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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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on trouve, entr' autres manuscrits, I'original de I'ancien 

 oiBce des Fous. C'est un in folio long et ctroit, t'crit en 

 lettres assez menues, et convert d'ivoire sculpte'; on y 

 voit assez grossi^rement represeutes des bacckanales et 

 autres folies relatives a la fete. An commencement est 

 line prose rimee au sujet de I'ane qu'on fetoit aussi. Des 

 pri^res de I'eglise confondues les unes dans les autres, 

 pour repoudre au litre de la fete des fous, forment le reste 

 du livre." — Geographie de France, p. 1G8., ed. 1792. 



" In the National Library at Paris, there is a transcript 

 of the last mentioned MS. (No. 1351.) upon vellum, 

 which is described as follows ; ' Officiuni Stultorum ad 

 usum metropoleos et primitialis ecclesias Senonensis ; cum 

 notis musicis.' At the beginning is written, ' Transcriptus 

 est liber sequens, vel potius officium, ex originali per- 

 antiquo in thesauro metropolitautc Senonensis ecclesiaj 

 conscrvato, ex utraque parte foliis eburneis munito, nunc 

 in archivis capitularibus incluso.' (See ' Varietes His- 

 toriques,' i. 457. ; Compan, ' Diet, de Danse,' p. 330. ; 

 ' Diction. Historique des Moeurs,' &c., art. ' Fete ' ; Lobi- 

 neau, 'Hist, de Paris,' i. 224.; Milliu, 'Mag. Encycl. 

 Juillet,' 1806 ; Marlot, * Metropolis liemensis,' 2 vols, 

 folio ; Flffigel, ' Geschichte des Grotes Komischen,' Leipzig, 

 1788, 8vo. pp. 159 — 170. ; ' Journal de Verdun,' Oct. 

 1751 ; ' Lettre d'un Gentilhomme de Bourgogne (M. du 

 Tilliot) h M. Moreau de Mautour sur la Fete des Foux : 

 in Mercure de France, Janv. 1742, and a letter by M. 

 Boucher Dargis, Jan. 1743.) 



"Turpem ilium abusum in quibusdam frequentatum 

 ecclesiis, quo certis anni celebritatibus, nonnulli cum mi- 

 tra, baculo acVestibus pontificalibus more Episcoporum 

 benedicunt. Alii ut Eeges ac Duces induti, quod f'estum 

 Fatuorum vel Innocentium sen Puerorum in quibusdam 

 regionibus nuncupatur, alii larvales ac theatrales jocos, 

 alii choreas et tripudia marium et mulierum facientes, 

 noniiues ad spectacula et cachinnationes movent, alii com- 

 messationes et convivia ibidem praeparant, hsec sancta 

 Synodus detestans, statuit et jubet," &c. — Concil. Btisi- 

 leens. ap Martene de Ritibus Ecclesiw, iii. 111. (101.) (See 

 Felibien, " Vies des Peintres," ii. G5. 



" At the end of Millin's second vol. of ' Monumens An- 

 tiques ' is an account of the famous Missal with the ser- 

 vice for the Fete des Foux at Sens. (See Neure's ' Querela 

 ad Gassendum ' quoted in Marchand, ' Diet.,' i. 287.) 



" Millin has also described the above Missal in the re- 

 marks on the Fete des Foux in vol. 1. of his ' Voyage 

 dans les Departemens,' &c., p. 69. 



" The Abbe' Tersan had a transcript of the Sens service. 

 (See his 'Catalogue,' p. 119.) My very curious girdle of 

 the Abb^ des Foux belonged to him. I have described it 

 in ' Archseologia,' vol. xv. 



" On the fete des Anes, see 'Diet. Univ. v. Anes — Nuits 

 Parisiennes,' tom. ii. 156. 



" On the Bazoche, see Brice's ' Paris,' iii. 263. 



" La triomphe de la Bazoche, et les Amours de Maistre 

 Sebaslien Grapignan,' 1698. 12mo. 



" M. Beruzez, in his ' History of Kheims,' remarks that 

 there are more ridiculous ceremonies at Dijon and Rheims 

 than elsewhere, which he ascribes to the wines of Bur- 

 gundy and Champagne. 



" Another dissertation on the Fete des Foux is in ' Va- 

 rietes Hist.,' tom. iii. 341. 



" Some treatises on this subject are mentioned in 

 Fabricius, ' Bibliogr. Antiquaria,' p. 332. 



" Quirinales or Roman Feast of Fools, 18 Feb. 



