University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 930

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1731

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 930

Title:

Verse chronicle of Metz.

Place:

Metz, France

Metz TGN

Date:

[between 1553 and 1576]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 139 leaves : paper ; 200 x 150 (173 x 77) mm bound to 208 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Sucher, Hermann

Hermann Suchier WIKIDATA

Note:

Foliation: Paper, ii (19th-century paper) + 139 + ii (19th-century paper); 1, 7, [i], 10-14, 29-126, 129-161; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, [1-139], modern foliation in pencil, lower center recto. References in this record are to the modern foliation.
The name Richard appears at the end of the work (f. 139v) in a hand that may be contemporary but does not appear elsewhere in the work.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 5 or 6 quatrains per page; frame-ruled in ink.
Script: Written in several different cursive scripts, with quatrains in one hand, section headings and marginal dates in another, and the entries for 1554 through 1576 (f. 105v-139v) in a third hand.
Binding: 19th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch); spine is partly missing and is detached from upper cover.
Origin: Written in Metz between 1553 (f. 124v) and 1576 (f. 139r).
Incipit: Par ce moien voisineuf eur nom / ne depuis ... (f. 1r).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York, N. Y.), cat. I (1954), Item 70.28.
Formerly owned by Hermann Sucher (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, French

Manuscripts, Renaissance

chronicles

poems

France--Metz

Henry II, King of France, 1519-1559

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935615073503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3kh0f08p/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania