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[YVELINES] [THE MESNIL-SAINT-DENIS]. [ABBEY OF THE ROCK]. - Lot 271

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[YVELINES] [THE MESNIL-SAINT-DENIS]. [ABBEY OF THE ROCK]. - Lot 271
[YVELINES] [THE MESNIL-SAINT-DENIS]. [ABBEY OF THE ROCK]. Files relating to the Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Roche and its benefactors, the de Lévis family. 5 files, with notes by the Duke of Luynes and/or his secretary. Including: Copy of the cartulary of the Abbey of la Roche existing in the Royal Library rue de Richelieu. Copy made around 1845 by Borel d'Hauterive, archivist-paleographer. - Copy of the cartulary of the Abbaye de la Roche. With the mention of the hand of the Duke of Luynes: "I bought this copy from a Mr. Le Tellier who traded in manuscripts, charters etc." [manuscript of 77 pp. on paper, dimensions: 175 x 215 mm]. - Description of the monuments, sculptures and inscriptions existing in the Church of la Roche in 1845 (with drawings of coats of arms and epigraphic statements). - Extracts, copies of pieces and notes relating to the Lords of Levis. The abbey Notre-Dame de la Roche was, according to popular tradition, built to house a statue of the Virgin miraculously unearthed by a bull. In 1196, Guyon, parish priest of Maincourt obtained from the abbot of Saint-Denis a remote land called "La Roche" to found a hermitage in 1201. Then in 1226 a community of monks developed there, who were maintained by Gui 1er de Lévis and became canons regular of Saint-Augustin. The Levis-Mirepoix were important patrons and benefactors of this Abbey. Joint: Extracts from a genealogical work on the nobility of Maine ... This work, which is a manuscript in-folio entitled on the back: Genealogy of the House of Asse, was bought in Lyon by Mr le Duc de Luynes in 1859.
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