Memoire sur la province de Bretagne

Name:

Pommereu, J.-B. de

Date:

1691

Description:

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).

Language:

French

Provenance:

Purchased, 1961.

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); histories (literary genre); Manuscripts, European; Manuscripts, French; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

126 leaves : paper; 249 x 185 (178 x 130) mm bound to 257 x 200 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 965