Collection of extracts from historians and chroniclers, Nithard, Flodoard, Aimoin, etc., and from various pieces concerning the origins of the history of FRANCE and particularly the LORRAINE, the counts of AUVERGNE, the dukes of GASCOGNE, the counts of BORDEAUX, the Viscounts of LIMOGES, etc. (19th century.)

Scanning from a substitute document Copies, most of the hand of J. BESLY. The following documents can be mentioned in this volume: Extracts from chroniclers relating to the origins of the history of France and Lorraine, among which we notice the copy of a historical fragment preserved at the cathedral of Metz: “Anasfedes regina Gothorum genuit filios...” (2; cf. vol. 820, fol. 118); Parts relating to the counts of Auvergne: Memory of J. Besly, autogr minute. (48); - Ratification of an exchange between Hildebaud, Bishop of Mâcon, and Count Warin, Aachen, 3 no. jun. a. 12, ind. 3, “ex tabulario Cluniacensi” (49); - Letters of Nicolas I to Stephen, Count of Auvergne, d. (51); - Letters by Louis IV dOutremer, relating to Acfroy, nephew of William I, duke of Guyenne, Pouilly-sur-Loire, 3 no. feb. ind. 6 [948], “ex tabulario Cluniacensi” (57); - Donations made by William III to N.-D. of Clermont, 1030, and 4 kal. aug. s., “ex archivis matris ecclesiae Claromontensis” (59 and 61); - Other donation made to the same church by Géraud, son of Bertrand, and his family, April s. (62); - Extracts from an act by King Henry I, Vitry, seven. 1052, “ex archivis monasterii Casae Dei” (63); - Donation of King Philip I to the Abbey of Cluny, Mauzac, 1095 (68 and 69); - Donation of William III, Count of Auvergne, to the same abbey, d., “ex tabulario Cluniacensi” (71); - Letter from Pope Alexander III to Stephen, Bishop of Clermont, 1165, “ex archivis matris ecclesiae Claromontensis” (73); - Donation of William IV, Count of Clermont, dolphin of Auvergne, at the Abbey of Saint-André, July 1149, “ex archivis coenobii Andraeani” (74); - Confirmation, by William III, Count of Auvergne, of the ", kal. Oct. 1199 and Feb. 1229 (78); - Tribute of Guillaume, Count of Montferrand, to Louis VIII, March 1225 (79); - Tribute of Robert d' Auvergne to Alfonso de Poitiers, Riom, nov. 1247, copy of P. Dupuy (81); - Extracts from the archives of Mauzac, Mercurol, the cathedral of Clermont, Saint-Allyre, Saint-André, Saint-Robert de Montferrand and the Chaise-Dieu, sent to Besly by President Jean Savaron in 1616; among others, a diploma of Pépin for the abbey of Mauzac, Clermont, kal. feb., ind. 11, a. 24 (82); - Letter from the President [Jean] Savaron to Jean Besly, [Clermont], 27 June 1616, autogr. (86); - Letter from J. Besly to Savaron, [Fontenay-le-Comte], 28 May 1616, autogr minute. (87); Parts and extracts relating to the Dukes of Gascony and the Count of Bordeaux: Letters of Alfonso the G