Bod-Inc: C-200
Chronicles: France
Chroniques de France [French].
Analysis of Content
A2r [Vérard, Antoine: Preface addressed to] Charles VIII, King of France. Winn, Anthoine Vérard, 254-5.
A3r ‘Table des rubriches du premier volume'.
a1r Les grandes Chroniques de France [French]. [Also known as Chroniques de St Denys.] Vol. 1. Les grandes chroniques de France, selon que elles sont conservées en l'église de Saint-Denis en France, ed. Paulin Paris, 6 vols (Paris, 1836-8). See Potthast I 316.
M4v [First colophon.]
AA2r ‘Table du second volume'.
3A1r Les grandes Chroniques de France [French]. [Also known as Chroniques de St Denys.] Vol. 2.
MM6r [Second colophon.]
<AA>2r ‘Table du tiers volume'.
AAA1r Les grandes Chroniques de France [French]. [Also known as Chroniques de St Denys.] Vol. 3.
MMMM5v [Third colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Paris: Jean Maurand (Vol. II only), for Antoine Vérard, 1493. Folio.
Remarks: In three parts, dated: (I) 10 Sept. 1493; (II) 9 July 1493 (signed by Maurand); (III) 31 Aug. 1493.
Collation
Collation:
Part I: A a–z 2A–L8 M6; part II: AA6 BB4 3A–T
Illustrations: 330 + 427 + 192 woodcuts; woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ic00484000
GW: GW 6677;
Hain: HC 5008;
Goff: Goff C‑484;
BMC: BMC VIII 80;
Proctor: Pr 8291;
Others: Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. lii, no. 257; Claudin II 211-12, 452-6, 462; Hillard 615; Macfarlane 30; Rhodes 542; Sheppard 6253.
LCN: 14827934
Copies
Copy number: C-200(1)
Bound in three volumes.
Wanting the blank leaves A1.8, M5, 6 and MMMM6.
Woodcuts on A2r and a1r as GW, not as BMC.
Binding: Bound uniformly in seventeenth-century calf; the spine gold-tooled.
Size: Volume 1: 350 × 255 × 65; volume 2: 355 × 255 × 60; volume 3: 353 × 255 × 55 mm.
Size of leaf: 345–50 × 241–47 mm.
On the title-page (<AA>1r) of vol. II/3 ‘Imprimez a Paris par nous Rodolphe Tablet'. On AAA1r of vol. II/3 ‘Inter christicolas Rex Regum maximus hic est | Sceptro, iure, fide, sanguine Marte prior' in an early hand.
Initials are supplied in red.
Provenance: Fontenay, Cistercians(?); on M4v of vol. II/1, MM6r of vol. II/2 and MMMM5v of vol. II/3: ‘Cest a Fontenay'; on the title-page (<AA>1r) of vol. II/3: ‘Appartien a Fontenay' and ‘Monsieur le president du lire'. Possibly John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Selden Supra 111, fol. 14v: ‘Les grands Chroniques de Frances. fol. very old.’ But more likely a nineteenth-century acquisition; see label with a lot number from a London sale on spine of vol. II/1.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 1.21-3.
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