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Le portrait de la cour de Saxe.

Author/Creator:
Wolfframsdorff, Johann Friedrich von, approximately 1674-1712.
Publication:
[Saxony], [between 1700 and 1725]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
92 leaves : paper ; 320 x 199 (225 x 101) mm bound to 329 x 205 mm
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Other Title:
Portrait de la cour de Pologne.
Subjects:
Augustus II, King of Poland, 1670-1733.
Saxony (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1423-1815.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
French.
Summary:
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.
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.
Penn Provenance:
Purchased, 1959.
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), pp. 60-61 (Ms. French 37).
Publications about:
Pekrun, R. Hof und Politik Augusts des Starken im Lichte des Portrait de la cour de Pologne (Friedland, 1914-1915). Edited from another manuscript of the same text.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 944.
OCLC:
155925566
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