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

Title

Etat de ce que j'ai payé pour pensions, entretien, et les differens maitres des trois demoiselles de Longpré et de Mademoiselle de St. Olympe

Authors

• Poncelet, Mademoiselle

Call number

Ms. Codex 1615
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5315759
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5315759

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1786-1788

Place

Bonsecours?, France

Summary

Accounts of the housekeeper or governess for the aristocratic St.-Olympe family, mostly in connection with Madame de St.-Olympe's three daughters from an earlier marriage (Blanche, Popotte, and Antoinette, the demoiselles de Longpré) and her infant daughter with Jean-Baptiste César du Buc de St.-Olympe, whom she had married in 1783 (Musinsky). The family's primary residence was in Bonsecours, near Rouen. Expenses include materials for clothing and payments to couturiers; educational materials, payments to tutors, and boarding costs at a convent; postage; coaches; flowers; sweets; medicinal and cosmetic supplies; and portraits of the girls. One entry records the purchase of the new translation (by Blavet) of Adam Smith's Wealth of nations (f. 19v). The final leaves of the manuscript (f. 40r-41r) are used to record money received, mainly from M. Lefebvre.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from cover title, where attribution is added in a second contemporary hand.
   

Watermark

Crown supported by a fleur-de-lis [?].

Extent

42 leaves : 220 x 167 mm. bound to 222 x 175 mm

Collation

Paper, 42; 1⁴²; [1-42], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto (f. 28-39 ruled but blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Paper wrapper, stab-stitched with silk ribbon.

Layout

Written in 5 columns with vertical bounding lines in lead: a small column on the left for the date, a large central column for brief descriptions of expenses, and 3 small columns for the expense amounts in livres, sols, and deniers.

Script

Written in cursive script in the hand of Mademoiselle Poncelet.

Provenance

• Sold by Musinsky Rare Books (New York), cat. 2 (2011), no. 48.
   

Subjects topical

• Accounting--France--18th century

Genres

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

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