Old copy of the end of Chapter 1 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741 / Chapter 5 of Précis du siècle de Louis XV.
Detailed Summary:
This MS corresponds to the end of Chapter 1 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741 / Chapter 5 of Précis du siècle de Louis XV. The copy features many corrections and crossings out, and there are errors of agreement in number and gender throughout. Some of the sections of the text are in the Guerre and not in the Précis; on the other hand several variants give the reading of the Précis rather than the Guerre.
The title, ‘Addition ^supplément^ à l’aissai sur lhistoire generalle / de Mr de V.’ has been added in a second hand. There are a number of corrections and crossings out throughout.