Manuscripts on classical antiquity, 1734-1742.

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Manuscripts on classical antiquity, 1734-1742.

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The first manuscript, by Du Tilliot, is dated 1742. It contains 127 pages of text which include 45 drawings in black ink and gray wash after figures in gems, statues, reliefs and printed illustrations from various sources, including the author's collection. The bibliographic sources of this compilation of "remarques historiques" and quotations from classical texts are written along the borders. There are eleven chapters dedicated to classical figures: Homer, Aristotle, Epicurus, Diogenes (only the bust, no text), Cicero, Minerva (in a different hand and without marginal notes), Vesta and the vestals, Isis and Osiris, the Egyptian god Pet, and Sardanapalus. The last chapter documents Mardi Gras (Carnival) as a continuation of the ancient Saturnalia and Bacchanals.

1 v. (2 manuscripts) : ill. ; 24 x 19 cm.

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Mautour, Philibert-Bernard Moreau de.

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Tilliot, Jean-Bénigne Lucotte, seigneur du, 1668-1750.

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The seigneur du Tilliot, a friend of Moreau de Mautour, was a Dijonais erudite philologist and collector of art and antiquities. He is the author of Mémoirs pour servir à l'histoire de la fête des fous, printed in Lausanne, 1741. From the description of Manuscripts on classical antiquity, 1734-1742. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78701475 ...

Polignac, Melchior de, 1661-1742?

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Hôtel de Sully (Paris, France)

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