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

Title

Amusements utiles et curieux :

Other related names

• Chappon, Pierre, active 18th century, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 2033
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977523551303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1137015989
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3db7w06g

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

French, with two Latin epigraphs (p. 1)

Origin

Date

1753

Place

Arras

Summary

Collection of recipes and practical and informational articles on medicinal, culinary, horticultural, metallurgical, and other household and scientific topics (including a 1752 article on electricity referring to Benjamin Franklin and the French translation, published in 1752, of his Experiments and observations on electricity, published in 1751, p. 31-44). The articles are largely copied, not in order of publication, from 1751 and 1752 issues of the Journal oeconomique, a journal published in Paris from 1751 to 1772. A few articles are copied from Noël Chomel's Dictionnaire oeconomique, which was published in several editions in the first half of the 18th century. A table of contents at the end, written on pages that seem to be marked in the upper outer corners with letters for an index, is also in the hand of the compiler. Additional recipes, mostly medical, have been added by a slightly later hand at the end (p. 290-309), along with corresponding entries at the end of the table of contents (p. 326-328).

Notes

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

Extent

164 leaves : 187 x 144 (148 x 106) mm bound to 196 x 155 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii + 164 leaves; [i-vi], 1-309, [310-328]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) marbled calf (Kinmont), blind-tooled, gilt spine with spine title AMUSEM CURIEUX DE M. DE FOSSE; marbled endpapers.

Layout

Written in 20 long lines; quarto format.

Decoration

Ornamental border drawn and stamped in black and green ink on title page (p. 5); text block border on all pages in ink; frontispiece formed from two printed maps, the upper half Environs de Paris and the lower half France Ecclesiastique, with a simple border in ink (p. iv).

Script

Written in a semicursive script by a single hand (p. 1-290, 311-326), with additional recipes and table of contents entries written in cursive script by another later hand, perhaps that of former owner Pierre Chappon (p. 290-309, 326-328).

Provenance

• Possibly compiled by M. De Fosse or M. De Fosseux (spine label).
   
• Formerly owned by Pierre Chappon, late 18th century, possibly the French doctor and author P. Chappon, 1749-1810 (owner inscription, p. iv).
   
• Offered for sale at auction by Chauviré Courant (Angers), 30 May 2018, lot 417.
   
• Offered for sale by Bonnefoi Livres Anciens (Paris), catalog 185, number 40.
   
• Sold by Ben Kinmont (Sebastapol, California), 2019.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Cooking, French--Early works to 1800
• Natural history--Pre-Linnean works
• Electricity--Experiments--Early works to 1800
• Cooking, French
• Electricity--Experiments
• Medicine
• Natural history

Genres

• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Miscellanies
• Early works
• Excerpts
• Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc
• Recipes
• Excerpts
• Recipes

Keywords

• Miscellany
• Recipe book
• 18th century
• French
• Paper
• France
• Science

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 2033: Amusements utiles et curieux : are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is ©2021 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• v — Amusements utiles et curieux
• 1 — Amusements utiles et agréables
• 311 — Cherchez, vous trouverez [Table of contents]

Decorations

• iv — Printed map, Environs de Paris
• iv — Printed map, France ecclésiastique
• v — Decorated title page