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Other Title:

Traité de la préparation des mines ou disposition des mines pour la fonte
Dictionnaire de minérologie et métallurgie
Differents secrets merveilleux et naturels
Moments perdus
Traité des mines

Subjects:

French poetry -- 18th century.
French poetry.
Mining engineering -- Germany -- Early works to 1800.
Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800.
Metallurgy.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Chemistry -- History.
Chemistry.
History.
Mining engineering.
Germany.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Recipes.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

French miscellany containing a translation from German of a treatise on mining, a dictionary of mineralogy and metallurgy, a table of currency exchange, medical remedies, poetry and songs (including work of Conte de Grécourt). The unnamed compiler was a French Protestant refugee, cf. the preface.

Contents:

Part 1.
1. p.1-69: Traité des mines [in 12 chapters].
2. p.71-119: Traité de la préparation des mines ou disposition des mines pour la fonte [in 9 chapters].
3. p.121-124: Explication de trois planches suivantes.
Part 2.
1. p.1-156: Dictionnaire de mineralogie et métallurgie.
2. p.159-178: Valeur intrinsèque de la monnoÿe d'Allemagne ... avec la réduction de la monnoÿe de France, en celle d'Allemagne à l'usage des officiers des mines obligér de paÿer à Duppenweiller on ailleurs ....
3. p.179-210: Differents secrets merveilleux et naturels.
4. p.211-266: Rémèdes interresants ... Le tout a l'usage des deux sexes.
5. p.267-330: Les moments perdus [verses to be sung to specified airs].
6. p.331-342: Table de matieres de la seconde partie.
7. p.343-355: [Additional songs].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. i).
Foliation: Paper, ii + 248 + ii; [viii], 1-124, [vi], 1-329, [xxvii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: 3 folded pen and ink drawings illustrating mining. Vignettes at headings and chapter endings throughout.
Binding: Contemporary calf.
Origin: Written in Duppenweiler, 1780 (p. i).
Zacour-Hirsch tentatively identify the author of Abrégé du traité de l'exploitation des mines as Franz Ludwig von Cancrin, author of Exposition des mines, ou, description de la nature et de la qualite des mines : à laquelle on à joint des notices sur plusiers mines d'Allemagne & de France, & une dissertation pratique sur le traitement des mines de cuivre, traduite de l'Allemand, de M. Cancrinus par M. Monnet, 1772.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1970.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia). Supplement A (5). The Library Chronicle 37 (1971), p. 91-115, f. p. 106. (Ms. E.F. Smith 59).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 521

Contributor:

Cancrin, Franz Ludwig von, 1738-1812.
Grécourt, 1683-1743.

OCLC:

155964465