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

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Chastellain, Georges, 1405?-1475.

Language:

• French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
• French, Old (ca. 842-1300)

Subjects (All):

• Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 1396-1467.
• Charles, Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477.
• Burgundy (France)--History--House of Valois, 1363-1477.
• Netherlands--History--House of Burgundy, 1384-1477.
• Netherlands.
• History.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• histories (literary genre)
• Manuscripts, French.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn 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.

Physical Description:

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

Production:

[France], [1470?]

Language Note:

Middle French, with verses in Old French.

Summary:

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).

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.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 63 (Ms. French 44).

Publications about:

Kervyn de Lettenhove, Joseph Marie Bruno Constantin. Oeuvres de Georges Chastellain (Bruxelles, 1865), VII, 213-236, provides an edition of ff. 3r-19v, based on other manuscripts of the same text.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 947

OCLC:

155925582