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[Abrégé] des trois premiers livres de Zeneyde : anecdotes du regne de Childeric ; Suite de la quatri[eme] partie de Zeneyde ; Zeneyde, quatriéme partie

Title
[Abrégé] des trois premiers livres de Zeneyde : anecdotes du regne de Childeric ; Suite de la quatri[eme] partie de Zeneyde ; Zeneyde, quatriéme partie, ca. 1747?
Author
Lussan, Marguerite de, 1682-1758.

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TextRestricted use *KGV 12-11Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Additional Authors
  • Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646-1720.
  • Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764.
  • Barbet, L.-A. (Louis-Alexandre), 1850-1931.
Description
1; 22 cm (4to)
Summary
  • Manuscript, in ink, in an unidentified 18th-century hand.
  • Title from caption titles of the three sections, comprising respectively p. [1]-55; p. 61-229; and p. 231-[484]. First word of title excised; supplied from: Cat. des livres de la bibliothèque de feue madame la marquise de Pompadour. In the first caption, the words "anecdotes du regne de Childeric" are in another hand; preceding "de Childeric," the words "de Meroüée &" are lined through.
  • The work is actually not a version of Zeneyde, by Anthony Hamilton (first published in his Œuvres mêlées en prose et en vers, 1731), but a copy of Anecdotes de la cour de Childeric, roi de France (Paris : Prault père, 1736). The latter work, published anonymously, was formerly ascribed to Hamilton, but is now known to be by Marguerite de Lussan. Cf. Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, I, col. 180; BnF cat., notice no. FRBNF30847627.
  • Paginated in ink on rectos only. Pages trimmed in binding, slightly affecting some page numbers.
  • Part of top of p. [1] excised, including the first word of title; first 2 lines of text on verso (p. [2]) also affected. Second and third sections are bound out of order. Pages [56]-[60], [230] and 485-487 are blank; an unpaged blank leaf follows p. [230].
Alternative Title
  • Des trois premiers livres de Zeneyde : anecdotes du regne de Childeric
  • Anecdotes du regne de Childeric
  • Zeneyde
  • Suite de la quatri[eme] partie de Zeneyde.
  • Zeneyde, quatriéme partie
Subjects
Indexed In (note)
  • Cat. des livres de la bibliothèque de feue madame la marquise de Pompadour,
Biography (note)
  • Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour, for whom this manuscript was bound, was the official chief mistress of King Louis XV of France from 1745 until her death in 1764. On Dec. 30, 1747, at Versailles, she performed the title role in Louis de Cahusac's one-act comedy Zéneïde (first staged in 1743); cf. Jullien, A. Histoire du théâtre de madame de Pompadour dit Théâtre des petits cabinets (Paris, 1874), p. 18-19. Her acquisition of the manuscript is possibly related to that performance.
Provenance (note)
  • Marquise de Pompadour (superexlibris); "A monsieur[?] Crowe [?] a l'hotel de Pompadour a Paris" (inscription on front flyleaf); Louis-Alexandre Barbet (inscription on front front flyleaf: A. Barbet; ink stamps on 2nd front front flyleaf and p. 123: Barbet, 53 Av. de Paris, Versailles).
Binding (note)
  • Contemporary mottled calf, gilt; double fillet border and superexlibris of the Marquise de Pompadour on both boards; dark red morocco spine label. For the superexlibris, cf. Olivier, E. Manuel de l'amateur de reliures armoriées françaises, 24. sér., pl. 2399, fig. 1; the present stamp is a variant, with the sinister supporter, a griffin, having only two claws extending outside the mantling. For a similar binding, cf. Madame de Pompadour et les arts, c2002, no. 126.
Call Number
*KGV 12-11
OCLC
777606184
Author
Lussan, Marguerite de, 1682-1758.
Title
[Abrégé] des trois premiers livres de Zeneyde : anecdotes du regne de Childeric ; Suite de la quatri[eme] partie de Zeneyde ; Zeneyde, quatriéme partie, ca. 1747?
Biography
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour, for whom this manuscript was bound, was the official chief mistress of King Louis XV of France from 1745 until her death in 1764. On Dec. 30, 1747, at Versailles, she performed the title role in Louis de Cahusac's one-act comedy Zéneïde (first staged in 1743); cf. Jullien, A. Histoire du théâtre de madame de Pompadour dit Théâtre des petits cabinets (Paris, 1874), p. 18-19. Her acquisition of the manuscript is possibly related to that performance.
Indexed In:
Cat. des livres de la bibliothèque de feue madame la marquise de Pompadour, 2115
Binding
Contemporary mottled calf, gilt; double fillet border and superexlibris of the Marquise de Pompadour on both boards; dark red morocco spine label. For the superexlibris, cf. Olivier, E. Manuel de l'amateur de reliures armoriées françaises, 24. sér., pl. 2399, fig. 1; the present stamp is a variant, with the sinister supporter, a griffin, having only two claws extending outside the mantling. For a similar binding, cf. Madame de Pompadour et les arts, c2002, no. 126.
Provenance
Marquise de Pompadour (superexlibris); "A monsieur[?] Crowe [?] a l'hotel de Pompadour a Paris" (inscription on front flyleaf); Louis-Alexandre Barbet (inscription on front front flyleaf: A. Barbet; ink stamps on 2nd front front flyleaf and p. 123: Barbet, 53 Av. de Paris, Versailles).
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Added Author
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646-1720. Attributed name
Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764. Former owner
Barbet, L.-A. (Louis-Alexandre), 1850-1931. Former owner
Note
Binder's title: Zeneyde
Added Title
Suite de la quatri[eme] partie de Zeneyde.
Zeneyde, quatriéme partie
Research Call Number
*KGV 12-11
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