Verzameling van Latynsche, Fransche en Nederduytsche Keur-Dichten.

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Dutch

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.

Louis.

Political poetry, French.

Satire, French.

History.

Benelux countries--History--17th century.

Benelux countries.

France--History--Louis XIV, 1643-1715.

France.

Genre:

anthologies

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

satires (literary genre)

Manuscripts, European.

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, Dutch.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1963.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (252, 365 leaves) : paper ; 213 x 159 mm bound to 223 x 175 mm (v.1); 226 x 158 mm bound to 242 x 186 mm (v.2)

Other Title:

Recueil de poësies sérieuses, badines et satiriques, contenant des elegies, stances, ballades, sonnets, satires, epithalames, madrigaux, virelais, etc.

Place of Publication:

[Low Countries], [1666-1700]

Language Note:

Predominantly French, with some items in Dutch and Latin.

Summary:

First volume contains mostly French and a few Dutch poems, in forms including epitaphs, quadrains, sonnets, epigrams, and stanzas. Possible authors include Pierre Corneille, Constantin Huygens, Michel Le Clerc, [Geeraert?] Brant, [Joannes or Bernard] Vollenhove, [Jacques de?] Ranchin. Prose pieces include letters, sermons, "harangues," and an imaginary book list in Latin, with possible authors including Isaac de Benserade, Monsieur de Bosc, and Pieter de Groot. Individuals mentioned in the works include Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Cardinal Mazarin, Jean-Baptiste Molière, Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Pieter de Groot, Pietro Aretino, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, Charles II of England, and Louis XIV. Second volume contains satires, such as a dialogue between classical figures including Minos, Pluto, Diogenes, and Horace, and an imitation of Ovid. It also contains mostly unattributed epitaphs, songs, elegies, epithalamia, sonnets, and virelais.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page of each volume; second volume has a second title page in French.

Foliation: V.1: Paper, i + 252 + i; [1-252]; V.2: Paper, i + 365 + ii; [1-365]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: The two volumes are written predominantly in two different hands.

Binding: Contemporary half-parchment (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in the Low Countries between 1666 and 1700 (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), pp. 76-77 (Ms. French 100).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 989

OCLC:

155929013