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Chroniques de France.

Accession number
PML 25473-75
Object title

Chroniques de France.

Uniform title
Chronicles: France.
Published

A Paris : Pasquier Bonhomme, le .xvi. iour de ianvier lan mil. CCCC. Ixxvi [16 January 1476/1477]

Description

[296, 332, 315] leaves ; 31.5 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon (variant a), vol. III, leaf p4v: Cy fine le tiers et dernier volume des croniq[ue]s de fra[n]ce contena[n]t charles v, vi, et vii. bie[n] ordonnees p[ar] tables et par chappitres Et pareilleme[n]t es deux volumes precedens sont co[n]tenus les faitz et gestes de tous les roys qui oneques furent en fra[n]ce tant paye[n]s co[m]e crestie[n]s dignes de grant reco[m]ma[n]datio[n] selon loriginal des croniqueurs de sai[n]t denys qui da[n]cie[n]nete o[n]t eu la charge de ce faire faictes a paris en la rue neufue de nostre da[m]e deva[n]t la gra[n]t eglise en lostel de pasquier bonhomme lung des quatre pri[n]cipaulx libraires de luniversite de paris ou pend pour enseigne lymage saint [chr]istolfle. Fait le .xvi. iour de ianvier lan mil. CCCC. Ixxvi.
Imprint from colophon (variant b), vol. III, leaf p4v: Cy finist le tiers volume des croniq[ue]s de fra[n]ce co[n]tenant charles .v, vi, vii. b[ie]n ordonne par tables et par chappitres. Et pareillement les deux volumes p[re]cedens. Fait a paris en lostel de pasquier bonho[m]me lu[n]g des quatre principaulx libraires de luniversite de paris ou pend pour enseigne limage saint [christ]ofle le .xvi. iour de ianvier Lan de grace mil. .CCCC. Ixxvi.
Printed in Bonhomme's types 1:100G (vol. I) and 2:100G (vols. II-III).
Collation: vol. I: [1-5¹⁰ 6⁹ 7-13¹⁰ 14⁶ 15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17-19¹⁰ 20⁹ 21-30¹⁰ 31⁴]: 296 leaves, leaf [31]/4 blank; II: [1-14¹⁰ 15⁴ 16-33¹⁰ 34⁸]: 332 leaves, leaf [34]/8 blank; III: [a-f¹⁰ g¹¹ h-p¹⁰] q¹⁰ r⁴ [s⁶]; a¹⁰ [b-i¹⁰] k-o¹⁰ p⁴: 315 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
For variants, cf. GW and CIBN. CIBN corrects GW's transcription for the first part, and clarifies the collational note. BSB München copy (Vol. III) collates quire [g10+2], with f. [g12] duplicating f. [g11] in a variant setting.
In three volumes, the first probably finished in 1475: Veyrin-Forrer(Premiers Ateliers), p. 229
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 22 cm.
PML copy vol. III has both issues of the last 3 leaves, with variant colophons.
PML copy vol. III with several leaves remargined at fore edge.
Binding
Each volume: 18th-century French gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (31.5 x 23 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Croniques de France
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, yellow capital strokes. Vol. I, leaf [1]/3r, vol. II, leaf [1]/1v with illuminated floral initial and foliate border; large space for illustrated scene unrealized. Annotations: 15th/16th-century marginal notations in first few quires of vol. I only and foliation throughout.
Provenance
Claude Fauchet (1530-1601), marginal notations and inscriptions: "revue par moi C. Fauchet refugie a tours lan 1593" (vol. I, leaf [1]/1r) and "Cest a moi Claude facuchet" (vol. II, leaf [1]/1r); Louis César, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780); his sale, Paris, 1783, lot 5018; Justin de Mac-Carthy-Reagh (1744-1811); his sale, De Bure (Paris), 27 Jan. 1817, lot 4503; [Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); not in his sale, Evans (London), 23 June 1834 -- ms note in front of vol I but what evidence?]; Philip Augustus Hanrott; his sale, Evans, part I, 16 July 1833, lot 1897; Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892), shelf mark: F.7 (front fly leaf), through inheritance to his son: George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926); Holford sale, Sotheby's, 1927 [to Rosenbach?]; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Rosenbach & Co., Jan. 1928.
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