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HUNTING MANUSCRIPT. ORLÉANS. REGISTER OF PRIVATE HUNTS by Hi…
See original version (French)
171
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HUNTING MANUSCRIPT. ORLÉANS. REGISTER OF PRIVATE HUNTS by Hi…
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
HUNTING MANUSCRIPT. ORLÉANS.
REGISTER OF PRIVATE HUNTS by His Royal Highness the Duke of Berry.
(registers of game supplied or hunted)
Small quarto, (86) folios, including some blank folios. Contemporary green half-vellum with corner pieces (heavily worn, with stains, discolouration, etc.; 8 leaves, including 2 blank ones, torn out).
Description:
Brown or sepia ink, hasty and untidy handwriting, on ruled paper.
The manuscript begins in 1817 and runs until 1826, following the assassination of Charles-Ferdinand d’Artois in February 1820; as the hunts were taken over by his wife, the final notes and lists therefore relate to those of the Duchess of Berry.
The records mainly concern hunts at Bagatelle and Saint-Cloud.
The manuscript details the inventory of rabbits, ducks, woodcocks, partridges… a large part of which is a precise register of the game supplied (by animal type, quantities, etc.), no doubt kept by the steward(s).
Numerous erasures; a few torn folios.
Engraved label: ‘Bechard, stationer to the House of His Royal Highness the Duke of Berry and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orléans’. In Paris, on the front endpaper.
See original version (French)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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