" Philip le Bon, Duke of Burgundy and Earl of Flan- 

 ders, countenanced the indecent confrairie of the Mere- 

 foile at Dijon." (See L'Art de verifier les Dates,' iii. 518.) 



' Procession of the Ass, v. Foix, ' Ess. sur Paris,' ii. 217. 



' Procession du Renard, v. Foix, ' Ess. sur Paris,' iv. 57. 



" Where is Millin's Account of a Missal on the Feast 



of Fools in a diptych, Paris, 1806. 4tO. ? mentioned in 

 Gilbert's ' Cathedral of Chartres.' 



" Many of the towns in the Netherlands subject to the 

 Dukes of Burgundy celebrated festivals, as — 



Fete aux Anes, at Douai. 



Fete de I'Epinette, at Lille. ^ 



Fete des Cornards, at Evreux. 



Fete du Prevost de I'Etourdi, at Bouchain. 



"All these are described in Doutremer's ' Hist, de Va- 

 lenciennes,' in folio. 



Fete de la Papoire, at Amiens, on Ascension Day. 



Fete de la Gargouille, at Rouen. 



Fete de la Merefolie, at Dijon, 



Fete de la Tarasque, at Tarascon and Avignon. 



Fete du Due d'Urbin et le Prince d' Amour, at Aix. 



"In a room at Wolinchemere Priory, Hants, is an old 

 painting of the nativity, under which are these lines : 



' Cock. Christus natus est.- 

 Duck. Quando! quando! 

 Magpie. In hac noctc. 

 Bull. Ubi? ubi? 

 Lamb. In Bethlem.' 



See " Gentl. Magaz.," 1799, p. 642. 



" Ex archivo ecclesiae Senonensis, 1445, de abolitione 

 Festi Fatuorum. 



" Et spurcitiis et immunditiis sese conferunt et appli- 

 cant tempore divini servitii, larvatos et monstruosos vultus 

 deferendo cum vestibus mulierum aut lenouum vel his- 

 trionum, choreas in ecclesia et choro ejusdem ducendo, 

 cantilenas inhonestas cantando, oiFas pingues super cornu 

 altaris juxta celebrantera missam comedendo, luduin tax- 

 illorum ibidem exercendo, de fumo fetido et ex corio 

 veterum sotularium thuriticando, per totam ecclesiam 

 liguriendo, saltando, turpitudinem suam non erubescendo, 

 nudos homines sine verendorum tegmine inverecunde 

 ducendo per villam et theatra in curribus et vehiculis 

 sordidis ad infamia spectacula pro risu astantium et con- 

 currentium, se transferendo, turpcs gesticulationes sui 

 corporis faciendo, verba impudicissiraa atque scurrilia 

 proferendo," &c. &c. 



"See some remarks on the 'Abbe des Cornards' in 

 Goujet, ' Biblioth. Fran^oise,' tom. ix. p. 335. (Sec art. 

 Cornards, in ' Diet. Univ.') 



" Concerning the ' Abbe des Fous,' see Goujet, tom. x. 

 p. 376. 



" Some information on this subject in ' Goezius do Pis- 

 trinis,' p. 365. 

 " See Du Cange, and Carpentier, ' Suppl. v. Kalendaj.' 

 " Execrabilem etiam consuetudinem qua) consuevit in 

 quibusdam ecclesiis observari de faciendo festo stultorum 

 speciali authoritate rescripti apostolici penitus inhibemus, 

 ne de domo orationis fiat domus ludibrii, et acerbitas Cir- 

 cumcisionis Domini Jesu jocis et voluptatibus subsan- 

 netur." [Constitutiones Diocesanaj Rob. Grossetest, episc. 

 Lincoln. J Brown, ' Fascic. Rer. Expet.' [ ii. 412.] 



'•On the above passage a note of Brown's says: 'De 

 hoc festo abrogando monuit episcopus decanum et capit. 

 Lincoln, in epist. 32. Quibus auteni ineptiis et ceremo- 

 niarum deliramentis hoc Stultorum festum peractum est, 

 nondum legi ; de eo consulendi sunt scriptores rituales. 

 Ex actu ultimo Sessionis 21. concilii Basileensis (in quo 

 damnatum erat sub nomine Festi fatuorum, a. d. 1435) 

 videtur idem fuisse cum illo de quo vir doctus Job. Gre- 

 gorius Oxoniensis tractat in Episcopo puerorum : quic- 

 quid demum fuit et quibuscunque ritibus inhonestis ac- 

 tum, indicat miseram istius ajvi csecitatem. Vide Decreta 

 Concilii Basileensis edita a Sebast. Brand, Basil, a. ». 



