Memoire sur la province de Bretagne.
- Publication:
- [France], [after 1691]
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
126 leaves : paper ; 249 x 185 (178 x 130) mm bound to 257 x 200 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3w37kw9s - Status/Location:
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- 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