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Title
Date(s)
- 1796 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 volume (33 x 21 cm), containing 38 leaves. Folios 2–28 are documents in various hands mounted on stubs, of which ff. 4, 5, 7, 8, 14–15, 17, 22–6, and 28 are single sheets, and the rest folded sheets. Folio 1 is a sheet with a cutting pasted to it. Half-bound.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
The documents in this volume were sent to General Charles Dugua by Pierre Jean Lévêque, commissary of the Directory in the department of the Calvados, in 1796. On f. 1 is a cutting from a French sale catalogue of the mid-nineteenth century describing the volume. The armorial bookplate of Robert, Earl of Crewe, is pasted inside the volume and his heraldic ‘garb’ is stamped on the front cover.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
See the separate descriptions of the contents. Most dates in the manuscripts reckoned according the French revolutionary calendar. Folios 2, 4, 13, 16, and 17 are in the same hand. On the spine is stamped ‘Correspondance de Citoyen Levêque. An. 4.’
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Foliated 1–28, with an unnumbered flyleaf at the front and another at the back.
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Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- French