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[Verse chronicle of Metz].

Publication:
[Metz, France], [between 1553 and 1576]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
139 leaves : paper ; 200 x 150 (173 x 77) mm bound to 208 x 170 mm
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Subjects:
Henry II, King of France, 1519-1559.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
Metz (France) -- History.
Form/Genre:
Chronicles.
Poems.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Middle French.
Summary:
The history of the city of Metz written in quatrains, including the establishment of the city; stories about St. Clement, the first bishop; accounts of numerous battles in the region; and actions of Henry II of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, towards the town.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, ii (19th-century paper) + 139 + ii (19th-century paper); 1, 7, [i], 10-14, 29-126, 129-161; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, [1-139], modern foliation in pencil, lower center recto. References in this record are to the modern foliation.
Layout: Written in 5 or 6 quatrains per page; frame-ruled in ink.
Script: Written in several different cursive scripts, with quatrains in one hand, section headings and marginal dates in another, and the entries for 1554 through 1576 (f. 105v-139v) in a third hand.
Binding: 19th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch); spine is partly missing and is detached from upper cover.
Origin: Written in Metz between 1553 (f. 124v) and 1576 (f. 139r).
Incipit: Par ce moien voisineuf eur nom / ne depuis ... (f. 1r).
The name Richard appears at the end of the work (f. 139v) in a hand that may be contemporary but does not appear elsewhere in the work.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Hermann Sucher (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York, N. Y.), cat. I (1954), Item 70.28.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 57 (Ms. French 11).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 930.
Contributor:
Sucher, Hermann, former owner.
OCLC:
155925597
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