MANUSCRIT - PELLISSON-FONTANIER, P. Les Prières... Lot 39

MANUSCRIT - [PELLISSON-FONTANIER, P.] Les Prières pour la messe composées par Mr Pellisson S.l., 1747. Fin in-8, plates decorated with a large floral and geometrical ornamentation in which are set towers and stars. Plates stamped in their center with the tower and the three stars appearing in the arms of Jean de Boullongne (Gules to a tower of silver with a chief sewn azure charged with three stars of gold), spine with very weak nerves decorated and adorned with the tower and the three stars, ornamented covers, beautiful interior roulette, blue silk guards, gilt edges. Label of the bookbinder J.A. Derome, rue Saint Jacques. Title in a cartouche surmounted by a female figure, probably the Virgin holding the Book and the Cross framed with vine and wheat, [23] ff. Manuscript written by Doré, drawings attributed to Nicolas Cochin père in a fine binding signed J.A. Derome. Copy enriched with a double flying leaf of dedication in a pink stencil frame, addressed by Doré to monsieur de Boullongne, "conseiller d'état ordinaire, intendant des finances et des Ordres du roy, conseiller honoraire au Parlement de Metz". The prayers are taken from Courtes prières durant la sainte messe by Paul Pellisson-Fontanier (1686). A close friend of Madeleine de Scudéry, Pellisson-Fontanier, First Clerk to the Superintendent of Finances Nicolas Fouquet, disgraced at the same time as him in 1661, was imprisoned for four years for not having wanted to dissociate himself from his master. Released in 1666, he became historiographer to Louis XIV. There is another manuscript copy of these Prayers, this one colored by the calligrapher Jean-Pierre Rousselet which is kept at the Yale University Library.