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Vol. XXVII. (ff. 150). PROVINCE de Dauphiné; by [Etienne Jean] Bouchu, Intendant, 1698. Dauphiné, France: Memoir on: 1698.: Fr. Étienne Jean Bouchu, Intendant of Dauphiné: Mémoire sur la Province de Dauphiné: 1698.: Copy.
Vol. XXVIII. (ff. 455). LA PROVENCE; by [Pierre Cardin] Le Bret, Intendant, 1701. Provence, France: Memoir on: 1701.: Fr. Pierre Cardin Le Bret, Intendant of Provence: Mémoire sur La Provence: 1701.: Copy.
Vol. XXIX. (ff. 289). PROVINCE de Languedoc; by [Nicolas Lamoignon] de Basville, Intendant, 1698. The article, however, is dated at the end (f. 286), Montpellier, 31 Dec. 1697. Province of Languedoc: Memoir on: 1697-8.: Fr. Nicolas Lamoignon de Basville, Intendant of Languedoc: Memoire sur Lan...
DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS, in French and English, on Amsterdam, Brussels, and other towns in the Low Countries. Preceded (f. 2) by the beginning of a journal, in the same hand, of a tour in the Netherlands, starting from London, in 1710. At f. 1 is an engraved map of Holland, by Pieter Schenk, 1705. P...
HYMN to the Virgin, in French, preceded by a calendar in a different hand. Imperfect at the beginning, the first line being, "Durement fu trauaile" (f. 8 b), and wanting leaves after ff. 9, 10. The several divisions remaining begin, "Deu te salt uirgine honore" (f. 9 b), "Virge mere preciouse" (...
Pierre Sala, Petit Livre d'Amour (Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the collection of love poems known as LePetit Livre d'Amour (also known as Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour) by the French writer and collector Pierre Sala, copied c. 1500 (ff. 1r-17v), and an 18th-century transcript of this collection (ff. 18r-34r). Contents: ff. 1r-17v:...
"RECUEIL HISTORIQUE, tiré de plusieurs autheurs": a collection of abstracts of histories and travels, compiled, according to a note on the first page, by James Le Fanu. The chief contents are:- (1) Abstract of Bussy Rabutin's -History of Louis XIV. [1662- 1693]. ff. 2 b-5 b;-(2) Notes on Peru ...