Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1622: Les amours et les aventures d'Abrocôme et d'Anthia The University of Pennsylvania Libraries This description is ©2016 University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. All referenced images and their content are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Ms. codex. Title from title page (p. 1). Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Codex 1622 5021633 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5021633 Romance in five books in which Abrocôme and Anthia, a young man and woman of Ephesus, though separated and threatened by pirates, slavery, shipwrecks, unwanted suitors, and other dangers, remain faithful to one another, are reunited, and return to Ephesus. Preceded by a preface (p. 3-8) describing the discovery of the original manuscript in Florence in 1720; followed by historical and geographical notes (p. 185-295) keyed to numbers inserted in the text. French Les amours et les aventures d'Abrocôme et d'Anthia Xenophon, of Ephesus translator Guillemeau, J.-L. M. 1766-1853

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 150 leaves : 174 x 108 (136-148 x 80-82) mm. bound to 181 x 126 mm Paper, v + 150 + i leaves; 1-165, [i-ii], 166-298, contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Written in 18-19 long lines; vertical margins marked by folding. Written in the cursive hand of J.-L. M. Guillemeau. Bookplate, Inside front cover

Contemporary (18th-century) parchment with damaged paper covers; spine title Les amours d'Abrocôme et d'Anthia in ink.

Written in Niort, France, in 1796 (p. 1).

1796 Niort Formerly owned by L. Guillemeau, son of the translator (bookplate inside upper cover). Sold by Amanda Hall Rare Books (Teffont Evias, England), 2011. Love stories, Greek--Early works to 1800 Codices Romances (document genre) Manuscripts, French--18th century Manuscripts, European