Cata Conde – Evangeline

The Muse Cond is home to over 1500 manuscripts, including Eusebius Evangelica praeparatione. What makes the 1540s edition so special is that it is the editio princeps, or first printing, of the Evangelica, which had existed only as a manuscript. Its binding is reproduced here.

Inside the majestic Chteau de Chantilly, located in Oise, France, is the Muse Cond. Within its halls lie vast collections of prints, drawings, sculptures, porcelain finery and other exquisite examples of the decorative arts, as well as a library holding over 1500 antique manuscripts. The museum was bequeathed in its entirety to the Institute de France by Henri dOrlans, with the conditions that the collection may only be seen at the Chantilly and the exhibition spaces never modified. And so the one-of-a-kind museum remains the same experience for its nearly 250,000 a