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

Title

Observations of the industries of Lyon

Authors

• Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Auguste-Denis, 1732-1789

Other related names

• Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 990
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3728194
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3728194

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1763

Place

Lyon

Summary

Journal of observations and drawings of equipment and products from various industries during a visit to Lyon in August and September of 1763. Subjects include iron mines, steel plants, a cutlery factory, textile manufacture, and an interview at the veterinary school of Lyon with Claude Bourgelat.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

48 leaves : 226 x 170 mm. bound to 231 x 190 mm

Collation

Paper, 48; [1-48]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Decoration

Many illustrations of equipment, products (such as buttons and nails), and processes.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• From the collection of Duhamel du Monceau, editor of the Description des Arts et Métiers, at the Château de Denainvilliers, dispersed in 1955-1960 (Jaoul/Pinault, a copy shelved with the codex).
   
• Purchased, 1964.
   

Subjects topical

• Ecole nationale vétérinaire de Lyon
• Cutlery trade--France--Lyon--Early works to 1800
• Industries--France--Early works to 1800
• Industries--France--Rhône-Alpes--History
• Iron mines and mining--France--Lyon--Early works to 1800
• Steel industry and trade--France--Lyon--Early works to 1800
• Textile industry--France--Lyon--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Diagram, f. 1v
• fol. 2v — Diagram, f. 2v
• fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
• fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v
• fol. 7v — Diagram, f. 7v
• fol. 8v — Diagram, f. 8v
• fol. 9v — Diagram, f. 9v
• fol. 10v — Diagram, f. 10v
• fol. 11v — Diagram, f. 11v
• fol. 12v — Diagram, f. 12v
• fol. 14v — Diagram, f. 14v
• fol. 16v — Diagram, f. 16v
• fol. 17v — Diagram, f. 17v
• fol. 19v — Diagram, f. 19v
• fol. 20v — Diagram, f. 20v
• fol. 21v — Diagram, f. 21v
• fol. 22v — Diagram, f. 22v
• fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
• fol. 25v — Diagram, f. 25v
• fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
• fol. 29v — Diagram, f. 29v
• fol. 30v — Diagram, f. 30v
• fol. 31v — Diagram, f. 31v
• fol. 39v — Diagram, f. 39v
• fol. 40v — Diagram, f. 40v
• fol. 41v — Diagram, f. 41v
• fol. 42v — Diagram, f. 42v
• fol. 43v — Diagram, f. 43v
• fol. 44v — Diagram, f. 44v
• fol. 45v — Diagram, f. 45v
• Inside back cover — Seller's description, Inside back cover