note (deco)
1-line and 2-line gold initials on red/blue fields. Larger blue and red initials on gold fields; some sprout vines into border. Rubrics, border designs, pale yellow daubs as placemarkers. Red, blue and gold linefillers.
provenance
Ce livre est et appartient à Escuyer Charles Busnel, sieur de la Retardaye, 1645i and by descent in the Busnel family of Montoray, to Henri-Jacques-François Busnel (1774) and Françoise Busnel (1824), who in 1842 gave it to her niece Julie de Busnel; Librairie Belin, Paris, cat. 171 (1892), no. 1331; Elisabeth Ball 1897-1982), of Muncie, Indiana; part of her bequest to the Lilly Library, 1982.
