Item Summary

French miscellany of verse and some prose. Approximately 60 separate texts including a large number of ballads and songs, mottoes and sayings, extracts from Scripture and other works, and historical or political texts relating to the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles I. The texts reveal an ideological slant that is resolutely pro-Burgundian

Descriptive Information

Title
[French miscellany]
Call Number
Princeton MS. 222
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/mp48sg40p
Publisher
[approximately 1530-1550]
Language
French
Date Created
1530-1550
Extent
60 leaves : paper ; 214-220 x 147-158 (165-200 x 95-110) mm bound to 226 x 169 mm.
Source Acquisition
Purchased from Les Enluminures (Paris) for Princeton by the Friends of the Princeton University Library, 2013. AM 2013-85.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1r-8r: [Miscellany] Ballads, etc.
2. fol. 8v-11r: La complainte de la ville d'Arras. Published from another French manuscript of poetry said to be by Jean de Haffrenges
3. fol. 11r-17r: [Miscellany] Chanson, ballads, lamentation, etc.
4. fol. 17r-19r: Epistre de la cite de Rhodes envoiee a la saincte foy catholique / [Nicaise Ladam of Arras].
5. fol. 19v-22v: Dictiers nouveaulx de la paix et alliance d'entre l'esgle et la fleur de lys par le moien des treshaulte et treillustre princesse Madame Alienor. Relates to the marriage alliance of Eleanor of Austria to King Francis I of France in 1530.
6. fol. 23r-25v: Les regretz du pape Clement septiesme de ce nom.
7. fol.25v-26r: Ballade.
8. fol. 26r: Laus francorum en recullon / [Jean Molinet]
9. fol. 26v-30v: [Miscellany] Ballads, etc.
10. fol. 31r: Recepte pour guerir de l'epidemie / [Jean Molinet]. Text is found in another manuscript under the title "Fatras".
11. fol. 31v: Vocabezis camera pacis et concordie.
12. fol. 32r-47r: [Ballads]
13. fol. 47r-47v: Ballade "Dieu feist de riens par son sainct verbe unicque ... Ce fut faict Valentin a l'hostel de monsieur e vicaire de Tournay et estoit lors prince son chappelain nomme Simon Barra annno 1532".
14. fol. 48r-51v: [Miscellany]
15. fol. 52r: Epitaphe de Messire Pierre Lyset grand champion. Concerning Pierre Liset (1482-1554).
16. fol. 52v-53v: Sensuivent plusieurs dathes ... Date de siege d'Arras ... Date du renouvellement de la thoison d'or en Tournay 153
17. fol. 54r-56v: [Ballads]
18. fol. 57r-60v: [Miscellany]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper ; fol. iv (later paper) + 60 + iv (later paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 15-33 lines per page.
Description: Written in at least 3 different hands ; probably once part of a larger miscellany, no longer extant, containing quires in slightly different trim sizes ; manicules (fol. 3v, 15r, 53r) ; watermarks (fol. 1-3: pot; fol. 32-56: pot; fol. 4-31 and 57-60: cipher/monogram)
Origin: Second quarter of the 16th century (ca. 1530s), with some pieces relating to area along what is now the French-Belgian border.
Binding Note
Modern binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ballads, French—16th century
Folk songs, French—16th century
French poetry—16th century
Manuscripts, French—New Jersey—Princeton
Manicules
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
140

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/296f9fd8-23ae-44c5-a02e-35c4812b2f9e/manifest