Description
Alternative title
Chronique de Reims
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 3 + 116
Date created
[ca. 1275 - 1299]
Language
French, Old (ca. 842-1400), Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
24 lines to a page
Height (mm)
199
Width (mm)
141
Collation
a(4) (wants 4) 1(8)-13(8) 14(12).
Writing
in a good clear hand
Foliation
ff. a-d + i-iii + 1-116 + e-h
Research
The MS. is mentioned in Archives de l'orient Latin I 255.
Additions
The first 3 leaves are written by Skelton in a large Gothic hand. f. ir pasted over. On f. iv: Quamuis annosa est apice et sulcata vetusto Pagina trita tamen fremit horrida prelia Martis Digna legi. Skelton Loyall.
On f. iir: Bien men souien.
On ff. iiv-iiiv, verses: I liber, et propera, regem tu pronus adora; Me sibi commendes humilem Skeltonida vatem: Ante suam majestatem (per cetera passim) Inclita bella refer, gessit que maximus heros Anglorum, primus nostra de gente Ricardus, Hector ut intrepidus, contra validissima castra Gentis Agarrene; memora quos ille labores, Quos tulit angores, qualesque recepit honores. Sed, Cronica Francorum validis inimica Britannis Saepe solent celebres Britonum compescere laudes. Followed by the title: Policronitudo Basileos.
Margin (f. 3v): patet infra a candido ad nigram.
2 fo.
mon seignour
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 432 contains a late thirteenth-century copy of the Chronique de Reims (or Rains) a history of the third crusade written in French. This copy, whose illustrations have suffered a great deal of damage, bears a versified inscription by John Skelton (d. 1529), written on the occasion of the manuscript's presentation to Henry VIII, Skelton's pupil. Presumably it came into Parker's possession as a result of his contact either with the Henrician or Elizabethan court, but the manuscript's exact route from the royal collection into Parker's is unknown. The book contains eleven illuminated miniatures and two historiated initials, all much damaged.
- Contents
- Chronique de Reims
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