Details

Other Title:

Recueil de poësie.

Subjects:

Love poetry, French.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

French.

Summary:

Collection of chansons and airs, many on romantic themes, with an alphabetical title index at the end.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine; listed in Zacour-Hirsch as Recueil de poësie.
Foliation: Paper, 377; [iv], 1-12, 14-51, 53-100, 102-151, 151-195, 197-343, 345-350, 350-354, 357-377, 385-391; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink, with poems written in irregular single or double columns.
Script: Written in a cursive script by many hands.
Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch), gold ornamentation on spine.
Origin: Written in France in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Penn Provenance:

Sotheby Heirlooms, Part VII, item 337.
Sold by E.P. Goldschmidt, 1956.

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. 59 (Ms. French 27).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 936

OCLC:

155925531