annotated sammelband eleven eulogies discourse (1 Ergebnisse)

Thirteen works in one vol., 4to, with 10pp. of manuscript interspersed; numerous large ornaments, initials, and head- and tailpieces (mostly copper-engraved), one work with woodcut ornaments and initials pasted in; marginal dampstaining throughout, some quires browned, a few marginal paperflaws, two leaves creased, small wormhole to lower margin of final leaves, but generally good copies; bound in later green vellum to period style, eighteenth-century gilt red morocco lettering-piece ('ORAISONS | FVNEBRE') relaid to spine, edges speckled red, contemporary marbled endpapers; neat ink ownership inscription 'Ex libris Guidonis Michælis Audran Doctoris Theologi' to first title, contemporary ink annotations throughout, later ink presentation inscription to front flyleaf.A sammelband of funeral sermons for distinguished women and men of the late seventeenth century, published in Paris between 1682 and 1692, thoroughly annotated by a cleric for use in his preaching and interspersed with early seventeenth-century manuscript material mostly relating to the bishopric of Lavaur in southern France. The volume opens with two eulogies for Maria Theresa of Spain (16381683), Queen of France and wife of LouisXIV, followed by three for Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (16601690), la Grande Dauphine; further eulogies include those for the generals Louis, le Grand Condé, and the duc de Montausier, the Jacobite courtier and soldier Richard Talbot, first Earl of Tyrconnell, the salonist Anna Gonzaga, Princess Palatine, and the nun Marie Eleonore de Rohan, Abbess of Malnoue, complete with her epitaph rendered in both French and Italian verse. The final two works, albeit not funerary, are a discourse on martyrdom and a Compliment fait a Monseigneur le premier president le 14. Novembre 1689, both unrecorded outside France. The additional manuscripts slightly postdate the printed works and largely relate to the bishopric of Lavaur, with a list of bishops from 1317 to 1717 (with notes in a second hand continuing to the diocese's abolition in 1801) and a four-page armorial of the bishops. Another manuscript, unfinished, lists the deaths of the early Roman Emperors, beginning with Julius Caesar ('assassiné en plein senat'). The sermons have been annotated throughout in the same idiosyncratic hand, marking themes and motifs suitable for reuse in sermons and identifying the appropriate feast days; StThomas the Apostle appears most often, but we find passages marked also for StJohn, Charles Borromeo, and for use in times of plague. We have been unable to trace the Guy-Michel Audran who inscribes the first title, nor of any link to the Audran family of engravers responsible for several of the handsome copper-engraved ornaments in the volume. Of the thirteen works, nine are not held in the UK (and another three found in single copies only) and two are not in the US (another six in single copies at the Newberry). A full list of contents is available on request.