Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Recueil de chansons anciennes et novelles

Call number

Ms. Codex 2
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580104
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580104

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1750?

Place

France

Summary

Consists of 115 poems (chansons) lampooning court figures and notorious characters from the period of Richelieu and Louis XIV, with marginal notes identifying individuals and events described.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Pencilled note inside front flyleaf reads: "Chansons libertines, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle."
   

Extent

271 leaves : 206 x 158 (172 x 110) mm. bound to 215 x 173 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 271 + i (contemporary paper); 1-82, 84-269, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf.

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by E.K. Scheiber, 4 March 1993.
   

Subjects topical

• French poetry--17th century
• French poetry--18th century
• Verse satire, French

Genres

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

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