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 eighteent****h. 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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258439

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