La mer des croniques et miroir historiae de Fra[n]ce / iadis compose en latin par religieuse personne Frere Robert Gaguin en son viuant ministre general de lordre de la saincte Trinite ; lequel traicte de tous les faitz aduenuz depuis sa destruction de Troye la grant, tant es royaulmes de France qu Angleterre, Irlande, Espaigne, Gascoigne, Flandres, & lieux circo[m]uoysins ; nouuellement translate de latin en francoys ; additionne de plusieurs additions toute les premiers imprimez iusques en lan mil cinq cens & xxv ; auec les Genealogies de France ; et annalles de Gaulle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaguin, Robert, 1433-1501.

Contributor:

Le Noir, Philippe, active 1520-1533, bookseller.

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Compendium de origine et gestis Francorum. French

Language:

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

France--History--To 987.

France.

History.

France--History--Medieval period, 987-1515.

France--History--Francis I, 1515-1547.

Penn Provenance:

Dudouët, Jean-Jacques-Hervé Philippe (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered leaves, CCxli leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 27 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

esi. i.e. s.es cien (3) 1530 (T)

Place of Publication:

On les vend a Paris : Par Phelippe le Noir ... :. Lan mil cinq cens et trente [1530]

Notes:

Imprint date from colophon on leaf 2Q6r, which reads: Imprime a Paris pour Philippe le noir lung des deux relierus de liures iutez en luniuersite de Paris demourant en la rue sainct Iacq[ue]s a lenseigne de la Roze blanche couro[n]nee Lan mil cinq cens et trente.

Signatures: 2A-2B⁶ a-z⁶ [et]⁶ A-O⁶ P⁸(-P8) 2Q⁶.

Title in red and black within historiated woodcut border; woodcut illustrations, initials and device.

Initial space with guide letter on leaf e5v.

Text and printed marginalia within ruled borders.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1957.

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; 4 raised bands on spine; ms. title and date ("Chronique de Gaguin Goth 1530") on spine; all edges speckled red.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of J.J. Philippe Dudouët, with motto: "Instruit Returnat", probably belonging to the 18th century Caen advocate Jean-Jacques-Hervé Philippe Dudouet, on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has a few ms. marginal marks and notes in black or brown ink and some ms. underlines, marginal marks and notes in red ink (some faded); a few ms. marginal marks in pencil.

Culture Class Collection copy: leaves closely cropped at outer margin with damage to woodcut border on title leaf and occasional damage to ms. marginalia; wormhole in fore-edge margin of leaves H4-I6.

OCLC:

496531796