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Title

Memoire sur la province de Bretagne

Authors

• Pommereu, J.-B. de

Call number

Ms. Codex 965
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3597808
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3597808

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

after 1691

Place

France

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).
   

Extent

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

Foliation

Paper, ii (modern paper) + ii + 126 + iv + ii (modern paper); 1-126; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Half-morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 18 long lines; vertical margins marked by folding.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1961.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Histories
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, French--17th century

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