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Title

Amusemens /

Authors

• La Fosse, François de

Call number

Ms. Codex 1040
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3951547
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3951547

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French, with a little Latin

Origin

Date

after 1702

Place

France

Summary

Fourth volume of an unpublished autobiographical work, with correspondence as a major source, describing events of 1700-1702, including accounts of the death of Charles II of Spain; the journey of Philip, duc d'Anjou, with his brothers, the duc de Berry and duc de Bourgogne, to take the throne; and a journey with the duc de Bourgogne to the early battlegrounds of the War of Spanish Succession in Belgium, Holland, and Germany. Also includes a number of poems, descriptions of cities (Poitiers, Orléans, Lyon) and works of art seen in the travels, five hand-drawn maps of the Dutch-German border, and an index.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page (p. [iii]).
   

Extent

299 leaves : 371 x 238 (306 x 147) mm. bound to 380 x 245 mm

Collation

Paper, 299; 1¹⁸( -1), 2-3¹⁶, 4¹⁶( -1), 5¹⁶, 6¹⁶( -1), 7²⁰, 8-9¹⁶, 10²⁰( -3), 11-14¹⁶, 15¹⁸, 16¹⁸(+ 5 fold-out maps), 17¹⁶, 18¹⁶( -1); [viii], 1-105 (p. 97-98 cut out and 103-104 mostly cut out), 104-179 (p. 137-138 mostly cut out and 161-162 cut out), 170-558 (unpaginated maps following p. 502, 506, and 516), [xxii]; contemporary pagination in ink in La Fosse's hand, upper outer corner, modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century vellum; covers warped, text partially detached from spine.

Layout

Written in 44-46 long lines; full length vertical bounding lines in faint ink, with two additional vertical lines dividing the right margin into three unequal columns.

Decoration

Elaborate monogram or flourishes, with wreath above and crossed quill pens below, in ink (p. [i]); coat of arms with two crescents above a chevron and a wolf below, in ink (p. 1); fold-out maps of the Dutch-German border, in ink (following p. 502, 506, and 516).

Script

Written in the cursive hand of François de La Fosse.

Provenance

• Bookplate on verso of second flyleaf: Ex Libris Henri Grosseuvre (bookplate design dated 1925; Grosseuvre's library sold at auction at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16-18 April 1934).
   
• Sold by F. A. Bernett Inc. (Boston), 2005.
   

Subjects topical

• Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714

Genres

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

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• 1 — Coat of arms, p. 1