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Title

Recueuil de chansons historiques et chronologiques sur les differens evenemens arrivés depuis l'annee 1714 jusqu'en 1727.

Call number

Ms. Codex 2080
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978088283503681

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

French

Origin

Date

circa 1750

Place

France

Summary

Collection of 130 texts of popular songs dated from 1714 to 1727, with the titles of the mostly contemporary tunes to which they are to be sung, arranged chronologically. Marginal notes accompanying each song give the date and identifications of events and famous and infamous people. An index of names at the end of the volume (Table alphabetique des noms contenus au present volume, p. 481-499), using the original pagination, includes royal, political, and literary figures.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (bottom half cut away, p. 1); alternate title corrects the spelling in the manuscript.
   

Extent

252 leaves : 237 x 187 (190 x 125) mm bound to 245 x 187 mm

Collation

Paper, ii + 252 ; 1-21¹²; [i-ii, 1], 2-240, [241-252], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; [i-iv], 1-499, [500-504], contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Citations in the index of the manuscript and in this record are to pagination.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) paper over paper boards; sewn on three cords, two broken at covers; spine lacking,

Layout

Written in 17 to 19 lines of verse; frame-ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; quarto format.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Bruce McKittrick Rare Books (Narberth, Pennsylvania), 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• Songs, French--Early works to 1800
• Popular culture--France--Early works to 1800
• France--History--18th century--Sources

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Song texts
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Song book
• 18th century
• French
• France
• Paper
• Literature -- Poetry

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — Recueuil de chansons historiques et chronologiques
• 3 — 1714
• 35 — 1715
• 120 — 1716
• 171 — 1717
• 215 — 1718
• 262 — 1719
• 270 — 1720
• 336 — 1721
• 351 — 1722
• 365 — 1723
• 412 — 1725
• 419 — 1726
• 462 — 1727
• 481 — Table alphabetique des noms contenus au present volume