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Title

Poesies choisies

Authors

• Benoist, J. B. A
• Anacreon
• Virgil

Call number

Ms. Codex 998
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3760125
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3760125

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1738 and 1739

Place

France

Summary

Collection of poems in a variety of forms such as contes, epitaphes, epitres, idilles, odes, and sonnets. Includes poems attributed to Racine (Poème sur la grace), Rousseau (Ode pindarique sur la destruction du Port Roial des Champs), Voltaire (Epitre à Uranie), and Mlle. Malevais de la Vigne. Also included are several French translations of classical works such as odes by Anacreon, the Batrachomyamachia (translated by the abbé de Louvois), and the fourth book of the Aeneid (translated by M. Boileau). A poem about events following the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749 (f. 3v-5r at end) has been added after the index (f. 1-3 at end).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and compiler from title page (f. 3r); date from title page and p. 321.
   

Extent

177 leaves : 201 x 134 mm. bound to 208 x 148 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 177 + i (contemporary paper); [iii], 1-71, 71-254, 245-321, [xiv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners, with modern pencil corrections.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf (Hirsch).

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1967.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Poems
• Translations
• Manuscripts, French--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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