[Mémoires d'estat]

Name:

Villeroi, Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de, 1542-1617

Timespan:

House of Valois, 1328-1589; Bourbons, 1589-1789; 1562-1598

Date:

1594

Description:

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

Language:

French, Middle (ca.1400-1600)

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.; Sotheby, John, -1807, former owner.

Subject:

History; Politics and government

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Codices; Histories; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

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

Geographic Subject:

France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589; France; France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789; France -- Politics and government -- 1562-1598

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Born in 1542, Nicolas de Neufville was introduced into the circles of Catherine de Médicis in 1560. After the death of his father-in-law in November 1567, de Neufville succeeded him as sécretaire de l'état. He served under Charles IX, for whom he arranged a marriage with Elisabeth of Austria. He also served under Henry III and Henry IV, for whom he was in charge of foreign affairs. He died in 1617.; Title for work as a whole and title and date for second section supplied from the version published by J.A.C. Buchon, 1836.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-53v: Mémoires / Nicolas de Neufville.; Table of contents: 2. f.55r-174v: Apologie et discours / Nicolas de Neufville.; 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."; 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.; Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; 23-26 lines per page.; Binding: 17th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch) with gold tooling on covers and spine. Upper and lower covers and first few leaves are detached.; Origin: Written in France in one hand, not before 1589 for first section and not before 1594 for second section.; Zacour-Hirsch describes only the first section, which ends in 1589; the second section describes events through 1594.; Middle French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 932