Croniques

Name:

Escouchy, Mathieu d', 1420-; Gréban, Simon, -approximately 1473

Timespan:

Charles VII, 1422-1461; Early works to 1800

Date:

1550

Description:

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.

Language:

French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

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.

Subject:

Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 -- Early works to 1800; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Chronicles; Histories; Poems; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

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

Geographic Subject:

France -- History -- Charles VII, 1422-1461 -- Early works to 1800; France

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-170v: Croniques / Mathieu d'Escouchy.; Table of contents: 2. f.170v-177v: Les epitaphes touchans le regne et trespas du Roy Charles de France, 7e de ce nom / Simon Gréban.; Table of contents: 3. f.177v: Balade.; 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).; 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.; Layout: Written in 42-44 long lines; frame-ruled in drypoint.; Binding: 19th-century[?] calf.; Origin: Written in France, in the second half of the 16th century.; Middle French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1011