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<p>The collection is open for research use.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>This collection was purchased from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc. by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 15 February 2019.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>MSS 16704, Manuscript facsimilie of Treatise on the state and origin of the Ancient French, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Traicté de l'estat et origine des anciens françois par Nicolas Vignier.  Manuscript in French, 168 leaves written in a single Batarde hand in brown ink, 17-19 lines per page, plus catchword.  The manuscript closely imitates the printed edition by Nicolas Vignier, published by Chez Claude Garnier, A Troyes, 1582, from imprint and device motto to full transcription of the royal privilege and colophon at the end.  18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Le Peletier in the quarto.</p>  </scopecontent>
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