Plagiarising Preaching
[FUNERAL SERMONS.]
Annotated sammelband of eleven eulogies, a discourse, and an address, with additional manuscript material bound in. [Paris, 1682–1692.]
Thirteen works in one vol., 4to, with 10 pp. of manuscript interspersed; numerous large ornaments, initials, and head- and tailpieces (mostly copper-engraved), one work with woodcut ornaments and initials pasted in; marginal dampstaining throughout, some quires browned, a few marginal paper-flaws, two leaves creased, small wormhole to lower margin of final leaves, but generally good copies; bound in later green vellum to period style, eighteenth-century gilt red morocco lettering-piece (‘ORAISONS | FVNEBRE’) relaid to spine, edges speckled red, contemporary marbled endpapers; neat ink ownership inscription ‘Ex libris Guidonis Michælis Audran Doctoris Theologi’ to first title, contemporary ink annotations throughout, later ink presentation inscription to front flyleaf.
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Annotated sammelband of eleven eulogies, a discourse, and an address, with additional manuscript material bound in.
A sammelband of funeral sermons for distinguished women and men of the late seventeenth century, published in Paris between 1682 and 1692, thoroughly annotated by a cleric for use in his preaching and interspersed with early seventeenth-century manuscript material mostly relating to the bishopric of Lavaur in southern France.
The volume opens with two eulogies for Maria Theresa of Spain (1638–1683), Queen of France and wife of Louis XIV, followed by three for Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (1660–1690), la Grande Dauphine; further eulogies include those for the generals Louis, le Grand Condé, and the duc de Montausier, the Jacobite courtier and soldier Richard Talbot, first Earl of Tyrconnell, the salonist Anna Gonzaga, Princess Palatine, and the nun Marie Eleonore de Rohan, Abbess of Malnoue, complete with her epitaph rendered in both French and Italian verse. The final two works, albeit not funerary, are a discourse on martyrdom and a Compliment fait a Monseigneur le premier president … le 14. Novembre 1689, both unrecorded outside France.
The additional manuscripts slightly postdate the printed works and largely relate to the bishopric of Lavaur, with a list of bishops from 1317 to 1717 (with notes in a second hand continuing to the diocese’s abolition in 1801) and a four-page armorial of the bishops. Another manuscript, unfinished, lists the deaths of the early Roman Emperors, beginning with Julius Caesar (‘assassiné en plein senat’). The sermons have been annotated throughout in the same idiosyncratic hand, marking themes and motifs suitable for reuse in sermons and identifying the appropriate feast days; St Thomas the Apostle appears most often, but we find passages marked also for St John, Charles Borromeo, and for use in times of plague.
We have been unable to trace the Guy-Michel Audran who inscribes the first title, nor of any link to the Audran family of engravers responsible for several of the handsome copper-engraved ornaments in the volume.
Of the thirteen works, nine are not held in the UK (and another three found in single copies only) and two are not in the US (another six in single copies at the Newberry).
The volume comprises:
1. [MARIA THERESA of Spain.] DE LA CHAMBRE, [Pierre Cureau,] Abbé. Oraison funebre de Marie Terese d’Austriche, infante d’Espagne, reine de France et de Navarre, prononcée dans la chapelle du Louvre le 24. jour de Janvier 1684 … Paris, Gabriel Martin, 1684.
4to, pp. [2, blank], [2], 51, [1]. OCLC records only two copies outside France (Newberry, Washington University in St Louis); not in Library Hub.
2. [—.] DES ALLEURS, [Jean-Baptiste Lebourg,] Abbé de la Reau. Oraison funébre de Marie Terese d’Austriche, infante d’Espagne, reyne de France et de Navarre, prononcée dans l’eglise des Carmelites de la ruë du Bouloy, le 20. Decembre 1683 … Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1684.
4to, pp. 61, [3, blank]. OCLC records only two copies outside France (Newberry, Rylands).
2 bis. Blank leaf.
3. [MARIA ANNA VICTORIA of Bavaria.] DE LA BROUE, Pierre, Bishop of Mirepoix. Oraison funebre de tres-haute, tres-puissante, et excellente princesse Marie Anne Christine de Baviere, dauphine de France, prononcée à Saint Denis le 5. Juin 1690. en presence de Monseigneur le duc de Bourgogne … Paris, widoe Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1690.
4to, pp. [2], 51, [1]. OCLC records only two copies outside France (Geneva, Newberry); no copies in the UK.
3 bis. Blank leaf with contemporary notes, titled ‘Mort | Des Empereurs Rom.’
4. [—.] FLÉCHIER, Esprit, Bishop elect of Nîmes. Oraison funebre de Marie Anne Christine de la Baviere, dauphine de France, prononcée dans l’eglise de Nôtre-Dame le 15. Juin 1690. en presence de Monseigneur le duc de Bourgogne, de Monsieur, & des princes & princesses du sang … Paris, Antoine Dezallier, 1690.
4to, pp. [2], 40. OCLC records only two copies outside France (Harvard, Huntington); not in Library Hub.
