Sacré Livre

Sacré Livre 8ème De Prières Vocabulances a Lui Mon Toutouy fil-Cheri Dieu Jesus-Christ Puiné Roumeur Mon Prin Toutoutien: Composé Et Ecrites par Lui de mon Juxion et de ma Volontée: le Mois de Juillet L'Année 1792: Moi Dieu Le Pere, Votre Dieu Adorera. Illustrated with 62 neat pen-drawings of a religious, heraldic, architectural and symbolic character: some mounted and others folding. Written in a small neat script. The text, some of which is in verse, is of an extraordinary kind, and is written in a sort of lunatic French as shown in the title. The MS. appears to be the work of a religious maniac and royalist-the fleur-de-lys appears in many of the drawings.

1792-1794

1 volume 203 ll. 12mo. 10 × 5 cm. Original crude hand-stitched calf binding by the author. A number of leaves have been cut out: many others are frayed, and the volume shows signs of having been thrown on to a fire, as a number of leaves are singed.

Purchased 1906.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).