A collection of 9 Dutch and French documents including a contemporary copy of Voltaire’s ‘Épître à Uranie’.
Detailed Summary:
Also included are two Dutch allegorical poems: ‘De reuck gherepresenteert dooe eenen herder, ghenesende sijne schaepen’ and ‘De smaecke’; a Dutch document titled: ‘Samenspraek tusschen den jongman en zijne lief rosalin’; a Dutch religious treatise with a Latin title: ‘De miraculoso sanguine Sancti Nicolai Tolentinatis’, dated ‘Angiae 1763’; and Five legal documents in French: ‘Des jurisdictions du Bailly (…) du tournesis’, ‘La vie ou la bourse. Reflexions à faire tant pour le soldat que pour le citoyen’, ‘Objections touchant la nouvelle constitution du clergé de France et reponses à icelles’, a notarial document from Paris on vellum dated 18 February 1763, and a notarial document from Brussels dated 11 November 1805.