Portrait de la cour de Pologne.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Wolfframsdorff, Johann Friedrich von, approximately 1674-1712.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Augustus II, King of Poland, 1670-1733.

Augustus.

Saxony (Germany)--Politics and government--1423-1815.

Saxony (Germany).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, European.

Physical Description:

leaves 1r-123v : paper ; 192 x 152 (155 x 115) mm bound to 197 x 158 mm

Contained In:

Johann Friedrich von Wolfframsdorff, ca. 1674-1712. Portrait de la cour de Pologne.

Other Title:

UPenn Ms. Codex 957

Le portrait de la cour de Saxe.

Place of Publication:

[Saxony?], [between 1700 and 1799]

Language Note:

French.

Summary:

Critical portrait of individuals in the court of Saxony under Elector Frederick Augustus I, also known as August der Starke, who became King Augustus II of Poland.

Contents:

Fol. 1r-123v: "[fol. 1r: rubric] Avertissement [text] On ne trouvera pas les portraits de toute la cour, mas seulment de ceux ...[fol. 123v] mais il leur doit suffire, pour toute raison, pour vûque le Roy dise: Fee est nôtre plaisir. Fin."

Notes:

Ms. component part.

Title from title page (f. 1r); author and date from Zacour-Hirsch.

The same text appears under the title Le portrait de la cour de Saxe in UPenn Ms. Codex 944.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 68 (Ms. French 67).

Publications about:

Pekrun, R. Hof und Politik Augusts des Starken im Lichte des Portrait de la cour de Pologne (Friedland, 1914-1915). Edited from another manuscript of the same text.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 957

OCLC:

155925626