University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 932

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DS ID:

DS1733

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 932

Title:

Mémoires d'estat.

Author:

Villeroi, Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de, 1542-1617

Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[1594?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 182 leaves : paper ; 300 x 208 (245 x 142) mm bound to 312 x 220 mm

Former Owner(s):

Sotheby, John, -1807

John Sotheby WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Written in France in one hand, not before 1589 for first section and not before 1594 for second section.
Zacour-Hirsch describes only the first section, which ends in 1589; the second section describes events through 1594.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, ii (17th-century paper) + 182 + ii (17th-century paper); [vi, 1-2], 3-174, [ii]. 3-78 are numbered in the upper right recto in contemporary ink; 79-174 continue in pencil.
Binding: 17th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch) with gold tooling on covers and spine. Upper and lower covers and first few leaves are detached.
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; 23-26 lines per page.
1. f.1r-53v: "[text] Le plus grand contentement que puisse avoir un homme ... faiet a Villeroy le huietiesme iour d'Apuril mil-cinq cents quatre vingts-neuf signe De Neufville."
2. f.55r-174v: "[text] Monsieur, Je vous envoye le memoire que vous m'avez demandé ... croire qu'il est veritable, et que ie demeureray eternellement vostre serviteur, De Neufville."
Title for work as a whole and title and date for second section supplied from the version published by J.A.C. Buchon, 1836.
Sold by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co. (London), 1956.
Appears in Sotheby's catalog Sotheby Heirlooms, Part VII (1955), item 337.
Appears in Rodd catalog (1836), p. 100, item 2.
Appears in Quaritch catalog 99 (1889), no. 368.
Formerly owned by J. Sotheby (inscription, J. Sotheby, 1685, f. 1r).

Keyword:

histories (literary genre)

Manuscripts, French

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Politics and government

France

House of Valois, 1328-1589

1562-1598

History

1589-1789

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935643413503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gf0mz6q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania