[LITERATURE]. Compilation of excerpts from various authors - Lot 81

[LITERATURE]. Compilation of excerpts from various authors In French, manuscript on paper France (south?), end of copy dated at end of volume, July 29, 1752 819 pp, followed by pp. 820-836 blank, cursive script. Bound in brown calf, 5-ribbed spine, red leather title page, "MS 102" on spine, red edges, marbled paper endpapers. Accidents, brittle jaws, dull corners. Dimensions: 235 x 190 mm. The manuscript contains extracts compiled by an amateur from the following authors: Polybius, Tite-Live, Plutarch, Pompey, Histoire de l'empereur Alexis par Anne Commène, Monstrelet, Guernier delli Berni, Baschi (extracts from letters, the originals of which are in the Château de Thouard), extracts from Chroniques, extracts from the letters of Cardinal Bembo, extracts from the Gazette of 1644.