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Title

Abrégé du traité de l'exploitation des mines, extrait de la traduction de l'allemand faite par M. Monnet

Authors

• Monnet, Antoine Grimoald, 1734-1817
• Cancrin, Franz Ludwig von, 1738-1812
• Grécourt, 1683-1743

Call number

Ms. Codex 521
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580991
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580991

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1780

Place

Duppenweiler

Summary

French miscellany containing a translation from German of a treatise on mining, a dictionary of mineralogy and metallurgy, a table of currency exchange, medical remedies, poetry and songs (including work of Conte de Grécourt). The unnamed compiler was a French Protestant refugee, cf. the preface.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. i).
   
• Zacour-Hirsch tentatively identify the author of Abrégé du traité de l'exploitation des mines as Franz Ludwig von Cancrin, author of Exposition des mines, ou, description de la nature et de la qualite des mines : à laquelle on à joint des notices sur plusiers mines d'Allemagne & de France, & une dissertation pratique sur le traitement des mines de cuivre, traduite de l'Allemand, de M. Cancrinus par M. Monnet, 1772.
   

Extent

248 leaves : 144 x 100 (111 x 65) mm. bound to 148 x 103 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 248 + ii; [viii], 1-124, [vi], 1-329, [xxvii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf.

Decoration

3 folded pen and ink drawings illustrating mining. Vignettes at headings and chapter endings throughout.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Acquired, 1970.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — Traite? des mines, p. 1
• 71 — Traite? de la pre?paration des mines ou disposition des mines pour la fonte, p. 71
• 121 — Explication de trois planches suivantes, p. 121

Decorations

• 1 — Decorated heading, p. 1
• 4 — Decorative vignette, p. 4
• 6 — Decorative vignette, p. 6
• 16 — Decorative vignette, p. 16
• 22 — Decorative vignette, p. 22
• 33 — Decorative vignette, p. 33
• 40 — Decorative vignette, p. 40
• 46 — Decorative vignette, p. 46
• 55 — Decorative vignette, p. 55
• 58 — Decorative vignette, p. 58
• 61 — Decorative vignette, p. 61
• 64 — Decorative vignette, p. 64
• 69 — Decorative vignette, p. 69
• 71 — Decorated heading, p.71
• 73 — Decorative vignette, p. 73
• 75 — Decorative vignette, p. 75
• 80 — Decorative vignette, p. 80
• 88 — Decorative vignette, p. 88
• 92 — Decorative vignette, p. 92
• 95 — Decorative vignette, p. 95
• 102 — Decorative vignette, p. 102
• 110 — Decorative vignette, p. 110
• 114 — Decorative vignette, p. 114
• 121 — Decorated heading, p. 121
• 124 — Decorative vignette, p. 124