Details

Subjects:

Régiment de la calotte.
Régiment de la Calotte.
Jansenists -- Early works to 1800.
French letters -- 18th century.
French poetry -- 18th century.
French poetry.
French letters.
Jansenists.
France -- Politics and government -- 1715-1774.
France.
Politics and government.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Anthologies.
Legislative records.
Petitions.
Poems.
Satires (document genre)
Wills.
Hybrid books.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

18th-century collection of poems and political materials, including copies of satirical poems of the Régiment de la calotte, a secret society, most titled Brevet (p. 70, 243, 259, 262); an old treatise (ancien memoire) said to be found in the papers of Barthelemy d'Hervart, controller-general of finances for Louis XIV (p. 1), and letters from Saint-Evremond to d'Hervart (p. 349); political and governmental materials such as rulings (arrests), petitions (remontrances, propositions), and excerpts from the registers of governmental bodies such as the Conseil d'Etat and Parlements (p. 73, 95, 103, 120, 130, 193, 305, 321, 333); the wills of Louis XIV (p. 79) and Charles de la Fresnaye (p. 418); religious materials such as an appeal in response to Pope Clement XI's 1713 anti-Jansenist bull Unigenitus (p. 23), a poem about Jansenius (p. 41), and a textual description of an engraving of the Brigandage d'Ambrun (Council of Embrun), at which a Jansenist bishop was suspended in 1727 (p. 65); miscellaneous poems titled Epigramme, Sur l'air, Chanson, and Fable, and miscellaneous letters of prominent individuals.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; spine title, Ancien memoire, is from the title of the first item.
Pagination: Paper, 216 leaves; [i-ii], 1-96, 96-162, [164-430].
Script: Written in cursive script by multiple hands.
Binding: 18th-century calf, gilt spine with title Ancien memoire.
Origin: Written in France, ca. 1715 (p. 93) - 1727 (date of Council of Embrun, p. 65).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the library of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's with other items from the library of the duchesse de Berry, 8 June 2011, lot 170.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1599

Contributor:

Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de, 1798-1870, former owner.

OCLC:

743226085