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Title

Traité des droits du domaine du roy, et leur origine, comme aussy le prejudice que sa majesté se fait en surchargeant ses sujets avec des impots

Call number

Ms. Codex 979
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3655724
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3655724

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

ca. 1755

Place

France

Summary

Discussion in thirty chapters of the rights of the king of France during the reign of Louis XV, such as the rights of justice, litigation, and indemnity, often from a historical perspective, in support of the argument that the king has sufficient means of generating revenue without overburdening his subjects with taxes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 2r).
   
• Text identical to UPenn Ms. Codex 980
   
• Similar but not identical titles are listed in A. A. Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, v.4 (Paris, 1879) (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

101 leaves : 235 x 162 (193 x 130) mm. bound to 243 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 101 + i (modern paper); [iv], 1-196, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern cloth.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Taxation--France--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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