XII Colloques ou dialogues escrits pour l’usage, et l’exercice en la langue francoyse, du M[onsieu]r George Frederic Comte de Solms
Overview
This collection is a single volume of dialogues to teach a German prince French and manners. It includes 12 dialogues in French, each with a French-German appendix (consisting of a Nomenclature [vocabulary], a Phraseologia, a list of proverbs, verses, etc.). Most dialogues reflect a young nobleman's daily life.
Dates
- Creation: 1634 or 1635
Language of Materials
French, German, some Latin.
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Extent
1 volume : Binding: Stiff vellum; yapp edge; broken green ties. 5 pairs tackets. Vellum index tabs. Foliation: paginated 2-587 in modern pencil, beginning with first paste-down. Script: French: clear semi-humanist. Ornamentation: None (red headings and red rules). Material: Paper. Binding Title: Dialogues et Dictionaire France du Mr: Georg Federic Comte de Solms. p.3: "George Federic Comte de Solms" in ink. ; Volume is no taller than 20 cm.
Scope and Contents
Title Transcription: XII Colloques ou Dialogues escrits pour l'usage, et l'exercice en la langue francoyse, Du M[onsieu]r George Federic Comte de [erasure, overwritten in pencil "Solms"] a qui, Dieu face la grace, de devinir sçavant et sage. 1634. Un bon commencement, est la moitie du tout. Dimidium facti, qui bene caepit habet. wol angefängen, ist halb wollendt A Weikersheim; In comitatu Hohenloico, [?]. post festum trium Regum, 7. Januarij, stylo veteri.
Also in the volume: Nomenclator Gallicus; Avium variarum nomina (Latin-German ornithological vocabulary).
Dating for the volume comes from the Title-page : 1634. The day after Epiphany [that is] January 7 O.S. [i.e. circa December 30, 1634. N. S.]
The author was presumably a tutor, in the "mirror of princes" tradition. May show some signs of being based on Latin dialogues; but the French is lifelike. The volume appears to have been written in Weikersheim (Germany).
In spine: 2 manuscript fragments (divinity?); 1 printed fragment about 16th-century historians.
Physical Location
MS B27
Custodial History
Bookplate of Christoph Wenzel, graf von Nostitz, died 1712. On spine: 27 [in red]; Pencil markings p.3: 4° 91411. Fl. 185. Lb Xxvii 12683 Solms (by L. Rosenthal?); p.2: Colla: 278 unbeschreib l4 leer Blatt; Note scribbles on cover and on title-page.
- Title
- Guide to the Solms Reader Collection
- Subtitle
- XII Colloques ou dialogues escrits pour l’usage, et l’exercice en la langue francoyse, du M[onsieu]r George Frederic Comte de Solms
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by alh, 1977; revised by ksc, 2005. Finding aid encoded by skt, 2006.
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/5392491502
- Preferred citation
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Solms Reader, MS B27, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository