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Title

Recueil de poësies

Authors

• Gresset, 1709-1777

Other related names

• Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, former owner
• Lachèvre, Frédéric, 1855-1943, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 937
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3574860
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3574860

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

circa 1730-1775

Place

France

Summary

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.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 1) and spine; Zacour-Hirsch lists the title as Recueil de poësie.
   

Extent

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

Foliation

Paper, iv (contemporary paper) + 314 + iv (contemporary paper); 1-604, 1-11, [i]; near-contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); gold ornamentation on spine.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Religious poetry, French

Genres

• Codices
• Elegies
• Fables
• Odes
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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