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

Title

Rélation de la conversion de Mr. Jean Thayer :

Authors

• Thayer, John, 1758-1815
• La Harpe, Jean-François de, 1739-1803. etc

Call number

Ms. Codex 664
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2487450
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487450

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

circa 1800

Place

England?

Summary

Comprised of 2 manuscript works, the first is a copy of a work by John Thayer, originally published in London in 1787, the second is unidentified and has a copy of a letter dated 1801 inserted between p. 96-97; plus 3 printed pamphlets bound in at the end (32 leaves).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 1).
   
• Copy of letter between p. 96-97 in second work is from a French Archbishop to the superior of the French priests at Reading, England and includes the date 31 May 1801.
   
• Two pamphlets are dated 1797.
   

Extent

160 leaves : 158 x 98 (126 x 70) mm. bound to 165 x 102 mm

Foliation

Paper, 160 + i; [iv], 1-66, [ii], 1-96, [viii], 97-175, [i], 1-27, [i], 1-8, 1-26, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-316]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. References in this record are to modern pagination.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand, possibly that of Rev. Mr. Allis, "prêtre du diocese de Coutances, Reading [England]" (note, p. iii).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by G.V. Digard (p. iv).
   
• Purchased, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Apologetic works
• Catholic converts--Biography
• Freedom of religion

Genres

• Codices
• Hybrid books
• Letters
• Pamphlets
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — Re?lation de la conversion de Mr. Jean Thayer, p. 1