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Title

Les Philippiques et autres pieces avec des nottes historiques et critiques

Authors

• La Grange-Chancel, Joseph de, 1677-1758

Call number

Ms. Codex 952
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3584578
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3584578

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

between 1758 and 1780

Place

France

Summary

A collection of 18th-century satirical poetry, with La Grange-Chancel's Philippiques, directed against Philippe, duc d'Orleans and regent for Louis XV, comprising the first half (f. 1r-30r). The remaining half consists of poems by unidentified authors from the 1770s with targets such as the chancellor René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de Maupeou (f. 32r-40r) and Louis XV (f. 46r-47v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 4r); the date is based on the copying of the Philippiques no earlier than 1758 and the remaining poems' dates after 1771.
   

Extent

73 leaves : 182 x 106 mm. bound to 187 x 113 mm

Foliation

Paper, 73; [iv], 1-69; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); leather splitting between spine and covers.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1954.
   

Genres

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

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