Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac 1607.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Prepared by Esther Inglis for presentation to "Monseigneur de Hayes".

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AMDigital Reference:Wing MS ZW 645.K292

Calligraphic manuscript of moralistic quatrains by Guy du Faur, Sieur du Pybrac (born 1529, died 1584). The first complete edition of Pybrac's 126 quatrains was published in 1576, and reprinted in Les Cantiques du Sieur du MaisonfleurParis1586, a text which Inglis is also thought to have consulted for the text of De la Grandeur de Dieu (University of Edinburgh Library MS. Laing III.440). Inglis evidently held Pybrac's quatrains in high regard: of the 55 extant Inglis manuscripts identified by Scott-Elliot and Yeo, 10 (copied at various dates between 1599 and 1617) are transcriptions of this sequence. This manuscript is one of two extant copies of Pybrac's quatrains known to have been produced by Inglis in 1607, the other being University of Edinburgh MS Laing III.439, dedicated to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. The Newberry copy of the Pybrac quatrains is dedicated to "Monseigneur de Hayes", tentatively identified by Scott-Elliot and Yeo as Sir Thomas Hayes, knighted 1603, Mayor of London 1614-1615, died 1617. Inglis's dedicatory letter mentions a manuscript which she had presented to Hayes's wife the previous year ("un fort petit livret de ma main l'anné passé dedié à madame votre tresillustre epouse"); however, this "livret" has not been traced. The Newberry manuscript is characteristically virtuosic, with decorated title-page and dedicatory leaf, and including several of the scripts at Inglis's command, predominantly italics and cursive capitals. Fols. 37 and 38 (quatrains LIX-LX) provide fine examples of mirror-writing in Roman and italic script. The text has been transcribed on rectos only throughout the manuscript