Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Chartier, Les croniques, Paris, 1528, contemporary French tan calf gilt

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2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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CHARTIER, ALAIN. Les cronicques du feu roy Charles septiesme de ce nom que dieu absoulle, contenans les faitz et gestes dudit seigneur, lequel trouva le royaulme en grant desolation, et neantmoins le laissa paisible... Paris: Jean Longis, 5 December 1528


FIRST EDITION. Whilst the title-page attributes this work to Alain Chartier (1385?-1430?), secretary to Charles VII, some manuscript copies claim that this attribution is false, and that the text is in fact the work of Gilles Le Bouvier (1386-1460?) (known as the "herald Berry"). The text chronicles some of the most fascinating moments in Medieval French history: Joan of Arc, the Councils of Constance and Basel, and the English evacuation of French territory.

Folio (259 x 182 mm). Lettre bâtarde, 43 lines plus headline. collation: A-M6 N-O4 (M1 misbound): 80 leaves. Title-page printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, 3 further woodcut illustrations (comprising: arms of France; author dictating to scribe and surrounded by seated court; portrait of King Charles), woodcut initials, several early modern marginal annotations in French. (Slight browning.)


binding: French tan calf, c. 1540 (263 x 190 mm), gilt fillet around sides, large gilt arabesque stamp in negative producing interlacing strapwork at centre of which is “I” on upper cover and “M” on lower, spine with 5 full and 2 half bands, gilt fleurons in compartments, plain edges. (Restored, upper hinge cracked.)


provenance: "I.M.", sixteenth-century owner, initials on binding—"De loyale ami Paul ?Caunii", early ownership inscription to front free endpaper. acquisition: Purchased in 1977 from Harry A. Levinson Rare Books, California. references: USTC 73140; BP16 105601; Tchemerzine III, 334f

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