Memoires de Messire Philippe de Comines, seigneur d'Argenton : contenans l'histoire des rois Louys XI. & Charles VIII. depuis l'an 1464. jusques en 1498 : augmentez de plusieurs traittez, contracts, testaments, actes, & observations / par feu Mr. Denys Godefroy ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Commynes, Philippe de, approximately 1447-1511.

Contributor:

Godefroy, Denis, 1549-1621, editor.

Roye, Jean de, 1425?-1495?

Foppens, François, 1689-1730, bookseller.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

France--History--House of Valois, 1328-1589--Early works to 1800.

France.

Penn Provenance:

Zachs, William J. (donor) (RBC copy)

Ben Damph House. Library (stamp) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

2 v. : ports., fold. geneal. tables ; 18 cm (8vo)

Edition:

Derniere edition divisée en III. tomes, enrichie de portraits en taille douce & augmentée de l'histoire de Louis XI. connue sous le nom de Chronique scandaleuse.

Fingerprint:

ntde ecla s-it tete (3) 1706 (R) v.1

ders rdnt m-de edi (3) 1706 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

A Brusselle : Chez François Foppens ..., MDCCVI [1706]

Notes:

Two volumes issued in three. Tome I is divided into two parts numbered "Tome premier, premiere partie" and "Tome premier, seconde partie" respectively, each with its own title leaf but continuous pagination and signatures (except for "Histoire de Louys XI ... escrite par Jean de Troyes," in t. I, 2. partie, which has special half-title leaf and separate signatures and pagination). Tome II is unnumbered on title leaf but has "Tome II." in its direction lines.

Signatures: t. 1, pt. 1: *⁴(-*4) 2*⁸ A-2D⁸ 2E1-2E5 ; t. 1, pt. 2: *⁴ 2E6-2E8 2F-2S⁸ 2T⁴ a-t⁸ (leaves t7 and t8 blanks) ; t. 2: *-3*⁸ A-2H⁸.

Pagination: t. 1, pt. 1: [22], 442 p., [6] leaves of plates ; t. 1, pt. 2: [8], 443-639, [25], 284, [20] p., [2] leaves of plates ; t. 2: XXXIX, [9], 492, [4] p.

Title of t. 2 reads: Divers traittez, contracts, testamens, et autres actes, et observations, servans de preuves & d'illustrations aux Memoires de Philippe de Comines. Edition nouvelle augmentée de plusieurs pieces curieuses.

Title of t. 1, pt. 1 printed in red and black.

Engraved plates.

Woodcut title vignettes, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

RBC copy: t. 1, pt. 1: early ms. inscription ("h d 3 vol") in brown ink on front pastedown; early ms. bibliographical note in brown ink on front free endpaper.

RBC copy: t. 2: partially illegible ms. inscription ("[...] Shilli[...]s [...] three") in brown ink on back pastedown.

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by William J. Zachs.

RBC copy: each vol. has blue ink stamp ("LIBRARY, BEN DAMPH FOREST. ...") with shelf-mark ("C ... V ... 7[-9]") supplied in ink on front free endpaper. In t. 1, pt. 1, the shelf-mark is repeated in pencil beside the stamp.

RBC copy: each vol. bound in early full sprinkled calf(?); 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped leather spine label ("DE COMINE MEMOIRE[S] TOM I[-III]"); all edges stippled red and brown(?).

RBC copy: t. 1, pt. 1: left board largely detached from textblock; t. 2: wormhole in upper portion of leaves 2A4-2H8 (with minor damage to text of latter leaves), back endleaves and back pastedown.

Related Work:

Roye, Jean de, 1425?-1495? Histoire de Louis XI.

OCLC:

36330101