Notebook fragment
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CMV32905
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MS 13
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Notebook fragment
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Incipit Diplomatic:
La Devise nec pluribus Impar est de Douvrier vers l’an 1660.
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Brief Summary:
Contemporary copy of notes headed ‘Mémoires pour Le siècle de Louis Quatorze’.
Detailed Summary:
Notes discussing the creation of the motto of Louis XIV, ‘nec pluribus impar’ or ‘not unequal to many’, and moments from the lives and deaths of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Cardinal Mazarin, and Anne of Austria, the Queen Mother.
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Physical Description
Material(s):
Extent:
4 ff.
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Dimensions:
242 x 185 mm
Hands:
1
Watermark:
P.3-6 are watermarked with indistinguishable text.
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Additional Comments:
The manuscript has been bound with string along the bifolium fold line. There are small ink splatters over the first word of line 10 on p.1 and the fourth word of line three on p.5.
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Undecorated
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There is some underlining on p.1-3, a minor amendment to the text at the bottom of p.1, and a marginal note on p.2 which links to the body of the text through the use of corresponding symbols. This marginal note reads ‘voicy la Devise eu Roi justifiée par menètrier’.
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A sheet of plain paper containing notes in an unknown modern hand, written in blue and black ink about the contents and provenance of the manuscript.
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Bibliography
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J. Vidal-Mégret, Collection d’autographes littéraires, lettres et manuscrits des XVIIe, XVIIIe, XIXe et XXe siècles. 2ème partie. Catalogue de la vente aux enchères du 26 février 1969 à l’Hôtel Drouot (Paris, 1969), no.156 (7).
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