Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Treatise on the government of the Austrian Netherlands

Authors

• Wynants, Goswin-Arnold, comte de, 1661-1732

Other related names

• Pilsen, Frans, 1700-1784, engraver

Call number

Ms. Codex 1002
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3769054
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3769054

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

circa 1731

Place

Belgium?

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.
   

Extent

331 leaves : 328 x 197 (209 x 108) mm. bound to 341 x 227 mm

Foliation

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.

Support

Paper

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."

Layout

Written in varying numbers of long lines; left and right margins ruled in lead.

Provenance

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

Genres

• Codices
• Engravings
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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