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Title

Verse chronicle of Metz

Other related names

• Sucher, Hermann, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 930
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935615073503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83946889
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3561507

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

between 1553 and 1576

Place

Metz, France

Summary

The history of the city of Metz written in quatrains, including the establishment of the city; stories about St. Clement, the first bishop; accounts of numerous battles in the region; and actions of Henry II of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, towards the town.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit: Par ce moien voisineuf eur nom / ne depuis ... (f. 1r).
   
• The name Richard appears at the end of the work (f. 139v) in a hand that may be contemporary but does not appear elsewhere in the work.
   

Extent

139 leaves : 200 x 150 (173 x 77) mm. bound to 208 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (19th-century paper) + 139 + ii (19th-century paper); 1, 7, [i], 10-14, 29-126, 129-161; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, [1-139], modern foliation in pencil, lower center recto. References in this record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch); spine is partly missing and is detached from upper cover.

Layout

Written in 5 or 6 quatrains per page; frame-ruled in ink.

Script

Written in several different cursive scripts, with quatrains in one hand, section headings and marginal dates in another, and the entries for 1554 through 1576 (f. 105v-139v) in a third hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Hermann Sucher (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York, N. Y.), cat. I (1954), Item 70.28.
   

Genres

• Chronicles
• Poems
• Manuscripts, French--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• France
• French
• Literature -- Poetry
• Paper
• Chronicle

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover