Monastery of BROU. Manuscript, [mid-18th c.]; small folio, pag. 13-61 (beginning missing). The history of the monastery is incomplete from the beginning, and begins here in 1506, when Marguerite of Austria obtained the papal bull permitting "the building of the church in honor of St. Nicholas of Tolentin and the establishment of Religious of the order of St. Augustine of the observance of Lombardy"; The work under the direction of André Collomban, the endowment of the royal monastery, the death of Marguerite of Austria and her will, the arrival of her body at Brou and its burial (1533), and the completion of the work in 1536 are recounted. This is followed (p. 30-61) by a detailed description of the church at Brou, where "there is nothing but beauty": the portal, the chapels, including that of Marguerite of Austria, "one of the most beautiful, albeit Gothic, and the most curious to be seen", the "porcelain-painted" tiles, the choir, the mausoleums, the sacristy, the convent...