Record Number: 7474

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also has several tiny samples of fabric pinned into inside back cover with some notes eg "'ong gloves 2-16'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1816 and 1817

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Magdalene Erskine

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1787

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Daughter of Scottish landowning family

Religion:

Anglican

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

France

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

Identification of the reader from provenance

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Bernard de Montfaucon

Title:

Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

New edition enlarged and improved, London: Printed for Samuel Leigh by W. Clowes, 1814

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

7474

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Author:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Planta, Edward, "A new picture of Paris; or, The stranger's guide to the French metropolis; ? to which is added, a description of the environs of Paris, with correct maps and an accurate plan of the city" (London, 1814), various pp, [DH LIB 1234].,

Citation:

Annotated volume in the Dunimarle Library of the Erskines of Torrie in Fife: Planta, Edward, "A new picture of Paris; or, The stranger's guide to the French metropolis; ? to which is added, a description of the environs of Paris, with correct maps and an accurate plan of the city" (London, 1814), various pp, [DH LIB 1234]., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=7474, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None