Letter to Mister the bishop of ** [May 1542]

Title : Letters of John Calvin to Various Correspondents (1549-1564), Volume 2
Date(s) : 1549-1564
Sender(s) : Calvin, John
Description : 2nd volume: Ms, lat.107a 2nd part 350 x 235 mm (format of the largest letters) - (I-III) front flyleaves + 192 folios + (IV-VI) back flyleaves - paper - foliation in red ink from 191 to 383 noted at the top of the folios (followed here): foliation in pencil noted at the bottom of the folios, beginning with the number 188; shift between the two folios from the 1^st folio (f° 191 in red, f° 188 in pencil)
- Note for both volumes: The pencilled foliation was established by the editors of the Opera Calvini who use it as a reference foliation in their edition of Calvin's Correspondence.
Binding : - Half bound, - Green chagrin, - Raised bands on the spine, - Boards covered with granite paper, - Counter-boards covered with cast paper.
Presentation of the contents : Autograph letters and copies of letters addressed by John Calvin to various correspondents, dating from 1549 to 1564. A table of the letters, arranged alphabetically by addressee, has been noted on the folios of the back flyleaves in both volumes.
BACKGROUND : All the documents currently in Latin manuscripts 106-120 were recorded in the seventeenth century in the Inventory of works then kept "En la Garderobbe". This inventory was drawn up around 1667: the documents of the Latin Mss. 106-120 were grouped together in "bundles of letters" (cf. Arch. BPU, Dk 3, f° 190r°-194r°; B. Gagnebi n. p. 110-113). This inventory listed the manuscripts acquired or received by the Library during the 17^th century, and mainly those concerning the Registres du Consistoire, the Registres de la Compagnie des Pasteurs, the correspondence of the Church of Geneva, the acts of the synods of France, and the manuscripts given by the Waldensians of Piedmont.
Identifier : ark:/17786/vta913b776ebb2c7460

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