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Title

Abregé chronologique de l'histoire universelle. :

Authors

• Bazett, Sarah

Call number

Ms. Codex 756
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2704561
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2704561

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1775

Place

London?

Summary

An abridged history of the world to 1714, presumably copied by a London school girl, Sarah Bazett, whose name is on the title page. Includes a preface "traduite de l'Anglais."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and date from title page (p. iii).
   
• The text of this volume is the same as that of Ms. Codex 640, however the prefaces are not the same.
   

Extent

79 leaves : 235 x 187 (184 x 120) mm. bound to 241 x 200 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 79 + i (contemporary paper); [iv], 1-15, [i], 1-135, [iii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red morocco, gilt.

Decoration

Illustrated frontispiece in black and white watercolor depicts a student seated at a desk looking a winged figure (Time) who is pulling aside a curtain to reveal Biblical scenes in the history of the world including the Flood and the nativity of Christ.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Amanda Hall Rare Books (London), 1998.
   

Subjects topical

• History--Study and teaching--England--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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