Details

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Anthologies.
Engravings (prints)
Poems.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Collection of poems in a variety of forms, including odes, elegies, epigrams, acrostics, epitaphs, and rondeaux, with a few prose pieces. A small number of the poems have attributions, such as the "Traduction de la première ode d'Horace" by the abbé Jean-Claude Fontaine; "Le danger des spectacles" by Louis-Etienne Arcère; and a few poems by Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes. Of the many poems without attribution, several concern famous individuals, such as Voltaire, Mazarin, and Richelieu.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. iii); date on both inscription and title page seems to have been changed from 1756 to 1754.
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 150 + i (contemporary paper) leaves; [viii], 1-20, 23-92, 97-199, [ii], 200-282, [viii]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Decoration: Engraved border on title page showing a portal and two angels holding crown and royal arms (p. iii); small engraving of a man on shore pointing to a ship in distress with a printed poem beginning "Le monde est une mer orageuse implacable" (p. 282).
Binding: Contemporary marbled calf (Hirsch).
Origin: Written in France in 1754 or 1756.

Penn Provenance:

Inscription on verso of front guard: "Dujardin, le 16 may l'an 1754 à Soissons."
Gift of Richard W. Foster, 1966.

Cited in:

Described in Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A(1). The Library Chronicle, 1969, p. 24 (Ms. French 118).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 996

OCLC:

155927457