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Title

Mémoires d'estat

Authors

• Villeroi, Nicolas de Neufville, Seigneur de, 1542-1617

Other related names

• Sotheby, J, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 932
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935643413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122317722
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3564341

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

ca. 1594

Place

France

Summary

Narrative describing historical and political events in France in the reigns of Charles IX, Henry III, and Henry IV.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for work as a whole and title and date for second section supplied from the version published by J.A.C. Buchon, 1836.
   
• 1. f.1r-53v: "[text] Le plus grand contentement que puisse avoir un homme ... faiet a Villeroy le huietiesme iour d'Apuril mil-cinq cents quatre vingts-neuf signe De Neufville."
   
• 2. f.55r-174v: "[text] Monsieur, Je vous envoye le memoire que vous m'avez demandé ... croire qu'il est veritable, et que ie demeureray eternellement vostre serviteur, De Neufville."
   
• Zacour-Hirsch describes only the first section, which ends in 1589; the second section describes events through 1594.
   

Extent

182 leaves : 300 x 208 (245 x 142) mm. bound to 312 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (17th-century paper) + 182 + ii (17th-century paper); [vi, 1-2], 3-174, [ii]. 3-78 are numbered in the upper right recto in contemporary ink; 79-174 continue in pencil.

Support

Paper

Binding

17th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch) with gold tooling on covers and spine. Upper and lower covers and first few leaves are detached.

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; 23-26 lines per page.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by J. Sotheby (inscription, J. Sotheby, 1685, f. 1r).
   
• Appears in Rodd catalog (1836), p. 100, item 2.
   
• Appears in Quaritch catalog 99 (1889), no. 368.
   
• Appears in Sotheby's catalog Sotheby Heirlooms, Part VII (1955), item 337.
   
• Sold by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co. (London), 1956.
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, French--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Codices
• Histories

Keywords

• 16th century
• France
• French
• History
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Me?moires, f. 1r
• fol. 55r — Apologie et discours, f. 55r