[La declaracion de tous les haulx fais et glorieuses aventures du duc Phelippe du Bourgoingne]

Name:

Chastellain, Georges, 1405?-1475

Timespan:

House of Valois, 1363-1477; House of Burgundy, 1384-1477

Date:

1470

Description:

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).

Language:

French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

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.

Subject:

Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 1396-1467; Charles, Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); histories (literary genre); Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

22 leaves : paper; 288 x 209 (169 x 119) mm bound to 288 x 224 mm

Geographic Subject:

Burgundy (France) -- History -- House of Valois, 1363-1477; Netherlands -- History -- House of Burgundy, 1384-1477; Netherlands

Rights:

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

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."; Foliation: Paper, 22; [1-22]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 27 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.; Script: Written in a hybrid Gothic script.; 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.; Binding: Limp leather, possibly contemporary (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Written in France, ca. 1470 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Minor water stains on upper corner; f. 1, 2, and 22 stained from contact with the leather cover.; Middle French, with verses in Old French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 947