Convulsionnaires I

Collection of invocations, prayers, etc., accounts of visions, prophecies, miracles and cures, connected mostly with members of Jansenist convents, and the followers of François de Paris, nicknamed 'Convulsionnaires'. Inserted loose is a document relating to the sale of landed property at Moncouchon by the nuns of Fontévrault signed by the Abbess Louise Françoise de Rochechouart Mortemart, dated 8 January 1731, and witnessed by 'Salmon', who is perhaps François Salmon [1676-1736], Doctor of the Sorbonne and Librarian.

1733-1754

1 volume 1 l. + 365 pp. + 3 ll. last bl.. 4to. 23 x 171/2 cm. Paper covers. Pp. 271/2, 297/8, 305/6 have the lower half cut away. After p. 224 many of the leaves are of smaller format, a few being only inserted scraps. By various hands, but each dated. On the first leaf '2d volume Page 1-366. M'. The inner lower corner, which probably contained a seal, has been torn away.

Purchased 1928.

From the Berhard II Collection.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

For a partial bibliography of the 'Convulsionnaires de Saint-Mèdard', cf. R. Yve-Plessis. Essai d'une bibliographie française de la Sorcellerie. Paris, 1900. pp. 84-93.