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[CHALON, Renier, alias Goupil le Renard] Manuscript register of minutes of meetings of the Agathopèdes de la "Cage" de Bruxelles. [Brussels] 1846 [- 1853] In-f°: [56] pp. used, pen and brown and red inks, on lined paper, many erasures, corr. and cross-outs (lightly browned, many stains). Reclaimed half-parchment boards with small ep. corners, brown glue paper boards, traces of red wax stamps (rubbed, upper jaw partly split, lower cap torn, inner jaw split, 1 f. unbound). Int. well cons. A "secret notebook" kept mainly by R. Chalon, secretary (sometimes replaced by G. Gensse), and a "capital document" (M. Silvestre) for the history of the Order, unknown to P. Cockshaw who had only been able to find the register of the P.-V. of the "Cage bleue" in Mons (de Callataÿ & Sorgeloos 141-sq.). The manuscript, preceded by the "Règlement" des Agathopèdes (29-09-1846) printed on blue paper and the "Articles additionnels" (18-11-1846), begins with a register of members with their autograph signatures, aliases and titles (42 names in all), begun at the meeting of September 29, 1846 and subsequently completed by later members, including Alexandre Dumas père alias Pyrope l'Escarboucle. Meeting minutes (chapters) are preceded by a full-page woodcut of a sow (A.G.B. Schayes, president, whose name is inscribed in pen) looking after her piglets. The 1st P.-V. is dated November 4, 1846, the last of the "septuor de la 2e décade de Canardinal Cycle VII", corresponding according to the agathopedic calendar to March 1853 according to M. Silvestre. Enriched with 30 loose parts: quill pen with vermilion-dyed barbs,- blotting paper,- 9 original pcs (1 impr.) including: attendance register for an initiatory meeting, competition program, 1 ex. of the "Articles additionnels aux constitutions agathopédiques" with a ms. note on v° dated 14-01-1852, 1 bifeuillet "Questions remises à Van Veersen le 11 janvier 1852" in the hand of G. Gensse,- 18 pcs (single or double f., pet. papiers) of mss notes (2 ff. dactyl.) probably in the hand of Gaston de le Court transcribing a.o. the list of members and competition questions,- l.a.s. from Paul Lauters to G. de le Court, [Brux.], 16-02-1958, with red wax seal of the Agathopèdes, envel. cons. Ref. Silvestre, Marguerite - "Les Agathopèdes à Bruxelles. Retour dans la bibliothèque de Renier chalon", in Le livre & l'estampe. LVI/173-174, 2010, pp. 45-90. Detailed analysis of the document and notes on identified members. Prov. Ex-libris des Agathopèdes with the emblem of a leaping pig.

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[CHALON, Renier, alias Goupil le Renard] Manuscript register of minutes of meetings of the Agathopèdes de la "Cage" de Bruxelles. [Brussels] 1846 [- 1853] In-f°: [56] pp. used, pen and brown and red inks, on lined paper, many erasures, corr. and cross-outs (lightly browned, many stains). Reclaimed half-parchment boards with small ep. corners, brown glue paper boards, traces of red wax stamps (rubbed, upper jaw partly split, lower cap torn, inner jaw split, 1 f. unbound). Int. well cons. A "secret notebook" kept mainly by R. Chalon, secretary (sometimes replaced by G. Gensse), and a "capital document" (M. Silvestre) for the history of the Order, unknown to P. Cockshaw who had only been able to find the register of the P.-V. of the "Cage bleue" in Mons (de Callataÿ & Sorgeloos 141-sq.). The manuscript, preceded by the "Règlement" des Agathopèdes (29-09-1846) printed on blue paper and the "Articles additionnels" (18-11-1846), begins with a register of members with their autograph signatures, aliases and titles (42 names in all), begun at the meeting of September 29, 1846 and subsequently completed by later members, including Alexandre Dumas père alias Pyrope l'Escarboucle. Meeting minutes (chapters) are preceded by a full-page woodcut of a sow (A.G.B. Schayes, president, whose name is inscribed in pen) looking after her piglets. The 1st P.-V. is dated November 4, 1846, the last of the "septuor de la 2e décade de Canardinal Cycle VII", corresponding according to the agathopedic calendar to March 1853 according to M. Silvestre. Enriched with 30 loose parts: quill pen with vermilion-dyed barbs,- blotting paper,- 9 original pcs (1 impr.) including: attendance register for an initiatory meeting, competition program, 1 ex. of the "Articles additionnels aux constitutions agathopédiques" with a ms. note on v° dated 14-01-1852, 1 bifeuillet "Questions remises à Van Veersen le 11 janvier 1852" in the hand of G. Gensse,- 18 pcs (single or double f., pet. papiers) of mss notes (2 ff. dactyl.) probably in the hand of Gaston de le Court transcribing a.o. the list of members and competition questions,- l.a.s. from Paul Lauters to G. de le Court, [Brux.], 16-02-1958, with red wax seal of the Agathopèdes, envel. cons. Ref. Silvestre, Marguerite - "Les Agathopèdes à Bruxelles. Retour dans la bibliothèque de Renier chalon", in Le livre & l'estampe. LVI/173-174, 2010, pp. 45-90. Detailed analysis of the document and notes on identified members. Prov. Ex-libris des Agathopèdes with the emblem of a leaping pig.

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