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

Title

Jonathan, or, The true friend

Authors

• Cerisiers, Réné de, 1609-1662

Other related names

• Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 210
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486436
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486436

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, translated from French

Origin

Date

circa 1660

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. i), Jonathan, or The true friend. Written originallie in French by The famous de Ceriziers Almoner to the King. Done Into English by [attribution and date deliberately made unreadable]. Date appears to be 1660.
   
• Dedication: "To my Lord the Most Eminent Cardinall Mazarin." (p. iii-iv).
   
• Pencilled note next to title page reads: "Several translations were done by Sir Wm. Lower from the same author. This original manuscript appears not printed." [Name blocked out on title page does not appear to be Lower, however.].
   

Extent

88 leaves : 205 x 158 (172 x 112) mm. bound to 214 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 88 + i; [iv], 1-163, [164-170]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners..

Support

Paper

Binding

Half cloth.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, English--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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