Transcription by Esther Inglis of Guy du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac's Quatrains : Religious writing; Manuscript; Miscellany 27 June, 1617.

Format:

Other

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious literature--Authorship.

Religious literature.

Title pages.

Edinburgh (Scotland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

1617

Notes:

AMDigital Reference:Add. MS 22606

Item 51 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 Quatrains make 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 is one of the two last manuscripts of the Quatrains produced by Inglis. Both were written in June 1617, after Inglis had moved back from England to Scotland, and both were addressed to churchmen addressed by Inglis as "friend". The dedicatee of this manuscript, Walter Balcanquall was a Scottish churchman based in London who, like the dedicatee of the companion manuscript (Bodleian MS Bodley 987) Joseph Hall was an advocate of a Scottish episcopacy. The presentation of these two manuscripts may be linked to Hall's trip to Scotland in 1617 in an attempt to impose bishops on the Scottish church (Coffey 2004; McCabe 2004)--not a cause with which one would expect the Calvinist Inglis to be sympathetic. Written predominantly in small Roman script, these little volumes feature less elaborate decoration than many of Inglis's earlier manuscripts. Inglis asserts of this manuscript, as she does of several others written at this late stage in her life, that it has been produced "pour son dernier adieu", possibly an allusion to an illness (Scott-Elliot and Yeo 1990, 13). Item 51 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 Quatrains make 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 is one of the two last manuscripts of the Quatrains produced by Inglis. Both were written in June 1617, after Inglis had moved back from England to Scotland, and both were addressed to churchmen addressed by Inglis as "friend". The dedicatee of this manuscript, Walter Balcanquall was a Scottish churchman based in London who, like the dedicatee of the companion manuscript (Bodleian MS Bodley 987), Joseph Hall was an advocate of a Scottish episcopacy. The presentation of these two manuscripts may be linked to Hall's trip to Scotland in 1617 in an attempt to impose bishops on the Scottish church (Coffey 2004; McCabe 2004)--not a cause with which one would expect the Calvinist Inglis to be sympathetic. Written predominantly in small Roman script, these little volumes feature less elaborate decoration than many of Inglis's earlier manuscripts. Inglis asserts of this manuscript, as she does of several others written at this late stage in her life, that it has been produced "pour son dernier adieu", possibly an allusion to an illness (Scott-Elliot and Yeo 1990, 13).