BIB_ID
106924
Accession number
MA 24.19
Creator
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1664-1743.
Display Date
1734 Mar. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 21.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters, manuscripts, and prints related to Bossuet and Fénelon; see collection record (MA 24) for more information.
Prefaced by a note from Eugène Levesque, editor of Jacques Bénigne Bossuet's letters, explaining that the writer of this letter is the nephew of Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux.
With seal.
Prefaced by a note from Eugène Levesque, editor of Jacques Bénigne Bossuet's letters, explaining that the writer of this letter is the nephew of Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux.
With seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
Eulogizing his uncle, the Bishop of Meaux.
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