords per saltire argent, hilted to the base or, between 4 crescents argent).
Binding: Seventeenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled with a "seme" pattern of swords and crescents, flames and fleurs-de-lis. Satin doublures. Traces of two fastenings.
Provenance: Given to Yale by Wilmarth S. Lewis in 1954.
Extent: ff. iii + 17 + iii : 235 x 205 (119 x 89) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Thuillerie, Henri de la.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Thuillerie, Henri de la.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Henri de la Thuillerie, Letter. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.