Les Philippiques et autres pieces avec des nottes historiques et critiques.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• La Grange-Chancel, Joseph de, 1677-1758.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

• Orléans, Philippe, duc d', 1674-1723.
• Maupeou, René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de, 1714-1792.
• Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774.
• France--Politics and government--1715-1774.
• France.
• Politics and government.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• satires (literary genre)
• Manuscripts, French.
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Purchased, 1954.

Physical Description:

73 leaves : paper ; 182 x 106 mm bound to 187 x 113 mm

Place of Publication:

[France], [between 1758 and 1780]

Language Note:

French.

Summary:

A collection of 18th-century satirical poetry, with La Grange-Chancel's Philippiques, directed against Philippe, duc d'Orleans and regent for Louis XV, comprising the first half (f. 1r-30r). The remaining half consists of poems by unidentified authors from the 1770s with targets such as the chancellor René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de Maupeou (f. 32r-40r) and Louis XV (f. 46r-47v).

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (f. 4r); the date is based on the copying of the Philippiques no earlier than 1758 and the remaining poems' dates after 1771.
• Foliation: Paper, 73; [iv], 1-69; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
• Script: Written in a cursive script.
• Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); leather splitting between spine and covers.
• Origin: Written in France no sooner than the death of La Grange-Chancel in 1758 and after various events of the early 1770s.

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. 64 (Ms. French 48).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 952.

OCLC:

155925606

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