Details

Other Title:

Mémoire contenant des notions générales de tout ce qui concerne le gouvernement des Pays-Bas autrichiens.

Subjects:

Politics and government.
History.
Netherlands -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Netherlands -- Politics and government -- 1648-1795 -- Early works to 1800.
Netherlands.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Engravings (prints)
Treatises.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Biography/History:

Wynants was born in Brussels and served in the council of Brabant in modern Belgium and in the supreme council of the Netherlands in Vienna, where he died in 1732.

Summary:

Treatise on the governing bodies and officials of the Austrian Netherlands. Other topics of discussion include the Université de Louvain, the Church, and commerce. The 18 chapters of the treatise are followed by a table of contents of chapters and paragraphs; a list of the documents cited in the treatise; and a section titled État général de tous les revenus et de toutes les charges des Pays Bas autrichiens, which mostly reports financial information from 1721.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; Zacour-Hirsch supplies the title Mémoire contenant des notions générales de tout ce qui concerne le gouvernement des Pays-Bas autrichiens.
Date based on latest date in treatise (p. 60).
Contemporary copy of an original at library of the Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, according to the 1959 auction program description.
Pagination: Paper, i (later paper) + 331 + i (later paper); 1-503, 1-5, 1-18, 1-136, [vi]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners or upper center.
Layout: Written in varying numbers of long lines; left and right margins ruled in lead.
Decoration: Portrait of Wynants bound at beginning; engraved by Frans Pilsen in Ghent in the 1740s after I. P. Sauvage's done in Brussels in 1714.
Binding: Half calf (Zacour-Hirsch), with some disintegration of the leather and the front hinge cracking at top; in gilt at base of spine, "C. P. Schonau, Sittard."
Origin: Written in modern Belgium [?], ca. 1731.

Penn Provenance:

Armorial bookplate inside front cover: Ex libris J. Timmers, Fortiter et suaviter.
Sold by J. L. Beijers, lot 540, November 1959.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 65 (Ms. French 53).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1002

Contributor:

Pilsen, Frans, 1700-1784, engraver.

OCLC:

155927493