Abregé chronologique de l'histoire universelle. : Contenant les evenemen[t] les plus remarquables pour l'intelligence de l'histoire depuis la création du monde jusqu'à l'an 1714 / par Marie Sharpe a Kensington de l'ecole de Madame Elin.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Roux, Samuel.

Sharpe, Mary, former owner.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

History--Study and teaching--England--Early works to 1800.

History.

History--Study and teaching.

England.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Mary Sharpe (signature, p. i).

Sold by Amanda Hall Rare Books (London), 1997.

Physical Description:

56 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 240 x 185 (190 x 135) mm bound to 245 x 191 mm

Production:

[England], 1766.

Language Note:

French.

Summary:

An abridged history of the world to 1714, probably copied by a schoolgirl, Marie or Mary Sharpe, under the instruction of a French Protestant émigré, Samuel Roux, whose preface, with instructions to the young girls in his class, begins the volume.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title and date from title page (p. vii). The name Mary Sharpe is written (p. i).

Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 56 + i (contemporary paper); [i-xiv], 1-94, [95-98]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with marginal notes throughout possibly in a second hand.

Decoration: Illustrated frontispiece in black and white watercolor or ink depicts a student seated at a desk watching a winged figure (Time), seated on a globe, pulling aside a curtain to reveal pictures of Biblical events in the history of the world, including Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, the great Flood, and the Crucifixion.

Binding: Blue gilt morocco.

Origin: Written in England, 1766.

Same text as that of Ms. Codex 756, however, the prefaces are different.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 640

OCLC:

212375727