Lot no. 89
[MANUSCRIT]. DUKE OF BERRY (later Louis XVI). State and general Menu of the ordinary expenses of Monsieur le Duc de Berry. Year 1763. In-4 (236 x 180 mm): title, [84] pp. cursive script in dark brown ink; shagreened tan calf, spine ribbed, decorated with gilt small irons in the entre-nerfs, supra-libris with gilt lettering: "État de Monsieur le Duc de Berry Année 1763", red edges (Binding of the period). Colophon (copy of the original): "Fait à Versailles le pier janvier 1763 signé Louis Joseph de Bourbon et plus bas par Monseigneur Felix". It contains: Etat des personnes qui ont droit de manger à la Table de la Desserte de Monseigneur le Duc de Berry. - Le Prince de Condé (...) Il est ordonné... - Menu du Pain - Menu du Vin de table. - Deliveries in kind and ordinary for officers. - General summary of the meat supplied to Monseigneur de Duc de Berry on fat days. - etc. Also included: Candles per day in summer and winter. - State of the excellent wine which is distributed on the eve of Kings and the day of Carèmeprenant. - Hipocras. - Distribution of hipocras. Extraordinary expenses, including holy bread, white and yellow wax, etc. Ex-libris Le Maréchal Beauvais.
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