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Title

Lettres de deux amans

Call number

Ms. Codex 1115
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4256394
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4256394

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1764-1765

Place

France

Summary

Epistolary novel, apparently unpublished, consisting of unsigned letters between two lovers, an unnamed man and a woman named Fanni. The 173 letters are dated from 6 October 1764 to 1 May 1765.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. 1); caption title is Mon vrai bonheur, ou lettres de deux amans (p. 3).
   

Extent

176 leaves : 271 x 184 (202 x 141) mm. bound to 277 x 207 mm

Collation

Paper, ii + 174 + ii; 1-29⁶; [1-3], 4-347, [i]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Signed A-Z (no J, U, or W), Aa-Ff on first page of each gathering, lower right recto. Catchwords on the last page of each gathering, lower right verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary mottled calf; spine gilt in compartments with floral tooling; black morocco label lettered in gilt Lett de deux amant; three corners and head of spine repaired (Hall Rare Books).

Layout

Written in 25 long lines; bounding lines ruled in red ink.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Amanda Hall Rare Books (Wiltshire, England), 2006.
   

Subjects topical

• French literature--18th century

Genres

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

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