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

Title

Cahier de chansons

Call number

Ms. Codex 964
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3597467
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3597467

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1783

Place

France

Summary

A collection of approximately 120 short poems, mostly love poems, followed by a table of contents of first lines.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and date from title page (p. 1).
   

Extent

106 leaves : 198 x 139 (175 x 107) mm. bound to 203 x 148 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 106 + ii (contemporary paper) leaves; 1-109, 109-211; near-contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Earlier pagination trimmed away, but visible beginning around p. 60.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in single columns; frame-ruled in lead.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Bookplate once on title page was removed.
   
• Purchased in 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Love poetry, French

Genres

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

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