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

Title

Journal au Marquis de Chepy

Authors

• Chépy, Nicolas de Grouches, marquis de,

Call number

Ms. Codex 988
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3792069
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3792069

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1740-1741

Place

France, Holland

Summary

Unsigned reports, usually 2 leaves in length, on events in Paris, Versailles, and the Hague, and on political affairs throughout Europe. The reports were folded and mailed individually to the Marquis (or occasionally the Marquise) de Chépy, and the address is visible on some of them.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 2r).
   

Extent

346 leaves : 218 x 160 mm. bound to 230 x 180 mm

Collation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 346 + i (contemporary paper); [ii, 1-341, iii]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment with the arms of de Chépy (Zacour-Hirsch).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1963.
   

Genres

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

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