De l'usure :
mutuu date nihil inde sperantes.

Description

Language(s)

French ; Greek, Ancient (to 1453) ; Latin

Published

[France?] : [Producer not identified], [between 1700 and 1800]

Subjects

Sermons, French.
Religious poetry, French.
Manuscripts, French.
Religious poetry, French > Religious poetry, French / 18th century.
Sermons, French > Sermons, French / Texts.
Manuscripts, French > Manuscripts, French / Québec (Province) > Manuscripts, French / Québec (Province) / Montréal.
Québec > Québec / Montréal.
Texts.

Summary

Extensively annotated notes with marginalia for sermons including advice on "la méthode de prêcher;" includes religious poetry, some with verses divided by double lines.

Note

Full bound dark brown mottled leather, raised bands, gilt spine with ornaments, marbled endpapers with scalloped orange borders on pastedowns, vestiges of clasps; back free endpaper wanting, rubbed, corners bumped, many pages loose, some foxing.
Two leaves inserted before front free endpaper, next page glued over front free endpaper; index written on verso of front free endpaper in three columns; vestiges of a bookplate that has been peeled off the center column of the index; a small oval engraving has been pasted at the head of page 390.
Written in a crowded script, mostly by one hand; miniscule marginalia probably in a different hand; numbered sequentially by hand for the bulk of the manuscript; many parts are written in double columns
Part of the J. Patrick Lee Voltaire Collection acquired by the library in 2013: item number 2096.
Title devised by cataloguer suggested by caption on first page.
Manuscript.

Physical Description

14 unnumbered pages, 446 pages, 121 unnumbered pages : 1 illustration ; 20 cm

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