5. [—.] DU JARRY, Abbé. Oraison funebre de Marie-Anne-Christine de Baviere, dauphine de France, prononcée dans l’eglise de l’Abbaye Royale de Maubuisson, le 27. Juin 1690 … Paris, Antoine Dezallier, 1690.
4to, pp. 72; E4 creased and short at fore-edge. OCLC records only one copy in North America (Newberry); not in Library Hub.
5 bis. Blank leaf with contemporary notes, titled ‘Armorial | Des Eveques de | Lavaux.’
6. [LOUIS II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé.] BOURDALOUE, Louis. Oraison funebre de tres-haut et tres-puissant prince Louis de Bourbon, prince de Condé, premier prince du sang, prononcée à Paris le 26. jour d’Avril 1687. en l’eglise de la maison professe des peres de la Compagnie de Jesus … Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1687.
4to, pp. [2], 81, [1]; quire L misbound after quire M; title cut close at foot shaving privilege. OCLC records only three copies outside Continental Europe (Brigham Young, Newberry, Princeton), to which Library Hub adds a copy at the British Library.
6 bis. Two blank leaves with contemporary notes, titled ‘Prioratus Reg | Sancti Elanj In Epacum | Erectus.’
7. [HENRI II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé.] BOURDALOUE, Louis. Eloge funebre de tres-haut, tres-puissant et tres-excellent prince Henri de Bourbon, prince de Condé, et premier prince du sang, prononcé à Paris le 10. jour de Décembre 1683. en l’eglise de la maison professe des peres de la Compagnie de Jesus … Paris, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1684.
4to, pp. [2], 63, [1, blank]. OCLC records only two copies in North America (Harvard, Newberry) to which Library Hub adds two in the UK (BL, Taylorian).
8. [SAINTE-MAURE, Charles de, Duc de Montausier.] DU JARRY, Abbé. Oraison funebre de tres-haut et tres-puissant seigneur, Mre Charles de Ste Maure, duc de Montausier, pair de France, prononcée dans l’eglise de Sainte Croix de la Cité, le 23. Aoust 1690. … Paris, Antoine Dezallier, 1690.
4to, pp. [2], 61, [1, blank]; title-page creased. OCLC records only one copy outside Continental Europe (Newberry); not in Library Hub.
8 bis. Blank leaf with contemporary notes, titled ‘Suite | De L’armorial | Des Eveques de Lavaux.’
9. [GONZAGA, Anna.] BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne, Bishop of Meaux. Oraison funebre de tres-haute et tres-puissante princesse Anne de Gonzague de Cleves, princesse palatine, prononcée en presence de Monseigneur le Duc, de Madame la Duchesse, & de Monseigneur le duc de Bourbon, dans l’eglise des Carmelites du fauxbourg Saint Jacques, le 9. Aoust 1685. … Paris, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1685.
4to, pp. [2], 59, [1, blank]; title cut close at foot shaving privilege. OCLC finds only three copies in North America (Harvard, Newberry, Yale) to which Library Hub adds one in the UK (BL).
9 bis. Blank leaf.
10. [ROHAN, Marie Eleonore de, Abbesse de Malnoue.] ANSELME, [Antoine,] Abbé. Oraison funébre de tres-illustre et tres-vertueuse princesse Madame Marie Eleonor de Rohan, abbesse de Malnouë, prononcée à Paris l’onziéme jour d’Avril 1682 en l’eglise des religieuses Benedictines du prieuré de Chasse-Midy, où elle est enterrée … Paris, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1682.
4to, pp. [2], 58, [10]; title cut close at foot shaving privilege. OCLC finds only one copy in North America (Newberry) and none in the UK; not in Library Hub.
11. [TALBOT, Richard, First Earl of Tyrconnell.] ANSELME, Antoine, [Abbé]. Oraison funebre de milord Richard Talbot, duc de Tyrconnel, vice-roy d’Irlande, prononcée à Paris dans l’eglise des religieuses angloises du fauxbourg Saint Antoine, le 22. Aoust 1692. … Paris, George & Louis Josse, 1692.
4to, pp. 56, [1], [3, blank]; woodcut ornaments and initials pasted in. OCLC finds only one copy in the US (Newberry) and one in the UK (Rylands).
12. [RAGUENET, François.] Discours [drop-head title: sur le mérite et la dignité du martyre] qui a remporté le prix d’éloquence, par le jugement de l’Académie Françoise, en l’année mil six cent quatre-vingt neuf. Paris, [Pierre le Mercier for] Claude Barbin, 1689.
4to, pp. [2, blank], [vi], 24. OCLC records only two copies, both at the BnF; not in Library Hub.
13. DE LA CHAMBRE, [Pierre Cureau,] Abbé. Compliment fait a Monseigneur le premier president … le 14. Novembre 1689. [Paris, 1689.]
4to, pp. 6, [2, blank]. OCLC finds only three copies, all in France; not in Library Hub.