Details

Subjects:

Religious poetry, French.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Elegies.
Fables.
Odes.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Collection of 18th-century French poems, including sonnets, madrigals, epigrams, epitaphs, odes, cantates, fables, and elegies. About one-third of the contents is the work of the former Jesuit Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset, including "Le Lutrin vivant," "Ver-Vert," "Le Carême impromptu," and three of his verse epistles, "La Chartreuse," "Les Ombres," and "Á ma muse." Items in the collection not attributed to Gresset include epitaphs for the duc de Villars (p. 124) and Molière (p. 126) , and an ode to Voltaire (p. 182). A table of contents lists the poems at the end.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (p. 1) and spine; Zacour-Hirsch lists the title as Recueil de poësie.
Pagination: Paper, iv (contemporary paper) + 314 + iv (contemporary paper); 1-604, 1-11, [i]; near-contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); gold ornamentation on spine.
Origin: Written in France after the 1730s.

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: Paul Lacroix and Frédéric Lachèvre, no. 219, (bookplates, inside upper cover).
Sold by Marcel Blancheteau, 1958.

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 29).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 937

Contributor:

Gresset, 1709-1777.
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, former owner.
Lachèvre, Frédéric, 1855-1943, former owner.

OCLC:

155925532