Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(GUYNAUD, BALTHAZAR.) La Preuve des Propheties de Nostradamus par l'Histoire. manuscript in french, densely written in small but generally legible hand in brown ink, recto and verso, on laid paper. Over 500 pages. 223x168 mm, early 19th-century diced calf gilt, front joint cracked and crudely restored with cloth tape. Ownership inscription of Canon Marlot Divionaeus of Châlons dated 1779. Bookseller's TLS tipped to front free endpaper. Np, 1736
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Manuscript based on the Concordance of Guynaud but extensively revised and expanded by Monsieur "I. A. P.," combining his own interpretations with those of Guynaud and commentators identified only as "l'auteur inconnu" [i. e., Étienne Jaubert?], "le solitaire" [Jean Le Roux?], and "l'impression [sic] de Rouen." While Guynaud's original work was concerned exclusively with the Centuries, the manuscript also deals with the Présages and Sixains. From the collection of the Abbé Hector Rigaux, with his handwritten booklabel (sale, 17 June 1931, lot 14).