Recueil de bonnes et mauvaises poisies, de diferens auteurs, anciens e

[DE BALAGNY (Gauthier)]

Recueil de bonnes et mauvaises poisies, de diferens auteurs, anciens et modernes, bons et mauvais, ou si vous voulez, pot poury, en prose et en vers.

A MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY SPANNING MORE THAN A CENTURY

Folio (220 x 315mm). MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. 405ff, numbered in pencil in a later hand, leaves of varying sizes and paper stocks, many deckle-edged, densely written and overwritten in a range of hands from the late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries, over time pasted, sewn, and crudely stitched into binding of recycled parchment-covered pasteboard (corners and extremities rubbed and worn, parchment cracked and flaking at spine revealing sewing, larger quires frayed and dusty where they overlap binding).

N.p., ‘Gauthier, 1713’ [but, 1587.

£25,000.00

[DE BALAGNY (Gauthier)]

Recueil de bonnes et mauvaises poisies, de diferens auteurs, anciens et modernes, bons et mauvais, ou si vous voulez, pot poury, en prose et en vers.

An extraordinary survival, and a monumental record of more than one individual’s eclectic cultural and intellectual interests; a hand-bound, -stitched and -stuck French manuscript miscellany of commonplaced poetry and prose, spanning a period of more than 150 years, from the closing decades of the sixteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth.

It is rare to find compendia of such scope and volume surviving in as complete and untouched condition as the present, and it offers innumerable avenues for further research.

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