Collection: Vaudevilles Codex | Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

Overview

Some 1450 songs and verses in a French cursive of about 1695. A number of poems are dated 1682-3, and some back to 1664. They are rather free excursions on the foibles of aristocrats and others in the public eye. Among the names figure Sully, Maintenon, T. Corneille; Mancini, etc. The music to which the airs fit is suggested often, as by Lully or the Italian comedians.

Dates

Creation: approximately 1695

Conditions Governing Access

None

Conditions Governing Use

Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.

Extent

1 volume (4to. 412 pages, plus 44 pages of index.) : Binding: Calf with gilt back. Scribe: In several hands.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Physical Location

MS C186

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Rubinstin, 1966

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Guide to the Vaudevilles Codex. France, ca 1695.
Subtitle: Vaudevilles Codex
Author: Finding aid prepared by alh, 1968; revised by ksc, 2006. Finding aid encoded by skt, 2006.
Date: 2006
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Finding aid written in English.
Finding aid permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/10407/0443686020
Preferred citation: Vaudevilles Codex, Department of Special Collections, MS C186, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries