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Title

Receuil de poësies et secrets

Authors

• Grécourt, 1683-1743
• Voltaire, 1694-1778

Call number

Ms. Codex 513
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580958
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580958

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1757

Place

France

Summary

French miscellany containing poetry, essays relating to the history of chemistry, and recipes for chemical and medical preparations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page: Receuil [sic] de Poësies et Secrets. dont Philotanus. Epitre à Uranie, par Voltaire. Diverses poësies faites à Bruxellesen 1756. Explications des essays, alliages et affinages des matieres d'or et d'argent. Recettes de differends Vernis, Vinaigres, et autres secrets plus curieux les uns que les autres. Le Cour Amplement detaillé dans2a Table ... 1757.
   

Extent

172 leaves : 238 x 180 (163 x 100) mm. bound to 247 x 185 mm

Foliation

Paper, 172; [iv], 1-15, [i], 1-324, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with a few medical recipes on the last leaves in different hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Bibliothek Otto Rothschild, Berlin (stamp, f. i recto).
   
• Sold by Brandes Auction, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• French poetry--18th century
• Chemistry--History
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Poems
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — Table of contents, p. 1
• 1 — Table of contents, p. 1