Charleval, Charles Jean Louis Faucon de Ris de (1612-1693) (& others)

Le singe: poème latin...Traduit par M.D.R.L. With other verses, epigrams, etc., by later Authors. M.D.R.L. may possibly stand for the initials of François VI de la Rochefoucauld [1613-1680]. 'Le singe' ends at fol. 31, and is dated 1704. Among the following verses the undermentioned are of medical interest: Fol. 45 [Anon.] Sur Cristofle Ozane [sic] Médecin de Chaudray. This is Christofle Ozanne [1633-1713]. Ff. 62-64 [Duhamel (J.).] Traduction de l'ode latine...sur le Cidre. A marginal note dated 1712, states that the Author was 'Professeur de Rhétorique au Col[l]ège des Grassins'. Ff. 69-73 [Guibert] Nouvel chanson sur le Café. A note below the text states: 'Le Père G[uibert] de l'Oratoire fait imprimer depuis peu un chanson sur le café on 1710, dont celle-ci est comme Sup[p]lément.' Ff. 77-79 [Castel (L. B.)] Le Clavecin des couleurs du P. C. transporté dans le Monde de la Lune la nuit du 19. 8bre 1726. A marginal note states: 'Le P[ère Louis Bertrand] Castel [1688-1757] a prétendu qu'on pouvoit faire avec des Couleurs le même effet que par les sens sur un clavecin.'This last item seems to be written by a different hand. On the first leaf is the name 'Thevenin' in a late 18th cent. hand.

1704-1726

1 volume 1 l. + 79 [80] ff. last bl.. 4to. 20 x 15 cm. Original calf-binding worn. Ff. 65-68 are wanting. The leaf after fol. 63 has been missed in the foliation.

Purchased 1925.

This author is entered under 'Charleval' in most French biographies and in the London Library Catalogue. The B.M. Catalogue and the Enciclopedia Española use the heading 'Faucon de Ris'.

Armorial book-plate of 'Ancaster' (i.e. Brownlow Lindsey, 5th and last Duke of Ancaster [1729-1809].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).