[Dole and Saint-Claude]. Manuscripts written around 1900, wh - Lot 428

[Dole and Saint-Claude]. Manuscripts written around 1900, whose author we have been unable to discover. 2 period folders in-8°, brown cloth spines (one spine has tears, accidents to binding). ● Délibérations du conseil municipal de la ville de Dole. [For 1604-1616, 1634-1637, 1689, 1764, 1768, January-March 1789, October 28, 1792, February-September 1794]. More than 50 in-8° handwritten sewn notebooks of around 32 pp. each, totalling more than 1,500 pp. ● Requests for compensation. Manuscript of 80 pp. in-8° in 2 sewn quires numbered 19 and 20. Concerns the period from the end of the 18th century to the Restoration. ● Extraits des Almanachs du Comté de Bourgogne. [1789]. Manuscript of 6 sewn notebooks and 13 bi-feuillets in-8°. ● Edmond de BRANGES (Saint-Julien-sur-Suran, 1844 - Dole, 1903). The Life and Death of a Servant of God. Manuscript [autograph?] signed [autograph?] of 13 pp. in-4°. The exemplary life of Jean-Joseph David, parish priest of Saint-Julien in the diocese of Saint-Claude. A resident member of the Société d'émulation du Jura (1891-1903) and a corresponding member of the Société d'agriculture, sciences et arts de Poligny (1881-1885), he was ordained in 1869, the son of Henri Alexandre Louis, clerk of the justice of the peace in Saint-Julien (Jura) and Onésime Rosalie Bailly. After serving in parish ministry in Sellières and Brainans, he was chaplain in Lons-le-Saunier to the Carmelite monastery, then in Dole to religious congregations, notably the Dames de l'Eucharistie (1879-1893) and the Dames de la Visitation (until his death). ● With a letter [autograph signed?] protesting the expulsion of the Dole-based Dames de l'Eucharistie. ● With a 5-column deanery list. 44 pp. in-8° handwritten.