Transcription by Esther Inglis of Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac's Quatrains : Religious writing; Manuscript; Miscellany 1 January, 1615.

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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

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English

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Title pages.

Religious literature--Authorship.

Religious literature.

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1 online resource

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Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2008.

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AMDigital Reference:Add. MS 19633

Item 41 in Scott-Elliot and Yeo's catalogue (1990), a major source for this entry. One of Inglis's many transcriptions of Pibrac's moralistic Quatrains, using the full text of 126 stanzas that first appeared in 1576. As with Antoine de Chandieu's Octonaires, another favourite text of Inglis's, the pithiness of the Quatrainsmake them an ideal text for presentation in precious, small-scale manuscript books to potential courtly patrons. They are more focused on life in the public world than Chandieu's text which is a more straightforward and thoroughgoing dismissal of worldly things. This manuscript is uniform with a manuscript of the Octonaires, presented at the same time, as New Year's gifts for 1615, to Prince Charles (later Charles I)Together with the uniform manuscript of the Octonaires (currently in a private collection and not included in the Perdita catalogue - Scott-Elliot and Yeo 1990, no. 43), this is the earliest of four manuscript presented by Inglis to Henry. The double presentation in 1615 registers Charles's importance at Court following the death of his brother Prince Henry in 1612. The two other manuscripts prepared by Inglis for Charles were both presented to him in 1624 (Royal Library, Copenhagen MS Gl. Kgl.Saml 3380-- and --British Library MS Royal 17.D.16). Pibrac's text appears in three of the five manuscripts Inglis produced at New Year 1615, all of them under the melancholy tag "pour son dernier adieu" (possbily a reference to an illness (Scott-Elliot and Yeo 1990, 13)): the other two manuscripts are Houghton MS Typ 347 (which seems not to have been presented to anyone) and a manuscript currently in a private collection (not in the Perdita catalogue) combining the Quatrains with Chandieu's Octonaires and dedicated to James's then favourite, the earl of Somerset. These manuscripts were somewhat simpler productions than the lavishly illuminated "flower" manuscripts written ten years or so earlier as New Year's gifts at Court. Written predominantly in small Roman script, the manuscripts of 1615 featured only limited decoration. They mark Inglis's brief return to London (and manuscript presentation at court) following a period living in her husband's parish in Essex and before her return to Scotland.

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