Shelfmark
MS 186
Main entry--corporate name
France Secrétariat d'Etat aux affaires étrangères.
Title
Premier registre des depesches enuoyés ez pais estrangers par monseigneur d'Herbault en l'an mil six cens vingt six. manuscript.
Varying form of title
Other title: Register of despatches.
Varying form of title
Spine title: Premier registre 1626.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Paris, France? 1626 January - June.
Physical description
1 volume (408 leaves) : paper ; 35 x 23 cm.
Note
Title taken from title-page.
Note
Variant title in M.R. James: Register of despatches.
Note
Volume of despatches from the office of the Secrétariat d'Etat aux affaires étrangères. At this period the Secretary was Raymond Phélypeaux, seigneur d'Herbault (1560-1629). Letters from both Phélypeaux and Louis XIII to various European states are transcribed into the register.
Note
Date of production taken from title and dates of transcribed letters.
Note
401 of the leaves are numbered in ink, the final one being blank. 216 and 306 have been omitted in numbering, but the text is continuous.
Note
Includes contents table after the title page: despatches are arranged by month and then by country.
Note
Written in a professional hand.
Note
Binding bears the arms of Gaspard de Fieubet de Naulac (1626-1694). See British Library database of bookbindings. Eton's printed copy of Les negotiations de Monsieur le President Ieannin. -- Paris : Chez Pierre le Petit, 1656, also has a binding of de Naulac, and came via Mann.
Note
Booklabel recording bequest to Eton College by Nicholas Mann in 1754.
Note
Previous shelfmarks: Bp.3.14, Bp.1.5, Bl.5.12.
Citation/references note
M.R. James, 186.
Binding
17th century red morocco; gold tooled frames of single and double fillets; ornaments at each corner of inner frame, with cartouches bearing an 'AV' monogram; gold stamped centrepiece of armorial device of Gaspard de Fieubet de Naulac (possibly added later); gold tooled bead roll on board edges; gold tooled roll on turn ins; gold tooled frames of single and double fillets on spine, with 'AV' monograms and title; gilt ends; red, black and yellow nonpareil marbled endpapers.
Subject
France Foreign relations 1610-1643.
Added entry--name
La Vrillière, Raymond Phélypeaux, 1560 - 1629 seigneur de,
Added entry--name
Naulac, Gaspard de Fieubet, 1626 - 1694 seigneur de, former owner.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris
Language code
fre
Identifier
B46602