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Title

Verzameling van Latynsche, Fransche en Nederduytsche Keur-Dichten

Call number

Ms. Codex 989
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9936681493503681
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3668149

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Predominantly French, with some items in Dutch and Latin

Origin

Date

1666-1700

Place

Low Countries

Summary

First volume contains mostly French and a few Dutch poems, in forms including epitaphs, quadrains, sonnets, epigrams, and stanzas. Possible authors include Pierre Corneille, Constantin Huygens, Michel Le Clerc, [Geeraert?] Brant, [Joannes or Bernard] Vollenhove, [Jacques de?] Ranchin. Prose pieces include letters, sermons, "harangues," and an imaginary book list in Latin, with possible authors including Isaac de Benserade, Monsieur de Bosc, and Pieter de Groot. Individuals mentioned in the works include Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Cardinal Mazarin, Jean-Baptiste Molière, Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Pieter de Groot, Pietro Aretino, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, Charles II of England, and Louis XIV. Second volume contains satires, such as a dialogue between classical figures including Minos, Pluto, Diogenes, and Horace, and an imitation of Ovid. It also contains mostly unattributed epitaphs, songs, elegies, epithalamia, sonnets, and virelais.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page of each volume; second volume has a second title page in French.
   

Extent

2 v. (252, 365 leaves) : 213 x 159 mm. bound to 223 x 175 mm. (v.1); 226 x 158 mm. bound to 242 x 186 mm. (v.2)

Foliation

V.1: Paper, i + 252 + i; [1-252]; V.2: Paper, i + 365 + ii; [1-365]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half-parchment (Zacour-Hirsch).

Script

The two volumes are written predominantly in two different hands.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Political poetry, French
• Satire, French

Genres

• Anthologies
• Codices
• Poems
• Satires
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, French--17th century
• Manuscripts, Dutch--17th century

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