Mélange de pieces [manuscript], ca. 1575-ca. 1585.
Sainctes, Claude de, 1525-1591.; Séguier, Jean, -1596.; Faye, Jacques, seigneur d'Espeisses, 1543-1590.; Brisson, Barnabé, 1531-1591.; L'Hospital, Michel de, 1507-1573.; Des Roches, Catherine Fredonnoit, dame, 1542-1587.; Des Roches, Madeleine Neveu, dame, approximately 1520-1587.; Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589.; Cavagnes, Arnaud de, -1572.; Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.; Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.; Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.; Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.; Connay, former owner.; France. Parlement (Paris); Université de Paris. Faculté de théologie.
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Title
Mélange de pieces [manuscript], ca. 1575-ca. 1585.
Description
198 leaves ; 32 x 22 cm
Associated name
Sainctes, Claude de, 1525-1591.
Séguier, Jean, -1596.
Faye, Jacques, seigneur d'Espeisses, 1543-1590.
Brisson, Barnabé, 1531-1591.
L'Hospital, Michel de, 1507-1573.
Des Roches, Catherine Fredonnoit, dame, 1542-1587.
Des Roches, Madeleine Neveu, dame, approximately 1520-1587.
Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589.
Cavagnes, Arnaud de, -1572.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.
Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Connay, former owner.
France. Parlement (Paris)
Université de Paris. Faculté de théologie.
Séguier, Jean, -1596.
Faye, Jacques, seigneur d'Espeisses, 1543-1590.
Brisson, Barnabé, 1531-1591.
L'Hospital, Michel de, 1507-1573.
Des Roches, Catherine Fredonnoit, dame, 1542-1587.
Des Roches, Madeleine Neveu, dame, approximately 1520-1587.
Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589.
Cavagnes, Arnaud de, -1572.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610.
Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Connay, former owner.
France. Parlement (Paris)
Université de Paris. Faculté de théologie.
Scope and content
Contents: discourse on the doctrine of the two substances; summary of certain articles concerning heretics; memoires given to the late advocate [Jean] David; speeches before the Queen Mother at Poitiers, November 28 and December 27, 1575; remonstrances of Paris, December 1575, and of Bourges; sonnets written by Catherine [Madeleine?] Des Roches and her daughter; a discourse showing that the domination of several cannot be food; speech before the king, 1583 or 1584; remonstrances of the bishop of Evreux; plea of M. Séguier, May 16, 1583; speeches of M. Faye, 1585, and of M. Brisson before the Parlement; discussion between the ambassadors of France and England touching the proposed marriage of the duke of Anjou to Elizabeth [1581?]; letters from Elizabeth to the King of France and the Queen Mother [1585?]; an acrostic on the three Henries; letters of the King of Navarre to the Parlement and to the Theological faculty of the Sorbonne, October 11, 1585; will of Michel de L'Hospital [1575?]; and lists of decrees, most of the second half of the sixteenth century, a few earlier.
Language Note
In French.
Note
Leaves 102-114 wanting (in Pierpont Morgan Library), leaves 168-183 and 186-189 wanting, possibly blank.
Also, in accompanying envelope, photocopies of a missing portion, a discourse touching the Queen of England against the Queen of Scotland found in the papers of the late [Arnaud de] Cavagnes, ca. 1570 (Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 897)
Table of contents on leaves 1 ("Table sommaire des matieres & temes en ce present Liure ou Reg[ist]re" and in a second hand "jusques au feuille 144") and 144 ("Table du contenu en ce p[rese]nt repetoire Cy après transcript").
Poems listed in Folger index of first lines.
Typed list of contents removed to curatorial file.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Also, in accompanying envelope, photocopies of a missing portion, a discourse touching the Queen of England against the Queen of Scotland found in the papers of the late [Arnaud de] Cavagnes, ca. 1570 (Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 897)
Table of contents on leaves 1 ("Table sommaire des matieres & temes en ce present Liure ou Reg[ist]re" and in a second hand "jusques au feuille 144") and 144 ("Table du contenu en ce p[rese]nt repetoire Cy après transcript").
Poems listed in Folger index of first lines.
Typed list of contents removed to curatorial file.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It contains unverified data from catalog cards and may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Publications about material
Schachter, Marc. "Presentation of a Newly Discovered Manuscript of La Boétie's Discours de la servitude volontaire and Hypotheses of the Datation of the BnF Manuscripts." Montaigne Studies 20 (January, 2008), p. 185-206.
Provenance
Connay -- Phillipps 4609 -- Smedley 42.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 156-158)
Cited/described in
Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, 4609
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.42
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.42
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Item Details
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V.b.49
Folger accession
Smedley 42