Details

Subjects:

Orléans, Philippe, duc d', 1674-1723.
Maupeou, René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de, 1714-1792.
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774.
France -- Politics and government -- 1715-1774.
France.
Politics and government.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Satires (literary works)
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

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.
Foliation: Paper, 73; [iv], 1-69; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); leather splitting between spine and covers.
Origin: Written in France no sooner than the death of La Grange-Chancel in 1758 and after various events of the early 1770s.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1954.

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. 64 (Ms. French 48).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 952.

OCLC:

155925606

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