Recueil de pieces fugitives

Timespan:

18th century; 1715-1774

Date:

1730

Description:

18th-century collection of poems and political materials, including copies of satirical poems of the Régiment de la calotte, a secret society, some with the title Brevet (p. 13, 103, 207, 375, 417, 425); letters of writers such as Voltaire (p. 34, 36), Louis-Antoine de Noailles, cardinal and archbishop of Paris (p. 18), and Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (p. 51); printed and manuscript copies of rulings (arrests) and petitions (remontrances) of governmental bodies such as the Conseil d'Etat and Parlements (p. 177, 193, 197, 221, 225, 229, 231); a declaration made by Philip V of Spain in 1718 (p. 147); religious items such as a 17th-century work on Gallicanism and the Catholic Church in France attributed to Pierre Dupuy (p. 305) and a printed title page for the Nouvelles ecclesiastiques ou memoires pour servir a l'histoire ecclesiastique des années 1728, 1729, 1730 (p. 437); and numerous poems titled Chanson, Sur l'air, Noel, Epitaphe, Sonnet, Epigramme, and Fable. An incomplete table of contents at the beginning of the volume (p. iii-vii) lists the contents of roughly the first quarter of the manuscript.

Language:

French

Provenance:

Formerly in the library of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry.; Sold at auction at Sotheby's with other items from the library of the duchesse de Berry, 8 June 2011, lot 170.; Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de, 1798-1870, former owner.

Subject:

Régiment de la calotte; Régiment de la Calotte; French letters -- 18th century; French poetry -- 18th century; French poetry; French letters; Politics and government

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Anthologies; Decrees; Petitions; Poems; Satires (document genre); Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

233 leaves : paper; 310 x 194 mm bound to 318 x 212 mm

Geographic Subject:

France -- Politics and government -- 1715-1774; France

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from spine.; Pagination: Paper, 233 leaves; [i-xxvi], 1-156, [157-440]; early pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.; Script: Written in cursive script by multiple hands.; Binding: 18th-century calf, gilt spine with title Recueil de pieces fugitives.; Origin: Written in France, ca. 1730 (p. 168) - 1732 (p. 173); French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1598