Un peu de tout

Creator:

Lauris, Julie-Adélaïde Porlier de Rubelles, marquise de (creator)

Date:

1789

Description:

Unfinished volume of medical, culinary, domestic, and social advice written by Julie-Adélaïde Porlier de Rubelles, marquise de Lauris, for Louise Aglaé, her second daughter and fourth child, who was eight years old at the time. Many of the medical remedies are focused on pregnancy, childbirth, and children, and they are written in a narrative style, rather than as recipes. Two leaves are cut out after the text breaks off (after p. 153), and roughly the last third of the volume is left blank.

Language:

French

Provenance:

Sold by W. S. Cotter Rare Books (Austin, Texas), 2024.

Relation:

The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366281

Subject:

Women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

138 leaves : paper; 185 x 112 (160 x 88) mm bound to 190 x 120 mm.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; French aristocratic wife and mother with the title marquise de Lauris.; French.; Title from title page (p. i).; Pagination: Paper, 138 leaves; original and early pagination in ink and pencil, modern pagination in pencil, upper center, [i], 1-149, [150-275] (blank with frame ruling, p. 153-192; blank, p. 193-275).; Layout: Written in 19-20 long lines; frame-ruled in lead (p. i, 1-192); octavo format.; Script: Written in cursive script in the hand of Julie-Adélaïde Porlier de Rubelles.; Watermark: Van der Ley.; Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) calf, gilt tooled, gilt spine, ribbon bookmark; marbled pastedowns, endleaves, and text block edges.; Origin: Written in Paris, beginning in 1789 (title page dated 13 May 1789, p. i).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 2209

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund