Details

Subjects:

French poetry.
Courts and courtiers.
France -- Court and courtiers -- 18th century.
France.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Biography/History:

Minor French courtier of the early 18th century; "ecuyer, s[eigneu]r de Valpendant, valet de garderobe du Roy, ordinaire de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne, et valet de chambre de Madame la Duchesse de Bourgogne" (title page).

Summary:

After a long prose piece ("Histoire fée et autrement," p. 1-177), poems by de la Fosse, including several concerning Louis XIV and Louis XV, translations of classical poets such as Horace and Anacreon, parodies, and satires. Also copies of poems by 16th- and 17th-century poets such as François Villon, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Jean Passerat, Philippe Desportes, François de Malherbe, and Monsieur Scarron.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and author from title page (f. iii recto).
Two indexes, one for poems by de la Fosse and one for those by others, begin after p. 560.
Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 297 + v (contemporary paper); [iv], 1-560, [xviii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Engraving by Franz Ertinger of Victory placing a wreath on the head of a Roman figure seated on an eagle (flyleaf ii verso); a pen-and-ink title page vignette (f. 3r).
Binding: Contemporary calf.
Origin: Written in France between 1707 and 1722.

Related Collections:

See also UPenn Ms. Codex 1040, an account of travels with the duc de Bourgogne and duc de Berry and the early years of the War of Spanish Succession, in La Fosse's hand.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 55 (Ms. French 5).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 928

Contributor:

Ertinger, Franz, 1640-approximately 1710, engraver.

OCLC:

155925481