Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Abregé chronologique de l'histoire universelle. :

Authors

• Roux, Samuel

Other related names

• Sharpe, Mary, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 640
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2374092
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2374092

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1766

Place

England

Summary

An abridged history of the world to 1714, probably copied by a schoolgirl, Marie or Mary Sharpe, under the instruction of a French Protestant émigré, Samuel Roux, whose preface, with instructions to the young girls in his class, begins the volume.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and date from title page (p. vii). The name Mary Sharpe is written (p. i).
   
• Same text as that of Ms. Codex 756, however, the prefaces are different.
   

Extent

56 leaves : 240 x 185 (190 x 135) mm. bound to 245 x 191 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 56 + i (contemporary paper); [i-xiv], 1-94, [95-98]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Blue gilt morocco.

Decoration

Illustrated frontispiece in black and white watercolor or ink depicts a student seated at a desk watching a winged figure (Time), seated on a globe, pulling aside a curtain to reveal pictures of Biblical events in the history of the world, including Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, the great Flood, and the Crucifixion.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with marginal notes throughout possibly in a second hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Mary Sharpe (signature, p. i).
   
• Sold by Amanda Hall Rare Books (London), 1997.
   

Subjects topical

• History--Study and teaching--England--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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