Details

Subjects:

Love poetry, French.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

French.

Summary:

A collection of approximately 120 short poems, mostly love poems, followed by a table of contents of first lines.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and date from title page (p. 1).
Pagination: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 106 + ii (contemporary paper) leaves; 1-109, 109-211; near-contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Earlier pagination trimmed away, but visible beginning around p. 60.
Pagination: Paper, fol. ii + 106 + i; the pagination in ink appears as 1-109, 109-211, but there were two pagination systems, with many of the earlier numbers cropped but visible beginning around p. 60.
Layout: Written in single columns; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in France in 1783.

Penn Provenance:

Bookplate once on title page was removed.
Purchased in 1961.

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. 68 (Ms. French 70).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 964

OCLC:

155925649