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Dialogues des morts.

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Format:
Manuscript
Language:
French
Subjects (All):
Jesuits--France--Controversial literature.
Jesuits.
Dialogues, French.
French poetry--18th century.
French poetry.
Cooking (Beer).
France.
Genre:
codices (bound manuscripts)
recipes
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.
Controversial literature.
Penn Provenance:
Purchased, 1958.
Physical Description:
145 leaves : paper ; 243 x 183 (178 x 125) mm bound to 248 x 190 mm
Place of Publication:
[France], [after 1741]
Language Note:
French.
Summary:
Dialogues composed in imitation of those of Lucan and M. de Fontenelle, according to the preface for the first work (p. 4).
Contents:
1. p.1-48: Dialogues des morts [entre Varade et Barrière].
2. p.49-129: Dialogues des morts modernes, ou entretiens des âmes de Louis XIV. des Ducs dela Trimoüille, du Prince de Carignan, du Duc de Grammont, de Madame de Vintimille, de Messieurs Pardaillan et d'Aguesseau et du Cardinal de Polignac sur le ministere du Cardinal de fleuri. 1741.
3. p.131-265: Chanson d'un Innconnu, avec des remarques critiques, historiques, philosophiques, theologiques, instructives et amusantes, par M. Le Docteur Chrysostome Mathanasius. Sur l'air des pendus, ou histoire veritable arrivée à l'endroit d'un R.R.P. dela Compagnie de Jesus.
4. p.269-285: Memoire d'une cruauté inoüie commise en las ville de Munau, par les RR. PP. Jesuites de Liege en France 1736.
5. p.286-288: Chanson de Parade.
6. p.288-290: Treatise on the brewing of beer.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Titles from title pages, p. 1, 49, 131, 269; caption heading, p. [286].
Item 2. is attributed to Le Franc, p. 51.
Pagination: Paper, 145 leaves; 1-285, [286-290]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner. Three leaves have been torn out at the end.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with items 5 and 6 in a second hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment, green.
Origin: Written in France after 1741 (p. 49).
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. 60 (Ms. French 36).
Not identified in A. de Backer and C. Sommervogel, Bibl. de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris, 1890-1909).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 661
Contains:
Martin, Jacques, 1921-2010. Lefranc.
Mathanasius, Chrysostomus, pseudonym. Chanson d'un innconnu.
Memoire d'une cruauté inoüie commise en las ville de Munau.
Chanson de parade.
OCLC:
155985342

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