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Add MS 13961
- Record Id:
- 032-002036378
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002036378
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x000030
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100171733935.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 13961
- Title:
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Noel de Fribois, Abregé des croniques de France
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-71v: An abbreviated chronicle of France. from the destruction of Troy to the death of Louis de Mâle, Count of Flanders, in 1383, composed in 1459 by Noel de Fribois, councillor to King Charles VII of France. There are five successive versions of the text. This manuscript is one of eight belonging to the 'A' family, considered the most complete version of the chronicle (Daly, Abregé des Croniques, 2006).
ff. 72r-95v: A series of short treatises, including 'De la dignité Roial'(On Royal prestige), 'Des bonnes meurs et condicions des François' (On the excellent ways of the French), 'De noblesse' (On nobility), 'De la proprieté des pierres precieuses, dont est faite mencion en l'Apocalypse' (On the properties of precious stones as described in the Apocalypse); 'De l'excellence, dignité, et prerogative du Roy' (On the prestige, rank and privileges of the King), 'Les dignitez et honneurs seculiers et ecclesiastiques' (the rights and privileges of the laity and the clergy) and a brief defence of the right of Charles VII to the crown of France, against the claims of Henry VI. of England, beginning, 'Et pour brieve conclusion final' (f. 95v).
Decoration:
A decorated initial in red, blue and gold with a monogram and partial rinceaux border (f. 2r). An initial with rinceaux decoration in blue, red and gold (f. 3r). Initials in alternating red and blue at the beginning of paragraphs. Line-fillers in red and blue. Rubrics and Latin text in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002036378
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002036378
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Add_MS_13961 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 160 mm (text space 165 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 96 (ff. 1 and 96 are parchment flyleaves + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf following f. 95 + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Collation: i-xii8 (ff.1-96).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. BM/BL in-house; rebound in 1969.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Paris).
Provenance:
Etienne Chevalier (b. c.1410, d. 1474), secretary to Charles VII, king of France, and from 1452 treasurer of France, written and painted for him: his monogram 'E C' in the initial on f. 2r.
?Jean II, count of Horne, Belgium, from 1531: an ink-drawing of a bust of a woman with headdress, and an erased inscription 'C'est a Mons[ieur] le conte de Hornes', on a flyleaf (f. 1r).
Philippe II de Montmorency-Nivelle (b. c. 1518, d. 1568), count of Horne: his motto 'Tout a temps Montmorancy' on a flyleaf (f. 1v).
Lines from Cato and Virgil written on a parchment endleaf (f. 96v) with the date of 1557.
Henry Farrer (b. 1798, d. 1866), picture dealer and restorer; bought from him by the British Museum, 10 March, 1843.
- Publications:
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The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 107.
A. Vallet de Viriville, 'Noel de Fribois, chroniqueur inédit', Journal général de l'instruction publique, 25 (1856), pp. 196, 239-40.
Leopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliotheque nationale [..], 3 vols (Paris: Imprimierie Nationale, 1868-1881), I, p. 72.
A. Thomas, 'Comptes rendus: 829', Romania, 19 (1890), 604-05.
Alexandre Labat, 'L'Abregé des chroniques de France de Noel de Fribois' (unpublished PhD thesis, Paris: Ecole nationale des Chartes, 1953).
Noel de Fribois, Abregé des croniques de France, ed. by Kathleen Daly and Gillette Labory, Société de l'histoire de France (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006), pp. 61-62.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)