Gex. ‘Copie des articles 7, 8, 11 et 12 du cahier presenté au Roy en 1767 par les Etats de Gex’
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CMV33024
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MS 39 (E)
Title:
Gex. ‘Copie des articles 7, 8, 11 et 12 du cahier presenté au Roy en 1767 par les Etats de Gex’
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Brief Summary:
Copy of Articles 7, 8, 11, at 12 from a book presented to the King in 1767 by the Pays de Gex.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
2 ff.
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310 x 199 mm
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The paper is watermarked with indistinguishable text.
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Additional Comments:
The lower half of f.2 has been cut off. An additional thin strip of paper has been added along the vertical cut line. Small holes appear along both the fold line and the additional strip of paper suggesting that the manuscript formed part of a bound collection after the lower half of f.2 had been removed.
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Undecorated
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Marginal notes commenting on the main text in one consistent hand have been written in the left-hand margins of the MS, with the same hand also adding Article 12 to the end of the MS.
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Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt. (1792-1872).
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Bought at auction by Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) at Sotheby’s, London on 29th June 1976.
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