Abregé chronologique de l'histoire universelle. : Contenant les evenements les plus remarquables pour l'intelligence de l'histoire depuis la création du monde jusques a l'an de grace 1714 / par Sarah Bazett a Londres de l'ecole des Dames Stevensons, Queen's Square.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Bazett, Sarah.

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:

Sold by Amanda Hall Rare Books (London), 1998.

Physical Description:

79 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 235 x 187 (184 x 120) mm bound to 241 x 200 mm

Production:

[London?], 1775.

Language Note:

French.

Summary:

An abridged history of the world to 1714, presumably copied by a London school girl, Sarah Bazett, whose name is on the title page. Includes a preface "traduite de l'Anglais."

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title and date from title page (p. iii).

Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 79 + i (contemporary paper); [iv], 1-15, [i], 1-135, [iii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.

Decoration: Illustrated frontispiece in black and white watercolor depicts a student seated at a desk looking a winged figure (Time) who is pulling aside a curtain to reveal Biblical scenes in the history of the world including the Flood and the nativity of Christ.

Binding: Red morocco, gilt.

Origin: Written in London[?] in 1775.

The text of this volume is the same as that of Ms. Codex 640, however the prefaces are not the same.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 756

OCLC:

212375928