[Beauvilliers, restauranteur, menu]
- Description
- Item is a broadside, printed on white laid paper with black ink. Entire text is within two black borders; menu contents in three columns. Item contains handwritten notes, using iron gall ink, indicating additional menu items and prices.
- Creator
- Porthmann, Jules, 1790-1820 (printer)
- Andrieu, F., active 1800-1805 (papermaker)
- Form
- broadsides (notices)
- menus
- Laid papers. (Paper)
- Date
- 1800
- Language
- French
- Subject
- Beauvilliers, A. B. (Antoine B.), 1754-1817
- Restaurants -- France -- Paris -- Menus -- 19th century -- Specimens
- Broadsides -- France -- Paris -- 19th century -- Specimens
- Collection
- Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund
- Extent
- 1 broadside ; 58 x 43 cm
- Publisher
- De Imprimerie de Porthmann, ..
- Related Place
- France -- Paris.
- Notes
- Title supplied, in part, by cataloger.
- Remainder of imprint information: " ... successeur de Desenne, rue neuve des Petits-Champs, no. a3".
- Item contains the water mark of "F. Andrieu".
- Table of contents: Potages. -- Entrées de Bœuf. -- Entrées de patisserie. -- Entrées de volailles. -- Entrées de veau. -- Entréesde mouton. -- Entrées de poisson. -- Rots. -- Entremets. -- Dessert. -- Vins. -- Vins de liquers. -- Liquers.
- Kislak Center copy has handwritten notation of "Chambres" on verso of broadside. A copy of the menu may have been kept at a local inn for guests staying there to peruse as they decided where they might eat.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3jq0t66q
- The Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366241
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Mapcase TX 911.3.M45 A58 1800
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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