Manuscripts
Selection from the Chroniques d'Engleterre : [manuscript]
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- Description
- ff. 1-332v: [Jehan de Wavrin, Chroniques d'Engleterre]: Incipit: Ad fin que vous sachies la cause pour quoi ne a quel tiltre les guerres de france et d'engleterre encomnencerent premierement ... Explicit: descouvert a bbrestmoustier ou il fut enterre de lez madame phelipe de henault sa femme. Et atant prent fin le Second voulumne de ces croniques d'engleterre Et commencera le Tiers au curonnement du Ieune Roy Richard Iadis filz au noble prince de galles. Cy fine le second voulume des croniques d'engleterre.
- Date
- [between 1485 and 1499]
- Call number
- mssHM 28562
- Provenance
- Unidentified coat of arms in the lower margin of f. 1: tierced in pale, 1, per fess, in chief, chequy or and azure a bordure gules (Counts of Dreux; Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 226), and in base, or 2 pallets azure a chief gules; 2, azure 2 crosses flory or in chief and in base; 3, per fess, in chief, or 2 pallets azure a chief gules, and in base, chequy or and azure a bordure gules; en surtout an escutcheon gules 3 hands sinister or. Belonged to Jean Baptiste Denis Guyon de Sardière, son of Mme de la Mothe-Guyon, with his signature on ff. 1 and 332v; catalogued for his sale, Paris 1759, lot 2188; the collection, however, was bought en bloc by the Duc de la Vallière before the sale; not identified in La Vallière's catalogue. Later acquired by Sir Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, British Ambassador to Paris, 1815-30; Stuart sale, Sotheby's, 31 May 1855, lot 896 to Sir Thomas Phillips. Phillipps' small paper label on spine, 17700. Acquired by the Huntington Library at the Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 30 November 1965, lot 33.
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