[Grammar] 5 manuscripts from 4 different... - Lot 322 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

[Grammar] 5 manuscripts from 4 different hands, unidentified, from the 18th century. - Manuscript of 8 pp. in-8: lexicographical works correcting Furetière and Du Cange, for a certain number of words of the letter E; parts of this text can be found in the Encyclopedia and in the Dictionary of Trévoux. "This was introduced in a time of barbarism and ignorance. And it is fitting that Du Cange by this reason took care to explain this usage at the beginning of each letter of his Latin-Barbarian glossary. Furetière, who copied Du Cange, but did not hear him clearly, was mistaken when he says in the letter A that this explanation of the numeral letters can be seen in Valerius Probus [] ". - Manuscript of 2 pp. in-4: "How is it to be pronounced on everything printed? Some want the r. to be left untouched. They have for themselves, they say, the use which is the master and tyrant of tongues []. Father d'Olivet added a line from his hand: "By virtue of which Rousseau said: the happy beginnings of his beneficent care. - Manuscript of 1 p. ½ in-4: " Avant, Devant ". "Father Girard, in order to make the difference between these two words, says in his Treatise on Synonyms []". - Manuscript of 4 pp. in-4: " Des Voyelles nasales ". "I can only advise Father d'Olivet to stick to what he said about nasal sound in the first edition of his Prosodie françoise. No matter how respectable the authority of Malherbe and Boileau may be, with whatever care they may have observed and deepened the precepts of their art, several new discoveries have been made in the mechanism of pronunciation since they wrote []. I hope that Abbé d'Olivet would have dealt with the question of whether, when the rules of grammar require the linking of a nasal vowel with a following vowel, a second n must be substituted between the two words []". - Manuscript of 8 pp. in-4: "De l'E. muet". With a note in the margin "Answer