Portrait de la cour de Pologne ... [etc.]

Alternate Title:

UPenn Ms. Codex 957

Name:

Wolfframsdorff, Johann Friedrich von, approximately 1674-1712

Date:

1700

Description:

A critical portrait of individuals in the court of Saxony under Elector Frederick Augustus I and a genealogical work on 24 venerable Roman families.

Language:

French; Italian

Provenance:

Purchased, 1961.

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

198 leaves : paper; 197 x 158 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Collective title from title page of predominant work (f. 1r); author and date from Zacour-Hirsch.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-123v: Portrait de la cour de Pologne / Johann Friedrich von Wolfframsdorff.; Table of contents: 2. f.128r-198r: Breve ragguaglio delle famiglie più antiche e più nobile romane.; Pagination: Paper, 126 (large size) + 71 (small size); large size, [i, 1], 2-243, [244]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; 3 large blank pages, 1 small blank page; small size, [i], 1-138, [139] in contemporary ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in single columns of 20 lines (1st work) and single columns of 19 lines (2nd work).; Binding: Contemporary half-calf (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Probably written in Saxony in the 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; French and Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 957