Royal MS 20 D VIII

'LE SECOND Volume de Moustrelet (sic)': Chronicle of France, from 1428 to 1443 and 1448 to 1450. The text is not that of Monstrelet (though the narrative is the same in substance to a great extent), but agrees with the Croniques of Jean de Wavrin (ed. Hardy, Rolls Series, 1879-1891), vol- v, bk. iv, ch. 8-vol. vi, bk. ii, ch. 15, with two exceptions, viz. (a) the negotiation and articles of the treaty of Arras, in 1435, between France and Burgundy, mentioned briefly by Wavrin (vol. v, bk. v, ch. 23), are here (ff. 89 b-95 b) given in full as in Jean Chartier, Chronique de Charles VII (ed. Vallet de Viriville, 1858), i, pp. 193-206 b) the concluding sentences of vol. v, and bk. i of vol. vi, of Wavrin (A. D. 1443-1445) are here (f. 206) omitted. The table of chapters (f. 1) is headed 'Cy commence la table des rubrices du second volume de Moustrelet, lequel commence la ou le premier a delaissic, cest assauoir au siege dorliens qui fut, en lan mil iiiic xxviii, et traitte cedit volume des choses aduenues depuis ce temps jusques a ce que le roy Charles de France eut reconcquis la duchie de Northmandie sur les Anglois'. The text is headed (f. 7) 'Cy commence le second volume de Moustrelet', &c., and beg. 'En cest an que pour lors on comptoit'. Ends 'a tous ceulz qui traueillerent leurs corps en ceste partie' (= Wavrin, 1447-1471, p. 166, 1. 3). Colophon, 'Cy fine le second volume des cronicques de Moustrelet'.

Vellum; ff. i + 235. 131/2 in. x 91/2 in. Late XV cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (i¹, ii⁶, vii⁹, xix⁴, xx⁶, last²). Double columns of 28 1ines. Sec. fol. in table 'Comment le duc'; in text, '-seroit ses ennemis'. Large miniature (presentation of Jeanne la Pucelle to Charles VII, see engraving in T. Johnes' translation The Chronicles of E. de Monstrelet, 1810, vol. xiii, p]. i, and a partial reproduction in colour in Strutt's Dress and Habits, 1842, ii, pl. cxxx) and border (of flowers, strawberries, insects, and foliage-scrolls in perspective on a deadgold background, with blank space for a shield of arms), of average Flemish work, on f. 7. Initials in gold and colours. Numbered ioo, in very large figures. Cat. of 1666, f. 14; not in CMA.