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Title

Literary and political miscellany

Other related names

• Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de, 1798-1870, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1599
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5020864
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5020864

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

ca. 1715-1726

Place

France

Summary

18th-century collection of poems and political materials, including copies of satirical poems of the Régiment de la calotte, a secret society, most titled Brevet (p. 70, 243, 259, 262); an old treatise (ancien memoire) said to be found in the papers of Barthelemy d'Hervart, controller-general of finances for Louis XIV (p. 1), and letters from Saint-Evremond to d'Hervart (p. 349); political and governmental materials such as rulings (arrests), petitions (remontrances, propositions), and excerpts from the registers of governmental bodies such as the Conseil d'Etat and Parlements (p. 73, 95, 103, 120, 130, 193, 305, 321, 333); the wills of Louis XIV (p. 79) and Charles de la Fresnaye (p. 418); religious materials such as an appeal in response to Pope Clement XI's 1713 anti-Jansenist bull Unigenitus (p. 23), a poem about Jansenius (p. 41), and a textual description of an engraving of the Brigandage d'Ambrun (Council of Embrun), at which a Jansenist bishop was suspended in 1727 (p. 65); miscellaneous poems titled Epigramme, Sur l'air, Chanson, and Fable, and miscellaneous letters of prominent individuals.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; spine title, Ancien memoire, is from the title of the first item.
   

Extent

216 leaves : 352 x 224 mm. bound to 361 x 245 mm

Foliation

Paper, 216 leaves; [i-ii], 1-96, 96-162, [164-430].

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century calf, gilt spine with title Ancien memoire.

Script

Written in cursive script by multiple hands.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Régiment de la calotte
• Jansenists--Early works to 1800
• French letters--18th century
• French poetry--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Legislative records
• Petitions
• Poems
• Satires (document genre)
• Wills
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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