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Title

Croniques

Authors

• Escouchy, Mathieu d', b. 1420
• Gréban, Simon, d. ca. 1473

Call number

Ms. Codex 1011
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3778354
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3778354

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

between 1550 and 1599

Place

France

Summary

A chronicle of the portion of the reign of Charles VII after 1444, with more than half focusing on the last decade of the Hundred Years' War and its conclusion in 1453, followed by an epitaph in verse for Charles VII attributed elsewhere to Simon Gréban and a short ballade.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r); Zacour-Hirsch uses the title Chroniques de Charles VII and suggests a date in the second half of the 16th century.
   
• Comparison of this manuscript of the Croniques with the printed edition (DuFresne de Beaucourt, ed., Société de l'histoire de France, 1863-64) indicates considerable variants; the Epitaphes were not included in the printed edition (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• A partial acrostic of Simon Greban's name (SIMON GREB) appears in the first letters of the last nine lines before the last line of the Epitaphes (Aston).
   

Extent

177 leaves : 340 x 210 (276 x 159) mm. bound to 349 x 230 mm

Foliation

Paper, 177; two sets of near-contemporary numerals in ink, upper and lower right recto; the upper set is probably earlier, as some of them have been trimmed away.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century[?] calf.

Layout

Written in 42-44 long lines; frame-ruled in drypoint.

Provenance

• Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 742 (1955), no. 6; purchased by Laurence Witten.
   
• Appears in Witten's catalog 5 (1962), no. 16.
   
• Purchased, 1962.
   

Subjects topical

• Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Chronicles
• Histories
• Poems
• Manuscripts, French--16th century
• Manuscripts, European

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