[JESUITES]. - Lot 286

[JESUITES]. Manuscript containing a text on geography (Apparatus ad geographiam), a text on physiognomy (Tractatus de Physionomia), and a text on cryptography (De criptographia). In Latin, manuscript on paper France, colophon of first text (p. 75): "Faxit deus nonis junii anno R.S.H. 1663 in Rhetorica Claromontana societatis Jesu" [Collège de Clermont, Jesuits, Paris]. Small in-4, 75 pp. + [13] uncounted ff. + [8] uncounted ff. preceded by 7 ff. endpapers and followed by 23 blank ff. Bound in full speckled calf, 5-ribbed spine cloisonné and fleuronné, title in gold letters "Geographia", coat of arms quartered on the boards: Famille de la Blétonnière and famille Albert (?). Torn-off bookplate pasted on upper flyleaf. Bookplate inscriptions on front flyleaf: "C. Ragut" and "De La Bletonniere"). Joints split, epidermis. Fresh inside. Size : 220 x 165 mm. This manuscript contains three works that were certainly used in a Jesuit environment, perhaps linked to the Collège de Clermont. The de la Blétonnière family originated in Burgundy, particularly in the Maconnais region. Their arms are blazoned: Or, an anchor sable. They owned the Château d'Igé or Ygé (Saône-et-Loire). Ob knows Louis-Abel de la Blétonnière (1644-1698), councillor at the bailliage and presidial seat in Mâcon, who married Charlotte Albert. His descendants dispersed the library: Catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. de La Bletonnière d'Ygé,..dont la vente se fera... le jeudi 16 Décembre 1813, Paris, De Bure, 1813. The second bookplate may correspond to Camille Ragut (1797-1870), archivist of Saône-et-Loire and librarian in Mâcon.