tic00484000

Text-inc Id:

tic00484000

Bod-inc Id:

C-200

Headings:

Chronicles: France Chroniques de France [French].

Analysis of content:

1. A2r [Vérard, Antoine: Preface addressed to] Charles VIII, King of France. Winn, Anthoine Vérard, 254-5.
2. A3r ‘Table des rubriches du premier volume'.
3. 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.
4. M4v [First colophon.]
5. AA2r ‘Table du second volume'.
6. 3A1r Les grandes Chroniques de France [French]. [Also known as Chroniques de St Denys.] Vol. 2.
7. MM6r [Second colophon.]
8. <AA>2r ‘Table du tiers volume'.
9. AAA1r Les grandes Chroniques de France [French]. [Also known as Chroniques de St Denys.] Vol. 3.
10. MMMM5v [Third colophon.]

Imprint:

Paris: Jean Maurand (Vol. II only), for Antoine Vérard, 1493. Folio. In three parts, dated: (I) 10 Sept. 1493; (II) 9 July 1493 (signed by Maurand); (III) 31 Aug. 1493.

Collation:

Part I: A a–z ²A–L⁸ M⁶; part II: AA⁶ BB^{4 3}A–T V X ²AA–LL⁸ MM⁶; part III: AAA⁸ BBB⁶ CCC–QQQ⁸ RRR⁶ SSS–XXX AAAA–KKKK⁸ LLLL MMMM⁶. 330 + 427 + 192 woodcuts; woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00484000 GW 6677; HC 5008; Goff C‑484; BMC VIII 80; Pr 8291; 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:

1. C-200(1) Copy Bound in three volumes. Wanting the blank leaves A1.8, M_{5, 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. 14^v: ‘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.