Details

Subjects:

Huguenots -- France.
Huguenots.
France.
Protestants -- France.
Protestants.
Camisards.
Cévennes Mountains (France) -- History, Military.
Cévennes Mountains (France) -- Church history.
France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Histories.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Biography/History:

Councillor of the presidial of Nîmes and a co-founder of the Academy of Nîmes (1682). The author was closely involved in the events and was acquainted with the principal participants of the confessional conflicts at the begining of the eighteenth century.

Summary:

A first-hand Catholic account of the wars of religion in southern France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Nîmes suffered from violent confessional conflicts in the 16th century and was the place of a notorious massacre of Catholics in 1567 (known as the Michelade). The revolt of the Huguenot camisards began in 1702 and lasted until about 1710, although the final peace agreements were made only in 1715. The word "camisard" was used by French Catholics to denote Huguenots in the south-central Cévennes region. The work is divided into three books and offers detailed accounts of the violence in Nîmes and the surrounding areas. This manuscript was first edited and published in 1874 as the Relation historique de la revolte des camisards.

Contents:

1. f.1r-248v: Relation en forme d'histoire de la revolte des fanatiques ou camisards.
2. f.249r-262v: Table des matieres.
3. f.273r-277r: Notice des diocès d'Uzes, de Nismes, de Montpellier, d'Alais, de Mende etc.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Incipit: [prologue] La révolte des fanatiques, ou des Camisards. (Ces deux noms leur ayant donnés indifférement)...(f. 2r); [text] Le Roy voulant faire rentrer dab le sein de l'eglise Catholique ses sujets de la Religion pretendüe Reformée...(f. 5r); Explicit: ...puisse servir à ramener sincerement les nouveaux conscrits, dans le sein de l'eglise afin que n'aiant qu'une même foy, avec les anciens Catholiques, ils vivent dans une extrême union et dans une parfaite intelligence. (f. 248v)
Pagination: Paper, 314; [iv], I-V, [i], 1-244, 244-272, 272-305, 285-304, 304-362, 362-387, 387-462, [lxxiv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; modern foliation, 1-314, in pencil, lower right recto. References are to the modern foliation.
Layout: Written in 22-25 long lines.
Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); Histoire des Camisards on binding.
Origin: Written in France in 1707.

Penn Provenance:

This copy was made from the original mansucript that was owned by marquis d'Aubais, according to the note made by abbé Vallette dated from 1755 (f. 1v).
Sold to Henry Charles Lea in 1889, inscription on first flyleaf.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 158 (Ms. Lea 48).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1184.

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

OCLC:

229451243

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