(Q9627)
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La declaracion de tous les haulx fais et glorieuses aventures du duc Phelippe du Bourgoingne.
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Chastellain, Georges, 1405?-1475
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Burgundy (France)--History--House of Valois, 1363-1477
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House of Burgundy, 1384-1477
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Netherlands--History--House of Burgundy, 1384-1477
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Charles, Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
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Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 1396-1467
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Middle French, with verses in Old French
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[1470?]
15. century
1470Gregorian
1470Gregorian
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Extent: 22 leaves : paper ; 288 x 209 (169 x 119) mm bound to 288 x 224 mm
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f. 3r-19v: "[rubr.] Sensuit en brief la declaracion de tous las haulx fais et glorieuses aventures du duc Phelippe de Burgoingne, cellui qui se nomme le duc et le grant lyon ... [f. 3r: text] Pour avoir la declaracion des haulx et puissans fais du tres hault et puissant duc Phelippe de Bourgoingne ... [f. 19v] ... et Dieu s'il lui plaist par egale benediction sera leur conduiseur en sempiterne...
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Minor water stains on upper corner; f. 1, 2, and 22 stained from contact with the leather cover.
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Title from rubric of main work (f. 3r); author and date from Zacour-Hirsch.
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Poem incipit: "Bien est il vray que pour eulx arengier/En mon service ils passent maint dangier ..." (f. 1r).
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Ms. codex.
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Foliation: Paper, 22; [1-22]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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Layout: Written in 27 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
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Script: Written in a hybrid Gothic script.
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Decoration: Coat of arms of the Rombouts family, with three scallop shells and the motto Broessger Dat Gelas ("More Fragile Than Glass," f. 2v); red rubrics and capitals at the beginnings of sections.
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Binding: Limp leather, possibly contemporary (Zacour-Hirsch).
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Origin: Written in France, ca. 1470 (Zacour-Hirsch).
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Purchased in 1960.
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Note on last folio, "Dis boeck hoost for Janne Rombouts," with the name Janne written above the earlier, blacked-out name of Claes (f. 22r).
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Accompanied by a letter (now filed under Misc. Mss.) dated 1759 from Philip Morant to [Thomas Birch?] Bridges, then owner of the manuscript.
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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