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

Title

Les amours et les aventures d'Abrocôme et d'Anthia

Authors

• Xenophon, of Ephesus

Other related names

• Guillemeau, J.-L. M. 1766-1853, translator

Call number

Ms. Codex 1622
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5021633
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5021633

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1796

Place

Niort

Summary

Romance in five books in which Abrocôme and Anthia, a young man and woman of Ephesus, though separated and threatened by pirates, slavery, shipwrecks, unwanted suitors, and other dangers, remain faithful to one another, are reunited, and return to Ephesus. Preceded by a preface (p. 3-8) describing the discovery of the original manuscript in Florence in 1720; followed by historical and geographical notes (p. 185-295) keyed to numbers inserted in the text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. 1).
   

Extent

150 leaves : 174 x 108 (136-148 x 80-82) mm. bound to 181 x 126 mm

Foliation

Paper, v + 150 + i leaves; 1-165, [i-ii], 166-298, contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) parchment with damaged paper covers; spine title Les amours d'Abrocôme et d'Anthia in ink.

Layout

Written in 18-19 long lines; vertical margins marked by folding.

Script

Written in the cursive hand of J.-L. M. Guillemeau.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by L. Guillemeau, son of the translator (bookplate inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Amanda Hall Rare Books (Teffont Evias, England), 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Love stories, Greek--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Romances (document genre)
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover