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Observations sur le Traité de la politique de France : avec quelques memoires sur les matieres contenues au mesme Traité : manuscript.

BIB_ID
432514
Accession number
MA 23401
Display Date
France, not before 1669.
Credit line
Donated by Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Annette de la Renta.
Description
1 item (101 leaves; i.e. 202 pages), bound ; 23.7 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Title from title page.
Manuscript foliated in 101 leaves, with text on recto and verso, for a total of 202 pages.
Inscribed at head of page 1, "ex libris S. [i.e. Sancti] Jacobi Pruvinensis" (probably the Abbaye de Saint-Jacques de Provins).
Provenance
Abbaye de Saint-Jacques, Provins, France; bookplate of Mme. Colin-de-Saint-Marc; Jayne Wrightsman (1919-2019), New York.
Summary
Manuscript by an unidentified author responding to the observations and proposals presented by Paul Hay du Chastelet in his Traitté de la politique de France (1669); probably intended for presentation to King Louis XIV.