Two manuscripts in Latin, on paper

two manuscripts, (a) Obsidionis Pariensis Descriptio, 79 leaves, 195mm. by 135mm., text written on first 24 leaves, in a neat hand of the late sixteenth century, limp vellum wrappers reused from a leaf from a Torah; (b) Ludovicus Rugerius, In Universam Logicam, 344 numbered leaves, 190mm. by 125mm., in small cursive hand with ink etching through pages in places, continued in 1641, vellum over pasteboards; both fair condition

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Item (a) contains an apparently otherwise unrecorded eyewitness account of the siege of Paris by King Henry III and the Protestant Huguenots in 1589, in the final stages of the conflicts in sixteenth-century France between the Catholics and Protestants. From the perspective of a Catholic within the besieged city, it describes the city itself, some of its dignitaries, and daily life during the conflict, with episodes from ancient history to highlight what the author sees as good and evil in his present situation. The account ends with the writer's jubilant thanks for the relief of the city. Item (b) is an extensive record of the lectures of the Jesuit philosophy professor, Ludovicus Rugerius, given at the Collegio Romano in the 1590s.