03991ntm a2200493 u 4500 9977523551303681 20200122000016.0 190507s1753 fr b 000 0 fre d (OCoLC)on1137015989 (OCoLC)1137015989 PAU eng PAU amremm fre lat Ms. Codex 2033 Amusements utiles et curieux : expériences faites et à faire. Arras, 1753. 164 leaves : paper ; 187 x 144 (148 x 106) mm bound to 196 x 155 mm. Ms. codex. Title from title page (p. v). Pagination: Paper, iii + 164 leaves; [i-vi], 1-309, [310-328]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Layout: Written in 20 long lines; quarto format. Script: Written in a semicursive script by a single hand (p. 1-290, 311-326), with additional recipes and table of contents entries written in cursive script by another later hand, perhaps that of former owner Pierre Chappon (p. 290-309, 326-328). Decoration: Ornamental border drawn and stamped in black and green ink on title page (p. 5); text block border on all pages in ink; frontispiece formed from two printed maps, the upper half Environs de Paris and the lower half France Ecclesiastique, with a simple border in ink (p. iv). Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) marbled calf (Kinmont), blind-tooled, gilt spine with spine title AMUSEM CURIEUX DE M. DE FOSSE; marbled endpapers. Origin: Written in Arras, France, dated 1753 (title page, p. v) Collection of recipes and practical and informational articles on medicinal, culinary, horticultural, metallurgical, and other household and scientific topics (including a 1752 article on electricity referring to Benjamin Franklin and the French translation, published in 1752, of his Experiments and observations on electricity, published in 1751, p. 31-44). The articles are largely copied, not in order of publication, from 1751 and 1752 issues of the Journal oeconomique, a journal published in Paris from 1751 to 1772. A few articles are copied from Noël Chomel's Dictionnaire oeconomique, which was published in several editions in the first half of the 18th century. A table of contents at the end, written on pages that seem to be marked in the upper outer corners with letters for an index, is also in the hand of the compiler. Additional recipes, mostly medical, have been added by a slightly later hand at the end (p. 290-309), along with corresponding entries at the end of the table of contents (p. 326-328). UPenn Ms. Codex 2033. French, with two Latin epigraphs (p. 1). Possibly compiled by M. De Fosse or M. De Fosseux (spine label). Formerly owned by Pierre Chappon, late 18th century, possibly the French doctor and author P. Chappon, 1749-1810 (owner inscription, p. iv). Offered for sale at auction by Chauviré Courant (Angers), 30 May 2018, lot 417. Offered for sale by Bonnefoi Livres Anciens (Paris), catalog 185, number 40. Sold by Ben Kinmont (Sebastapol, California), 2019. Medicine Formulae, receipts, prescriptions Early works to 1800. Cooking, French Early works to 1800. Natural history Pre-Linnean works. Electricity Experiments Early works to 1800. Codices (bound manuscripts) aat Miscellanies. aat Excerpts. Recipes. Manuscripts, French 18th century. local Manuscripts, European. Chappon, Pierre, 18th century, former owner. Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. Ms. Codex 2033 22586179030003681 Ms. Codex 2033 KislakCntr scmss