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Title

Chevræana

Authors

• Chevreau, Urbain, 1613-1701

Call number

Ms. Codex 950
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3583991
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3583991

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French, with occasional passages in Latin and Greek

Origin

Date

circa 1697-1700

Place

France

Summary

Chevreau's heavily corrected and annotated copy of the published edition (Paris: Florentin & Pierre Delaulne, 1697, 1700) of Chevræana, a collection of short prose pieces on classical literature and history, Judaism and Christianity, French literature, and European history. Also includes some poems. Many full pages of notes have been bound together with the printed pages.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (v. 1, f. 1r, 3r; v.2, f. 1r).
   

Extent

2 v. (256, 260 leaves) : 168 x 103 mm. bound to 174 x 120 mm

Foliation

Paper; pagination for the printed pages is V.1: [v, 1], 2-420, [xxvi]; V.2: [ii, 1], 2-437. Most of the printed pages are from a large paper copy, with a few leaves from another copy inserted. Pages of notes are frequently numbered by the author as following the printed page preceding them; many smaller notes also bound in.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century full, ornamented gilt morocco from the ownership of Gustave Mouravit; in each volume, the border at the bottom of the inner front cover says "S. David" and at the bottom of the inner back cover "Domont."

Decoration

Vignettes scattered throughout the printed pages; etching of a portrait of Chevreau by Jean or Jean-Louis Petitot, v. 1, f. 2v; 19th-century bookplate bearing a portrait of a woman bound in the newer pages associated with the current binding at the beginning of v. 1, with the same monogram that is stamped on v. 1, f. 3r, and v. 2, f. 1r.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Nicolas Boindin (note, p. [xxx], with transcription by Gustave Mouravit, p. [xxxv-xxxvi], at end of v. 1) and Albert de la Fizelière (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Formerly owned by Gustave Mouravit (bookplate bound in at the beginning of v. 1 and his detailed notes on provenance, especially Boindin, p. [xxvii-xxxvii] at end of v. 1).
   
• Purchased, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Civilization, Classical
• Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• French literature

Genres

• Codices
• Essays
• Poems
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, French--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• 1 (V.1) — Engraved initial, Initial L, p. 1 (V.1)
• 1 (V.1) — Engraved vignette, p. 1 (V.1)
• 109 (V.1) — Engraved vignette, p. 109 (V.1)
• 116 (V.1) — Engraved vignette, p. 116 (V.1)
• 117 (V.1) — Engraved vignette, p. 117 (V.1)