Details

Other Title:

Mon vrai bonheur.

Subjects:

French literature -- 18th century.
French literature.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Novels.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Epistolary novel, apparently unpublished, consisting of unsigned letters between two lovers, an unnamed man and a woman named Fanni. The 173 letters are dated from 6 October 1764 to 1 May 1765.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 1); caption title is Mon vrai bonheur, ou lettres de deux amans (p. 3).
Collation: Paper, ii + 174 + ii; 1-29⁶; [1-3], 4-347, [i]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Signed A-Z (no J, U, or W), Aa-Ff on first page of each gathering, lower right recto. Catchwords on the last page of each gathering, lower right verso.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines; bounding lines ruled in red ink.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary mottled calf; spine gilt in compartments with floral tooling; black morocco label lettered in gilt Lett de deux amant; three corners and head of spine repaired (Hall Rare Books).
Origin: Written in France in 1764 and 1765.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Amanda Hall Rare Books (Wiltshire, England), 2006.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1115

OCLC:

191211984