[ROUEN - MANUSCRIT]. - Lot 123

[ROUEN - MANUSCRIT]. "Receüil de poësies sur divers suieis. Avec des explications en Prose - Tome premier". Rouen manuscript dated 1720 in one volume in-4°, basane, ornate ribbed spine (period binding). [XXX] (Epitre) + 527 + [XIV] pp. (Table). Early 18th-century manuscript, calligraphed in brown ink, illustrated with numerous engraved fleurons, banderols and culs-de-lampe, cut and pasted into the text. One engraved, cut-out and hand-colored frontispiece plate and two unnumbered pages (between pp. 429/430 and pp. 437/438), illustrated with ink and red chalk drawings. The work is dedicated "A La Tres Pieuse Et Tres Réguliére communauté des Religieuses hospitaliéres de Ste. Elisabeth Ordre De St Francois Etablie A Roüen". From the library of the "Dames de St François", with handwritten bookplate on title page, and of Julien Loth, curé of Saint-Maclou in Rouen, with bookplate. Binding rubbed; spotting.