[MANUSCRIT]. [POETRY]. [SONGS]. Veni-mecum poëtique or Colle - Lot 406

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[MANUSCRIT]. [POETRY]. [SONGS]. Veni-mecum poëtique or Colle - Lot 406
[MANUSCRIT]. [POETRY]. [SONGS]. Veni-mecum poëtique or Collection of the best pieces of Poetry. 1ere [- 2eme] partie. A Angers, MDCCLXXIX [1779] In French, manuscript on paper France, Angers, dated 1779 [5] ff. non ch. (including table) -151 pp. (pp. 3-6 are missing but it seems to be a pagination error) + [6] ff. non ch. (including table) - 45 pp, preceded by 3 endpapers and followed by [22] blank ff., some notes taken at the end of the volume and endpapers, cursive writing, manuscript in two parts, inscription on verso of the first endpaper: " P. B. Dubourg ". Bound in half-basane with corners, spine with 4 nerves, red leather title-piece with gilt lettering, boards covered with dominoté paper, marbled edges, marbled paper end-papers turned. Spines fragile, headpieces dull, boards faded but period binding. Dimensions : 160 x 200 mm. Interesting collection copied by a calligrapher from Angers. Among the authors of this collection of songs or poems, we can mention : Mademoiselle de Scudéry, Mademoiselle Bernard, Marmontel, Madame Deshoulière, Monsieur de Sedaine, Madame de la Sablière, Scarron, Voltaire, Molière, Corneille, Crébillon et alia. At the end of the volume, writings on the poetic art, in particular Boileau's poetic principles, followed several pages further on by considerations on the acrostic, on the ode and a text " De la poësie ".
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