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Satyre sur la direction.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Sanlecque, Louis de.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Clergy--Humor.
- Catholic Church.
- Clergy.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- satires (literary genre)
- Manuscripts, French.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Humor.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly in the Collection de Dumont de Villenuve (stamp, flyleaf 1 recto).
- Purchased in 1960.
- Physical Description:
- 6 leaves : paper ; 221 x 161 mm bound to 262 x 185 mm
- Production:
- [Paris], [circa 1690]
- Language Note:
- French.
- Biography/History:
- According to a modern note attached to flyleaf 4 recto, the abbot Louis de Sanlecque was a son of a Parisian engraver and was born in Paris in 1622 and died at the priory of Garnay in 1714.
- Summary:
- Satire in couplets targeting confessors and spiritual directors.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from caption title (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Paper, iv (modern paper) + 6 + ii (modern paper); [1-6]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
- Binding: Half-cloth (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Origin: Written in Paris circa 1690 (Zacour-Hirsch).
- 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 52).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 954
- OCLC:
- 155925610
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