Summary of the history of the county of Neuchâtel and its territories
Description
This manuscript contains an Abrégé de l'histoire du Comté de
Neuchatel et de ses dépendances, an Abrégé de l’histoire de la
Souveraineté de Neuchatel et Valengin and a Sommaire description
des Comtés de Neufchatel et Vallangin. This manuscript, which had
been owned by the von Dardel family, describes the historical
period from 1035 until 1707. It comes as a single volume,
accompanied by two separate booklets, with marginal notes. The
author is anonymous and there is no date. The manuscript is one of
numerous copies of a text attributed to Daniel Droz and D.
Quartier-dit-Maire, written in 1749 and published in 1786 under the
title « Abrégé chronologique de l’histoire du Comté de
Neuchatel et Valengin depuis l’an 1035 jusqu’en 1787 » [sic].
On page 661, 3 printed pages, taken from the Journal hélvétique
of October 1750, have been glued in. They recount the flooding of
the town of Neuchâtel on 8 October 1579, also described on page
439 of the same manuscript.
Rights
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