Heidenstam, Ernst Joachim Magnus von 1745-1803 Search this
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Physical description:
158 unnumbered leaves ; 30 cm
Type:
Early works to 1800
Early works
Manuscripts (documents).)
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Date:
1789
1796
Notes:
Manuscript in brown ink, with text within black borders; approximately 40 blank leaves at end
Source of title is 1st leaf verson
The identity of the scribe is unknown
Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Manuscripts of the Dibner collection, 381
Also available online.
Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner DSI
SCDIRB copy (39088003319332) has armorial bookplate of Henry B.H. Beaufoy, F.R.S
SCDIRB copy 18th-century binding of blind-tooled red leather, with center panel design with central lozenge and corners, surrounded by a decorative, chain-link roll (rebacked), yellow paste-downs
SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library, gift of Bern Dibner
SCDIRB copy inscribed in ink on covers: Anno primo del V.D. [Viaggiator divino]
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Summary:
First page identifies work as "Lettere al signore de Heidenstam, Ambasciatore per il re di Suetia in Constantinopoli -- 6 Novembre 1789." Notes on next page: "Primo giorno dell Anno Magnetico -- Febraro 6, 1795." Manuscript has 57 numbered parts ; part 51 begins: "5 Febraro 1796, Ultimo giorno dell' primo anno del Viaggiator divino." The text includes dialogue and verse