tim00812000

Text-inc Id:

tim00812000

Bod-inc Id:

(M-307)

Headings:

Monstrelet, Enguerrand de Chroniques de France.

Analysis of content:

1. Part I.
2. ā1r [Title-page of part I.]
3. ā2r Monstrelet, Enguerrand de: ‘Le prologue'.’ Enguerrand de Monstrelet, La Chronique, 6 vols, ed. L. Douët-D'Arcq (Paris, 1857-62; repr. New York, 1966), I (Paris, 1857), 1-6. See Hanno Wijsman, 'History in Transition: Enguerrand de Monstrelet's Chronique in Manuscript and Print (c.1450-c.1600)', in The Book Triumphant: Print in Transition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, ed. Malcolm Walsby and Graeme Kemp, Library of the Written Word, 15 (Leiden and Boston, 2011), 199-252, esp. at 214-28.
4. ā3r [Table of contents for part I.]
5. a1r Monstrelet, Enguerrand de: Chroniques de France: part I. Enguerrand de Monstrelet, La Chronique, I (Paris, 1857), 6-403, II‑III (Paris, 1858-9), IV (Paris, 1860), 1-124.
6. Part II.
7. A1r [Title-page of part II.]
8. A2r Monstrelet, Enguerrand de: ‘Le prologue'.’ Enguerrand de Monstrelet, La Chronique, IV 125-9.
9. A3r [Table of contents for part II.]
10. B1r Monstrelet, Enguerrand de: Chroniques de France: part II. Enguerrand de Monstrelet, La Chronique, IV 129-465, V (Paris, 1861), VI (Paris, 1862), 1-107.
11. [rum10v] [Printer's device.]
12. Part III.
13. AA1r [Title-page for part III.]
14. AA1v [Table of contents for part III.]
15. BB1r Monstrelet, Enguerrand de [pseudo-]: Chroniques de France: part III. Incipit: ‘[E]n lan mil cccc xliiii a la fin du mois dauril . . .’ Explicit: en son sainct paradis. Amen’ BMC notes that part III is by a continuator of Monstrelet.

Imprint:

Paris: Antoine Vérard, [between 25 Oct. 1499 and July 1503]. Folio. As dated from the state of the device and the address; Sheppard dates [c.1500].

Collation:

Part I: ā¹⁰ a–d EE⁸ f¹⁰ g–v⁸ x⁶⁺¹ y z [et] aa–mm⁸ nn⁶ oo⁸; part II: A–X y z [et] [con]⁸ [rum]¹⁰; part III: AA⁶ BB–RR⁸. Woodcut on x3v: see BMC.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00812000 HC + Addenda 11549; Goff M‑812; BMC VIII 95; Pr 8458; CIBN II p. 291; Macfarlane 144; Sheppard 6267-9. LCN: 14516336, 14516390

Copies:

1. (M-307)(1) First copy Parts I–III, bound in two volumes: in volume 1 part I, in volume 2 parts II and III. Leaf A1 repaired. This copy is listed by Wijsman at 232. Gathering x of volume 1 contains 7 leaves, rather than 6, as BMC; in gathering x leaves 1-2 (with printed signatures x_i and x_ii), 4 (with early manuscript signature x_iiii), 6-7 are printed in 114 B, whilst leaves 3 (with printed signature x_iii) and 5 are printed in 119 B. Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf. Size: Vol. 1: 348 × 244 × 55 mm; vol. 2: 348 × 244 × 57 mm. Size of leaf: 339 × 226 mm. Bibliographical notes by Wodhull on the recto of the front endleaf of volume 1. Some early marginal notes in both volumes, apparently in the same sixteenth-century hand, including comments on the text and ‘nota' marks, also occasional corrections to the text in black ink. On the recto of the rear endleaf of volume 1 is a note by Wodhull ‘to p. 156 June 2^d 1794'. Between cc5 and cc6 is a slip of paper containing the following note: ‘October 21 1793 Michael Wodhull Esq [ ] by Tho. West half a years land tax due Michell. last £13. Tho. Robinson Tho. Kingston collectors'. Provenance: Michael Wodhull (1740-1816); purchased in 1787 from Payne for £4. 4. 0; inscription on the recto of the front endleaf of vol. 1: ‘M. Wodhull Feb. 16th 1787. Payne's sale 3 v in 2. best edit. £4. 4 ='; Payne's sale not identified, and this item not found in Wodhull's sales in 1801 or 1803. Purchased for £4. 16. 0; see Books Purchased (1843), 34. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 1.30, 31.
2. (M-307)(2) Second copy Part II only, printed on parchment. This copy is listed by Wijsman at pp. 232 and 236. Wanting A1. The number of the volume is erased on A2v, A8v, and [rum10v]. Binding: Sixteenth-century English (London, second half of the century) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with gold-tooled spine; two clasps and catches lost. On both covers intersecting triple fillets form four concentric frames. Within the second, third, and fourth frames is a ‘heads in medallions' roll (Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xlvii, rolls 775, 772, 775 [repeated]). Further triple fillets form the inner rectangle which is decorated with a lozenge formed by triple fillets containing Oldham, Blind-stamped Bindings, pl. xlvii, roll 772. Size: 356 × 262 × 73 mm. Size of leaf: 345 × 249 mm. In 32 places the chapter headings have been painted over with miniatures, the obliterated text being written in the margin in a sixteenth-century hand. Three- and five-line initials are supplied in red with gold acanthus scrolling or in gold on blue or red grounds; paragraph marks are supplied in gold on red or blue grounds decorated in gold; capital strokes in yellow; the device is painted over in gold, blue, red, brown, and pink; the text is enclosed within single red rules, with ruling in red. A leaf inserted before B1 has on the verso a full-page painting in three compartments, illustrating the beginning of part II of the Chroniques. In the upper left-hand compartment, a figure dressed in black sitting on a seat covered with a fleur-de-lis covering, gives or receives a document from two kneeling figures, whilst three others look on from behind; in the upper right-hand corner a French king is shown in a red and gold gown kneeling on the right, about to receive communion from a priest assisted by two acolytes on the left, with four figures behind, looking on and dressed in fleur-de-lis tabards, one holding a blue banner with the words ‘Vive le Rois' in gold on it; in the lower compartment a French king is seated on a throne covered with a fleur-de-lis cover, on either side of which is a bishop, and with courtiers at both sides, including one on the left who is holding a sword, and two on the right, one holding a robe of blue with golden fleurs-de-lis and ermine, the other a helmet surmounted by a golden crown. This illumination seems to illustrate the beginning of part II of the Chroniques, with the news of the death of King Charles VI of France (1368-1422) being conveyed to his son, Charles the Dauphin, Duke of Touraine (1403-1461), followed by the latter's coronation as Charles VII. It and the other miniatures are French, probably Parisian, early sixteenth century, and by the same artist. Provenance: Traces of an inscription(?), unread under ultraviolet light, on the pastedown of the lower cover. David Harris (sixteenth century); inscription on the recto of the back endleaf: ‘Medio tutissimus ibis. Dauyd Harrys, teste Johanne Harryes'. John Bagford (1650-1716); name on the rear pastedown. Date of acquisition unknown; not in Fysher, Catalogus, and therefore presumably acquired after 1738. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: Arch. Bodl. D c.7; Arch. Bodl. D 71 subtus. SHELFMARK: Arch. B c.4.