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

Title

Collection of French poetry

Other related names

• Pichon, Jérôme, baron, 1812-1896, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 850
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935684493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79869043
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3568449

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

before 1560

Place

Rouen

Summary

A collection of 16th-century French poetry, including ballades and rondeaux, by Adrien de Saint-Gelais, Anne de Graville, André de la Vigne, Richard de la Porte, and Jean Marot, with additions perhaps by Robert de la Porte, son of original owner Richard de la Porte (Zacour-Hirsch).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• A more detailed description of the contents of Ms. Codex 850 supplied by the staff of bookseller Pierre Berès in 1953 is on file at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
   

Extent

77 leaves : 199 x 145 (138 x 95) mm. bound to 207 x 154 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 77 + i (modern paper); modern pencil pagination, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century blind-stamped calf; upper and lower covers detached.

Layout

Written in a single column of up to 21 lines; frame-ruled in ink with double verticals.

Decoration

First two poems start with a 2-line initial, one in red and one in blue; thereafter there are spaces and guide letters for initials which were never added. Calendar chart on p. 100.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the La Porte family, 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Sold in the collection of Baron Jérôme Pichon at auction at Hôtel Druot, May 1897, catalogue vol. 1, no. 893.
   
• Sold by Pierre Berès, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• French poetry

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, French--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• France
• French
• Paper
• Literature -- Poetry

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Table of contents

• 1 — Les troys buccines c?est assavoir, p. 1
• 43 — Le moyen d?avoir paix en France, p. 43
• 51 — Six rondeaux, with authors such as Anne de Graville, Andre? de la Vigne, Richard de La Porte, and Jean Marot, p. 51
• 67 — Two ballades, one attributed to either Villon or Alain Chartier, p. 67
• 73 — 14 pieces in verse and prose, including a prophecy by Paul Paradiso, p. 73
• 100 — Calendar chart, p. 100

Decorations

• 100 — Calendar chart, p. 100