Details

Subjects:

Brittany (France) -- History -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

French.

Summary:

Treatise on the geography and history of the province of Bretagne, supposedly compiled by J.-B. de Pommereu, intendant of Bretagne, at the request of the Duke de Beauvilliers, governor of the Duke of Burgundy, for the instruction of the royal pupil (according to Zacour-Hirsch's account of bookseller's information).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r); compiler from Zacour-Hirsch; date based on latest date in work (f. 124v; Zacour-Hirsch estimates 1697).
Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + ii + 126 + iv + ii (modern paper); 1-126; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 18 long lines; vertical margins marked by folding.
Binding: Half-morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in France after 1691.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1961.

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. 69 (Ms. French 71).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 965

OCLC:

155925659