Identifier:

170/323.

Scope and content:

ff. 1-13v: Et advenu le sixiesme [. . .] ensuyvant procedant par lesdits sieurs de Raymond et [. . .] chanoine a l'inventere des libres dudit seigneur evesque [selon] l'iniongtion faicte par ledit sieur Lecomte. A este treuve dan le cabinet dudit seigneur evesque, scavoir au premier rang du palpitre au second aix: Repetitiones Benedicti couvert de vert . . .; f. 13v Extrait a son original [signed] Caissac notaire. f. 14-r-v blank.

Notary's copy of the inventory of 483 books belonging to Antoine IV Ebrard de Saint-Sulpice, bishop of Cahors (1576-1600), impounded by troops of the Ligue in April 1589 while they occupied his palace. Edited from this manuscript by Nicole Marzac, The Library of a French Bishop in the Late XVIth Century (Paris 1974); see her introduction regarding the date and the identification of the bishop.

Acquisition information:

Written at Cahors in 1589. Purchased by UCLA from William Salloch, Ossining, New York, in 1963/64.

Physical description:

Paper ( , similar to Briquet no.10864), ff. 14; 250 × 180 (ca. 210 × various widths) mm. One gathering. 19/22 long lines. Written in a chancery hand. On f. 14v written vertically by a contemporary hand, “Inventaire des livres.” Manuscript is recently restored; edges of the leaves are torn and there are water stains, both damaging the text slightly.

Bound in marbled paper over cardboard, s. XX.

Note:

A copy of this inventory is UCLA Negative Microfilm no.04255.

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