Le portrait de la cour de Saxe

Name:

Wolfframsdorff, Johann Friedrich von, approximately 1674-1712

Timespan:

1423-1815

Date:

1700

Description:

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.

Language:

French

Provenance:

Purchased, 1959.

Subject:

Augustus II, King of Poland, 1670-1733

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

92 leaves : paper; 320 x 199 (225 x 101) mm bound to 329 x 205 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r); author attribution from R. Pekrun.; Collation: Paper; 92; 1-11⁸, 12⁶; [i], 1-54, 56-76, 78-93; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Signatures A through M (omitting I), lower center recto.; Layout: Written in a single column of 26-33 lines on the inner half of each page, with the pages having been folded to establish the outer margin.; Script: Written in a cursive script.; Binding: 18th-century boards (Zacour-Hirsch); leather on spine fragile.; Origin: Written in Saxony in the early 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; The same text appears under the title Portrait de la cour de Pologne in UPenn Ms. Codex 957.; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 944