Recueil de poësies.

Abstract:

Collection of 18th-century French poems, including sonnets, madrigals, epigrams, epitaphs, odes, cantates, fables, and elegies. About one-third of the contents is the work of the former Jesuit Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset, including "Le Lutrin vivant," "Ver-Vert," "Le Carême impromptu," and three of his verse epistles, "La Chartreuse," "Les Ombres," and "Á ma muse." Items in the collection not attributed to Gresset include epitaphs for the duc de Villars (p. 124) and Molière (p. 126) , and an ode to Voltaire (p. 182). A table of contents lists the poems at the end.

Date:

1730

Identifier:

9935748603503681; (OCoLC)ocn155925532; (OCoLC)155925532; (PU)3574860-penndb-Voyager; (CStRLIN)PAUR04-B28

Language:

French

Provenance:

Sold by Marcel Blancheteau, 1958.; Former owners include: Paul Lacroix and Frédéric Lachèvre, no. 219, (bookplates, inside upper cover).

Publisher:

[France], [circa 1730-1775]

Subject:

Religious poetry, French.; Codices.; Elegies.; Fables.; Manuscripts, European.; Manuscripts, French.; Odes.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

314 leaves : paper; 184 x 144 (139 x 110) mm bound to 190 x 158 mm

Personal Name:

Gresset, 1709-1777.; Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, former owner.; Lachèvre, Frédéric, 1855-1943, former owner.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); gold ornamentation on spine.; Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (p. 1) and spine; Zacour-Hirsch lists the title as Recueil de poësie.; Pagination: Paper, iv (contemporary paper) + 314 + iv (contemporary paper); 1-604, 1-11, [i]; near-contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 15 long lines.; Script: Written in a cursive script.; Origin: Written in France after the 1730s.; French.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 937