Le tresor du royaume des cieux

Description
Religious poems, including 68 sonnets, dedicated to Samuel Bernard.
Creator
Bernard, Samuel, comte de Coubert, 1651-1739 (dedicatee)
Form
manuscripts (documents)
codices (bound manuscripts)
poems
Manuscripts, French
Manuscripts, European
Date
1701
Language
French
Subject
Christian poetry, French
Extent
71 leaves : paper ; 184 x 120 mm bound to 188 x 124 mm
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. v).
Table of contents: 1. p.v-xxvi: Title page, dedication, preface, and table of contents.
Table of contents: 2. p.1-105: Tableaux and sonnets.
Dedication: A Monsieur Bernard, Chevalier de St. Michel, Monsieur, vous seres surpris du reveil de mon assoupissement ... (p. vii).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 71 + i (contemporary paper); [xxviii], 1-105, [viii]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script, with modern notes in pencil (flyleaf i verso, p. x).
Binding: Contemporary calf.
Origin: Written in Paris in 1701.
French.
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3t56f
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 929
Provenance
Sold by Librairie Pierre Masson, 1950.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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