Collection of verse gathered by Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (Volume 4)
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MS 73, ‘Manuscrits Légués par Mlle de Lespinasse [Volume 4]’
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Collection of verse gathered by Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (Volume 4)
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A collection of verse gathered by Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (1732-1776).
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4 + 567 pp.
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235 x 185 mm
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3
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The paper is watermarked with a shield bearing a horn, topped with a crown. Beneath the shield is text reading: ‘Vander Ley’.
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Bound in calf with a panelled spine. Marbled paper has been added to the covers.
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The edges of the pages are guilded. A green ribbon is stuck into the MS to be used as a place marker. Some of the text (particularly the contemporary pagination) sparkles due to particles of drying sand being absorbed in the ink. P.74-193 have been scored to create a large border around the text. There are small pin holes at each corner of the border. There is an ink blot/splatter in the bottom left-hand corner of p.133, the centre of p.287, in the left-hand margin of p.414, in the right-hand margin of p.432, and in the centre of p.502. There is a small hole in the bottom centre of p.134, another in the lower half of p.314, and another at the top of p.402. Some very minor staining to the bottom of p.184 and p.199, to the right-hand side of p.212, to the inner edge of p.220, to the lower left-hand side of p.257, to the bottom of p.260, to the bottom right-hand corner of p.334, to the bottom left-hand corner of p.371, to the top of p.407, and to the right-hand side of p.503. A flap has been created in the middle of the left-hand margin of p.197, on which has been written a marginal note adding supplementary text to the main body of text. A further flap has been added in the left-hand margin of p.247, with this flap containing a marginal note identifying a person in the text as ‘M. le Comte de Schoubery’. This flap has left an indentation on the following 6 pages. Another flap has been created in the right-hand margin of p.286, two further flaps have been added to the right-hand side of p.308, and another in the right-hand side of p.316. A small flap has also been added to p.326, with a note on the flap giving a date of 1753, and two further flaps have been added to p.331, one reading ‘majeur’ and the other reading ‘mineur’. There is an additional flap on p.334. Further flaps appear on p.384, 386, and 388. The edges of p.340-45 and p.354-57, the lower right-hand corner of p.360, and the lower left-hand corner of p.481 have been folded over. Small dots of ink appear throughout the MS in the centre folds. A very faint partial fingerprint can be seen in the lower right-hand margin of p.524. There is a small remnant of wax in the lower left-hand margin of p.1, the left-hand margin of p.14, the upper right-hand margin of p.367, the inner margins of p.375-76, and the upper right-hand margin of p.529. There are remnants of a torn-out page before p.1.
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Undecorated
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Minor ammendments to the text have been made via crossings through and the addition of corrected text superscript. An additional scrap of paper has been stuck with wax to p.19 over the existing text, with the text on this additional sheet seeming to be a large correction. Additional notes expanding on the main text have been added as footnotes on p.24 and p.375, and marginal notes on p.350. Some words and phrases have been underlined throughout. A small number of pencil notes and lines have been added by a later hand, such as in the top right-hand corner of p.208 and the left-hand margin of p.363. A bracket placed between two crosses has been added around the ‘Epigramme’ on p.256. Further brackets have been added to the ‘Epitaphe du Maal. de Saxe’ and the ‘Epigramme’ on p.262, the final paragraph of ‘Anecdotes’ on p.273, ‘Le Medecin qui aperdu l’Esprit Par M Le Duc de Nivernais’ on p.297-99, ‘Vers de M. L’abbé Porquet.’ on p.299, the ‘Fable nouvelle De M. L’abbé Oubert’ on p.300, ‘Vers sur l’abbé Le Blanc’ on p.302, ‘Envoy des Disputes a Mde XXX’ on p.304. Further crosses are drawn in the margins of p.296, p.302, 353, and p.543. There are two accidental pen marks on p.366. The pagination has been deleted and rewritten on p.398. The final few words on p.532 have been erased and written over. There is a possible imprint of a manicule in the lower right-hand corner of p.360.
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