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

Title

Sammlung allein für mein Herz.

Call number

Ms. Codex 2114
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977223451703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1378428429
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/498378 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cf9jw50

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

German and French

Origin

Date

1770

Place

Germany

Summary

Small oblong commonplace book of epigrams, poems, and quotations in German and French, not all with attributions. Some of the selections are translated from other languages, such as passages from Tasso (f. 16r-16v), Alexander Pope (f. 56r-56v), and Horace (f. 75v). The compiler's initials, M. J. F. W. von M., are on the title page (f. 1r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

104 leaves : 67 x 96 mm bound to 70 x 103 mm

Collation

Paper, 104; 1-13⁸; 1-104, modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) colored paper over cardboard, with a paper-covered slipcase; gilt edges.

Script

Written in cursive script (French selections) and German cursive script (German selections), by one hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Antiquariat Michael Steinbach (Vienna), 2017.
   

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• commonplace books
• translations (documents)
• Quotations
• Manuscripts, German--18th century
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Sammlung allein für mein Herz