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

Title

Le portrait de la cour de Saxe

Authors

• Wolfframsdorff, Johann Friedrich von, ca. 1674-1712

Call number

Ms. Codex 944
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3581679
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3581679

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1725

Place

Saxony

Summary

Critical portrait of individuals in the court of Saxony under Elector Frederick Augustus I, also known as August der Starke, who became King Augustus II of Poland.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r); author attribution from R. Pekrun.
   
• The same text appears under the title Portrait de la cour de Pologne in UPenn Ms. Codex 957.
   

Extent

92 leaves : 320 x 199 (225 x 101) mm. bound to 329 x 205 mm

Collation

Paper; 92; 1-11⁸, 12⁶; [i], 1-54, 56-76, 78-93; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Signatures A through M (omitting I), lower center recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century boards (Zacour-Hirsch); leather on spine fragile.

Layout

Written in a single column of 26-33 lines on the inner half of each page, with the pages having been folded to establish the outer margin.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1959.
   

Genres

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

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