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Hero und Leander : ballade : autograph manuscript, [1801].

BIB_ID
131750
Accession number
MA 760
Creator
Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805.
Display Date
[1801].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (12 p.), bound ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Bound with a typed translation following the manuscript.
With a note on p. 12 signed by Räthin Körner and dated Berlin, 14 [Jan.?] 1836. Körner, who is probably the widow of Schiller's friend, Christian Gottfried Körner, writes that Schiller sent manuscripts of his work to her husband for comment. Christian Gottfried Körner also prepared the first collected edition of Schiller's works in 1812.
Provenance
Given by Schiller to Christian Gottfried Körner; by descent to Räthin Körner in 1831; purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (36.4 cm)