FLAUBERT (Gustave).

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FLAUBERT (Gustave).
The Legend of Saint Julien l'Hospitalier. Written, illuminated and historiated by Malatesta. Finished in Paris on 16 February 1905 for Mr Lucien Claude-Lafontaine. Manuscript of 52 parchment leaves in-4 (295 x 215mm), brown morocco on bevelled ais, inner frame decorated with gilt fillets, lining and endpapers of brocaded silk with medieval decoration, gilt edges, case (Marius Michel). Spectacular manuscript of Malatesta, written in Gothic letters with decorations in the medieval genre. It consists of 52 vellum leaves written on the front. Each page is illustrated with a beautifully painted colour composition of various sizes and shapes, imitating stained glass and included in the text. Wink of an eye from the illustrator: the last composition shows a portrait of Flaubert telling the story of the saint as it is found on a church window in my country, to a character seen in profile who can only be the commissioner of the manuscript, Lucien Claude-Lafontaine. This manuscript will be published in facsimile in 170 copies on imperial japanese by the Société Normande du Livre Illustré in 1906, with a preface by Octave Join Lambert. L. Claude-Lafontaine and P. Brunet (ex-libris) libraries.
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