Walter L. Pforzheimer collection of historical manuscripts circa 1370-1960s 1500-1830

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Walter L. Pforzheimer collection of historical manuscripts, circa 1370-1960s, 1500-1830

Walter L. Pforzheimer collection of historical manuscripts circa 1370-1960s 1500-1830

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.pforzheimerhist

The Walter L. Pforzheimer Collection of Historical Manuscripts contains approximately 500 manuscript documents, circa 1370s-1870s, consisting of letters, legal documents, and other manuscripts written or signed by European heads of state, government, diplomatic, military or church officials, or literary authors. Most materials are French, including documents signed by French royalty and nobility, 14th-18th centuries. Many French manuscripts date from the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, including printed Revolutionary government documents completed in manuscript. A small amount of similar documents from other European countries and the United States are present. Some documents contain evidence of previous ownership, such as annotations, collectors' bindings, or bookplates. Also present are materials relating to Pforzheimer's research and collecting, 1920s-circa 1960s, consisting of card files, biographical notes, engraved portraits, and vendor descriptions.

4.26 linear feet (11 boxes)

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