Charles Renard's Commonplace Book, 1830s
Scope and Contents
A 19th-century commonplace book in French compiled by a writer who identifies himself as Charles Renard: the name is written throughout the book, and a note in the center reads “Fait par moi Charles Renard fait le 18 janvier 1836.” The contents are poems and songs, often with a religious flavor – Renard appears to have had some association with the Capuchin friars. Pen trials, drawings, and doodles in both pen and pencil are present throughout the volume – some perhaps by a younger child. Foliation is present beginning with 453, though it becomes erratic after 546. Bound in broad leather over board, now much deteriorated, with gold stamping on the spine. Blue, red, and yellow marbled endpapers, and evidence of manuscript fragments in the binding.
Dates
- 1830s
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
From the Collection: Danish
From the Collection: Swedish
From the Collection: Spanish
From the Collection: German
From the Collection: Norwegian
From the Collection: Persian
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Russian
From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu