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Voyage litteraire de deux religieux benedictins de la Congregation de Saint Maur. : Où l'on trouvera I. Quantité de pieces, d'inscriptions & d'epitaphes, servantes à éclaircir l'histoir, & les genealogies des anciennes familles. II. Plusieurs usages de églises cathedrales & des monasteres, touchant la discipline & l'histoire de églises des Gaules. III. Les fondations des monasteres, & une infinité de recherches curieuses & interessantes qu'ils ont faites dans près de cent évêchez & huit cent abbayes qu'ils ont parcouru. : Ouvrage enrichi de figures....
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Foreign Imprints 1717 Martene
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martène, Edmond, 1654-1739.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Charles VIII, King of France, 1470-1498.
- Charles.
- Catholic Church--France.
- Catholic Church.
- Voyages and travels.
- Monasteries--France.
- Monasteries.
- France--Antiquities.
- France.
- France--History--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 3 pts. in 2 v. (312, 296, 401 p.) : ill. (some fold.) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris, : Chez F. Delaulne, : Hilaire Foucault, : Michel Clouzier, : Jean-Geofroy, Nyon, : Estienne Ganeau, ; Nicholas Gosselin,, MDCCXVII-MDCCXXIV. [1717]-[1724]
- Notes:
- Contains numerous engraved plates.
- Work is attributed to Edmond Martène and Ursin Durand. Cf. Barbier, Dict. de ouvrages anonymes.
- Later published in 1730 under title: Voyage litteraire pour la decouverte du monde ... Cf. Brunet. Manuel du libraire.
- Vol. 1 consists of pts. 1 and 2, separately paginated.
- "Table des matieres": p. 259-296 (v.1)
- Vol. 2 with imprint: Paris : Chez Montalant, MDCCXXIV.
- Vol. 2 t.p. reads: Voyage litteraire de deux religieux Benedictins de la Congregationn de S. Maur ... Le voyage de Nicolas de Bosc pour negocier la paix entre les couronnes de France & d'Angleterre en 1381. Iter Indicum Balthasaris Sp[r]inger. Descriptio apparatus bellici Regis Franciae Caroli intrantis civitates Italiae, Florentiam ac deinde Romam pro recuperando regno Siciliae sive Neapolitano [First pub. ca. 1495, cf. Brunet]
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Livres français conservés grâce à la Fondation Florence Gould," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2003.
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Useful Arts and Useful Knowledge: The Founding of the Athenaeum," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2014. (v. 1 only)
- Athenaeum copy: INCOMPLETE: Athenaeum wanting v. 2; library has v. 1 (pts. 1-2) only.
- Athenaeum copy: Title page with inscription: Presented March 7th by T. I. Wharton.
- Athenaeum copy: Conserved and rebound in 2002 with a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation.
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