Details

Subjects:

Christian poetry, French.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Religious poems, including 68 sonnets, dedicated to Samuel Bernard.

Contents:

1. p.v-xxvi: Title page, dedication, preface, and table of contents.
2. p.1-105: Tableaux and sonnets.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. v).
Dedication: A Monsieur Bernard, Chevalier de St. Michel, Monsieur, vous seres surpris du reveil de mon assoupissement ... (p. vii).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 71 + i (contemporary paper); [xxviii], 1-105, [viii]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script, with modern notes in pencil (flyleaf i verso, p. x).
Binding: Contemporary calf.
Origin: Written in Paris in 1701.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Librairie Pierre Masson, 1950.

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 8).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 929.

Contributor:

Bernard, Samuel, comte de Coubert, 1651-1739, dedicatee.

OCLC:

155925564

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