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Title

Authors

• Chastellain, Georges, 1405?-1475

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935826983503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155862691
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3582698

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

ca. 1470

Place

France

Summary

Favorable accounts of the reigns of Philip, Duke of Burgundy (f. 3r-12r), and Charles, Duke of Burgundy (f. 12r-19v) in the 15th century, written as an official history of Burgundy. Preceded by verses in Old French (f. 1r) and a prose fragment (f. 1r-2r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from rubric of main work (f. 3r); author and date from Zacour-Hirsch.
   
• Poem incipit: "Bien est il vray que pour eulx arengier/En mon service ils passent maint dangier ..." (f. 1r).
   
• f. 3r-19v: "[rubr.] Sensuit en brief la declaracion de tous las haulx fais et glorieuses aventures du duc Phelippe de Burgoingne, cellui qui se nomme le duc et le grant lyon ... [f. 3r: text] Pour avoir la declaracion des haulx et puissans fais du tres hault et puissant duc Phelippe de Bourgoingne ... [f. 19v] ... et Dieu s'il lui plaist par egale benediction sera leur conduiseur en sempiterne gloire. Amen."
   
• Minor water stains on upper corner; f. 1, 2, and 22 stained from contact with the leather cover.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Coat of arms of the Rombouts family, with three scallop shells and the motto Broessger Dat Gelas ("More Fragile Than Glass," f. 2v); red rubrics and capitals at the beginnings of sections.

Script

Provenance

• Note on last folio, "Dis boeck hoost for Janne Rombouts," with the name Janne written above the earlier, blacked-out name of Claes (f. 22r).
   
• Accompanied by a letter (now filed under Misc. Mss.) dated 1759 from Philip Morant to [Thomas Birch?] Bridges, then owner of the manuscript.
   
• Purchased in 1960.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Histories
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• History
• Paper

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2v — Drawing, Coat of arms, f. 2v
• fol. 19v — Drawing, f. 19v