University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 932
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1733
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 932
- Title:
- Mémoires d'estat
- Villeroi, Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de, 1542-1617
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 1594?
- Language:
- Middle French
- Material:
- paper
- 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
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title for work as a whole and title and date for second section supplied from the version published by J.A.C. Buchon, 1836.
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."
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.
Layout: Frame-ruled in ink; 23-26 lines per page.
Binding: 17th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch) with gold tooling on covers and spine. Upper and lower covers and first few leaves are detached.
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.
Formerly owned by J. Sotheby (inscription, J. Sotheby, 1685, f. 1r).
Appears in Rodd catalog (1836), p. 100, item 2.
Appears in Quaritch catalog 99 (1889), no. 368.
Appears in Sotheby's catalog Sotheby Heirlooms, Part VII (1955), item 337.
Sold by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co. (London), 1956. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9935643413503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gf0mz6q/manifest
- Holding Institution:
