Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16704, Manuscript facsimilie of Treatise on the state and origin of the Ancient French, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc. by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 15 February 2019.

Content Description

Traicté de l'estat et origine des anciens françois par Nicolas Vignier. Manuscript in French, 168 leaves written in a single Batarde hand in brown ink, 17-19 lines per page, plus catchword. The manuscript closely imitates the printed edition by Nicolas Vignier, published by Chez Claude Garnier, A Troyes, 1582, from imprint and device motto to full transcription of the royal privilege and colophon at the end. 18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Le Peletier in the quarto.