Shelfmark
MS 195
Main entry--corporate name
France Secrétariat d'Etat aux affaires étrangères.
Title
Les lettres, qui manquent au recueil imprimé des negotiations de Messieurs Jeannin et de Russy, ambassadeurs de France aux Provinces Unies, depuis le 24 de novembre 1607 jusqu'au dix[ièm]e de janvier 1608, pag. 222 de l'imprimé, tirées d'un manuscrit des dites negotiations à Paris, en 1726. manuscript.
Varying form of title
Spine title: Negotiations de Jeannin.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Paris, France, 1722.
Physical description
1 volume (1 leaf, 167 pages) : paper ; 35 x 24 cm.
Note
Title taken from fol. 1r, written by Nicholas Mann.
Note
Volume of letters regarding the negotiations of an alliance between France and the United Provinces in 1607 and 1608. Chielfly composed of letters from Pierre Jeannin (1540-1622), French envoy to the United Provinces, to Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy (1543-1617), Secretary of State. Also includes letters to the king (Henri IV).
Note
Date of production taken from title.
Note
Pages are numbered throughout.
Note
Written in a professional hand.
Note
Occasional annotations in a later hand, possibly Mann's.
Note
A printed copy relating to the negotiations (Les negotiations de Monsieur le President Ieannin. -- Paris : Chez Pierre le Petit, 1656) is at Af.3.07. It also belonged to Mann, and is, presumably, the 'recueil imprimé' which lacks the letters copied here. Af.3.07 also bears an armorial binding of Gaspard Fieubert de Narlac, Sieur de Ligny (1627-94), associating it with MS 186.
Note
Booklabel recording bequest to Eton College by Nicholas Mann in 1754.
Note
Previous shelfmarks: Dg.3.1, Bp.1.11, Bl.5.19.
Citation/references note
M.R. James, 195
Binding
Contemporary dark brown sprinkled calf; gold tooled double fillet border; blind tooled decorative roll on board edges; rebacked in late 20th or early 21st century by Richard Day (signed on rear pastedown); gold tooled double fillet and blind tooled decoration on spine; new red morocco spine label; five raised bands; green and red sprinkled edges.
Subject
Subject
Henry, 1553 - 1610 IV, King of France
Subject
France Foreign relations 1610-1643.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris
Language code
fre
Identifier
B46646