The manuscript comprises an incomplete description of the topography and history of regions innorthern France in the late eighteenth century. The manuscript is divided into articles and sectionscovering different parts of the country. Article 5 (incomplete) includes Soissonnois and Laonois.Article 6 is about the government of Champagne and article 7 covers the government of Lorraine, theBishoprics of Messin, Verdunois and Soulois, and the Duchy of Bar. Article 8 (incomplete) describesthe government of Alsace. The manuscript is written as a commentary of places visited by the author.Sites and customs observed during the tour have been described and placed in an historicalcontext.
Anonymous and incomplete manuscript description of France, post-1785
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- ReferenceGB 159 MS 450
- Dates of Creation1785
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description1 folder containing 22 gatherings of pages
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The authorship and provenance of these papers are not known. Although the paper and writing couldby contemporary to the description, it is possible that they are in whole or part a copy fromanother source. The text seems to have been written c.1785 on folded pages, with each bifoliumseparately numbered. The beginning and conclusion of the study are not present; bifolia are numberedfrom 39 to 56.
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LANGUAGE: English
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Custodial History
The manuscript was apparently transferred to the care of the Department of Manuscripts in 1951.The folder housing the manuscript bears a bookplate with the arms of the Barons Vernon, and it seemslikely that the item at one time formed part of the Vernon library, which was passed to theUniversity in 1945.