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Title

Commonplace book

Authors

• Viettinghoff, R. von

Call number

Ms. Codex 1113
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4255449
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4255449

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German, with two entries in or containing French

Origin

Date

between 1780 and 1790

Place

Germany

Summary

Collection of quotations from poetry and prose of the literary period of sensibility (Empfindsamkeit) and enlightenment. The selections have a philosophical or lightly satirical bent, with a few pieces of an erotic nature. The authors include Gottfried August Bürger, Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel, Voltaire (quotation in French), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, and Gotthold Friedrich Stäudlin. According to Albert Schmitt, one poem ("Der wahre Genuss") attributed to Wieland is actually an early poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The first entry is a poem attributed to Bürger ("Die schöne Beckerinn. Eine Legende"), which Schmitt dates to 1781; entries toward the end include Stäudlin's "Lied eines Vagabunden" (first published in 1788), and an unattributed poem written on the occasion of the death of Friedrich II and dated 1786 (f. 47v). Some of the writings represented may date from earlier, with one poem including a preface dated 1759 (f. 27r). The signature of Dr. R. v. Viettinghoff (front flyleaf) appears to be written in the same hand as some or all of the entries in the book.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

123 leaves : 213 x 135 mm. bound to 218 x 142 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + i (contemporary paper cover) + 119 + i (contemporary paper cover) + i (modern paper); [i, 1-118]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Script

Written in a German cursive hand (possibly in more than one hand).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Dr. R. von Viettinghoff (signature, front flyleaf).
   
• Formerly appeared in the catalog of Richard Kaufmann Buchhandlung u. Antiquariat (Stuttgart).
   
• Sold by Nostoff, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• German literature--18th century

Genres

• Commonplace books
• Poems
• Codices
• Manuscripts, German--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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