Frossardus et Cominaeus : duo nobilissimi Gallicarum rerum scriptores.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?

Contributor:

Sleidanus, Johannes, 1506-1556.

Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, printer.

Blaeu, Cornelis, 1610-1648, printer.

Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Chroniques. Latin

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453--Sources.

Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.

History.

France--History--House of Valois, 1328-1589--Sources.

France.

Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485--Sources.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Norris, Joseph P. (Joseph Parker), 1763-1841 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Norris, C. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Evans, Micale (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

670 pages, 48 unnumbered pages ; 13 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

t,t) aeos n-i- quto (7) 1640 (R)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdami : Apud Ioan. et Corn. Blaeu, MDCXL [1640]

Contents:

Frossardi ... Historiarum opus omne, iamprimum & breviter collectum, & Latino sermone redditum à Ioanne Sleidano

Philippus Cominaeus De rebus gestis à Ludovico XI, & Carolo VIII, francorum regibus, e Gallico in Latinum sermonem conversus, brevique explicatione illustratus à Ioanne Sleidano.

Notes:

Illustrated, engraved title page has imprint date printed with turned Cs, and features the coat of arms of France.

Both included works have special title page with imprint and woodcut printer's device.

The armillary sphere device on special title pages (Rahir, p. 439; M.26) and the tail-piece on p. 15 (Rahir, p. 440; no. 120) (etc.) are those of Bleau. Cf. E. Rahir, Catalogue d'une collection unique de volumes imprimés par les Elzevier et divers typographes hollandais du XVIIe siècle.

Woodcut tail-pieces & initials.

"Index in Frossardum, et Cominaeum": p. [671]-[718].

Signatures: A-2G¹².

Leaves I9 & I10 signed I3 & I4, respectively.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has the autograph, in ink, of "J.P. Norris" at the head of the special title page of Froissart's work (leaf A2r).

Culture Class Collection copy has an ownership inscription, in ink, which reads "Mr. Micale Evans His boocke".

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. biographical and historical notes (relevant to this period in French history) on endpapers.

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: leaf 2G12 wanting(?).

Cited in:

Willems, A. Elzevier, 1687 (note)

Contains:

Commynes, Philippe de, approximately 1447-1511. Mémoires. Latin.

OCLC:

3448794