Verzameling van Latynsche, Fransche en Nederduytsche Keur-Dichten

Timespan:

17th century; Louis XIV, 1643-1715

Date:

1666

Description:

First volume contains mostly French and a few Dutch poems, in forms including epitaphs, quadrains, sonnets, epigrams, and stanzas. Possible authors include Pierre Corneille, Constantin Huygens, Michel Le Clerc, [Geeraert?] Brant, [Joannes or Bernard] Vollenhove, [Jacques de?] Ranchin. Prose pieces include letters, sermons, "harangues," and an imaginary book list in Latin, with possible authors including Isaac de Benserade, Monsieur de Bosc, and Pieter de Groot. Individuals mentioned in the works include Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Cardinal Mazarin, Jean-Baptiste Molière, Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Pieter de Groot, Pietro Aretino, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, Charles II of England, and Louis XIV. Second volume contains satires, such as a dialogue between classical figures including Minos, Pluto, Diogenes, and Horace, and an imitation of Ovid. It also contains mostly unattributed epitaphs, songs, elegies, epithalamia, sonnets, and virelais.

Language:

French

Provenance:

Purchased, 1963.

Subject:

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Political poetry, French; Satire, French; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Anthologies; Codices; Poems; Satires (literary works); Manuscripts, European; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, Dutch

Physical Description:

2 volumes (252, 365 leaves) : paper; 213 x 159 mm bound to 223 x 175 mm (v.1); 226 x 158 mm bound to 242 x 186 mm (v.2)

Geographic Subject:

Benelux countries -- History -- 17th century; France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715; France; Benelux countries

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page of each volume; second volume has a second title page in French.; Foliation: V.1: Paper, i + 252 + i; [1-252]; V.2: Paper, i + 365 + ii; [1-365]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: The two volumes are written predominantly in two different hands.; Binding: Contemporary half-parchment (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Written in the Low Countries between 1666 and 1700 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Predominantly French, with some items in Dutch and Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 989