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Chansons.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 2092
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Songs, French--Early works to 1800.
- Songs, French.
- Popular culture--France--Early works to 1800.
- Popular culture.
- France--History--18th century--Sources.
- France.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Musical texts.
- Manuscripts, French -- 18th century.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Bruce McKittrick Rare Books (Narberth, Pennsylvania), 2022.
- Physical Description:
- 272 leaves : paper ; 235 x 150 mm bound to 240 x 165 mm.
- Other Title:
- Spine title: Chansons manuscrites
- Place of Publication:
- [France], [circa 1783-circa 1785]
- Language Note:
- French
- Summary:
- Collection of song texts without musical notation written by a single hand over time, with varying size of script, on varying paper stock. Recurring forms include ariette, romance, vaudeville, chanson militaire, pastorale, menuet, and impromptu, and recurring character types include soldiers, lovers, hunters, shepherds, and farmers. Historical and literary subjects include Joan of Arc (p. 60); Maurice, Maréchal de Saxe (1696-1750, p.65); Heloise and Abelard (p. 73); Pyramus and Thisbe (p. 172); and Richard I of England (p. 258), and topical subjects include water, wine, tobacco, and women. One of the songs is from Barbier de Séville by Pierre Beaumarchais (published in 1775, p. 47). Tune names are usually given.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from front flyleaf (p. i).
- Pagination: iii (19th-century) + 272 + ii (19th-century) leaves; [i-vi], 1-257, [258-544, i-iv], 19th-century pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Changes in paper stock and matching lower edges suggest gatherings of eight.
- Layout: Chain line often used as outer margin. Octavo format.
- Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
- Binding: 19th-century gilt-tooled morocco by Hardy-Mennil (Paris; name in gilt border on lower front turn-in); gilt spine with title Chansons manuscrites and lyres and horns.
- Origin: Written in France, circa 1783-circa 1785 (in part based on references to the Anglo-French War of 1778-1783, McKittrick).
- Cited as:
- Chansons (Ms. Codex 2092). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1354237232
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