Croniques.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Escouchy, Mathieu d', 1420-

Contributor:

Gréban, Simon, -approximately 1473.

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Subjects (All):

Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461.

Charles.

Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453--Early works to 1800.

Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.

History.

France--History--Charles VII, 1422-1461--Early works to 1800.

France.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

chronicles

histories (literary genre)

poems

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 742 (1955), no. 6; purchased by Laurence Witten.

Appears in Witten's catalog 5 (1962), no. 16.

Purchased, 1962.

Physical Description:

177 leaves : paper ; 340 x 210 (276 x 159) mm bound to 349 x 230 mm

Other Title:

Chroniques de Charles VII.

Place of Publication:

[France], [between 1550 and 1599]

Language Note:

Middle French.

Summary:

A chronicle of the portion of the reign of Charles VII after 1444, with more than half focusing on the last decade of the Hundred Years' War and its conclusion in 1453, followed by an epitaph in verse for Charles VII attributed elsewhere to Simon Gréban and a short ballade.

Contents:

1. f.1r-170v: Croniques / Mathieu d'Escouchy.

2. f.170v-177v: Les epitaphes touchans le regne et trespas du Roy Charles de France, 7e de ce nom / Simon Gréban.

3. f.177v: Balade.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1r); Zacour-Hirsch uses the title Chroniques de Charles VII and suggests a date in the second half of the 16th century.

Comparison of this manuscript of the Croniques with the printed edition (DuFresne de Beaucourt, ed., Société de l'histoire de France, 1863-64) indicates considerable variants; the Epitaphes were not included in the printed edition (Zacour-Hirsch).

A partial acrostic of Simon Greban's name (SIMON GREB) appears in the first letters of the last nine lines before the last line of the Epitaphes (Aston).

Foliation: Paper, 177; two sets of near-contemporary numerals in ink, upper and lower right recto; the upper set is probably earlier, as some of them have been trimmed away.

Layout: Written in 42-44 long lines; frame-ruled in drypoint.

Binding: 19th-century[?] calf.

Origin: Written in France, in the second half of the 16th century.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 73 (Ms. French 91).

Publications about:

Mentioned in Aston, S.C. "A Manuscript of the Chronicle of Mathieu d'Escouchy and Simon Greban's Epitaph for Charles VII of France." In Leach, MacEdward, ed. Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor Albert Croll Baugh (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961), 299-344. Aston notes the existence of Ms. Codex 1011 and traces its provenance, but does not incorporate it into his critical edition of the Epitaphes.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1011

Contains:

Les epitaphes touchans le regne et trespas du Roy Charles de France, 7e de ce nom.

OCLC:

155927524