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Title

Poësies

Authors

• La Fosse, François de

Other related names

• Ertinger, Franz, 1640-ca. 1710, engraver

Call number

Ms. Codex 928
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3559895
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3559895

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

between 1707 and 1722

Place

France

Summary

After a long prose piece ("Histoire fée et autrement," p. 1-177), poems by de la Fosse, including several concerning Louis XIV and Louis XV, translations of classical poets such as Horace and Anacreon, parodies, and satires. Also copies of poems by 16th- and 17th-century poets such as François Villon, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Jean Passerat, Philippe Desportes, François de Malherbe, and Monsieur Scarron.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and author from title page (f. iii recto).
   
• Two indexes, one for poems by de la Fosse and one for those by others, begin after p. 560.
   

Extent

297 leaves : 235 x 174 (178 x 120) mm. bound to 245 x 192 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 297 + v (contemporary paper); [iv], 1-560, [xviii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf.

Decoration

Engraving by Franz Ertinger of Victory placing a wreath on the head of a Roman figure seated on an eagle (flyleaf ii verso); a pen-and-ink title page vignette (f. 3r).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Subjects topical

• French poetry

Genres

• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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