Details

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

English, translated from French.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. i), Jonathan, or The true friend. Written originallie in French by The famous de Ceriziers Almoner to the King. Done Into English by [attribution and date deliberately made unreadable]. Date appears to be 1660.
Dedication: "To my Lord the Most Eminent Cardinall Mazarin." (p. iii-iv).
Pagination: Paper, i + 88 + i; [iv], 1-163, [164-170]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners..
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Half cloth.
Origin: Written in England, circa 1660.
Pencilled note next to title page reads: "Several translations were done by Sir Wm. Lower from the same author. This original manuscript appears not printed." [Name blocked out on title page does not appear to be Lower, however.].

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 53 (Ms. English 26).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 210.

Contributor:

Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661, dedicatee.

OCLC:

155962847

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