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Sammlung allein für mein Herz.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 2114
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- commonplace books
- translations (documents)
- Quotations.
- Manuscripts, German -- 18th century.
- Manuscripts, French -- 18th century.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Antiquariat Michael Steinbach (Vienna), 2017.
- Physical Description:
- 104 leaves : paper ; 67 x 96 mm bound to 70 x 103 mm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Germany], 1770.
- Language Note:
- German and French.
- Summary:
- Small oblong commonplace book of epigrams, poems, and quotations in German and French, not all with attributions. Some of the selections are translated from other languages, such as passages from Tasso (f. 16r-16v), Alexander Pope (f. 56r-56v), and Horace (f. 75v). The compiler's initials, M. J. F. W. von M., are on the title page (f. 1r).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Collation: Paper, 104; 1-13⁸; 1-104, modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
- Script: Written in cursive script (French selections) and German cursive script (German selections), by one hand.
- Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) colored paper over cardboard, with a paper-covered slipcase; gilt edges.
- Origin: Probably written in Germany, in 1770 (title page, f. 1r).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dante and Tasso Library Fund.
- Cited as:
- Sammlung allein für mein Herz (Ms. Codex 2114). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1378428429
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