NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS. Manuscript, Etablissement des marguillers laïcs de l'Eglise Notre Dame de Paris Seigneurs du fief des Tumbes avec les titres et droits honorifiques et lucratifs dont ils ont joüy autrefois et ceux dont ils jouissent a présent, Paris 1731 ; one volume in-4 (23 x 17,5 cm) of 349 pages (plus qqs ff blanks), contemporary binding in brown basane, triple filleting on the boards, spine ribbed and decorated with fleurons (worn binding, hinge split). Unpublished manuscript on the churchwardens of Notre-Dame de Paris and the fief of the Tumbes. The author, indicated on the title page, is the lord BILAIN, "Dean of the said churchwardens". Beautifully set manuscript, decorated with two finely drawn pen-and-ink vignettes in the title and at the end representing vases of flowers, with calligraphic titles and initials. The work, completed by a detailed table of contents, traces the history of the priestly and lay churchwardens of Notre-Dame de Paris, their functions and the ceremonies in which they participate, the seigniorial rights and rents they enjoy, the history of the fief of the Tumbes; this is followed by a detailed description of the 46 houses depending on the fief of the Tumbes.